Where did the term "screwing the pooch" come from? Was someone's mistake way back in the day getting caught screwing the pooch and the name stuck? Reminds me of an old scottish joke.
American of scottish ancentory goes to Scottland for a trip. While there sees a nice pub and goes in and starts chatting with the bar keep.
barkeep "I'm McGregor I've been running this pub for twenty years. But do they call me McGregor the barkeep. Nooo."
yank: "Oh this is really nice brickwork on this building.
barkeep "Aye. I built this bar with me own two hands. But do they call me Mc Gregor the stone mason. Noooo."
yank "Oh and the fence out front that is very colourful."
barkeep "Aye. I built that too. But do they call my McGregor the fence mender. Nooo. But you fuck one goat..."
Can we please end the madness where people claim that since an OS is a variant of unix it can't get a virus? Users do stupid things, stupid things have consequences, doesn't matter the make of the car you are driving if you are a drunk moron soon enough you'll crash into something. Similarly if you are a horny moron eventually you'll browse to a site that will find a way to get you to install some junk that will trash your computer all in the name of some desperately needed friction motivation.
Probably because WinServer has about 80% market share. I really don't get it though, *nix is still around because it is rock solid and free. Why you'd want to pay for a WinServer license, have all the real or imagined instability associated with WinServer, and then run linux too is beyond me. To me you cough up the money for win because you want or need it not so you can run linux. That said hyper-V might have some cool close to metal features that make it better for some workloads than VM ware, virtual box etc.
I heard a talk somewhere about SMB 2.2 features and how the standards were going to get published to help others adapt. You're probably right that most things are Hyper-V somehow I mentally mapped published protocol to "help with protocol".
My understanding is a lot of the stuff they contribute is to get things that should be interoperable there, eg. smb and of course interop helps sell a more hetrogenous environment to corps (so they don't all run and flee to linux, but also linux doesn't break when talking to a Win server).
What you mean that you aren't in such awe of content creators that you want to worship them and make sure that their 8 figure salaries don't drop down to (the horror) 7 figures? What is a matter with you? Are you still stuck worshipping dead jewish zombies that never created any content?
How about dropbox, google docs, etc.? Are they targets too? There are so many ways of sharing things that they can't stop all of them. Heck if they roll things back to 1995 people will just start burning disks for friends again all that will change is the variety of porn that is readily available. Everything else we'll just start asking friends if they have it again.
Haha. I worked on a cluster that pxe booted off the head node once. Would have been great to add it to the pxe script: 40 servers all installing linux and cluster software then/dev/null it all:-). I don't understand the systems go down for ~20min come up and then crash:-)
is when things are really cheap they are useful. When I was a kid (~25 years ago) my favorite candies were penny candies. By the time I was 12 or so stores stopped selling them. I'm guessing they started costing more than a penny. So you had to pay a dollar for about 60 of them in a pack instead. Was great to have things like that because it was nice to be able to get a chocolate bar and a handful of different flavored candies when I was a kid. You can't do it anymore, you pretty much are stuck buying extra large chocolate bars, big bags of chips, whole bags of jelly candies etc. A kid can't go to a store and get a handful of different stuff anymore. Boo. As an adult I have a credit card so they could get rid of all physical cash as far as I'm concerned.
op: Since it has neither a GPS nor a camera you won't be buying one then right?
Seriously this is like saying a used car is cheaper than a new one. Wow what a concept. Then saying: if this used car had a 500 horsepower engine and gull wings it would be a great deal at this price.
I've always heard 1TIm 3:2 referred to as qualifications for an elder not a minister but it would make sense that the qualifications would be similar. Good point though, I guess it make more sense since it is common/expected that they counsell people, have them over for dinner etc that their home becomes a "home office".
That was also before MS had a lot of success in the server space. In 2001 MS went from 42->49% of the server space: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-959049.html, in 2011 it was 73.9%. Linux gained marketshare but so did windows and they went from a minority share to a large majority share. As much of a flop as Vista was people forget that MS revenue has gone crazy mostly because they've started to dominate serverland.
Desktop is becoming less relavent. Linux or at least a *nix variant will likely own the tablet space (does now but even in the future), I think people will have more tablet/phone like devices than desktops. They still probably will have a desktop/laptop too but they might have 2-4 other computing devices (car systems, phone, tablet, eReader etc) and most of those will be running on *nix I suspect.
Exactly. I'm not in the US but Canada and a lot of our tax code is similar. Ministers get "boarding expense" tax credits for jebbus sakes. So the church gets tax exempt, the person giving the money gets a tax write-off, then the money they give to the minister as salary part of that is tax exempt. Why should a minister get their housing tax deductible? It is fine for the government to not regulate religious instruction and interfere at that level but expecting the religious businesses (that is what they are they sell you God for a price) to pay taxes just like everyone else.
Same thing with politics. If I want to give $1000 to my preferred party fine, but why should that be tax deductible? I'm doing it because of my beliefs, likely because the party is promising to give me something I want (have a "better" plan for taxing my industry for example) so I'm going to benefit anyways why do I need a tax incentive too? What ends up happening is the most populous politician gets a lot of money either way but than their supporters also get huge writeoffs for putting someone in power that almost by definition was popular because they promised to lower taxes at the same time as giving a bunch of special interests favorable projects. IMHO the party system should be done away with. It should be like a referendum: get 1% of the voting districts signature and get a fixed amount for political advertising. No donations allowed, no personal financing of your campaign, a level playing field with no debt owed to any special interest after the election. Making money given to sway elections deductible is ridiculous.
Do the religious folks who claim to be conservatives also vote conservatively? If so than "self-identified conservatives" can just be replaced with conservatives.
I think it is ridiculous that religious and political organizations are tax deductible. Somehow the government making it easier for each group to try to brainwash people into their way of thinking is silly. If you believe something and want to give your money away you do that but don't expect the government to make it easier for you to do so.
Roof top panels are actually a lot cheaper than that last year I got them installed for 6.75 a watt. ~6750 per kW. The panels have decreased in price so I suspect you can get them installed for a little less now but of course the mounts and microinvertors probably haven't gone down in cost as quickly.
True what you say about more panels being a better deal, with roof top installs it is often area that comes into play. I have one half of my house roof and garage facing south. The roof could only fit 29 panels so if I wanted more power I'd need to use those panels more efficiently. For the individual it matters collectively maybe not: if you can increase the number of people installing them (ie multiply the number of roofs) you'll probably be better than just getting an extra ~20% or so more power out per panel.
Servicing. Lots of weight I admit but I wonder if one of those roll handles like on fancy windows would work so you could manually move the panels around. Maybe not for developed world but developing areas where solar might be the only power you have would be good. Also people are cheap so you could pay someone $2 a week to move your panels a couple times a day.
Do you get access to VOD if you don't have cable service with them? If not then they've already paid for cable service though so they've already chosen to have access to the content. That is were it works were I live the phone company or cable company also offers TV service. If you have TV service you get access to the VOD service. Since they give you discounts for "bundling" services most people only deal with one provider for both services anyways.
It kind of becomes one product with bundling to my thinking. When I bought my house I had to chose who to go with. The phone company only had 16Mbps internet in my area. The cable company had 50 (now it has been upgraded to 75) and twice the quota. That sold both services to me since the combined bill was about $20 cheaper than if I'd split the service between the two providers.
I don't get comcast here but isn't their VOD service just a DVRless solution to see things that are already included in your cable package? Couldn't you argue that giving free bandwidth to access it is just a way to not penalize people for the way they chose to access the content they already paid for? Saying watching a video through the cable on your TV is okay but watch a video that goes through the cable and into the router is not.
The cable company where I live counts bandwidth for their streaming site against your quota. Which I think is silly since I can watch the same thing on my TV for free. (and going over quota even with the top end package is $0.50/GB), it would suck for most people even worse because a mid tier package gets about 70GB a month quota and it is $1/GB over. Streaming content that would be nothing since parents and the kids could be watching two different things at the same time gobbling up ~2GB in a couple hours easy.
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Where did the term "screwing the pooch" come from? Was someone's mistake way back in the day getting caught screwing the pooch and the name stuck? Reminds me of an old scottish joke.
American of scottish ancentory goes to Scottland for a trip. While there sees a nice pub and goes in and starts chatting with the bar keep.
barkeep "I'm McGregor I've been running this pub for twenty years. But do they call me McGregor the barkeep. Nooo."
yank: "Oh this is really nice brickwork on this building.
barkeep "Aye. I built this bar with me own two hands. But do they call me Mc Gregor the stone mason. Noooo."
yank "Oh and the fence out front that is very colourful."
barkeep "Aye. I built that too. But do they call my McGregor the fence mender. Nooo. But you fuck one goat ..."
They also don't crash they just get sad.
Can we please end the madness where people claim that since an OS is a variant of unix it can't get a virus? Users do stupid things, stupid things have consequences, doesn't matter the make of the car you are driving if you are a drunk moron soon enough you'll crash into something. Similarly if you are a horny moron eventually you'll browse to a site that will find a way to get you to install some junk that will trash your computer all in the name of some desperately needed friction motivation.
Well no one says you have to follow standards even if they are yours ;-)
Probably because WinServer has about 80% market share. I really don't get it though, *nix is still around because it is rock solid and free. Why you'd want to pay for a WinServer license, have all the real or imagined instability associated with WinServer, and then run linux too is beyond me. To me you cough up the money for win because you want or need it not so you can run linux. That said hyper-V might have some cool close to metal features that make it better for some workloads than VM ware, virtual box etc.
I heard a talk somewhere about SMB 2.2 features and how the standards were going to get published to help others adapt. You're probably right that most things are Hyper-V somehow I mentally mapped published protocol to "help with protocol".
My understanding is a lot of the stuff they contribute is to get things that should be interoperable there, eg. smb and of course interop helps sell a more hetrogenous environment to corps (so they don't all run and flee to linux, but also linux doesn't break when talking to a Win server).
This is linux, there list needs to go to daily builds :-)
What you mean that you aren't in such awe of content creators that you want to worship them and make sure that their 8 figure salaries don't drop down to (the horror) 7 figures? What is a matter with you? Are you still stuck worshipping dead jewish zombies that never created any content?
How about dropbox, google docs, etc.? Are they targets too? There are so many ways of sharing things that they can't stop all of them. Heck if they roll things back to 1995 people will just start burning disks for friends again all that will change is the variety of porn that is readily available. Everything else we'll just start asking friends if they have it again.
Well to be fair when you are a content company you kind of have some interest in content protect, no?
Haha. I worked on a cluster that pxe booted off the head node once. Would have been great to add it to the pxe script: 40 servers all installing linux and cluster software then /dev/null it all :-). I don't understand the systems go down for ~20min come up and then crash :-)
My weekly backups: something like:
0 0 * * 0 /home/me/backup.sh
#### backup.sh ##### /dev/null
cp -r home/me/*
I haven't missed a backup yet :-)
is when things are really cheap they are useful. When I was a kid (~25 years ago) my favorite candies were penny candies. By the time I was 12 or so stores stopped selling them. I'm guessing they started costing more than a penny. So you had to pay a dollar for about 60 of them in a pack instead. Was great to have things like that because it was nice to be able to get a chocolate bar and a handful of different flavored candies when I was a kid. You can't do it anymore, you pretty much are stuck buying extra large chocolate bars, big bags of chips, whole bags of jelly candies etc. A kid can't go to a store and get a handful of different stuff anymore. Boo. As an adult I have a credit card so they could get rid of all physical cash as far as I'm concerned.
op: Since it has neither a GPS nor a camera you won't be buying one then right?
Seriously this is like saying a used car is cheaper than a new one. Wow what a concept. Then saying: if this used car had a 500 horsepower engine and gull wings it would be a great deal at this price.
I've always heard 1TIm 3:2 referred to as qualifications for an elder not a minister but it would make sense that the qualifications would be similar. Good point though, I guess it make more sense since it is common/expected that they counsell people, have them over for dinner etc that their home becomes a "home office".
That was also before MS had a lot of success in the server space. In 2001 MS went from 42->49% of the server space: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-959049.html, in 2011 it was 73.9%. Linux gained marketshare but so did windows and they went from a minority share to a large majority share. As much of a flop as Vista was people forget that MS revenue has gone crazy mostly because they've started to dominate serverland.
Borat marketing strategist? :-) Great success, me have sexy time.
When hell freezes over?
Desktop is becoming less relavent. Linux or at least a *nix variant will likely own the tablet space (does now but even in the future), I think people will have more tablet/phone like devices than desktops. They still probably will have a desktop/laptop too but they might have 2-4 other computing devices (car systems, phone, tablet, eReader etc) and most of those will be running on *nix I suspect.
Exactly. I'm not in the US but Canada and a lot of our tax code is similar. Ministers get "boarding expense" tax credits for jebbus sakes. So the church gets tax exempt, the person giving the money gets a tax write-off, then the money they give to the minister as salary part of that is tax exempt. Why should a minister get their housing tax deductible? It is fine for the government to not regulate religious instruction and interfere at that level but expecting the religious businesses (that is what they are they sell you God for a price) to pay taxes just like everyone else.
Same thing with politics. If I want to give $1000 to my preferred party fine, but why should that be tax deductible? I'm doing it because of my beliefs, likely because the party is promising to give me something I want (have a "better" plan for taxing my industry for example) so I'm going to benefit anyways why do I need a tax incentive too? What ends up happening is the most populous politician gets a lot of money either way but than their supporters also get huge writeoffs for putting someone in power that almost by definition was popular because they promised to lower taxes at the same time as giving a bunch of special interests favorable projects. IMHO the party system should be done away with. It should be like a referendum: get 1% of the voting districts signature and get a fixed amount for political advertising. No donations allowed, no personal financing of your campaign, a level playing field with no debt owed to any special interest after the election. Making money given to sway elections deductible is ridiculous.
Do the religious folks who claim to be conservatives also vote conservatively? If so than "self-identified conservatives" can just be replaced with conservatives.
I think it is ridiculous that religious and political organizations are tax deductible. Somehow the government making it easier for each group to try to brainwash people into their way of thinking is silly. If you believe something and want to give your money away you do that but don't expect the government to make it easier for you to do so.
Roof top panels are actually a lot cheaper than that last year I got them installed for 6.75 a watt. ~6750 per kW. The panels have decreased in price so I suspect you can get them installed for a little less now but of course the mounts and microinvertors probably haven't gone down in cost as quickly.
True what you say about more panels being a better deal, with roof top installs it is often area that comes into play. I have one half of my house roof and garage facing south. The roof could only fit 29 panels so if I wanted more power I'd need to use those panels more efficiently. For the individual it matters collectively maybe not: if you can increase the number of people installing them (ie multiply the number of roofs) you'll probably be better than just getting an extra ~20% or so more power out per panel.
Servicing. Lots of weight I admit but I wonder if one of those roll handles like on fancy windows would work so you could manually move the panels around. Maybe not for developed world but developing areas where solar might be the only power you have would be good. Also people are cheap so you could pay someone $2 a week to move your panels a couple times a day.
Do you get access to VOD if you don't have cable service with them? If not then they've already paid for cable service though so they've already chosen to have access to the content. That is were it works were I live the phone company or cable company also offers TV service. If you have TV service you get access to the VOD service. Since they give you discounts for "bundling" services most people only deal with one provider for both services anyways.
It kind of becomes one product with bundling to my thinking. When I bought my house I had to chose who to go with. The phone company only had 16Mbps internet in my area. The cable company had 50 (now it has been upgraded to 75) and twice the quota. That sold both services to me since the combined bill was about $20 cheaper than if I'd split the service between the two providers.
No but my girlfriend is and I lived in Germany for a couple years now I have problems getting regional pronunciations of v right :-)
I don't get comcast here but isn't their VOD service just a DVRless solution to see things that are already included in your cable package? Couldn't you argue that giving free bandwidth to access it is just a way to not penalize people for the way they chose to access the content they already paid for? Saying watching a video through the cable on your TV is okay but watch a video that goes through the cable and into the router is not.
The cable company where I live counts bandwidth for their streaming site against your quota. Which I think is silly since I can watch the same thing on my TV for free. (and going over quota even with the top end package is $0.50/GB), it would suck for most people even worse because a mid tier package gets about 70GB a month quota and it is $1/GB over. Streaming content that would be nothing since parents and the kids could be watching two different things at the same time gobbling up ~2GB in a couple hours easy.