Yes, geeks are supposed to be knowledgable and have a penchant for solving perceived problems through creative methods:
Is spending $300 to update my 1yo phone to get voice dialing that already works on my 4yo razr "creative" or "stupid?"
Jailbreaking an iPhone may be considered creative to some. To me, needing to jailbreak an iPhone to get basic functionality is flawed, not creative. Really, are people still patting themselves on the back for jailbreaking?
And please don't tell me that you don't need tethering because the iPhone is such an awesome web client, because I DO need tethering since the iPhone has no good keyboard options.
"Everyone else either works in some local service industry or isn't in the work force. That would make the statement "NJ is a state of 2 suburbs" true."
That statement doesn't leave room for "less than 50%"
I'm basing my observations on actual observations. I've lived in the state for a while. I'd still like to know where you're getting your 4-5 million number from and why you think that they represent only highly-educated people. I know quite a few people that work in Manhattan, live in NJ, and who are not highly educated.
I hope you're not drawing your conclusions by how many people travel into Manhattan daily.
It sounds like you've either never been there or have never been outside of northern New Jersey if you have been there.
Many New Jersey residents who work for Rutgers, Princeton, Seton Hall, J&J, Pfizer, Merck, AT&T, Lucent, and Verizon would probably qualify as highly educated. Those are not "local service industries."
Did you read the heartland.org article? It doesn't say that "New Jersey has the worst business climate," it says that "New Jersey has the worst business TAX climate."
Big difference. This statement is based primarily on the breadth of the sales tax base.
NJ doesn't tax toilet paper, food, or clothing. This places more of a tax burden on people buying TVs and cars, and less on people buying things like cereal for their kids. If that means NJ has a bad business tax climate, so what?
Honestly, I'd rather pay 7% for my TV knowing that people who can't afford TVs didn't have to shell out more to feed their kids so that my TV could be cheaper.
Steve, please do it. And better still, please keep telling everyone you're going to do it. You know what, how about starting a blog and telling everyone exactly how you think the American public and the world at large should make life better for the M$ shareholders.
Yah, I know, but I meant explicit in 2009 terms, which means showing penetration for sex and blood spray for violence.
Really, there was a whole episode about Spock needing to get laid. And in it Spock and Kirk fight to the death. How is that not sex and violence, right?
I agree with you. There is a significant amount of transferability of knowledge between Fusion and VMWare server, and even ESXi.
On top of that, VMWare seems much more stable on the Mac than Parallels. I wound up dumping Parallels after a crash in a vista VM somehow trashed my XP vm. I've had no problems at all running VMWare for the last few months.
I do wish VMware would come out with some of the Server and ESX management tools for OSX. It would really make life simpler.
No, that's not what Mapp v. Ohio established. Mapp v. Ohio established that evidence found in searches *in violation of the 4th amendment* may not be used.
Mapp v. Ohio doesn't say anything about not being able to use evidence found during legal searches, such as those conducted with a warrant.
You're supposed to take the premise "Imagine that this hungry person has only three ways to eat the bowl of soup" as a basic rule. If the first sentence you give me is "well just drink from the bowl" it shows that you didn't understand the analogy to begin with.
I'm sure that's my fault though. I'm not too good at analogies. Or spelling. Ah forget it.
Let me illustrate why this is all completely bogus:
Imagine a that a computer user is actually a hungry person, and that the job this person has to do is eat a bowl of soup to survive.
Imagine that this hungry person has only three ways to eat the bowl of soup:
With a spoon (Windows) With a fork (Mac) With a knife (Linux)
Imagine further a Free Software proponent named Richard trying to help the poor hungry person.
Richard: "You have a choice! Use the knife! It's free! It gives you freedom! You can use it to eat any soup you want!"
Hungry person: "But it doesn't actually help me eat the soup."
Richard: "The oppressor has taken away your choices! If the soup were a slice of cheese then you would be able to use this knife!"
Hungry person: "But, I'm hungry and if I don't eat this soup, I'm going to starve and the KNIFE DOESN'T HELP"
Richard: "If you don't make this choice now, when the cheese comes along, the oppressor will take the cheese away! And besides, once you choose the knife, you'll be able to make it into a spoon and eat the soup with it! You'll own the knife and will be allowed to do anything you WANT to it! Imagine that! This knife CAN help you eat the soup!"
Hungry person: "By golly, that's great! This knife can be changed into a spoon? I can do whatever I want with it?? I'll take the knife!"
Richard: "YOU ARE NOW FREE!"
Hungry person: "THANK YOU..." Hungry person tries to use knife to eat soup. Hungry person: "Err, this isn't working for me. Can you tell me how to make this knife into a spoon so I can eat now?"
I dunno about that. I agree that a degree in computer science doesn't necessarily make you a good programmer, but I think many college degree programs teach more than just the major-specific material.
Good degree programs teach students how to learn, how to research, how to ask questions, and how to communicate better. No doubt people can do those things without a degree, but it is harder to get a degree if you *don't* know how to do them.
Listen, if they're screwing you before your first day of work, they're going to continue screwing you once they get you into the job.
Unemployment does suck, but relocating to a new city with no support system (family, friends, etc.) and into a job where they are doing this kind of thing the first day sucks more. You think you're going to have any kind of job security there?
I'm sorry, at the risk of moving further off topic.....
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I am in agreement that it is entirely possible that I am misremembering the CPU, R10K v R12K. The system did begin life with R8Ks, and it was upgraded.
It may even still be running somewhere. (I can probably ask the current sysadmin what cpus it has, but really, who cares?).
But I can say that my memory of the SGI sales rep has long outlived my memory of the system's configuration.
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Yes, geeks are supposed to be knowledgable and have a penchant for solving perceived problems through creative methods:
Is spending $300 to update my 1yo phone to get voice dialing that already works on my 4yo razr "creative" or "stupid?"
Jailbreaking an iPhone may be considered creative to some. To me, needing to jailbreak an iPhone to get basic functionality is flawed, not creative. Really, are people still patting themselves on the back for jailbreaking?
* Tethering
* Voice Dial
My Fricken Razr can do these things.
And please don't tell me that you don't need tethering because the iPhone is such an awesome web client, because I DO need tethering since the iPhone has no good keyboard options.
People like you art worse than matter!
Committed to the mainline kernel != Available as an update to [CentOS|RedHat|Debian]
According to http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_11_30th.html the Apollo 11 flag was knocked over.
It sounds like your position is based on your own anecdotal evidence, supported by factoids.
We're probably going to have to just agree to disagree. It's worth a PhD thesis for each of us to argue the point well enough to satisfy the other.
"Everyone else either works in some local service industry or isn't in the work force. That would make the statement "NJ is a state of 2 suburbs" true."
That statement doesn't leave room for "less than 50%"
I'm basing my observations on actual observations. I've lived in the state for a while. I'd still like to know where you're getting your 4-5 million number from and why you think that they represent only highly-educated people. I know quite a few people that work in Manhattan, live in NJ, and who are not highly educated.
I hope you're not drawing your conclusions by how many people travel into Manhattan daily.
It sounds like you've either never been there or have never been outside of northern New Jersey if you have been there.
Many New Jersey residents who work for Rutgers, Princeton, Seton Hall, J&J, Pfizer, Merck, AT&T, Lucent, and Verizon would probably qualify as highly educated. Those are not "local service industries."
Not even close to true.
Did you read the heartland.org article? It doesn't say that "New Jersey has the worst business climate," it says that "New Jersey has the worst business TAX climate."
Big difference. This statement is based primarily on the breadth of the sales tax base.
NJ doesn't tax toilet paper, food, or clothing. This places more of a tax burden on people buying TVs and cars, and less on people buying things like cereal for their kids. If that means NJ has a bad business tax climate, so what?
Honestly, I'd rather pay 7% for my TV knowing that people who can't afford TVs didn't have to shell out more to feed their kids so that my TV could be cheaper.
Steve, please do it. And better still, please keep telling everyone you're going to do it. You know what, how about starting a blog and telling everyone exactly how you think the American public and the world at large should make life better for the M$ shareholders.
Please, we want to know.
problem. Otherwise, all they hear is "the framjabulator snonked on the whooziwhats, so pay us money
Crap! That's just what my doctor said to me this morning! Is it serious???
Yah, I know, but I meant explicit in 2009 terms, which means showing penetration for sex and blood spray for violence.
Really, there was a whole episode about Spock needing to get laid. And in it Spock and Kirk fight to the death. How is that not sex and violence, right?
There was a decent amount of sex and violence in the original trek. It just wasn't explicit.
I agree with you. There is a significant amount of transferability of knowledge between Fusion and VMWare server, and even ESXi.
On top of that, VMWare seems much more stable on the Mac than Parallels. I wound up dumping Parallels after a crash in a vista VM somehow trashed my XP vm. I've had no problems at all running VMWare for the last few months.
I do wish VMware would come out with some of the Server and ESX management tools for OSX. It would really make life simpler.
I'm really not a MS fanboy.
But seriously, I'll bet a good number of posters bemoaning the 6 versions of Windows were saying how great it is to have a hundred Linux distros in response to http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/03/1555216
I'm just sayin.
How bout this:
Ballmer Rejects One-Size-Fits-All Win7
Um, Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus for a civil war. Please don't compare the two.
P.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapp_v._Ohio
No, that's not what Mapp v. Ohio established. Mapp v. Ohio established that evidence found in searches *in violation of the 4th amendment* may not be used.
Mapp v. Ohio doesn't say anything about not being able to use evidence found during legal searches, such as those conducted with a warrant.
You're supposed to take the premise "Imagine that this hungry person has only three ways to eat the bowl of soup" as a basic rule. If the first sentence you give me is "well just drink from the bowl" it shows that you didn't understand the analogy to begin with.
I'm sure that's my fault though. I'm not too good at analogies. Or spelling. Ah forget it.
Let me illustrate why this is all completely bogus:
Imagine a that a computer user is actually a hungry person, and that the job this person has to do is eat a bowl of soup to survive.
Imagine that this hungry person has only three ways to eat the bowl of soup:
With a spoon (Windows)
With a fork (Mac)
With a knife (Linux)
Imagine further a Free Software proponent named Richard trying to help the poor hungry person.
Richard: "You have a choice! Use the knife! It's free! It gives you freedom! You can use it to eat any soup you want!"
Hungry person: "But it doesn't actually help me eat the soup."
Richard: "The oppressor has taken away your choices! If the soup were a slice of cheese then you would be able to use this knife!"
Hungry person: "But, I'm hungry and if I don't eat this soup, I'm going to starve and the KNIFE DOESN'T HELP"
Richard: "If you don't make this choice now, when the cheese comes along, the oppressor will take the cheese away! And besides, once you choose the knife, you'll be able to make it into a spoon and eat the soup with it! You'll own the knife and will be allowed to do anything you WANT to it! Imagine that! This knife CAN help you eat the soup!"
Hungry person: "By golly, that's great! This knife can be changed into a spoon? I can do whatever I want with it?? I'll take the knife!"
Richard: "YOU ARE NOW FREE!"
Hungry person: "THANK YOU..."
Hungry person tries to use knife to eat soup.
Hungry person: "Err, this isn't working for me. Can you tell me how to make this knife into a spoon so I can eat now?"
Richard: "Submit a patch Noob."
I dunno about that. I agree that a degree in computer science doesn't necessarily make you a good programmer, but I think many college degree programs teach more than just the major-specific material.
Good degree programs teach students how to learn, how to research, how to ask questions, and how to communicate better. No doubt people can do those things without a degree, but it is harder to get a degree if you *don't* know how to do them.
Listen, if they're screwing you before your first day of work, they're going to continue screwing you once they get you into the job.
Unemployment does suck, but relocating to a new city with no support system (family, friends, etc.) and into a job where they are doing this kind of thing the first day sucks more. You think you're going to have any kind of job security there?
-j
Oh, just *great*.
If YOU have the friggin manual HERE, how the hell are the VENUSIANS supposed to figure out how fix the friggin' mirror THERE?!?!
I'm sorry, at the risk of moving further off topic.....
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I am in agreement that it is entirely possible that I am misremembering the CPU, R10K v R12K. The system did begin life with R8Ks, and it was upgraded.
It may even still be running somewhere. (I can probably ask the current sysadmin what cpus it has, but really, who cares?).
But I can say that my memory of the SGI sales rep has long outlived my memory of the system's configuration.