Not sure how the news of YT raising price for YTTV fits into this discussion, but sure are a lot of heated comments here, https://old.reddit.com/r/news/...
Already folks, I admit I'm too lazy to sit down go through the book (very thick) and go through the exercises. However, I need a Linux machine, shelling out some money... right now I have other priorities. I have never got VM or virtual box or whatever it's called to work. Even sat down with a friend who says he uses it all the time, he couldn't get it to install even after doing all kinds of HD partitioning and whatever.
I have read and heard many advantages of Linux. Even for serious systems at work and other places I've seen they use Linux. Windows both the OS and the thing that lets you see through walls have no place for these systems.
I have noticed there are two kinds of people: Those that know Linux and they can turn it upside down, in and out about. Know all the gory details of various types from Redhat to Ubutu (sp?), also highly skilled in C, python, unix, and all the other languages. The other people are those that ain't got a clue. I do know it is an operating system, they use a penguin for a mascot, and you don't have to pay Borg Bill a fee every year (or month).
It seems to really depend on how the data is presented. Is it based on how many are collecting unemployment checks? Or hiring/firing data from Fortune 500 companies? Or number of business licenses issued (it is really easy to start a business, doesn't mean it will earn anything). Or one person working three jobs because each one is part time with meager wages? Or companies posting job openings with requirements of years of experience in various technologies that are new?
Then it depends on who is reporting. ***every*** President have always said their administration has had the lowest unemployment level ever. Kind of like those saying this is the best webpage//forum ever or we will have man on Mars 20 years from now. After a few decades it gets old.
The only way to solve the derelict problem is a comprehensive national effort. This is the only true final solution.
What should this effort be? I cannot think of one myself though it seems business models like we see in SF where there are phenomenally wealthy people surrounded by bums and tent cities.
What's with this obsession with drugs? It seems everywhere there's this about drugs, that about drugs, war on drugs, legalize drugs, outlaw drugs, prescription drug costs, drug lords, drug commercials, miracle drugs, drug addicts, etc. OK, I drink coffee everyday so I guess I'm a druggie like everyone else. It seems to me just think a fraction of effort and money put into drugs were to be put into something else (i.e. fix all the rusty bridges or fix all the broken HVAC in schools) but maybe we simply don't have that mind set.
Instead of looking for collusion, look at business practices such as real estate developments in Russia and borrowing money from Russian banks. Not illegal but doesn't seem proper dealing with people from a nation that will irk people processing your security clearance if you did the same (unless you are a WH staffer). Also suspicious dealing with a country that we may be going to war with.
What I mean is retail stores are carrying less and less items I'm interested in purchasing. I would like to purchase direct from a company but many either don't sell direct or if they do their purchasing site is difficult to use (you need a specific type of browser and a specific type of OS, or get some kind of scripting error message). Amazon makes it easy (I've never run into problems, only the product i.e. discontinued item or used items don't look appealing), probably too easy (can easily go into debt). So whether you love them or loathe them, Bezos figured out how to beat his competitors by making it easy to purchase. Like Musk did with Paypal and cornered the market for transferring money (I could never get online transactions of regular banks to work). Of course the downside with Amazon and Paypal is if something goes wrong (bad product, lost transaction) then you are stuck with the product or lost the transaction (fortunately I've been lucky so far).
Anyone with a few million in capital should be able to enter this market and make a killing.
Maybe there are some other factors involved, like our health care system out of whack with billions spent on who-knows-what while people needing basic care can't get any unless they spend what is equivalent to a mortgage payment. Seems like someone would provide something basic at a fraction of the cost.
For those that downvoted or left demoting comments, the expression was based on Donald Douglas (I think) of how he became a millionaire with his company Douglas Aircraft, "you have to spend 100 million." Douglas bought out by McDonnell in 1960s, then by Boeing in 1990s. We see this happening again, Musk and Bezos spending billions (some of this includes money from NASA) and maybe earn a few million.
I dunno, I remember the days when slot machines took coins and had big levers. Watching those mechanical things go round and round, suspense builds. Sometimes you hit a good combination and hear the clattering of coins dumping into bin. Nowadays slot machines are like video games, some people love it but I find it boring. It's just a flat screen, hell I can get that anyplace else so why go to Las Vegas (or Reno or whereever).
If government DEMANDS you get all those vaccines,...
Seems to me back in the days when vaccines were typical, there was no anti-vaxxers and nobody had to worry about polio, it was also when pharma companies were not out to bankrupt much of the population. It was simply civic duty to get your kids vaccinated as was regularly attending your VFW and Rotary Club meetings. But these days maybe not worry about a vaccine causing autism but FDA (with a director who worked as a lobbyist for drug companies) says must have mandatory vaccine containing opioids or some other goofy requirement.
and nowadays, labeling someone with the S word can be pretty bad. There was a story about a professor who wrote a book titled "Social Action" or something like that and many students refused to read it because it involves socialism. So does that mean there are people who will not learn social studies or social skills because it may lead to ***gasp*** socialism?
Yes, something is out of whack. The economy is going strong but only at Wall St area and Silicon Valley. Everyone in between is declining. PBS documentary highlighted Dayton OH where population has dropped 50% what it used to be back in the days, manufacturing including NCR have offshored, downtown is modern but ***no traffic***, coroner's office getting overloaded with bodies from drug overdoses, people that are still there making much less and no benefits like they had before.
Yep, same place where Trump said in 2016 "don't sell your home and move" [I'll bring good jobs back] and Hillary completely ignored these areas on her campaign.
Getting back to Silicon Valley, it gets creepy seeing phenomenal wealth at same time increasing "development" of tent cities.
Yes, they are bankrupting that word. I see this all the time, however, when I first saw this expression I first thought, "wow, that famous person used C4 on another famous person?" For the rest of us should not use that expression or may get an inquiry from law enforcement personnel.
Since Amazon products are shipped all over the world, 70% covered by water and US Navy is to keep ocean commerce free of pirates, they should help pay for that service. Also other military services allows commerce of US products that also allows Amazon to ship their sales stuff around. Unless Bezos gives up Blue Origin to fund his own military services to allow undisturbed shipment of products, he should pay taxes. Yikes a private military of Amazon, now that's a scary concept.
changing topic here, some years ago Aviation Week had a four page foldout ad for the 380. It showed how it will have showers and a shopping mall like they have on cruise ships. It reminded me of how 747 was first visioned as the top floor would be a bar with a live band (some of those early flights had these, and passengers required to seventies polyester fashions). I saved that magazine because though only illustrations (380 was still in design/development) it would be humorous years from now of "what were they thinking."
I see this as High Speed Rail is simply not in the mindset of Americans regardless of their political alignment. Perhaps how it got this far is something unusual. We have no problem of spending trillions on "infrastructure" in Iraq and Afghanistan with nothing to show for it, but trying to spend a small fraction of that ***here*** on our own country, everyone screams it's so expensive!
"tech startup" like "high tech" which if one asks what it is will get a circular definition. I heard the term "high tech" was invented by someone who works in one of those buildings on Sandhill Rd. in Palo Alto, CA because it sounds real cool and enables the VC money to flow.
A big complaint is NASA has too many old guys and yet here comes another obstacle to get young people. Though civil servants will get back pay, many contractors will not (contractors make up the bulk of the workforce). Bright fresh 20-somethings hired for many positions including not-so-glamorous work like networks, servers, databases, and other stuff but shutdown comes along some take that other offer. Of course many say nobody noticed NASA was shutdown so why does it matter. We may find 20 years from now other countries doing all kinds of stuff in space and a magazine article will have a picture of a US rocket (take your pick) lifting off the pad with a ball and chain around it like the 1990s article about the Russian space program that shows the Soyuz lifting off the pad with a ball and chain around it.
Later in this program includes interview with Tom Kelly of Grumman who discusses the LEM. Kelly wrote an excellent book about the design and construction of this spacecraft many decades later, very insightful.
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Not sure how the news of YT raising price for YTTV fits into this discussion, but sure are a lot of heated comments here, https://old.reddit.com/r/news/...
Already folks, I admit I'm too lazy to sit down go through the book (very thick) and go through the exercises. However, I need a Linux machine, shelling out some money... right now I have other priorities. I have never got VM or virtual box or whatever it's called to work. Even sat down with a friend who says he uses it all the time, he couldn't get it to install even after doing all kinds of HD partitioning and whatever.
I have read and heard many advantages of Linux. Even for serious systems at work and other places I've seen they use Linux. Windows both the OS and the thing that lets you see through walls have no place for these systems.
I have noticed there are two kinds of people: Those that know Linux and they can turn it upside down, in and out about. Know all the gory details of various types from Redhat to Ubutu (sp?), also highly skilled in C, python, unix, and all the other languages. The other people are those that ain't got a clue. I do know it is an operating system, they use a penguin for a mascot, and you don't have to pay Borg Bill a fee every year (or month).
It seems to really depend on how the data is presented. Is it based on how many are collecting unemployment checks? Or hiring/firing data from Fortune 500 companies? Or number of business licenses issued (it is really easy to start a business, doesn't mean it will earn anything). Or one person working three jobs because each one is part time with meager wages? Or companies posting job openings with requirements of years of experience in various technologies that are new?
Then it depends on who is reporting. ***every*** President have always said their administration has had the lowest unemployment level ever. Kind of like those saying this is the best webpage//forum ever or we will have man on Mars 20 years from now. After a few decades it gets old.
What about a war on common sense? One of you slashdotters has that for your signature phrase.
The only way to solve the derelict problem is a comprehensive national effort. This is the only true final solution.
What should this effort be? I cannot think of one myself though it seems business models like we see in SF where there are phenomenally wealthy people surrounded by bums and tent cities.
What's with this obsession with drugs? It seems everywhere there's this about drugs, that about drugs, war on drugs, legalize drugs, outlaw drugs, prescription drug costs, drug lords, drug commercials, miracle drugs, drug addicts, etc. OK, I drink coffee everyday so I guess I'm a druggie like everyone else. It seems to me just think a fraction of effort and money put into drugs were to be put into something else (i.e. fix all the rusty bridges or fix all the broken HVAC in schools) but maybe we simply don't have that mind set.
Instead of looking for collusion, look at business practices such as real estate developments in Russia and borrowing money from Russian banks. Not illegal but doesn't seem proper dealing with people from a nation that will irk people processing your security clearance if you did the same (unless you are a WH staffer). Also suspicious dealing with a country that we may be going to war with.
What I mean is retail stores are carrying less and less items I'm interested in purchasing. I would like to purchase direct from a company but many either don't sell direct or if they do their purchasing site is difficult to use (you need a specific type of browser and a specific type of OS, or get some kind of scripting error message). Amazon makes it easy (I've never run into problems, only the product i.e. discontinued item or used items don't look appealing), probably too easy (can easily go into debt). So whether you love them or loathe them, Bezos figured out how to beat his competitors by making it easy to purchase. Like Musk did with Paypal and cornered the market for transferring money (I could never get online transactions of regular banks to work). Of course the downside with Amazon and Paypal is if something goes wrong (bad product, lost transaction) then you are stuck with the product or lost the transaction (fortunately I've been lucky so far).
violently imposed monopoly—and we call that organization "Government".
you can always go to Somalia as they have no government. As far as private companies go, how's that customer service line been so far?
Anyone with a few million in capital should be able to enter this market and make a killing.
Maybe there are some other factors involved, like our health care system out of whack with billions spent on who-knows-what while people needing basic care can't get any unless they spend what is equivalent to a mortgage payment. Seems like someone would provide something basic at a fraction of the cost.
For those that downvoted or left demoting comments, the expression was based on Donald Douglas (I think) of how he became a millionaire with his company Douglas Aircraft, "you have to spend 100 million." Douglas bought out by McDonnell in 1960s, then by Boeing in 1990s. We see this happening again, Musk and Bezos spending billions (some of this includes money from NASA) and maybe earn a few million.
I dunno, I remember the days when slot machines took coins and had big levers. Watching those mechanical things go round and round, suspense builds. Sometimes you hit a good combination and hear the clattering of coins dumping into bin. Nowadays slot machines are like video games, some people love it but I find it boring. It's just a flat screen, hell I can get that anyplace else so why go to Las Vegas (or Reno or whereever).
Besides having someone pretty to serve drinks is much nicer than dealing with a "vending machine" https://www.reviewjournal.com/...
If government DEMANDS you get all those vaccines, ...
Seems to me back in the days when vaccines were typical, there was no anti-vaxxers and nobody had to worry about polio, it was also when pharma companies were not out to bankrupt much of the population. It was simply civic duty to get your kids vaccinated as was regularly attending your VFW and Rotary Club meetings. But these days maybe not worry about a vaccine causing autism but FDA (with a director who worked as a lobbyist for drug companies) says must have mandatory vaccine containing opioids or some other goofy requirement.
and the scary thing is if you can't trust your mom...
Those who disagree are often called socialists.
and nowadays, labeling someone with the S word can be pretty bad. There was a story about a professor who wrote a book titled "Social Action" or something like that and many students refused to read it because it involves socialism. So does that mean there are people who will not learn social studies or social skills because it may lead to ***gasp*** socialism?
Yes, something is out of whack. The economy is going strong but only at Wall St area and Silicon Valley. Everyone in between is declining. PBS documentary highlighted Dayton OH where population has dropped 50% what it used to be back in the days, manufacturing including NCR have offshored, downtown is modern but ***no traffic***, coroner's office getting overloaded with bodies from drug overdoses, people that are still there making much less and no benefits like they had before.
Yep, same place where Trump said in 2016 "don't sell your home and move" [I'll bring good jobs back] and Hillary completely ignored these areas on her campaign.
Getting back to Silicon Valley, it gets creepy seeing phenomenal wealth at same time increasing "development" of tent cities.
Yes, they are bankrupting that word. I see this all the time, however, when I first saw this expression I first thought, "wow, that famous person used C4 on another famous person?" For the rest of us should not use that expression or may get an inquiry from law enforcement personnel.
Since Amazon products are shipped all over the world, 70% covered by water and US Navy is to keep ocean commerce free of pirates, they should help pay for that service. Also other military services allows commerce of US products that also allows Amazon to ship their sales stuff around. Unless Bezos gives up Blue Origin to fund his own military services to allow undisturbed shipment of products, he should pay taxes. Yikes a private military of Amazon, now that's a scary concept.
changing topic here, some years ago Aviation Week had a four page foldout ad for the 380. It showed how it will have showers and a shopping mall like they have on cruise ships. It reminded me of how 747 was first visioned as the top floor would be a bar with a live band (some of those early flights had these, and passengers required to seventies polyester fashions). I saved that magazine because though only illustrations (380 was still in design/development) it would be humorous years from now of "what were they thinking."
Now I cannot find that magazine.
Remember when America made things? Yeah, neither do I, but my parents keep talking about it.
You must be in that larger portion of Americans who were not living when men walked the surface of the moon.
I see this as High Speed Rail is simply not in the mindset of Americans regardless of their political alignment. Perhaps how it got this far is something unusual. We have no problem of spending trillions on "infrastructure" in Iraq and Afghanistan with nothing to show for it, but trying to spend a small fraction of that ***here*** on our own country, everyone screams it's so expensive!
They would have collected a lot more data besides tip amounts.
"tech startup" like "high tech" which if one asks what it is will get a circular definition. I heard the term "high tech" was invented by someone who works in one of those buildings on Sandhill Rd. in Palo Alto, CA because it sounds real cool and enables the VC money to flow.
A big complaint is NASA has too many old guys and yet here comes another obstacle to get young people. Though civil servants will get back pay, many contractors will not (contractors make up the bulk of the workforce). Bright fresh 20-somethings hired for many positions including not-so-glamorous work like networks, servers, databases, and other stuff but shutdown comes along some take that other offer. Of course many say nobody noticed NASA was shutdown so why does it matter. We may find 20 years from now other countries doing all kinds of stuff in space and a magazine article will have a picture of a US rocket (take your pick) lifting off the pad with a ball and chain around it like the 1990s article about the Russian space program that shows the Soyuz lifting off the pad with a ball and chain around it.
Time travel to this special report aired by CBS on Dec 27, 1968 without commercials
https://www.c-span.org/video/?...
Later in this program includes interview with Tom Kelly of Grumman who discusses the LEM. Kelly wrote an excellent book about the design and construction of this spacecraft many decades later, very insightful.