No fair!!! If I wanted something accurate, insightful, and relevant I wouldn't be on the internet now would I!!! Please leave me alone so I can go back to my bistromathmatics.
I always thought the swearing and yelling in Chinese was a realistic outcome as the world becomes more meshed. It looks like it may come sooner than later.
I felt a bit guilty after the last post. I did work for UPS, and I did learn those phrases. And while I saw my fair share of kicked in, mangled, or shredded packages (some of them at my hand), I never saw it done deliberately. You have a lot of work to do in a short time and things get treated rough. Things that say "this side up" or "fragile" just get handled more as a result of the instructions and thus they will be more prone to error on statistics alone. If you care about your stuff, pack it well and then the company doesn't really matter.
I worked for the aforementioned shipping company. I unloaded trucks. Here I learned that Fragile is a French word, meaning, "to drop kick". Also, the phrase, "UPS, where the Q Stands for Quality". There's no Q in UPS you say??? EXACTLY! Of course I still use them...
While I do think complexity does lose most people, I think syncopation is a requisite in any popular music. Even a simple song like Every Breath You Take by the Police uses syncopation when you consider the vocal rhythm over the music. It may be basic syncopation, but the only music that seems to be strictly 'downbeat' is disco.
What is odd to me especially is that symphonic music like Mozart, etc are widely regarded as excellent music while using a variety of tempos and rhythms. Yet in the majority of popular music it is eschewed or only marginally considered.
And while I may not want music that zags when at a club, when I am enjoying music for pure enjoyment I want to feel a push and pull that can only come with complexity. Undoubtedly I am in the minority but this is an area I really have a hard time understanding others perspective. Of course, I am one of your nerds at the Rush concerts.
Math rock that I listen to (Don Caballero, Dysrhythmia) seems to focus on odd time & intricacy which is why I like it. But most people don't. They want the same G-C-D chord progression that a billion pop songs have had for years. Most people just want what they've heard before.
But I think why music by a computer really upsets people is the potential loss of soul it has. Music has always been the most abstract art as it is not meant to represent anything but itself. But it is art, and something that moves many deeply. Reducing it to equations, even though that is the reality of it, is just too foreign for a lot of people. Maybe this will lead us to our own Butlerian Jihad?
I think the April 1 code that has been so brilliantly discovered may simply be nothing more than a ruse, but as you say, on April 1 it will be tough to tell.
And I HATE having mod points on this day of the calendar!
XP, Vista, Gnome (unsure KDE / Mac) have all had fast user switching for a while so that you can log in a second user without disturbing any of the previously logged in users things. It uses more RAM, but works great in my experience with none of the issues you state.
At my company (not that huge), our preference from the Admin side was Debian on Linux servers (apt dependency handling/updating beats rpm hands down to me) but we were forced to Novell or Red Hat so there would be someone to call & blame if there was issues. Ubuntu was brand new when this decision was made and so not really considered from the VPs. So for production systems its RHEL, for our admin stuff (not considered 'mission critical') it's Debian, and I run Ubuntu on my laptop.
In my experience (bass player), girls go in this order - singer, lead guitar, drums, backup guitar, keyboards, triangle, roadie, drunk passed out fan, then bassist. Of course, hideous disfigurations can alter this order.
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
So I think we'd hear about it first.
I think you were asking steppin, but as another ex-Xiotech user I thought I'd add to my earlier post. We went to a midrange IBM platform, the DS4500. For low to moderate workload it's been pretty good. But code update are disruptive and it's really made by Engenio so real problems (which we've seen) end up getting redirected to them. Some of the issues (and our own growth) have lead us to now replacing the DS4500. Upgrading SAN's isn't fun, but now we're looking at the enterprise offerings from EMC, IBM, HDS so I'm hoping this next SAN will be more stable and perform better so it can stay in place for more than the 3 years it sits on the books.
I've got 3 collecting dust! And based on my experience with that SAN, I will never entertain the slightest sales pitch from any Xiotech rep. I'm sure they've gotten better, but rebooting after changing the contact info in the system is a bit absurd. Not to mention that the management / configuration was on a single IDE hard drive running MS-DOS. Since a reboot cleared all logs, tech support's stock answer for odd issues was, 'it was in a bad state'. Had it moved to Arkansas? BAH!
People run windows primarily because of the applications on it. The most significant of these is MS Office. The competitors lack true compatibility with all MS generated files, which makes it tough to go with another office suite, no matter how good it is. I'm an open office fan, but there's some formatting that just doesn't work. Break MS Office dominance with another cross-platform app, be it from Google or anyone else, and you have put a HUGE dent in MS. Not only will the office cash cow lose some weight, but the perceived need for Windows will drop as well.
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I'd laugh if you weren't right. If only I had mod points...
No fair!!! If I wanted something accurate, insightful, and relevant I wouldn't be on the internet now would I!!! Please leave me alone so I can go back to my bistromathmatics.
I always thought the swearing and yelling in Chinese was a realistic outcome as the world becomes more meshed. It looks like it may come sooner than later.
I felt a bit guilty after the last post. I did work for UPS, and I did learn those phrases. And while I saw my fair share of kicked in, mangled, or shredded packages (some of them at my hand), I never saw it done deliberately. You have a lot of work to do in a short time and things get treated rough. Things that say "this side up" or "fragile" just get handled more as a result of the instructions and thus they will be more prone to error on statistics alone. If you care about your stuff, pack it well and then the company doesn't really matter.
I worked for the aforementioned shipping company. I unloaded trucks. Here I learned that Fragile is a French word, meaning, "to drop kick". Also, the phrase, "UPS, where the Q Stands for Quality". There's no Q in UPS you say??? EXACTLY! Of course I still use them...
While I do think complexity does lose most people, I think syncopation is a requisite in any popular music. Even a simple song like Every Breath You Take by the Police uses syncopation when you consider the vocal rhythm over the music. It may be basic syncopation, but the only music that seems to be strictly 'downbeat' is disco.
What is odd to me especially is that symphonic music like Mozart, etc are widely regarded as excellent music while using a variety of tempos and rhythms. Yet in the majority of popular music it is eschewed or only marginally considered.
And while I may not want music that zags when at a club, when I am enjoying music for pure enjoyment I want to feel a push and pull that can only come with complexity. Undoubtedly I am in the minority but this is an area I really have a hard time understanding others perspective. Of course, I am one of your nerds at the Rush concerts.
Math rock that I listen to (Don Caballero, Dysrhythmia) seems to focus on odd time & intricacy which is why I like it. But most people don't. They want the same G-C-D chord progression that a billion pop songs have had for years. Most people just want what they've heard before. But I think why music by a computer really upsets people is the potential loss of soul it has. Music has always been the most abstract art as it is not meant to represent anything but itself. But it is art, and something that moves many deeply. Reducing it to equations, even though that is the reality of it, is just too foreign for a lot of people. Maybe this will lead us to our own Butlerian Jihad?
What about FedEx or DHL? Are you just a big fan of the color brown?
Surely you mean vi...
FLAME ON!
I think the April 1 code that has been so brilliantly discovered may simply be nothing more than a ruse, but as you say, on April 1 it will be tough to tell. And I HATE having mod points on this day of the calendar!
XP, Vista, Gnome (unsure KDE / Mac) have all had fast user switching for a while so that you can log in a second user without disturbing any of the previously logged in users things. It uses more RAM, but works great in my experience with none of the issues you state.
At my company (not that huge), our preference from the Admin side was Debian on Linux servers (apt dependency handling/updating beats rpm hands down to me) but we were forced to Novell or Red Hat so there would be someone to call & blame if there was issues. Ubuntu was brand new when this decision was made and so not really considered from the VPs. So for production systems its RHEL, for our admin stuff (not considered 'mission critical') it's Debian, and I run Ubuntu on my laptop.
I still pull Calvin & Hobbes in every day w/ dailystrips and I still love it.
The Pros seem like the idea, with the Cons the reality.
In my experience (bass player), girls go in this order - singer, lead guitar, drums, backup guitar, keyboards, triangle, roadie, drunk passed out fan, then bassist. Of course, hideous disfigurations can alter this order.
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. So I think we'd hear about it first.
Well, the top 500 website even shows Roadrunner as the fastest here. Blue Gene/P looks to be #2.
I think you were asking steppin, but as another ex-Xiotech user I thought I'd add to my earlier post. We went to a midrange IBM platform, the DS4500. For low to moderate workload it's been pretty good. But code update are disruptive and it's really made by Engenio so real problems (which we've seen) end up getting redirected to them. Some of the issues (and our own growth) have lead us to now replacing the DS4500. Upgrading SAN's isn't fun, but now we're looking at the enterprise offerings from EMC, IBM, HDS so I'm hoping this next SAN will be more stable and perform better so it can stay in place for more than the 3 years it sits on the books.
I've got 3 collecting dust! And based on my experience with that SAN, I will never entertain the slightest sales pitch from any Xiotech rep. I'm sure they've gotten better, but rebooting after changing the contact info in the system is a bit absurd. Not to mention that the management / configuration was on a single IDE hard drive running MS-DOS. Since a reboot cleared all logs, tech support's stock answer for odd issues was, 'it was in a bad state'. Had it moved to Arkansas? BAH!
I'm not sure what you mean by XP Pro EOL this year in June. According to http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3223 extended support is to April 2014 and according to http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifesupsps XP Pro sp2 is supported until April 2010.
Sorry about this, but... People have been getting entangled by "wiggling" and "twisting" for a long time now.
Looks like you just run setup from Windows and end up with a dual-boot system. http://wubi-installer.org/faq.php. I'll be sticking with VMWare.
Of course feral workers telecommute, they make a mess in the corner!
People run windows primarily because of the applications on it. The most significant of these is MS Office. The competitors lack true compatibility with all MS generated files, which makes it tough to go with another office suite, no matter how good it is. I'm an open office fan, but there's some formatting that just doesn't work. Break MS Office dominance with another cross-platform app, be it from Google or anyone else, and you have put a HUGE dent in MS. Not only will the office cash cow lose some weight, but the perceived need for Windows will drop as well.