However, for a while, the CHP (CA Highway patrol) bought and certfied Mustangs, so as to be able to keep up with some of the higher powered cars on the freeways.
Indeed they did, but Mustangs are crap so they went to the Camaro, but now Chevy doesn't want to make those anymore, so that basicly leaves the Corvette, which is just too expensive. Any given office only has, at most, one or two of the fast cars though, and they're reserved for senior officers. Everybody else gets a Crown Vic.
What the CHP, and several other agencies, really want is for Chevy to make a new Caprice, which was supposedly the greatest cop car of all time. Essentially they want a sedan body on a Tahoe frame.
The Dodge Magnum could certainly be a contender, especially if they made a sedan version.
Of course if you had a single neuron in that skull of yours you would not have the audacity to assume that you're new job is going to work out. Assume for just one moment that maybe having options to fall back on is a good thing.
I couldn't agree more. Even if you don't need the reference for this new job, most prospective employers want to be able to contact at least your last 2 or 3 employers, and it's not unusual for companies to ask for a complete work history going back as far as 7-10 years, with non-working time accounted for.
Thinking you don't need the reference is, at best, naive.
Can you tell me what license this patch is distributed under? Or this one, or most of the other ones for that matter?
You've completely missed the point, which is that IBM is not the distro providor, and thus is not under direct obligation to you.
And yes it does make Best Buy a Linux distributor.
Only in the retail sense, NOT in the GPL sense. Selling a SuSE boxed set places Best Buy under absolutely no obligations under the GPL. It's SuSE that bears that responsibility.
The best way to protect your children and your PC is to spend quality time with them, teaching them the basics of PC protection and chat room safety.
Because the rest of us don't live in your magical fairy land where the vast majority of adults aren't clueless idiots when it comes to computers and the internet. You can't teach what you don't know, and I bet more than half of parents with teenage children don't even actually know what a chatroom is, let alone the safety issues involved in using them.
Is there a reason that this information is being aimed specifically at teenagers?
Because whenever I visit my dad I end up cleaning all kinds of crap off his computer, all of which I'm invariably able to trace back to my teenage brother, despite the fact that he is arguably the most computer savvy of the 4 regular users of the machine.
I use Seagate's Seatools on a regular basis, and it has a geek switch. It's very irritating, as everything I need to do with it is hidden by default. Yeah, I realize that would be solved by simply adding a way to set the default value for the switch, but I think we all know most won't do that, just as Seagate hasn't.
But what do I know, I've always found the Mac UI to be backwards, unusable trash (yes, OSX too).
One of the ones that I thought would work was saying I live about 80 miles north of the border between North Dakota and Montana.
You should have tried relating it to somewhere people actually live, or might visit. I mean, everybody knows where New York and California are, everything in between is simply refered to as Fly-Over Country, because nobody goes there, they just fly over it on the way to somewhere interesting.
For the GPL (in general, as a license) to be declared invalid would require the complete dismantling of the portions of copyright law which allow the entire publishing industry as we know it to exist.
I should think that if such a thing was going to happen it would have already.
It's certainkly worth the trauma of the last year to get the GPL publicly upheld in court.
I don't see why everyone thinks this is so important. If you've read and understood the relevant portions of US copyright law, it's pretty obvious that the GPL is not only valid, but ironclad. In order to invalidate the GPL you'd have to invalidate all copyright licensing, completely destroying the entire publishing industry.
# IBM distributed Linux during the time this code was present...except that IBM, most carefully and specifically, does NOT distribute Linux. They are merely resellers, like Best Buy or Fry's. So the arguement becomes "We're suing IBM for $50 billion because SGI accidentally put 161 lines of SYSV code in a few versions of Linux."
Excuse me? IBM distributes a hell of a lot of GPL code. Every time they sell a server with Linux on it, thats what they're doing.
You couldn't be more wrong. IBM is very careful about this.
When you buy a Linux server from IBM, what you actually buy is the server, a Linux distribution (from SuSE, Red Hat, TurboLinux, etc), and the service of having an IBM technician install your chosen distribution for you. IBM never distributes Linux.
I can buy a boxed Linux distro off the shelf at Best Buy. Does that make Best Buy a Linux distributer? No. Buying a Linux distro from IBM is exactly the same.
I think I have to disagree. Once you remove all the fallacies, contradictions, etc (and I think they missed a few), from Enderle's speach, what, exactly, is left?
So one is really as useless as the other, the only advantage to the internet appliance is it gives the illusion of greater prosperity, and a view to the wider world. But neither offering materially affects the root problem, until the fundamental inequities in the global distribution of wealth are addressed there is little hope to ending this situation.
Not true. The internet appliance gives access to a broader market, allowing the owner to get better prices for the goods they produce, as well as information on more efficient agricultural techniques, veterinary information and medicines, and distance learning, all of which most certainly do address the root problems that many of these people are facing.
How do we know that? Because it's already happening in remote, traditionally impoverished areas of India and Nepal.
It actually isn't contrived at all, in fact it's already happening in India. You see, the buyers who come to these remote villages offer obscenely low prices to the farmers, who often have no alternative market to sell their goods, and then make a killing selling them at regular market prices. Internet access has allowed the farmers in these remote villages to research real market prices and find alternate buyers, thus increasing their income dramatically.
This isn't just fluff technology, it has real and immediate value in these peoples daily lives. It transforms their economy from a buyer's monopoly to a free market, allowing the farmers to build the wealth from which, as we all know, everything else flows.
I very much doubt your debt would follow you to Europe. Just a thought...
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The typical small business starts out there with one or two guys, no cash (or a bank loan taken against your house) and maybe a grant from the EU or some development commission.
You're deluding yourself if you think it's somehow magically different in America. The fact is most startups here don't have any "angel" investors, and if you look at what those investors typically want in return for their help you'll quickly find that they are more predator than angel.
Most American companies start out as one or two guys with no cash, or maybe a loan against their house. Apple, HP, and even Microsoft started out that way.
The problem, widely documented, is that most low to middle IT managers have no management skills. Corperations are failing to instill these skills when promoting good technical people.
My experience in the corporate world has been that the low level managers are the only ones that actually have any management skills at all. Of course, those are also the people who don't have business degrees.
Business is the party major. That truth was first presented to me in a Dead Kennedys song, then solidified while working as a math tutor in college, and reinforced daily now that I'm out in the real world when I hear such management gems as "If you guys don't cut down on your overtime we're going to have to lay someone off" (actual quote from an upper level manager speaking to our field service engineers).
I, and just about everyone I work with, feel the same way. It's a lot easier to be a good worker when you feel like you're a part of something, like everyone on the team is working towards the same goal: to build something of lasting value.
Of course, that's a completely foreign concept to the folks in management, most of which haven't been with any one company for more than 3 or 4 years. They implement their cost-cutting programs, get their big bonus, and move on before anyone above them realizes how much their "cost-cutting" costs the company in production delays, support for half finished products, and the resulting missed opportunities. They got theirs, and screw the rest of us!
We used to be _the_ premier brand in our industry. It's amazing how far we've been able to skate on that reputation after management has done away with almost everything that built it.
The best part is, they still expect the same level of loyalty from us, with nothing in return.
Remember that anti-drug ad from about a decade ago where the guy was walking around in circles saying "I do cocaine, so I can work more, so I can earn more money, so I can do more cocaine..."? Do you think there might be a reason why the character in that ad was a 20-something white guy dressed in professional garb? Are you going to seriously argue that cocaine doesn't have serious negative effects?
Pull your head out of your ass. The game is based on movies that depict gang violence in South-Central LA, and those movies are in turn based on the REAL gang violence in South-Central LA. And guess what? The gangs in South-Central LA are largely black and latino.
But hey, don't take my word for it. Do what I did a few weeks ago and take a drive through Compton, and see for yourself.
These aren't just stereotypes; they're reality. Whining about "negative stereotypes" does absolutely nothing to change the reality.
Hollywood didn't invent these stereotypes, they borrowed them from Watts, just a few miles down the road. My wife is a cop in south LA, guess how many white gang members she's run into?
There's a reason these stereotypes exist, and it's not because some white movie producer wants to keep the blacks and latinos down. If the black and latino communities are upset about this image then they should quit whining about it and maybe try doing something about their gang problem.
Ah, yes, I know that look well. I get it everytime my wife accidentally asks me about work. (I've learned not to bring it up myself, but sometimes she forgets how completely uninterested she is in what I do.)
I know I do the same thing to her when she's yammering on about something I'm not the least bit interested in, like say the cute outfits she found for our daughter at the mall, so I'm not trying to place any blame on her or anything. I guess my point is if you don't want to get that look, talk about something the other person is interested in.
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However, for a while, the CHP (CA Highway patrol) bought and certfied Mustangs, so as to be able to keep up with some of the higher powered cars on the freeways.
Indeed they did, but Mustangs are crap so they went to the Camaro, but now Chevy doesn't want to make those anymore, so that basicly leaves the Corvette, which is just too expensive. Any given office only has, at most, one or two of the fast cars though, and they're reserved for senior officers. Everybody else gets a Crown Vic.
What the CHP, and several other agencies, really want is for Chevy to make a new Caprice, which was supposedly the greatest cop car of all time. Essentially they want a sedan body on a Tahoe frame.
The Dodge Magnum could certainly be a contender, especially if they made a sedan version.
Of course if you had a single neuron in that skull of yours you would not have the audacity to assume that you're new job is going to work out. Assume for just one moment that maybe having options to fall back on is a good thing.
I couldn't agree more. Even if you don't need the reference for this new job, most prospective employers want to be able to contact at least your last 2 or 3 employers, and it's not unusual for companies to ask for a complete work history going back as far as 7-10 years, with non-working time accounted for.
Thinking you don't need the reference is, at best, naive.
Can you tell me what license this patch is distributed under? Or this one, or most of the other ones for that matter?
You've completely missed the point, which is that IBM is not the distro providor, and thus is not under direct obligation to you.
And yes it does make Best Buy a Linux distributor.
Only in the retail sense, NOT in the GPL sense. Selling a SuSE boxed set places Best Buy under absolutely no obligations under the GPL. It's SuSE that bears that responsibility.
Same goes for IBM.
The best way to protect your children and your PC is to spend quality time with them, teaching them the basics of PC protection and chat room safety.
Because the rest of us don't live in your magical fairy land where the vast majority of adults aren't clueless idiots when it comes to computers and the internet. You can't teach what you don't know, and I bet more than half of parents with teenage children don't even actually know what a chatroom is, let alone the safety issues involved in using them.
Is there a reason that this information is being aimed specifically at teenagers?
Because whenever I visit my dad I end up cleaning all kinds of crap off his computer, all of which I'm invariably able to trace back to my teenage brother, despite the fact that he is arguably the most computer savvy of the 4 regular users of the machine.
I suspect I'm not alone...
I hate the idea of a geek switch.
I use Seagate's Seatools on a regular basis, and it has a geek switch. It's very irritating, as everything I need to do with it is hidden by default. Yeah, I realize that would be solved by simply adding a way to set the default value for the switch, but I think we all know most won't do that, just as Seagate hasn't.
But what do I know, I've always found the Mac UI to be backwards, unusable trash (yes, OSX too).
One of the ones that I thought would work was saying I live about 80 miles north of the border between North Dakota and Montana.
You should have tried relating it to somewhere people actually live, or might visit. I mean, everybody knows where New York and California are, everything in between is simply refered to as Fly-Over Country, because nobody goes there, they just fly over it on the way to somewhere interesting.
For the GPL (in general, as a license) to be declared invalid would require the complete dismantling of the portions of copyright law which allow the entire publishing industry as we know it to exist.
I should think that if such a thing was going to happen it would have already.
It's certainkly worth the trauma of the last year to get the GPL publicly upheld in court.
I don't see why everyone thinks this is so important. If you've read and understood the relevant portions of US copyright law, it's pretty obvious that the GPL is not only valid, but ironclad. In order to invalidate the GPL you'd have to invalidate all copyright licensing, completely destroying the entire publishing industry.
# IBM distributed Linux during the time this code was present ...except that IBM, most carefully and specifically, does NOT distribute Linux. They are merely resellers, like Best Buy or Fry's. So the arguement becomes "We're suing IBM for $50 billion because SGI accidentally put 161 lines of SYSV code in a few versions of Linux."
I don't think the judge would find that funny.
Excuse me? IBM distributes a hell of a lot of GPL code. Every time they sell a server with Linux on it, thats what they're doing.
You couldn't be more wrong. IBM is very careful about this.
When you buy a Linux server from IBM, what you actually buy is the server, a Linux distribution (from SuSE, Red Hat, TurboLinux, etc), and the service of having an IBM technician install your chosen distribution for you. IBM never distributes Linux.
I can buy a boxed Linux distro off the shelf at Best Buy. Does that make Best Buy a Linux distributer? No. Buying a Linux distro from IBM is exactly the same.
I think I have to disagree. Once you remove all the fallacies, contradictions, etc (and I think they missed a few), from Enderle's speach, what, exactly, is left?
So one is really as useless as the other, the only advantage to the internet appliance is it gives the illusion of greater prosperity, and a view to the wider world. But neither offering materially affects the root problem, until the fundamental inequities in the global distribution of wealth are addressed there is little hope to ending this situation.
Not true. The internet appliance gives access to a broader market, allowing the owner to get better prices for the goods they produce, as well as information on more efficient agricultural techniques, veterinary information and medicines, and distance learning, all of which most certainly do address the root problems that many of these people are facing.
How do we know that? Because it's already happening in remote, traditionally impoverished areas of India and Nepal.
It actually isn't contrived at all, in fact it's already happening in India. You see, the buyers who come to these remote villages offer obscenely low prices to the farmers, who often have no alternative market to sell their goods, and then make a killing selling them at regular market prices. Internet access has allowed the farmers in these remote villages to research real market prices and find alternate buyers, thus increasing their income dramatically.
This isn't just fluff technology, it has real and immediate value in these peoples daily lives. It transforms their economy from a buyer's monopoly to a free market, allowing the farmers to build the wealth from which, as we all know, everything else flows.
I very much doubt your debt would follow you to Europe. Just a thought...
The typical small business starts out there with one or two guys, no cash (or a bank loan taken against your house) and maybe a grant from the EU or some development commission.
You're deluding yourself if you think it's somehow magically different in America. The fact is most startups here don't have any "angel" investors, and if you look at what those investors typically want in return for their help you'll quickly find that they are more predator than angel.
Most American companies start out as one or two guys with no cash, or maybe a loan against their house. Apple, HP, and even Microsoft started out that way.
The problem, widely documented, is that most low to middle IT managers have no management skills. Corperations are failing to instill these skills when promoting good technical people.
My experience in the corporate world has been that the low level managers are the only ones that actually have any management skills at all. Of course, those are also the people who don't have business degrees.
Business is the party major. That truth was first presented to me in a Dead Kennedys song, then solidified while working as a math tutor in college, and reinforced daily now that I'm out in the real world when I hear such management gems as "If you guys don't cut down on your overtime we're going to have to lay someone off" (actual quote from an upper level manager speaking to our field service engineers).
I used to think Dilbert was funny.
I think you got trolled.
I, and just about everyone I work with, feel the same way. It's a lot easier to be a good worker when you feel like you're a part of something, like everyone on the team is working towards the same goal: to build something of lasting value.
Of course, that's a completely foreign concept to the folks in management, most of which haven't been with any one company for more than 3 or 4 years. They implement their cost-cutting programs, get their big bonus, and move on before anyone above them realizes how much their "cost-cutting" costs the company in production delays, support for half finished products, and the resulting missed opportunities. They got theirs, and screw the rest of us!
We used to be _the_ premier brand in our industry. It's amazing how far we've been able to skate on that reputation after management has done away with almost everything that built it.
The best part is, they still expect the same level of loyalty from us, with nothing in return.
I bet it would be quite popular with the MBA set.
Remember that anti-drug ad from about a decade ago where the guy was walking around in circles saying "I do cocaine, so I can work more, so I can earn more money, so I can do more cocaine..."? Do you think there might be a reason why the character in that ad was a 20-something white guy dressed in professional garb? Are you going to seriously argue that cocaine doesn't have serious negative effects?
Pull your head out of your ass. The game is based on movies that depict gang violence in South-Central LA, and those movies are in turn based on the REAL gang violence in South-Central LA. And guess what? The gangs in South-Central LA are largely black and latino.
But hey, don't take my word for it. Do what I did a few weeks ago and take a drive through Compton, and see for yourself.
These aren't just stereotypes; they're reality. Whining about "negative stereotypes" does absolutely nothing to change the reality.
Hollywood didn't invent these stereotypes, they borrowed them from Watts, just a few miles down the road. My wife is a cop in south LA, guess how many white gang members she's run into?
There's a reason these stereotypes exist, and it's not because some white movie producer wants to keep the blacks and latinos down. If the black and latino communities are upset about this image then they should quit whining about it and maybe try doing something about their gang problem.
But you still get all sorts of other advantages that are unearned, so quit your bellyaching about that side of things.
Such as?
Now what women get paid vs men is general is also a huge issue.
My observation has been that women get paid less because they're less likely to ask for more. It seems to be mostly a self-confidence issue.
Ah, yes, I know that look well. I get it everytime my wife accidentally asks me about work. (I've learned not to bring it up myself, but sometimes she forgets how completely uninterested she is in what I do.)
I know I do the same thing to her when she's yammering on about something I'm not the least bit interested in, like say the cute outfits she found for our daughter at the mall, so I'm not trying to place any blame on her or anything. I guess my point is if you don't want to get that look, talk about something the other person is interested in.