I'd like to see a sturdy notebook computer that has good battery life and a price under $500.
I just want something that I can sit in bed with and write code. Hold on, sorry. My wife tells me she wants one with a DVD-ROM so we can watch pr0n in the bedroom. It's always about pr0n, isn't it??? For $750 that's an expensive "marital aid" though.
The computers are throwaways, and you don't have to move data from a broken one to a new one. It's all on the servers.
What about Sun's system where you have a smart card that you can insert into a computer and your desktop pops up with everything still open, i.e. no logging out and back into the network? Everything is on the server, including any state regarding your login/desktop.
I hate how Windows handles logins. At work I have to download my profile, merge it with what is on the desktop. When I log out, it uploads it back to the network. In Unix/Linux your home directory and configuration reside on the server all the time. With Sun's solution, they take it one step farther -- the workstation is basically a monitor, keyboard and mouse plugged into ethernet.
Kind of reminds me of ye olde client/server systems with a mainframe and "dumb terminals." Now they call them "thin clients," but the concept is the same.
If they're calling to tell me I'm over my limit, or even that I'm nearly over the limit, that's fine. Calling to try to sell me something isn't.
I don't want to be called about other stuff. For example, Discover is an awesome company as far as financial institutions go. I did not want to be called about new offers, so I opted out. No more calls since. They respected my decision. We both prosper from this business relationship.
If someone is going to harrass me like that, I'll just cancel my service with them.
I just canceled my service with MyCheckFree.com after they had a company named SilverPop spam me. If they contacted me directly I would have politely told them "no thanks, and while you're at it, opt me out." But they sent spam through a third party, good bye. Great service, but I cannot do business with spammers or telemarketers. I do have SOME morals...
They're just saying "If you're stealing from someone, they can contact you and tell you to stop without being sued for it".
I agree. I don't see how this is spam in the first place. Yes, it is unsolicited, but so is someone going to my web site, finding my email adress, and sending me a message. I never asked to be emailed. Just because I have a published email address does not mean I want to be emailed. Just because I have a postal address does not mean I asked to be postal mailed either.
My gripe is with unsolicited email wanting to sell me something, as well as email with that ultimate goal. This includes blank emails testing for valid addresses (i.e. non-bounces). If someone wants to email me unsolicited about anything else, that is fine. I don't see why any organization or person should not be allowed to contact me if I am allegedly stealing copyrighted material from them. That would be like having the police show up with a court summons and me turning them away: "sorry, no solicitors allowed on my property." Bullshit. That SHOULD be legal.
Last time I checked, Hubble had solar panels. Its battery is the sun. Its orbit will degrade to the point of an uncontrolled fall and burn long before the sun burns out.
Why would anyone invest any time and/or effort fixing something that "works" when there are so many newer and more interesting ways to waste money and make life harder for the support staff...
This is the problem. Why fix it when it already works and the people who understand how to work on it are retiring and dying from old age? And the fact that mainframes are a huge scam? For example, take the Unisys mainframe where I work. We do not own it, we rent it. It sits in a room. We get to use less than half of its power. CPUs and hard disks sit idle. If we want access to them, we get to pay more money to Unisys for something we already have.
Big iron has its advantages, but cost is a huge disadvantage. I would rather run a small cluster of commodity (x86) hardware, where labor is cheap and easy to come by, than a mainframe where labor is expensive and hard to come by.
Correct, I am lowering the production of insulin, since my body requires far less now. Since my liver is producing a normal, constant level of insulin, it will not wear out, causing diabetes. Compared to the people in this country doing a low fat, high carb diet, overweight, with diabetes, I think it is more than just luck.
Why is it that in the past century our sugar/carb intake has gone up through the roof, yet when Atkins said we need to go back to the way our species has eaten for thousands of years, people thought he was insane?
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100 calories of carbs = 100 calories of fat.
Not necessarily. Take, for example, some french fries. They are almost pure starch, which provides tons of glycogen into the blood stream. Then take an equivalent amount of fat (25 grams of carbs v. 11 grams of fat). The fat, while having more than twice the calories per gram, is tougher to digest and for the most part you crap it out. Meanwhile, your liver is busy putting extra insulin into your bloodstream, your body, sitting on its ass in front of the TV, has no use for the sugar so (surprise) it stores it as fat for later.
So the sugar winds up as fat while the equivalent amount of fat winds up in the toilet. Nope, doesn't look equal to me.
But you cannot keep off carbs forever, you eventually have to bring them back into your diet, and as soon as you do the weight will come back.
I've been eating low-carb for several months now and have no problem at all. Maybe people who are weak-willed and give in to cravings will have problems, but for them, will any diet work?
Is it impossible to "keep off carbs forever"? Because if it is, I must be defying some law of physics or something.
Alternatively, you can implement a life plan where you exercise and eat right
Exercise is "non-negotiable" on the Atkins diet. Read the book. The man was a heart doctor. He knew the importance of exercise.
Dumb bells and a weight bench are cheap, alternatively, you could just go for 30 minute walks. Avoid driving, when possible. Shitcan your pansy-assed Segway. Invest in a good bicycle.
I agree. Using machines (cars) to make our lives easier is a good thing, but sometimes we take it too far. There is such a thing as too convenient.
The Atkins diet is for lazy people who don't exercise much
See my point above. Atkins requires exercise. Maybe some people don't do it, but they are doing the diet wrong and doing themselves a disservice.
And once you go off the diet, you'll just balloon up again.
Very true. This is why there are four stages to the diet, with the fourth stage being the lifetime maintenance phase. It is not a fad diet. It is not meant to be used short term. And if you leave the diet, you will gain the weight back. Of course you will, since a high-carb diet just means your body stores the unused energy from the sugars. Duh. That's the problem we started with!
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The Atkins Diet not what Mother Nature intended, and she always has her way in the end.
Mother Nature did not intend for us to sit on our asses all day, eating cheeseburgers and french fries. Compared to the previous thousand years or so, our race has been very sedentary and has eaten too much sugar the past hundred years or so.
Atkins is not about low carbs so much as balanced carbs, i.e. what humans had been eating before soda/cola was invented and the industrial revolution made [most of] us fat and lazy.
We might say the same for the typical American diet, with it's high sugar, refined carbohydrate and other oddities. If we did nothing at all, over generations (many of them) an 'American' genotype would evolve that was able to deal with the current toxins in the American diet (even pesticides), and thrive on them.
It would take a very long time, perhaps 1,000 years, for our race to evolve to the point it could consume carbohydrates without consequence. By that time, many generations would have died from diabetes and heart disease. Why wait? I am alive now.
That is the Devil's software. Programmed by the spawn of the Undead, and ordered used by the cerifibly(sp) insane.
The version of FormFlow the Air Force used was written in 1995. Of course it was out of date and had problems. The contract ran out a few months ago and now we use some other program that actually works.
Choose your AFSC (job) wisely... it could be the difference between cakewalk and nightmare.
Open General is a BAD idea. You WILL be a cop or a cook, the two worst jobs.
...don't let a recruiter talk you anything you didn't ask for...
Until you sign the paper and take the oath, YOU are in control. Sweet talk should be met with indifference. Read the papers. Do not trust the recruiter. Take a deep breath, relax, give it some time. Don't rush into it. Once you get in, the only way out is through your enlistment (or through a bad conduct discharge).
The only changes are the fact that the Air Force no longer has a programmer carrier field but merged it with the Computer Operator carrier field.
Incorrect. I am a 3C052, computer programmer, active duty Air Force. I wish they would get rid of our career field, which would make me get off my lazy ass and get a real (i.e. civilian) job.
If you want IT, go with the Air Force. If any of my nephews decide to join the service, I will strongly counsel them to go in the Air Force instead of the Amry (where I spent 7 years).
I agree. I just finished my third year in the U.S. Chair Force and do not regret it. The pay sucks, but...
Guaranteed retirement as long as I don't go to jail.
Guaranteed medical benefits (100%, no copay) as long as there is a government.
Guaranteed housing subsidy or free housing on base as long as there is a government.
Almost guaranteed job security.
100% tuition assistance. You heard me right, free college! There is a $4,500 cap per year, but I have yet to hit it, since every college that accepts TA also gives discounts.
It ain't Full Metal Jacket, kids. This is the 21st century Air Force!
Check out the Defense Finance and Accounting Service for pay information. I am a three year E-4, so I make roughly $23,000 per year with food allowance, but I also get 100% free housing and utilities on base. I.e. no rent, no mortgage, no electricity bills, and I do not pay sales tax at the base exchange or liquor store (also no sin tax).
Of course, in return, I have to work. But in my job I probably will never go to a combat zone. The farthest I deploy is Atlanta or Washington, DC, for training.
good luck finding much out. I'd be willing to bet so much is classified that people that could post won't post.
You might be surprised. Yes, much is classified, and stuff that isn't is SBU, Sensitive But Unclassified (an obscure acronym even for us military guys), but general information is quite open.
There is some stuff that I might know that if I did know I could not talk about it;-)
Anyway, from what a little bird on my shoulder tells me, the vast majority of classified materiel is boring, stupid, and not all that sensitive.
I am serious. I am also a Libertarian, which may help explain my views.
So you really think 10 year olds should be allowed to endanger themselves and others by getting behind the wheel of a vehicle?
Are 16 year olds any better? How about 40 year olds? There is a difference with driving, and there is a reason I did not mention it in my previous post. When you drink, smoke, do drugs, jerk off to porn, whatever, you only hurt yourself. If you are an irresponsible driver, you can kill other people. So I do not think the driving age should be lowered.
But do you really want "the government" treating children "better?"
I do not want the government treating children (or adults) any way, good or bad. Give us our rights, let us run our own lives the way we choose as long as we do not infringe on other peoples' rights.
Perhaps all newborns should just become wards of the state so we don't have those nasty parents fucking up their lives?
If you read into what I said originally, this is exactly what I do not want. Get the nasty government out of my house so I can run my family the way I choose. As long as I do not harm my children, the government should have no right to regulate what goes on in my house.
Youths who use these items illegally now would have a field day if they were legal.
So do adults, once they turn 21.
Part of the reason for underage substance laws is the fact that their bodies are still developing, and it is well agreed that tobacco and alcohol is not part of a receipe for healthy development.
You are correct in saying that it harms development. However, does the government have a right to restrain its citizens from self-destruction? No, I do not think so. Children should not smoke or drink. But the government is just that: government. It is not a parent.
if taxation without representation was cheaper.
(As a minor, that's essentially what I have.)
No, you have representation. You do not, however, have a vote. You may be represented, but you have no say in what that representation does.
I think how our government treats minors is terrible. I understand we need to have an age limit for voting, but 18? That is far too high. I think 14 is about right. Oh, and we need to abolish age limits for tobacco, alcohol, porn, and anything else that is restricted by age.
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I'd like to see a sturdy notebook computer that has good battery life and a price under $500.
I just want something that I can sit in bed with and write code. Hold on, sorry. My wife tells me she wants one with a DVD-ROM so we can watch pr0n in the bedroom. It's always about pr0n, isn't it??? For $750 that's an expensive "marital aid" though.
The computers are throwaways, and you don't have to move data from a broken one to a new one. It's all on the servers.
What about Sun's system where you have a smart card that you can insert into a computer and your desktop pops up with everything still open, i.e. no logging out and back into the network? Everything is on the server, including any state regarding your login/desktop.
I hate how Windows handles logins. At work I have to download my profile, merge it with what is on the desktop. When I log out, it uploads it back to the network. In Unix/Linux your home directory and configuration reside on the server all the time. With Sun's solution, they take it one step farther -- the workstation is basically a monitor, keyboard and mouse plugged into ethernet.
Kind of reminds me of ye olde client/server systems with a mainframe and "dumb terminals." Now they call them "thin clients," but the concept is the same.
As long as it can boot Linux, who cares? I could easily put a Tux sticker over the logo.
Another poster was modded redundant for saying this, but come on, as long as it works in Linux and is cheaper than a "real" brand, who cares?
If they're calling to tell me I'm over my limit, or even that I'm nearly over the limit, that's fine. Calling to try to sell me something isn't.
I don't want to be called about other stuff. For example, Discover is an awesome company as far as financial institutions go. I did not want to be called about new offers, so I opted out. No more calls since. They respected my decision. We both prosper from this business relationship.
If someone is going to harrass me like that, I'll just cancel my service with them.
I just canceled my service with MyCheckFree.com after they had a company named SilverPop spam me. If they contacted me directly I would have politely told them "no thanks, and while you're at it, opt me out." But they sent spam through a third party, good bye. Great service, but I cannot do business with spammers or telemarketers. I do have SOME morals...
They're just saying "If you're stealing from someone, they can contact you and tell you to stop without being sued for it".
I agree. I don't see how this is spam in the first place. Yes, it is unsolicited, but so is someone going to my web site, finding my email adress, and sending me a message. I never asked to be emailed. Just because I have a published email address does not mean I want to be emailed. Just because I have a postal address does not mean I asked to be postal mailed either.
My gripe is with unsolicited email wanting to sell me something, as well as email with that ultimate goal. This includes blank emails testing for valid addresses (i.e. non-bounces). If someone wants to email me unsolicited about anything else, that is fine. I don't see why any organization or person should not be allowed to contact me if I am allegedly stealing copyrighted material from them. That would be like having the police show up with a court summons and me turning them away: "sorry, no solicitors allowed on my property." Bullshit. That SHOULD be legal.
Last time I checked, Hubble had solar panels. Its battery is the sun. Its orbit will degrade to the point of an uncontrolled fall and burn long before the sun burns out.
How about a kill -SIGHUP? It has plenty of life left!
Why would anyone invest any time and/or effort fixing something that "works" when there are so many newer and more interesting ways to waste money and make life harder for the support staff...
This is the problem. Why fix it when it already works and the people who understand how to work on it are retiring and dying from old age? And the fact that mainframes are a huge scam? For example, take the Unisys mainframe where I work. We do not own it, we rent it. It sits in a room. We get to use less than half of its power. CPUs and hard disks sit idle. If we want access to them, we get to pay more money to Unisys for something we already have.
Big iron has its advantages, but cost is a huge disadvantage. I would rather run a small cluster of commodity (x86) hardware, where labor is cheap and easy to come by, than a mainframe where labor is expensive and hard to come by.
My point was that it would take a long time for evolution to kick in. Far longer than than even ten or a hundred generations.
Correct, I am lowering the production of insulin, since my body requires far less now. Since my liver is producing a normal, constant level of insulin, it will not wear out, causing diabetes. Compared to the people in this country doing a low fat, high carb diet, overweight, with diabetes, I think it is more than just luck.
Why is it that in the past century our sugar/carb intake has gone up through the roof, yet when Atkins said we need to go back to the way our species has eaten for thousands of years, people thought he was insane?
100 calories of carbs = 100 calories of fat.
Not necessarily. Take, for example, some french fries. They are almost pure starch, which provides tons of glycogen into the blood stream. Then take an equivalent amount of fat (25 grams of carbs v. 11 grams of fat). The fat, while having more than twice the calories per gram, is tougher to digest and for the most part you crap it out. Meanwhile, your liver is busy putting extra insulin into your bloodstream, your body, sitting on its ass in front of the TV, has no use for the sugar so (surprise) it stores it as fat for later.
So the sugar winds up as fat while the equivalent amount of fat winds up in the toilet. Nope, doesn't look equal to me.
But you cannot keep off carbs forever, you eventually have to bring them back into your diet, and as soon as you do the weight will come back.
I've been eating low-carb for several months now and have no problem at all. Maybe people who are weak-willed and give in to cravings will have problems, but for them, will any diet work?
Is it impossible to "keep off carbs forever"? Because if it is, I must be defying some law of physics or something.
Alternatively, you can implement a life plan where you exercise and eat right
Exercise is "non-negotiable" on the Atkins diet. Read the book. The man was a heart doctor. He knew the importance of exercise.
Dumb bells and a weight bench are cheap, alternatively, you could just go for 30 minute walks. Avoid driving, when possible. Shitcan your pansy-assed Segway. Invest in a good bicycle.
I agree. Using machines (cars) to make our lives easier is a good thing, but sometimes we take it too far. There is such a thing as too convenient.
The Atkins diet is for lazy people who don't exercise much
See my point above. Atkins requires exercise. Maybe some people don't do it, but they are doing the diet wrong and doing themselves a disservice.
And once you go off the diet, you'll just balloon up again.
Very true. This is why there are four stages to the diet, with the fourth stage being the lifetime maintenance phase. It is not a fad diet. It is not meant to be used short term. And if you leave the diet, you will gain the weight back. Of course you will, since a high-carb diet just means your body stores the unused energy from the sugars. Duh. That's the problem we started with!
The Atkins Diet not what Mother Nature intended, and she always has her way in the end.
Mother Nature did not intend for us to sit on our asses all day, eating cheeseburgers and french fries. Compared to the previous thousand years or so, our race has been very sedentary and has eaten too much sugar the past hundred years or so.
Atkins is not about low carbs so much as balanced carbs, i.e. what humans had been eating before soda/cola was invented and the industrial revolution made [most of] us fat and lazy.
We might say the same for the typical American diet, with it's high sugar, refined carbohydrate and other oddities. If we did nothing at all, over generations (many of them) an 'American' genotype would evolve that was able to deal with the current toxins in the American diet (even pesticides), and thrive on them.
It would take a very long time, perhaps 1,000 years, for our race to evolve to the point it could consume carbohydrates without consequence. By that time, many generations would have died from diabetes and heart disease. Why wait? I am alive now.
Oh, shit. I had forgotten about FormFlow.
That is the Devil's software. Programmed by the spawn of the Undead, and ordered used by the cerifibly(sp) insane.
The version of FormFlow the Air Force used was written in 1995. Of course it was out of date and had problems. The contract ran out a few months ago and now we use some other program that actually works.
You say that now, but have you ever cooked with grease before - naked? I didn't think so.
Yes. Just try not to picture it in your head.
Choose your AFSC (job) wisely... it could be the difference between cakewalk and nightmare.
Open General is a BAD idea. You WILL be a cop or a cook, the two worst jobs.
Until you sign the paper and take the oath, YOU are in control. Sweet talk should be met with indifference. Read the papers. Do not trust the recruiter. Take a deep breath, relax, give it some time. Don't rush into it. Once you get in, the only way out is through your enlistment (or through a bad conduct discharge).
The only changes are the fact that the Air Force no longer has a programmer carrier field but merged it with the Computer Operator carrier field.
Incorrect. I am a 3C052, computer programmer, active duty Air Force. I wish they would get rid of our career field, which would make me get off my lazy ass and get a real (i.e. civilian) job.
If you want IT, go with the Air Force. If any of my nephews decide to join the service, I will strongly counsel them to go in the Air Force instead of the Amry (where I spent 7 years).
I agree. I just finished my third year in the U.S. Chair Force and do not regret it. The pay sucks, but...
Check out the Defense Finance and Accounting Service for pay information. I am a three year E-4, so I make roughly $23,000 per year with food allowance, but I also get 100% free housing and utilities on base. I.e. no rent, no mortgage, no electricity bills, and I do not pay sales tax at the base exchange or liquor store (also no sin tax).
Of course, in return, I have to work. But in my job I probably will never go to a combat zone. The farthest I deploy is Atlanta or Washington, DC, for training.
The military is always at the forefront of technology...
Unisys (yes, the GIF people) mainframes running COBOL are the forefront of technology?
Maybe I should get a new job.
good luck finding much out. I'd be willing to bet so much is classified that people that could post won't post.
You might be surprised. Yes, much is classified, and stuff that isn't is SBU, Sensitive But Unclassified (an obscure acronym even for us military guys), but general information is quite open.
There is some stuff that I might know that if I did know I could not talk about it ;-)
Anyway, from what a little bird on my shoulder tells me, the vast majority of classified materiel is boring, stupid, and not all that sensitive.
But I wouldn't know ;-)
Is this serious or a troll?
I am serious. I am also a Libertarian, which may help explain my views.
So you really think 10 year olds should be allowed to endanger themselves and others by getting behind the wheel of a vehicle?
Are 16 year olds any better? How about 40 year olds? There is a difference with driving, and there is a reason I did not mention it in my previous post. When you drink, smoke, do drugs, jerk off to porn, whatever, you only hurt yourself. If you are an irresponsible driver, you can kill other people. So I do not think the driving age should be lowered.
But do you really want "the government" treating children "better?"
I do not want the government treating children (or adults) any way, good or bad. Give us our rights, let us run our own lives the way we choose as long as we do not infringe on other peoples' rights.
Perhaps all newborns should just become wards of the state so we don't have those nasty parents fucking up their lives?
If you read into what I said originally, this is exactly what I do not want. Get the nasty government out of my house so I can run my family the way I choose. As long as I do not harm my children, the government should have no right to regulate what goes on in my house.
Youths who use these items illegally now would have a field day if they were legal.
So do adults, once they turn 21.
Part of the reason for underage substance laws is the fact that their bodies are still developing, and it is well agreed that tobacco and alcohol is not part of a receipe for healthy development.
You are correct in saying that it harms development. However, does the government have a right to restrain its citizens from self-destruction? No, I do not think so. Children should not smoke or drink. But the government is just that: government. It is not a parent.
if taxation without representation was cheaper.
(As a minor, that's essentially what I have.)
No, you have representation. You do not, however, have a vote. You may be represented, but you have no say in what that representation does.
I think how our government treats minors is terrible. I understand we need to have an age limit for voting, but 18? That is far too high. I think 14 is about right. Oh, and we need to abolish age limits for tobacco, alcohol, porn, and anything else that is restricted by age.
The end result is heavy dependence on databases for variable persistance and error-prone algorithm concoctions, a la PHPNuke et. al.
Sessions make this process a lot easier and better.