Keeping Cuba locked down is critical to our ideological bullshit. Would that ideological bullshit include free speech? Cuba isn't "critical" to anything anymore. It's a vestige of the cold war. The last time they were critical was in the 60's when Kruschev tried to deploy nukes there.
Maintaining the embargo encourages others to do so, Natch. That's the point.
which depresses Cuba and causes them to be less successful, which we get to blame on ideology and use as a reason why we must go on a holy war to spread Democracy throughout the world (perhaps we should start here first, eh?) You want a change? Vote.
We don't actually want Democracy in Cuba, or we WOULD HAVE opened up to them. Actually, we wanted to stop giving support to a double-crossing, backstabbing dictator. I wish we would do that with some of our other "friends" around the globe.
The real issue is that our government fears free speech. Riiigght... which is why you have the freedom to air your opinion here without fear of retribution in the form of jackbooted government thugs kicking in your door and hauling you away for publishing "subversive propaganda".
Cubans can actually get health care... Riiigght... that must be why so many Americans die every year trying to cross over to Cuba in overloaded, leaky boats.
Sorry if I seem insensitive. I do not wish rape - prison or otherwise - on anyone. I am only wishing federal prison upon him for the (apparent) perjury and insider trading.
I'm not saying that I want him to *literally* get screwed. Metaphorically, sure. It's about time he and the other greedy, souless suits at SCO receive a taste of what they dished out in their vicious, deceitful battle against Linux and the software industry in general. "We can only hope" they see prison time, because I think these millionaire weasels will probably wriggle out of it one way or another. What happens after they get there... well, that's not up to me.
Anyway, since I assume you didn't see the movie, the pound-you-in-the-ass bit is a quote from Office Space. I probably got it a little wrong. If I did, I'm sure a trivia nazi, er, I mean, helpful slashdotter, will show up and correct me.
TFA mentioned the Dell 2*quad Xeon hardware, but failed to mention what kind of storage will be attached to it, what kind of network(s) they plan to use to rope it all together, what OS & filesystem they plan to use, & other stuff that would be fun to know.
If they don't tell us what they're using, how can we have flame wars over whose technology really should have been used in it? We'll be stuck with nothing to do but make up bad car analogies.
It would be like, "GM is announcing a barnraising event today to build a new car. Over 200 people will all get together at once to assemble it. It is going to have 8 cylinders and burn gas."
Either you are -1, Troll/Flamebait (if you actually include the word flame in your post, yeah, chances are you're a troll), or you are earnestly advocating extreme positions on topics on which you are admittedly ignorant. Here on/., there is an equal chance of it going either way.
There is also the outside chance that this is a brilliant parody that I am simply too dense to perceive. Please reply back indicating your true intentions, and I will gladly respond accordingly.
... and start toying with it. Plant a garden. Brew beer. Design RC airplanes. Learn to play an instrument. An electric guitar in the basement does wonders for blowing off steam. Worst case scenario? You end up trying a few ideas, and eventually end up with a hobby or two that you enjoy. You meet people outside of work who enjoy the same thing.
Be generous with your time. Volunteer at a soup kitchen or a no-kill animal shelter. Did you know a lot of these places are looking for people to volunteer on an ad-hoc basis? It's not a huge commitment to make. Depending on their age, bring your kids - it will teach them a world of wisdom they will probably never know otherwise. How's your vacation time stacking up? Take a week and volunteer for Habitat for Humanity. Start training to run 5k, 10k races. Run on behalf of your favorite charity. Don't have one? Find one.
Does your employer reimburse you for tuition? Continue your education. Take stuff that appeals to you. Steve Jobs took a freakin' calligraphy class that altered the future of computing.
1) calligraphy class
2) pretty fonts
3) Macintosh
4) profit!
Chances are that the happier you are outside of work, the happier you will be at work. So, next look for the positive aspects of things in your existing career. Better now? Great! But don't let that stop you from continuing to look for something else.
Not better? Still intolerable? Well, keep your eyes and mind open to opportunity. Planing for the future is important, but the best things in my life have happened because I seized a chance that presented itself. Goodness only knows how many others slipped right by because I wasn't looking, or wasn't open to the idea at the time. I'm not saying choose recklessly... but rather, don't immediately discount "crazy" ideas. IMHO, they are usually the most fun, and sometimes very profitable.
Either way, you are now a better person, with a greater sense of what appeals to you. By getting involved, even on a non-profit, "hobby-n-charity" basis, you met new people and learned new skills. That stuff can be the basis for career change. You might happily remain where you are, having found new satisfaction in life. You might find a new opportunity and jump on it. You might gradually transition to something new. A hobby might become serious, and you might go from shift-based work to a consulting role where your time and schedule are yours to decide. Eventually your "hobby" might become full-time work, and you might leave IT altogether, except to fix the kids' computer every now and then.
Everyone here seems to be panning this thing. I'm waiting to see what happens when this expensive military tech becomes more cost-effective, slimmed-down, and works its way into the civilian marketplace.
Imagine a glove like this that would talk to your car via bluetooth so you could manipulate anything on the dashboard, from radio to GPS nav system without taking eyes off the road and hands off the wheel.
Imagine a worker in a manufacturing plant controlling robots and assembly lines from a computer he wears as he walks around the shop floor - no need for a workstation in one fixed location. Or picture a scientist in the field taking notes on a wearable computer.
The possibilities are endless.
Of course, this being slashdot, the porn jokes are endless too.
I see your point, but surely you realize that postponing progress will not cure any problems in India or anywhere else. If we in the US had put our space program off until all our citizens were fed, we'd still be on the ground. Ditto everyone else in space. If you feel badly about world hunger, I could suggest a few nice charities you could give to...
... when they read the networks with the worst median reset rates from the appendix of the report?
UIUC - University of Illinois - 90.69%
WN-AZ-AS - Arizona Tri University Network - 89.33%
I'm not saying there is anything nefarious going on there. These networks were only sampled for a short time by a small set of users. The results gathered might not be generally representative of those networks. But it does make you wonder. Are they are blocking / shaping traffic, or do they have a massively overwhelmed network? Other?
Didn't see a reason why in the summary or article, but managed to find this
with the following:
"every time there is an OS upgrade, the DRM equation gets complex very quickly," said Bennett, general manager of entertainment, video, and sports for MSN. "Every time, you saw support issues. People would call in because they couldn't download licenses. We had to write new code, new configurations each time...We really believe that, going forward, the best thing to do is focus exclusively on Zune."
Paraphrasing, then: We are f**king you, the valued customer, because we can't write an OS that doesn't implode our own DRM. You should buy something else from us instead!
Somewhere in my office, I have a vintage system based on an old 486SX, with the disabled/broken math coprocessor. Who here remembers those things? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
I also have a couple laptops with the fully functional coprocessors. They are early tablet PCs with b/w pen-sensitive screens, and actually can do handwriting recognition with a 486DX running at a screaming 25 mhz. I might go downstairs and fire one up just for the nostalgia of it. Last I checked, they still worked.
Thanks for the informative reply. I guess my concern is that while the method of production is undefined, so are its byproducts, whether they are CO2, methane, or other.
The geocentric model was considered scientific at the time, and there appeared to be evidence to support it.
Galileo's biggest troubles came not just from offending scripture, but from personally offending influential friends the church hierarchy who initially supported him, including the Pope.
Heliocentrism is different than ID in that it is not religious in nature; however, given the context of his question, I find it is comparable because:
a) it is an example of a fringe idea
b) was initially rejected by the scientific community because of a pre-existing scientific theory with working equations that could reliably predict future observations
c) but later proved to be valid
None of this is to imply that I promote ID. ID is not science, it is one religion's attempt to align their beliefs and science. I'm just trying to say that kooky ideas have a spooky way of turning out to be true... or at least closer to true than originally thought.
If you don't like that example, how about the idea of an expanding universe? Lots of people didn't like that one at first.
Black holes were considered science fiction when they were first postulated.
Today there is a debate over dark matter, with some in the scientific community saying it is the only way to balance the universe as we know it, and others rejecting it as conjecture.
As a matter of fact, I think most important ideas HAVE been relegated to kookdom before being accepted. Einstein's ideas were very controversial. Although they won support eventually, they represented too great a shift for many of the old guard to adequately comprehend, let alone accept.
So I'm thinking, how the hell would I grow meat? Yeah, I know the idea here is to find a way to culture it in something like a cross between a petrie dish and a hydroponic pot farm, but bear with me. Once you have muscle tissue, how do you develop it and accelerate its growth? You exercise it. How the hell do you do that?
Hmm, okay, bioengineer a tendon at each end, attach one to a stationary part of the vat, attach the other to a mechanism that offers resistance (kind of a biomass bowflex, if you will), insert electrodes into muscle mass, and repeatedly stimulate the muscle, thus exercising the vat-o-meat.
Now we have twitching, pulsing vats of meat. Great. What happens if we take the next logical step and attach the buff biomass to a generator? Imagine a bioengine with a series of the vat-o-meat equivalent of cylinders that would pull instead of push, driving an electrical generator. All you'd have to do is feed it a constant supply of glucose & O2, and remove the waste. (Here comes the idea for the vat-o-kidney... )
Don't bet on it. How do you know that there won't be methane & co2 & other waste produced by the natural respiration of the frankenmeat?
I agree with you on the sterile environment & lower transportation costs, though.
Not to nitpick, but I would have to argue that ID is not disputed by a mountain of evidence, since it is theology/philosophy willfully miscategorized as science, and so is not scientifically provable/disprovable.
To answer your question, though, I'd say that geocentrism was supported by a lot of observations and complex equations, (the observations were pretty good, considering the low tech of the time). The complex equations, required to make the observations fit with the underlying hypothesis, actually did provide a reasonably accurate way to predict the movements of the heavens (ie, the theory could be tested, and seemed to give valid results), and so one could argue that there was a lot of evidence supporting Ptolemaic geocentrism. However, that's a little misleading, because the evidence (observations) are the same for either view - the difference is in interpreting the evidence and providing a model that works. I don't think that could be construed to mean that that there was evidence against heliocentrism.
I think that ID is a great way for people of faith to embrace a scientific theory which disagrees with the literal interpretation of the Bible, and as such belongs OUTSIDE the science classroom. It has no more place in the curriculum than a theory on the ascension of Muhammed or whoever else.
Heliocentrism (comparable to ID not in a religious sense, but in the sense that it was outside the mainstream in the time of Copernicus, Galileo, et al, and therefore languished in "kookdom") vs. geocentrism.
Yeah, but what if your datacenter is run by the SF zoo, and some script kiddie comes along and starts taunting your tigers? What are you going to do about all the tigers running amok on your network?
Yeah, but what happens if you've got the SF zoo running your datacenter, and some script kiddie comes along and starts taunting them? What are you going to do about all the damn tigers running amok on your network?
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Thanks for getting that one.
Sorry if I seem insensitive. I do not wish rape - prison or otherwise - on anyone. I am only wishing federal prison upon him for the (apparent) perjury and insider trading.
... well, that's not up to me.
I'm not saying that I want him to *literally* get screwed. Metaphorically, sure. It's about time he and the other greedy, souless suits at SCO receive a taste of what they dished out in their vicious, deceitful battle against Linux and the software industry in general. "We can only hope" they see prison time, because I think these millionaire weasels will probably wriggle out of it one way or another. What happens after they get there
Anyway, since I assume you didn't see the movie, the pound-you-in-the-ass bit is a quote from Office Space. I probably got it a little wrong. If I did, I'm sure a trivia nazi, er, I mean, helpful slashdotter, will show up and correct me.
TFA mentioned the Dell 2*quad Xeon hardware, but failed to mention what kind of storage will be attached to it, what kind of network(s) they plan to use to rope it all together, what OS & filesystem they plan to use, & other stuff that would be fun to know.
If they don't tell us what they're using, how can we have flame wars over whose technology really should have been used in it? We'll be stuck with nothing to do but make up bad car analogies.
It would be like, "GM is announcing a barnraising event today to build a new car. Over 200 people will all get together at once to assemble it. It is going to have 8 cylinders and burn gas."
Sheesh.
Hmm, perjury, plus a possible insider-trading rap. Sounds like the kind of thing that could send him to a pound-you-in-the-ass federal pen.
-sigh-
We can only hope.
Either you are -1, Troll/Flamebait (if you actually include the word flame in your post, yeah, chances are you're a troll), or you are earnestly advocating extreme positions on topics on which you are admittedly ignorant. Here on /., there is an equal chance of it going either way.
There is also the outside chance that this is a brilliant parody that I am simply too dense to perceive. Please reply back indicating your true intentions, and I will gladly respond accordingly.
... and start toying with it. Plant a garden. Brew beer. Design RC airplanes. Learn to play an instrument. An electric guitar in the basement does wonders for blowing off steam. Worst case scenario? You end up trying a few ideas, and eventually end up with a hobby or two that you enjoy. You meet people outside of work who enjoy the same thing.
... but rather, don't immediately discount "crazy" ideas. IMHO, they are usually the most fun, and sometimes very profitable.
Be generous with your time. Volunteer at a soup kitchen or a no-kill animal shelter. Did you know a lot of these places are looking for people to volunteer on an ad-hoc basis? It's not a huge commitment to make. Depending on their age, bring your kids - it will teach them a world of wisdom they will probably never know otherwise. How's your vacation time stacking up? Take a week and volunteer for Habitat for Humanity. Start training to run 5k, 10k races. Run on behalf of your favorite charity. Don't have one? Find one.
Does your employer reimburse you for tuition? Continue your education. Take stuff that appeals to you. Steve Jobs took a freakin' calligraphy class that altered the future of computing.
1) calligraphy class
2) pretty fonts
3) Macintosh
4) profit!
Chances are that the happier you are outside of work, the happier you will be at work. So, next look for the positive aspects of things in your existing career. Better now? Great! But don't let that stop you from continuing to look for something else.
Not better? Still intolerable? Well, keep your eyes and mind open to opportunity. Planing for the future is important, but the best things in my life have happened because I seized a chance that presented itself. Goodness only knows how many others slipped right by because I wasn't looking, or wasn't open to the idea at the time. I'm not saying choose recklessly
Either way, you are now a better person, with a greater sense of what appeals to you. By getting involved, even on a non-profit, "hobby-n-charity" basis, you met new people and learned new skills. That stuff can be the basis for career change. You might happily remain where you are, having found new satisfaction in life. You might find a new opportunity and jump on it. You might gradually transition to something new. A hobby might become serious, and you might go from shift-based work to a consulting role where your time and schedule are yours to decide. Eventually your "hobby" might become full-time work, and you might leave IT altogether, except to fix the kids' computer every now and then.
The short answer is GET ACTIVE, MAN!
Yeah, and 99% of them would probably do as told and upgrade. MS revenues would be back on track in no time. Dammit.
Everyone here seems to be panning this thing. I'm waiting to see what happens when this expensive military tech becomes more cost-effective, slimmed-down, and works its way into the civilian marketplace.
Imagine a glove like this that would talk to your car via bluetooth so you could manipulate anything on the dashboard, from radio to GPS nav system without taking eyes off the road and hands off the wheel.
Imagine a worker in a manufacturing plant controlling robots and assembly lines from a computer he wears as he walks around the shop floor - no need for a workstation in one fixed location. Or picture a scientist in the field taking notes on a wearable computer.
The possibilities are endless. Of course, this being slashdot, the porn jokes are endless too.
I see your point, but surely you realize that postponing progress will not cure any problems in India or anywhere else. If we in the US had put our space program off until all our citizens were fed, we'd still be on the ground. Ditto everyone else in space. If you feel badly about world hunger, I could suggest a few nice charities you could give to ...
I think it almost qualifies as a meme.
Wecome home, brother.
... when they read the networks with the worst median reset rates from the appendix of the report?
UIUC - University of Illinois - 90.69%
WN-AZ-AS - Arizona Tri University Network - 89.33%
I'm not saying there is anything nefarious going on there. These networks were only sampled for a short time by a small set of users. The results gathered might not be generally representative of those networks. But it does make you wonder. Are they are blocking / shaping traffic, or do they have a massively overwhelmed network? Other?
Didn't see a reason why in the summary or article, but managed to find this with the following:
"every time there is an OS upgrade, the DRM equation gets complex very quickly," said Bennett, general manager of entertainment, video, and sports for MSN. "Every time, you saw support issues. People would call in because they couldn't download licenses. We had to write new code, new configurations each time...We really believe that, going forward, the best thing to do is focus exclusively on Zune."
Paraphrasing, then: We are f**king you, the valued customer, because we can't write an OS that doesn't implode our own DRM. You should buy something else from us instead!
Somewhere in my office, I have a vintage system based on an old 486SX, with the disabled/broken math coprocessor. Who here remembers those things? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
I also have a couple laptops with the fully functional coprocessors. They are early tablet PCs with b/w pen-sensitive screens, and actually can do handwriting recognition with a 486DX running at a screaming 25 mhz. I might go downstairs and fire one up just for the nostalgia of it. Last I checked, they still worked.
Thanks for the informative reply. I guess my concern is that while the method of production is undefined, so are its byproducts, whether they are CO2, methane, or other.
The geocentric model was considered scientific at the time, and there appeared to be evidence to support it.
... or at least closer to true than originally thought.
Galileo's biggest troubles came not just from offending scripture, but from personally offending influential friends the church hierarchy who initially supported him, including the Pope.
Heliocentrism is different than ID in that it is not religious in nature; however, given the context of his question, I find it is comparable because:
a) it is an example of a fringe idea
b) was initially rejected by the scientific community because of a pre-existing scientific theory with working equations that could reliably predict future observations
c) but later proved to be valid
None of this is to imply that I promote ID. ID is not science, it is one religion's attempt to align their beliefs and science. I'm just trying to say that kooky ideas have a spooky way of turning out to be true
If you don't like that example, how about the idea of an expanding universe? Lots of people didn't like that one at first.
Black holes were considered science fiction when they were first postulated.
Today there is a debate over dark matter, with some in the scientific community saying it is the only way to balance the universe as we know it, and others rejecting it as conjecture.
As a matter of fact, I think most important ideas HAVE been relegated to kookdom before being accepted. Einstein's ideas were very controversial. Although they won support eventually, they represented too great a shift for many of the old guard to adequately comprehend, let alone accept.
So I'm thinking, how the hell would I grow meat? Yeah, I know the idea here is to find a way to culture it in something like a cross between a petrie dish and a hydroponic pot farm, but bear with me. Once you have muscle tissue, how do you develop it and accelerate its growth? You exercise it. How the hell do you do that?
... )
Hmm, okay, bioengineer a tendon at each end, attach one to a stationary part of the vat, attach the other to a mechanism that offers resistance (kind of a biomass bowflex, if you will), insert electrodes into muscle mass, and repeatedly stimulate the muscle, thus exercising the vat-o-meat.
Now we have twitching, pulsing vats of meat. Great. What happens if we take the next logical step and attach the buff biomass to a generator? Imagine a bioengine with a series of the vat-o-meat equivalent of cylinders that would pull instead of push, driving an electrical generator. All you'd have to do is feed it a constant supply of glucose & O2, and remove the waste. (Here comes the idea for the vat-o-kidney
Combination food factory and power plant.
Don't bet on it. How do you know that there won't be methane & co2 & other waste produced by the natural respiration of the frankenmeat? I agree with you on the sterile environment & lower transportation costs, though.
Not to nitpick, but I would have to argue that ID is not disputed by a mountain of evidence, since it is theology/philosophy willfully miscategorized as science, and so is not scientifically provable/disprovable.
To answer your question, though, I'd say that geocentrism was supported by a lot of observations and complex equations, (the observations were pretty good, considering the low tech of the time). The complex equations, required to make the observations fit with the underlying hypothesis, actually did provide a reasonably accurate way to predict the movements of the heavens (ie, the theory could be tested, and seemed to give valid results), and so one could argue that there was a lot of evidence supporting Ptolemaic geocentrism. However, that's a little misleading, because the evidence (observations) are the same for either view - the difference is in interpreting the evidence and providing a model that works. I don't think that could be construed to mean that that there was evidence against heliocentrism.
I think that ID is a great way for people of faith to embrace a scientific theory which disagrees with the literal interpretation of the Bible, and as such belongs OUTSIDE the science classroom. It has no more place in the curriculum than a theory on the ascension of Muhammed or whoever else.
Heliocentrism (comparable to ID not in a religious sense, but in the sense that it was outside the mainstream in the time of Copernicus, Galileo, et al, and therefore languished in "kookdom") vs. geocentrism.
Yeah, but what if your datacenter is run by the SF zoo, and some script kiddie comes along and starts taunting your tigers? What are you going to do about all the tigers running amok on your network?
Yeah, but what happens if you've got the SF zoo running your datacenter, and some script kiddie comes along and starts taunting them? What are you going to do about all the damn tigers running amok on your network?