[Gene (Mel Gibson) has to make a decision about his cargo] Billy Covington: "Come on, You gotta do it, or you're just another version of Major Lemond , with a slightly hipper rap!"
Really? Seems like the Iran war drums are beating pretty strongly. And I don't see us getting out of our current wars either. Yeah, about that. I guess facts are out of scope for this discussion. Oh, and as far as butter (increased domestic spending) Medicare Part D was what, exactly? Oh, yeah, it was the largest new entitlement in 20 years. And "more" than Obama has managed to get passed. Not that i'm in favor of either.
possibly, but when some of the constituencies don't get what they want with that arrangement, they break ranks and form another alliance. now they get "managed" (told to stfu.)
and before some Republican chimes in with some nonsense, the Repubs do it too. Lindsey Graham's repudiation of Ron Paul Republicans (fiscal conservatives) is a prime example. There is no room at the policy table for fiscal conservatives in the Republican party. But they're happy to take your vote and give you nothing.
I will now make a killing selling tin foil hats and body "armor" in airport kiosks just outside the security checkpoints. Thank God for TSA; how else would such a ludicrous business be feasible?
it's something the watch battery shop in the terminal could provide as a service... not that i think banning anything has had the desired effect or has been worth the sacrifice of civil liberties.
GP is implying that you would carry your laptop without a battery on the plane, then when you go get your luggage at your destination, you buy a battery so you can use your laptop at your destination. no battery on the flight at all. just you out $100 every time you fly. now, someone could start a battery rental business where you turn your battery back in at checkin when you're heading home from wherever it was you traveled.
Also, I can't believe no one broke out a Billy Madison quote for this story. e.g. "...and we are all dumber for having heard it. You are awarded zero points and may God have mercy on your soul." "A simple 'no' would have done."
yes it performs better. for certain workloads. with correct usage.
like anything else it's a tradeoff. in this case you (or your application developer) have to be aware of how the scheduler works and be able to assign valid relative priorities and deadlines. Current schedulers you might have to worry about priority, but usually you don't. You also have to work out a way to work out utilization and negotiate fallback compute requirements based on the user's workload (other apps competing for the resource).
Shortly, this scheduler is immediately useful for people making appliances (special purpose computers, e.g. a network firewall/router/voip box). It is less immediately useful for the desktop user, but i could imagine a set of circumstances that would make it very useful. The reason is that the appliance designer knows the compute workload fairly well and can take the time to assign priorities and deadlines for each process under each condition. When tools are made to automate this process on the fly, then desktop users will be able to open a bunch of crap and never have to worry that their voip app is going to stutter.
But the dog ate our homework. No, really. It came back in time and ate it. Or was that the god? Oh, hell, let's just anthropomorphise nature by ascribing motivations to it. Yeah, that's it. Nature ate our homework.
but there still could have been racism involved, just not through EEO programs. A black manager could have preferred a black candidate over others. of course it could have been nepotism or networking too. or as i presume without evidence, plain incompetence.
nice theory, but i grew up in DC. yes black people can and some do discriminate against whites and other groups. heck, as old as it is, School Daze was and still is relevant vis a vis light/dark black discrimination.
however, this is probably mostly a symptom of the society of ineptitude that is DC government. your hiring manager has to have a clue and be able to vet whether an applicant actually knows the stuff their alleged degree says they should know. that hiring manager's manager is likely a political appointee, and well, you get the idea that politics might be involved.
i also used that experience (of having grown up in DC) to express my wish on/. that Obama choose the Cisco person rather than the DC guy with 0 clue about tech and associates and underlings of "questionable" ethics. at best our CIO is clueless about managing people, at worst he's involved in the corruption, but smarter than his underlings. the latter doesn't seem hard from the behavior this lady evidenced.
when i was in high school in DC Public Fools^H^H^H^H^H Schools, DC got a federal grant of like $10-20million to improve school access to computers, which at the time (mid 90s) consisted primarily of private corporate charity of end of life PC ATs. The government wasted the money paying contractors to "measure the state of computer and network access in the classroom". this was something a manager with two eyes and half a brain could have done in less than a month. none of the money got spent on actually putting computers in classrooms.
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So you're not a bot, but you are a trained monkey?
They discovered the rats were more intelligent when one of them began lecturing the scientists on proper lab procedure...
From the movie Air America (1990)
[Gene (Mel Gibson) has to make a decision about his cargo]
Billy Covington: "Come on, You gotta do it, or you're just another version of Major Lemond , with a slightly hipper rap!"
Really? Seems like the Iran war drums are beating pretty strongly. And I don't see us getting out of our current wars either. Yeah, about that. I guess facts are out of scope for this discussion. Oh, and as far as butter (increased domestic spending) Medicare Part D was what, exactly? Oh, yeah, it was the largest new entitlement in 20 years. And "more" than Obama has managed to get passed. Not that i'm in favor of either.
meet the new boss; same as the old boss.
possibly, but when some of the constituencies don't get what they want with that arrangement, they break ranks and form another alliance. now they get "managed" (told to stfu.)
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/12/fringe/index.html
and before some Republican chimes in with some nonsense, the Repubs do it too. Lindsey Graham's repudiation of Ron Paul Republicans (fiscal conservatives) is a prime example. There is no room at the policy table for fiscal conservatives in the Republican party. But they're happy to take your vote and give you nothing.
I will now make a killing selling tin foil hats and body "armor" in airport kiosks just outside the security checkpoints. Thank God for TSA; how else would such a ludicrous business be feasible?
it's something the watch battery shop in the terminal could provide as a service... not that i think banning anything has had the desired effect or has been worth the sacrifice of civil liberties.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/18/2227231
enjoy.
this is airport security. no jokes allowed. we can arrest you. srs bsns.
*whoosh*
GP is implying that you would carry your laptop without a battery on the plane, then when you go get your luggage at your destination, you buy a battery so you can use your laptop at your destination. no battery on the flight at all. just you out $100 every time you fly. now, someone could start a battery rental business where you turn your battery back in at checkin when you're heading home from wherever it was you traveled.
and these regulations have clearly been effective? no.
only for certain values of "can't".
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/18/2227231
which links to:
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/137639,macbook-unremoveable-battery-is-a-doddle-to-replace.aspx
which links to:
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-17-Inch-Unibody/618/1#s3248
while i agree with you...
this is settled case law.
http://www.papersplease.org/wp/
yes, i know it's to do with id rather than searches, but the government is of one opinion in all of this.
"you have other choices on how to travel. we don't acknowledge any timeliness issues."
except for the athlete's foot. and gangrene. and cooties.
you might get caught in a syn-ack attack. which is even worse than a big-mac attack.
get off my lawn.
In my day we had to use smoke signals to exploit a neighbor's abacus. And you know what, we liked it.
Now you have your fancy audio couplers and wireless networks.
slashdot lowers readers' IQs.
Also, I can't believe no one broke out a Billy Madison quote for this story. e.g. "...and we are all dumber for having heard it. You are awarded zero points and may God have mercy on your soul." "A simple 'no' would have done."
just let them fade gently into that goodnight.
yes it performs better. for certain workloads. with correct usage.
like anything else it's a tradeoff. in this case you (or your application developer) have to be aware of how the scheduler works and be able to assign valid relative priorities and deadlines. Current schedulers you might have to worry about priority, but usually you don't. You also have to work out a way to work out utilization and negotiate fallback compute requirements based on the user's workload (other apps competing for the resource).
Shortly, this scheduler is immediately useful for people making appliances (special purpose computers, e.g. a network firewall/router/voip box). It is less immediately useful for the desktop user, but i could imagine a set of circumstances that would make it very useful. The reason is that the appliance designer knows the compute workload fairly well and can take the time to assign priorities and deadlines for each process under each condition. When tools are made to automate this process on the fly, then desktop users will be able to open a bunch of crap and never have to worry that their voip app is going to stutter.
But the dog ate our homework. No, really. It came back in time and ate it. Or was that the god? Oh, hell, let's just anthropomorphise nature by ascribing motivations to it. Yeah, that's it. Nature ate our homework.
but in the US it gets drowned into the noise floor by all the 60Hz hum.
Protip safety lesson: don't touch the humming bars. if you do, someone will have to clean you up with a dustpan.
but there still could have been racism involved, just not through EEO programs. A black manager could have preferred a black candidate over others. of course it could have been nepotism or networking too. or as i presume without evidence, plain incompetence.
nice theory, but i grew up in DC. yes black people can and some do discriminate against whites and other groups. heck, as old as it is, School Daze was and still is relevant vis a vis light/dark black discrimination.
however, this is probably mostly a symptom of the society of ineptitude that is DC government. your hiring manager has to have a clue and be able to vet whether an applicant actually knows the stuff their alleged degree says they should know. that hiring manager's manager is likely a political appointee, and well, you get the idea that politics might be involved.
i also used that experience (of having grown up in DC) to express my wish on /. that Obama choose the Cisco person rather than the DC guy with 0 clue about tech and associates and underlings of "questionable" ethics. at best our CIO is clueless about managing people, at worst he's involved in the corruption, but smarter than his underlings. the latter doesn't seem hard from the behavior this lady evidenced.
when i was in high school in DC Public Fools^H^H^H^H^H Schools, DC got a federal grant of like $10-20million to improve school access to computers, which at the time (mid 90s) consisted primarily of private corporate charity of end of life PC ATs. The government wasted the money paying contractors to "measure the state of computer and network access in the classroom". this was something a manager with two eyes and half a brain could have done in less than a month. none of the money got spent on actually putting computers in classrooms.