You should try looking at the actual numbers sometime. Average tax burden under Republicans is less than half a percent lower than under Democrats, and that's more than made up for by the combination of gross fiscal irresponsibility and dramatically slower economic growth under Republican leadership. Oh, and average individual income is higher under Democrats, too.
I'm not sure which slashdotters you're talking about, but I'm certainly not one of them.
Personally, I like to tout the virtues of solar, wind, and non-invasive hydro. I actually lived in a solar house for about 20 years, so I'm well aware of the issues with it, but I'm also well aware of the solutions, not just the ones that have been around for 30+ years, but also those that have emerged in the last few years.
That said, there is no perfect energy technology, and the right way to do it is to have a little of everything. My main issue with nuclear is actually Yucca Mountain. I don't think it's a suitable site, and the process by which it was selected was totally fucked. The best sites are in Texas, and I think it's quite telling that none of these Texas energy guys who're always touting nuclear as "clean and safe" want the stuff in their backyard.
Why does the competence of your proverbial marketing department is nearly without exception reversely proportional to the technical advantages of the technology in question?
The term is "inversely proportional", but aside from that, this is really a very simple question to answer: there is only so much money in the budget, and it costs money to get good people. Either that money gets spent on getting good technical people, or it gets spent on getting good marketers.
It's much like how a man's body only contains enough blood to properly use one head at any given time.
Anyway, which is chosen depends mostly on the background of the person making the decision. Which group is more likely to rise to positions of decision-making power I will leave as an excercise.
I've come to the conclusion that companies advertise to their weaknesses. By that I mean that, when they recognize that they have a weakness, they treat it as a PR problem to be glossed over with advertising, rather than something that should actually be fixed.
Examples include Dell advertising their great customer service, or Hyundai advertising their reliability.
And you think any other major company is in it to provide a better product or service?
I can't say their motivation isn't money and power, but I've found IBM an absolute joy to work with. This was really highlighted to me when they sold their drives operation, the part of the company I've had the most dealings with, to Hitachi. The difference was, shall we say, marked.
I agree that most companies operate as you say, but there are some out there that recognize that the best way to build, and more importantly maintain, marketshare is to take care of the customer's needs.
Agreed. SuSE has really done a fantastic job of keeping things easy for the admin, plus they're now part of Novell, which should help give the PHBs the Warm Fuzzies you're looking for.
That said, Linux is Linux. Use what you know, as long as it's not totally inappropriate for the task (like running a server on tomsrtbt), and stict to good Admin practices, and the background image of the login screen is largely irrelevant.
That's kinda typical of the literature that came out of northern Europe in that general time period.
Check out "Seven Viking Romances", if you haven't already. Seems like they all start out with something like, "This guy gets some of his buddies together and some boats and goes and kills some people and gets a lot of gold, which gives him the finances to do what this story's actually about." Seriously, I'm barely paraphrasing.
Oh, and if you haven't guessed, "romance" apparantly meant something different back then.
mpeg2 - it's not a great editable format for nearly any platform, let alone linux
That depends, it's practicly the default format for current Grass Valley equipment, and has been since Profile PDR 300s were introduced. But, they make it work by storing the vertical blanking seperately (uncompressed, which is one of the reasons the Profile requires an assload of storage bandwidth).
I'm not a TD, I just fixed the things, but I know the Profile with the M/E option is quite popular with sports folk, so it must work pretty well.
FYI, default for the PDR is mjpeg, with mpeg2 available for the 300, and DV available for the 400. Profile XP default is mpeg2, with DV available, and M-Series default is DV with mpeg2 available (IIRC, I mainly worked on PDRs).
Maybe there will be a force opposing you. (Like, say, the current police force, unhappy about your criticisms. See if they're will to protect you from criminals while you're lobbying against them.)
This is just plain ignorant. Every police force I know of would love to have citizens lobbying to get them more resources, better training, etc. Don't take my word for it, though, feel free to go to your local law enforcement agency and ask.
That said, I actually agree with your main point. There's plenty of evidence to support the idea that areas with more guns have less crime. Furthermore, it's my opinion that any form of gun control (in the US, obviously) is unconstitutional. Yes, that includes machine guns and other military weapons. The whole point of the 2nd Amendment is to be able to defend yourself from the government, and you can't really do that effectively with a handgun.
I'm quite aware of common use of the word, and I don't care. When a SCIENTIST uses the word "theory", they do not mean "hypothesis". The two words have very seperate and distinct meanings in the world of science.
You can quote all the dictionaries you want, but in this context you'll still be wrong.
older versions will run on WinNT and Win98SE but they're bright enough to mark WinME as "not suitable for production use").
If you actually talk to their support people, they'll tell you Win98SE isn't suitable either, though the problem is actually with FAT. I experienced some serious file corruption problems that led to our whole company upgrading to W2k, and more importantly NTFS.
If they'd chosen a Unix ecosystem as a base, doing Win32 and Carbon/Aqua as derivatives would have been easy. Back-porting from Win32 is going to be such a pig that I can't see them ever doing it.
They didn't just choose to develope on Win32, they tied themselves very tightly to Microsoft products in general (it's been a few years, but I recall needing to have Excel installed in order for SolidWorks to function properly).
Don't get me wrong, I loved using SolidWorks, and I think it's probably the most intuitive program I've ever used, but on a basic design level I do think they made some bad choices.
That's what these stickers are about; reminders that both topics revolve around unproven ideas, both of which are likely never to be proven.
That's funny, because the issue of Discover Magazine that arrived in my mailbox sometime in the last week says on the cover "Scientists at Michigan State Prove Evolution Works".
If you want to believe that evolution took place or that the Bible if the word of God, you should do so by your own faith and not because someone tells you to.
You and the people who designed this sticker have something in common: you don't know the meaning of the word "theory". The first response to your post touched on it, but I think it deserves more attention as it seems to be a common problem.
What they're trying to say is that evolution is a hypothesis; that is, an idea which has not yet been sufficiently tested. They can't say that, of course, because evolution is in fact a theory: an idea which has been consistently supported through experimentation and observationto the point that it may, for all practical purposes, be treated as a fact.
Now that you know what the word "theory" actually means, don't those stickers seem kinda stupid?
I tried some that a coworker of mine had a few months ago (Sony, IIRC) and I wasn't impressed. They did a decent job of cancelling the noise, and the sound of the music was decent, but the noise cancelling produced a low level hum that started to give me a headache after a few minutes. He seemed quit happy with them, so YMMV.
That seems like the best way to me as well. It's always better to learn to do something "by hand" first, then bring in the automation later to speed things up (and not just in academic subjects like programming either, as I learned while designing and building custom industrial robots a few jobs ago).
Anyway, slightly OT, but I haven't been that impressed with kdeedu. It feels very much like an open source project to me (in the negative sense), or at least what comes with Suse 9.1 does anyway. I like gcompris much better.
In fact, I like gcompris better than any of the commercial apps I've looked at, all of which are very insipid in the "baby talk" kinda way. Gcompris treats the child like an intelligent human being, which is very important IMO. I've always tried to treat my daughter that way, and as a result her vocabulary often gets her mistaken for being 1-3 years older than she is.
I'm sure that, like the rest of KDE, kdeedu is progressing very quickly. Still, I highly recommend gcompris to anyone who wants some high quality educational software for their child.
I was a math tutor at a community college for 2 years, so in general I agree with you. However, I think calculators should be allowed in trig. After all, the alternative is to have them use the tables. Yeah, they should be shown how to use them, but making rely on them through the duration of the class is just pointlessly archaic in an age when a much more precise answer will almost always be at their fingertips.
A good rule IMO would be to let students use a calculator only after they've proven they understand the concept well enough to execute it by hand. That would require a bit more effort on the teacher's part, though.
I'm well aware of the point your trying to make, and it's certainly true for the general population. However, my wife is a member of one of the best trained law enforcement agencies in the world, and is specifically trained to operate a motor vehicle at high speeds under those conditions.
If you've never been hated by a child, you've never been a parent.
I refuse to shirk the responsibility I took on when I chose to bring a child into this world. I'll take that risk, as people who instead let their kids run rampant to do whatever they want without consequence are the source of all that is wrong in the world.
(assuming, of course, that I had any reason to believe such monitoring was warranted)
I do trust my kid, and I'm take that trust very seriously, and I do my best to maintain that relkationship. But, she's only 4, and I fully recognize the possibility that things might change for the worse.
If she gave me reason to believe I couldn't trust her, then I would certainly consider such a service, but I certainly wouldn't do it without her full knowledge. After all, the entire point would be to give her an opportunity to regain that trust. But if we're in that situation I obviously can't simply take her word for it, and that's where some sort of third party verification is necessary. If that's the situation, and she disables it, then as a responsible parent I have to assume it's because she's doing something she shouldn't be, and if I don't do something in response then I'm effectively condoning it.
Yeah, trusting your kids is important, but you can't be blind about it, and there has to be consequences when they betray that trust. If there aren't, then you aren't a parent.
That said, speeding isn't something I particularly care about, as long as it isn't to the extent that it would be considered reckless. However, my wife and I agree that "driver education" in America is completely inadequate, and intend to put our daughter through a real driving school (one that includes high speed manuevering and a skid pan) before we let her on the road.
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You should try looking at the actual numbers sometime. Average tax burden under Republicans is less than half a percent lower than under Democrats, and that's more than made up for by the combination of gross fiscal irresponsibility and dramatically slower economic growth under Republican leadership. Oh, and average individual income is higher under Democrats, too.
Slashdot posters love to tout clean nuclear power
I'm not sure which slashdotters you're talking about, but I'm certainly not one of them.
Personally, I like to tout the virtues of solar, wind, and non-invasive hydro. I actually lived in a solar house for about 20 years, so I'm well aware of the issues with it, but I'm also well aware of the solutions, not just the ones that have been around for 30+ years, but also those that have emerged in the last few years.
That said, there is no perfect energy technology, and the right way to do it is to have a little of everything. My main issue with nuclear is actually Yucca Mountain. I don't think it's a suitable site, and the process by which it was selected was totally fucked. The best sites are in Texas, and I think it's quite telling that none of these Texas energy guys who're always touting nuclear as "clean and safe" want the stuff in their backyard.
Why does the competence of your proverbial marketing department is nearly without exception reversely proportional to the technical advantages of the technology in question?
The term is "inversely proportional", but aside from that, this is really a very simple question to answer: there is only so much money in the budget, and it costs money to get good people. Either that money gets spent on getting good technical people, or it gets spent on getting good marketers.
It's much like how a man's body only contains enough blood to properly use one head at any given time.
Anyway, which is chosen depends mostly on the background of the person making the decision. Which group is more likely to rise to positions of decision-making power I will leave as an excercise.
Excellent point.
I've come to the conclusion that companies advertise to their weaknesses. By that I mean that, when they recognize that they have a weakness, they treat it as a PR problem to be glossed over with advertising, rather than something that should actually be fixed.
Examples include Dell advertising their great customer service, or Hyundai advertising their reliability.
And you think any other major company is in it to provide a better product or service?
I can't say their motivation isn't money and power, but I've found IBM an absolute joy to work with. This was really highlighted to me when they sold their drives operation, the part of the company I've had the most dealings with, to Hitachi. The difference was, shall we say, marked.
I agree that most companies operate as you say, but there are some out there that recognize that the best way to build, and more importantly maintain, marketshare is to take care of the customer's needs.
No, they're completely ignoring that fact and simply declaring C/C++ shouldn't be used.
Agreed. SuSE has really done a fantastic job of keeping things easy for the admin, plus they're now part of Novell, which should help give the PHBs the Warm Fuzzies you're looking for.
That said, Linux is Linux. Use what you know, as long as it's not totally inappropriate for the task (like running a server on tomsrtbt), and stict to good Admin practices, and the background image of the login screen is largely irrelevant.
You know...
ABC...
Like the gum...
I've gone through a few of those. Though they're hard to find these days, the old 30-pin is best. 72+ pin sticks are just to big for normal pockets.
That's kinda typical of the literature that came out of northern Europe in that general time period.
Check out "Seven Viking Romances", if you haven't already. Seems like they all start out with something like, "This guy gets some of his buddies together and some boats and goes and kills some people and gets a lot of gold, which gives him the finances to do what this story's actually about." Seriously, I'm barely paraphrasing.
Oh, and if you haven't guessed, "romance" apparantly meant something different back then.
mpeg2 - it's not a great editable format for nearly any platform, let alone linux
That depends, it's practicly the default format for current Grass Valley equipment, and has been since Profile PDR 300s were introduced. But, they make it work by storing the vertical blanking seperately (uncompressed, which is one of the reasons the Profile requires an assload of storage bandwidth).
I'm not a TD, I just fixed the things, but I know the Profile with the M/E option is quite popular with sports folk, so it must work pretty well.
FYI, default for the PDR is mjpeg, with mpeg2 available for the 300, and DV available for the 400. Profile XP default is mpeg2, with DV available, and M-Series default is DV with mpeg2 available (IIRC, I mainly worked on PDRs).
Isn't the "Internet, LAN, and DMZ" paradigm pretty common for routers/gateways?
For routers/gateways, yes. For something like, say, an irrigation system controller, even one ethernet is somewhat unusual.
Maybe there will be a force opposing you. (Like, say, the current police force, unhappy about your criticisms. See if they're will to protect you from criminals while you're lobbying against them.)
This is just plain ignorant. Every police force I know of would love to have citizens lobbying to get them more resources, better training, etc. Don't take my word for it, though, feel free to go to your local law enforcement agency and ask.
That said, I actually agree with your main point. There's plenty of evidence to support the idea that areas with more guns have less crime. Furthermore, it's my opinion that any form of gun control (in the US, obviously) is unconstitutional. Yes, that includes machine guns and other military weapons. The whole point of the 2nd Amendment is to be able to defend yourself from the government, and you can't really do that effectively with a handgun.
I'm quite aware of common use of the word, and I don't care. When a SCIENTIST uses the word "theory", they do not mean "hypothesis". The two words have very seperate and distinct meanings in the world of science.
You can quote all the dictionaries you want, but in this context you'll still be wrong.
older versions will run on WinNT and Win98SE but they're bright enough to mark WinME as "not suitable for production use").
If you actually talk to their support people, they'll tell you Win98SE isn't suitable either, though the problem is actually with FAT. I experienced some serious file corruption problems that led to our whole company upgrading to W2k, and more importantly NTFS.
If they'd chosen a Unix ecosystem as a base, doing Win32 and Carbon/Aqua as derivatives would have been easy. Back-porting from Win32 is going to be such a pig that I can't see them ever doing it.
They didn't just choose to develope on Win32, they tied themselves very tightly to Microsoft products in general (it's been a few years, but I recall needing to have Excel installed in order for SolidWorks to function properly).
Don't get me wrong, I loved using SolidWorks, and I think it's probably the most intuitive program I've ever used, but on a basic design level I do think they made some bad choices.
Importing seems much more important to me (as long as it's more than how Solidworks "imports" pro/e files).
After all, anyone can get BRL-CAD for free. Not so with pro/e.
That's what these stickers are about; reminders that both topics revolve around unproven ideas, both of which are likely never to be proven.
That's funny, because the issue of Discover Magazine that arrived in my mailbox sometime in the last week says on the cover "Scientists at Michigan State Prove Evolution Works".
If you want to believe that evolution took place or that the Bible if the word of God, you should do so by your own faith and not because someone tells you to.
You and the people who designed this sticker have something in common: you don't know the meaning of the word "theory". The first response to your post touched on it, but I think it deserves more attention as it seems to be a common problem.
What they're trying to say is that evolution is a hypothesis; that is, an idea which has not yet been sufficiently tested. They can't say that, of course, because evolution is in fact a theory: an idea which has been consistently supported through experimentation and observationto the point that it may, for all practical purposes, be treated as a fact.
Now that you know what the word "theory" actually means, don't those stickers seem kinda stupid?
I tried some that a coworker of mine had a few months ago (Sony, IIRC) and I wasn't impressed. They did a decent job of cancelling the noise, and the sound of the music was decent, but the noise cancelling produced a low level hum that started to give me a headache after a few minutes. He seemed quit happy with them, so YMMV.
Guess they're not as dumb as we thought.
That seems like the best way to me as well. It's always better to learn to do something "by hand" first, then bring in the automation later to speed things up (and not just in academic subjects like programming either, as I learned while designing and building custom industrial robots a few jobs ago).
Anyway, slightly OT, but I haven't been that impressed with kdeedu. It feels very much like an open source project to me (in the negative sense), or at least what comes with Suse 9.1 does anyway. I like gcompris much better.
In fact, I like gcompris better than any of the commercial apps I've looked at, all of which are very insipid in the "baby talk" kinda way. Gcompris treats the child like an intelligent human being, which is very important IMO. I've always tried to treat my daughter that way, and as a result her vocabulary often gets her mistaken for being 1-3 years older than she is.
I'm sure that, like the rest of KDE, kdeedu is progressing very quickly. Still, I highly recommend gcompris to anyone who wants some high quality educational software for their child.
I was a math tutor at a community college for 2 years, so in general I agree with you. However, I think calculators should be allowed in trig. After all, the alternative is to have them use the tables. Yeah, they should be shown how to use them, but making rely on them through the duration of the class is just pointlessly archaic in an age when a much more precise answer will almost always be at their fingertips.
A good rule IMO would be to let students use a calculator only after they've proven they understand the concept well enough to execute it by hand. That would require a bit more effort on the teacher's part, though.
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I'm well aware of the point your trying to make, and it's certainly true for the general population. However, my wife is a member of one of the best trained law enforcement agencies in the world, and is specifically trained to operate a motor vehicle at high speeds under those conditions.
If you've never been hated by a child, you've never been a parent.
I refuse to shirk the responsibility I took on when I chose to bring a child into this world. I'll take that risk, as people who instead let their kids run rampant to do whatever they want without consequence are the source of all that is wrong in the world.
Did you miss this part?
(assuming, of course, that I had any reason to believe such monitoring was warranted)
I do trust my kid, and I'm take that trust very seriously, and I do my best to maintain that relkationship. But, she's only 4, and I fully recognize the possibility that things might change for the worse.
If she gave me reason to believe I couldn't trust her, then I would certainly consider such a service, but I certainly wouldn't do it without her full knowledge. After all, the entire point would be to give her an opportunity to regain that trust. But if we're in that situation I obviously can't simply take her word for it, and that's where some sort of third party verification is necessary. If that's the situation, and she disables it, then as a responsible parent I have to assume it's because she's doing something she shouldn't be, and if I don't do something in response then I'm effectively condoning it.
Yeah, trusting your kids is important, but you can't be blind about it, and there has to be consequences when they betray that trust. If there aren't, then you aren't a parent.
That said, speeding isn't something I particularly care about, as long as it isn't to the extent that it would be considered reckless. However, my wife and I agree that "driver education" in America is completely inadequate, and intend to put our daughter through a real driving school (one that includes high speed manuevering and a skid pan) before we let her on the road.