People have been posting repeatedly that you should short sell against spammers pumping and dumping penny stocks; the parent post is a very accurate warning against doing that.
What's that? Doesn't the world end beyond the horizon beyond Florida? Beyond that is the great dropoff to hell: evil communism and muzzies, and all that.
You can come to a solution with rote memorization. There's no way I could possibly know that s/he read about heat dissipation and just happened to (while sitting at a table with me) guess why a given blade server is acting all funky. But if s/he goes back there in the server room and says "okay, let me check the thing myself" then discovers "oh, an over-temp condition" and looks at the racks and ventilation and starts talking about replacing, say, a Dell PowerEdge (WTF OMFG ITS TEH GERIATAZ0R!!!!) with more modern IBM blades equipped with CVC? (Ok, that's not one of my scenarios, all our blades have CVC or equivalents, but I can't get fired if I say this and it gets traced back, lol!) I can reasonably know that s/he has done this a few times then.
The solution is necessary, but the methodology tells you how thorough that person is, and that's very important in my line of work. You have to have both, or you could be hiring a person who's good at rote memorization but very poor at actual innovation and jack-be-nimble problem solving.
I'll present a candidate with a real problem in the danger room (our term for the isolated test center where we diagnose stuff and load test network setups without screwing with the blades&racks that are live) and screw something up, then have them try to fix it. I'm more interested in their methodology than their solution. Our test network works, but it's a mess; if they can innovate before my eyes and tell me how to clean things up while being tactful then they're hired. My predecessor did this and so do I.
I expect to be corrected if I (intentionally, for the most part) say something wrong, but I expect tact and respect, and I'll tell them those guidelines up front. BS artists have that look when they don't know something, and they get very vague. I don't need to play games with them. Someone who knows their stuff will appreciate the honesty and show their true competent colors.
I send BS artists out the door with a pretty precise explanation of where they went wrong. Hell, I even suggest where they need to get training so they don't have to BS their way through the next interview. This way they won't bother another employer with their BS attempts, or at least they'll know why they got rejected.
If you know it, you know it, if not, then you don't, that's my motto. No need to trip people up, the losers will always get culled from the herd as soon as they open their mouths.
I think what's going on is FSF is enabling users, or asking Tivo to enable users, to use Tivo on their own terms and not Tivo's. You know, like how drivers use their cars on their own terms and not Toyota's... of course I could be wrong. Do you have links to examples of how the FSF is dictating anything to Tivo, much less whether or not Tivo is listening at all? And the MPAA/RIAA are using the law to force people to do things their way... which law is the FSF using to force Tivo to do things their way?
In short, where is the 'strong arm' in FSF's tactics? Strong arm implies force of law, or of lawsuits, or maybe a baseball bat or two...
What about adaptability? Genetically undesirable genes may result in a polar bear that can't handle the cold as well as his siblings.
He's in a really good situation right now as the north pole is warming up...
"Undesirable" genes may result in said creature being more adapted to a sudden change in the environment.
As big a geek as I am, I'd hate to see all humans become geeks and breed out the cowboys, and then a sunspot knocks out our electronics... likewise, without the geek gene, how would we ever have known about sunspots?
If crony capitalist laws like the DMCA were in force with cars the way it is with HD-/DVDs, you could not open your hood without being in violation of the law, much less service the parts within.
BTW the DMCA is a pretty solid example of corporate welfare. No truly Libertarian system would let companies decide by force of law what you can do with what's in your house. You bought the physical DVD, you can do with it as you wish. Companies are free to copy protect until the cows come home, but you should be free to archive and protect your investment from damage.
The DMCA is just the media industry's way of saying "I know that disc might get scratched and if it does, I get to profit off you having to buy another copy." Corporate welfare at its finest.
That's because there's a massive groundswell of pro-life liberals in the Democratic Party about to break through, politically.
Also see: Robert Casey Jr. and his present handing of Rick Santorum's hiney to him on what may well be a silver platter this election season (unless, that is, Casey Jr gets caught with an intern).
Feminists for Life of America would completely shatter the grandparent poster's parody script (which was quite funny IMO). There are a lot of pro-lifers out there who don't bomb clinics, adopt kids, and who believe strongly in societal safety nets for the working and poor class.
Pro-life liberals outnumber pro-life conservatives but they get almost no press.
On the other hand, I can imagine a whole lot of pro-choicers refusing to have these stem cells because no embryos were destroyed. They're utterly obsessed with aborting something, anything. Ok, as long as it isn't a non-human animal, that is. "I support fetal experimentation, but don't you dare club a baby seal!"
One side blames fetuses for all their problems and is obsessed with picking on the weak who can't fight back. The other side wants to save all babies and then let them fight for the remaining petty economic scraps or starve in the free market afterwards.
I'd say Ebay sellers are definitely more a victim of market dynamics than Ebay management problems. (Yes, I do support the market, except when it is taken to a "profits over humanity" extreme.)
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A lot of those soldiers are under 21. I say let's give them the right to drink.
For smacking the computer to keep a hard drive formatting from failing, I'd say something is loose. And that will stop working after a while.
The same is most likely true with the ethernet card.
The motherboard itself may have something loose, and the way to deal with all of it is to move components into other PC's and see how things go.
I've seen and met all hardware problems and beat 'em all (even if by buying a new component). The REAL voodoo lies in the software. Why in God's holy name does Windows fail to boot one time, and then boot successfully the second time?
NWN is one of the GREATEST games I've played yet... because
a) I can play it on my older laptop when I'm not near my super duper desktop PC b) The game is very, very long (and even longer with the additions), you have lots of side quests and a large universe to explore, plus a boat load of spells and weapons (and magic bags to carry loot) c) It has a ton of user made mods d) I can play it without sound and follow the whole story regardless
I like this more than Baldur's Gate and Champions of Norrath because of a) and b) and c), and I like it more than Dungeon Siege because of a) and c) and d).
Doesn't beat Oblivion, though Oblivion would utterly kill my laptop with a Daedric Warhammer of Fire Damage & Soul Trap (thus causing my laptop to burst into flame.. get it?)
I don't like NWN because it often costs me my lunch hour at work!
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People have been posting repeatedly that you should short sell against spammers pumping and dumping penny stocks; the parent post is a very accurate warning against doing that.
What's that? Doesn't the world end beyond the horizon beyond Florida? Beyond that is the great dropoff to hell: evil communism and muzzies, and all that.
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Calibrated vectors cooling, IIRC.
No, it's not a problem.
You can come to a solution with rote memorization. There's no way I could possibly know that s/he read about heat dissipation and just happened to (while sitting at a table with me) guess why a given blade server is acting all funky. But if s/he goes back there in the server room and says "okay, let me check the thing myself" then discovers "oh, an over-temp condition" and looks at the racks and ventilation and starts talking about replacing, say, a Dell PowerEdge (WTF OMFG ITS TEH GERIATAZ0R!!!!) with more modern IBM blades equipped with CVC? (Ok, that's not one of my scenarios, all our blades have CVC or equivalents, but I can't get fired if I say this and it gets traced back, lol!) I can reasonably know that s/he has done this a few times then.
The solution is necessary, but the methodology tells you how thorough that person is, and that's very important in my line of work. You have to have both, or you could be hiring a person who's good at rote memorization but very poor at actual innovation and jack-be-nimble problem solving.
I'll present a candidate with a real problem in the danger room (our term for the isolated test center where we diagnose stuff and load test network setups without screwing with the blades&racks that are live) and screw something up, then have them try to fix it. I'm more interested in their methodology than their solution. Our test network works, but it's a mess; if they can innovate before my eyes and tell me how to clean things up while being tactful then they're hired. My predecessor did this and so do I.
I expect to be corrected if I (intentionally, for the most part) say something wrong, but I expect tact and respect, and I'll tell them those guidelines up front. BS artists have that look when they don't know something, and they get very vague. I don't need to play games with them. Someone who knows their stuff will appreciate the honesty and show their true competent colors.
I send BS artists out the door with a pretty precise explanation of where they went wrong. Hell, I even suggest where they need to get training so they don't have to BS their way through the next interview. This way they won't bother another employer with their BS attempts, or at least they'll know why they got rejected.
If you know it, you know it, if not, then you don't, that's my motto. No need to trip people up, the losers will always get culled from the herd as soon as they open their mouths.
Playing games with applicants sucks, IMHO.
I think what's going on is FSF is enabling users, or asking Tivo to enable users, to use Tivo on their own terms and not Tivo's. You know, like how drivers use their cars on their own terms and not Toyota's... of course I could be wrong. Do you have links to examples of how the FSF is dictating anything to Tivo, much less whether or not Tivo is listening at all? And the MPAA/RIAA are using the law to force people to do things their way... which law is the FSF using to force Tivo to do things their way?
In short, where is the 'strong arm' in FSF's tactics? Strong arm implies force of law, or of lawsuits, or maybe a baseball bat or two...
What about adaptability? Genetically undesirable genes may result in a polar bear that can't handle the cold as well as his siblings.
He's in a really good situation right now as the north pole is warming up...
"Undesirable" genes may result in said creature being more adapted to a sudden change in the environment.
As big a geek as I am, I'd hate to see all humans become geeks and breed out the cowboys, and then a sunspot knocks out our electronics... likewise, without the geek gene, how would we ever have known about sunspots?
Necrophobia - n., the irrational fear of dead things?
Fear leads to hate, folks. Let's stop the hate. Hug your friendly neighborhood ghost, they might be a relative.
Pac Man encourages carnivore-ism. I think PETA ought to protest Pac Man.
(just kidding)
BZZT. Wrong.
If crony capitalist laws like the DMCA were in force with cars the way it is with HD-/DVDs, you could not open your hood without being in violation of the law, much less service the parts within.
I see no one had any counter arguments to that.
BTW the DMCA is a pretty solid example of corporate welfare. No truly Libertarian system would let companies decide by force of law what you can do with what's in your house. You bought the physical DVD, you can do with it as you wish. Companies are free to copy protect until the cows come home, but you should be free to archive and protect your investment from damage.
The DMCA is just the media industry's way of saying "I know that disc might get scratched and if it does, I get to profit off you having to buy another copy." Corporate welfare at its finest.
That's easy. Remember when Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton were talking about a big tent policy in the Democratic Party over abortion?
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That's because there's a massive groundswell of pro-life liberals in the Democratic Party about to break through, politically.
Also see: Robert Casey Jr. and his present handing of Rick Santorum's hiney to him on what may well be a silver platter this election season (unless, that is, Casey Jr gets caught with an intern).
Feminists for Life of America would completely shatter the grandparent poster's parody script (which was quite funny IMO). There are a lot of pro-lifers out there who don't bomb clinics, adopt kids, and who believe strongly in societal safety nets for the working and poor class.
Pro-life liberals outnumber pro-life conservatives but they get almost no press.
That was good.
On the other hand, I can imagine a whole lot of pro-choicers refusing to have these stem cells because no embryos were destroyed. They're utterly obsessed with aborting something, anything. Ok, as long as it isn't a non-human animal, that is. "I support fetal experimentation, but don't you dare club a baby seal!"
One side blames fetuses for all their problems and is obsessed with picking on the weak who can't fight back. The other side wants to save all babies and then let them fight for the remaining petty economic scraps or starve in the free market afterwards.
Hypocrites, all of them.
I can't survive without my daily dose of popups, spyware and weird malicious javascript hacks at work!
Hep me! Somebody hep me!!!!
Durandal (of Marathon fame) had far more uniqueness than SHODAN.
Sci Fi Channel is doing a 7th Heaven and they, as far as I can see, don't have a good show to replace it with.
All they have left to hold dedicated viewers is Battlestar Galactica.
What else is there to watch on that network now?
I'd say Ebay sellers are definitely more a victim of market dynamics than Ebay management problems. (Yes, I do support the market, except when it is taken to a "profits over humanity" extreme.)
A lot of those soldiers are under 21. I say let's give them the right to drink.
one can expect the cops to put the common civilian on the lowest priority.
Profits before people.
As opposed to Republicans who constantly reward their abysmal incompetence and flagrant negligence with more and more funding...
Does Windows [i]ever[/i] do anything cleanly?
Blame it on memory leaks. I'd say that memory leaks are the X factor and the gremlins of Windows.
For smacking the computer to keep a hard drive formatting from failing, I'd say something is loose. And that will stop working after a while.
The same is most likely true with the ethernet card.
The motherboard itself may have something loose, and the way to deal with all of it is to move components into other PC's and see how things go.
I've seen and met all hardware problems and beat 'em all (even if by buying a new component). The REAL voodoo lies in the software. Why in God's holy name does Windows fail to boot one time, and then boot successfully the second time?
Great advice; I already have BG2 on mail order. :) Now to find BG1...
NWN is one of the GREATEST games I've played yet... because
a) I can play it on my older laptop when I'm not near my super duper desktop PC
b) The game is very, very long (and even longer with the additions), you have lots of side quests and a large universe to explore, plus a boat load of spells and weapons (and magic bags to carry loot)
c) It has a ton of user made mods
d) I can play it without sound and follow the whole story regardless
I like this more than Baldur's Gate and Champions of Norrath because of a) and b) and c), and I like it more than Dungeon Siege because of a) and c) and d).
Doesn't beat Oblivion, though Oblivion would utterly kill my laptop with a Daedric Warhammer of Fire Damage & Soul Trap (thus causing my laptop to burst into flame.. get it?)
I don't like NWN because it often costs me my lunch hour at work!