My thoughts exactly. I used American's system a number of times recently due to a death in the family, and it worked just fine.
I liked it better than the touch tone systems. And it works *much* better for phones where the keypad is on the handset; then you have to keep moving the handset away from your head to push a button, and hope you don't miss any of the next voice part.
I would much rather just deal with a human, though.
Put him to work doing something physical. I guess cleaning trash off roadsides would be a minimum; I'd rather see him using a pick on thr road or something. And make him wear a vest with giant letters in international orange stating "CONVICTED SPAMMER".
That's a message for him *and* the other clueless twits who might be headed his direction.
It's not quite simple. It's admittedly very simple in the abstract, for a model star...
I bought a model star once. Probably a Revell kit. It was quite simple. Too simple. Two halves of a ball, with a page of assmbly instructions, three pages of instructions on the proper use of model glue, two pages of instructions on the proper application of model paint, and seven pages of disclaimers. All in 8 languages.
I filled it with hydrogen and detonated it. Made a really nice star for a few milliseconds...
When at least once a week I'm assaulted on the public highway for no reason other than the fact that I'm driving on the same highway as a bunch of nut jobs, I'm not real worried about internet assault. I never thought I'd miss Atlanta traffic, but Austin is making me do just that.
Yeah, I may have to move to the UK. At last, a regime I can support that is properly repressive but doesn't require me to wear a turban. Why can't the US catch up this way? We're ahead in some similar ones.
That's for the developers to decide. They're the ones investing their time and lives. If they don't want to support it, then either someone else needs to support it, or someone needs to motivate them to do it, or the support goes away. Without knowing the developers and the community, I don't know what form that would take. Money? Toys? Jolt Cola for life? Ask the developers!
If the people forking out for Oracle can't find a way to motivate the developers, they'll have to switch databases, switch apps, or switch developers. If they're just too cheap (or too broke after paying for Oracle 8^) to help out, they deserve their fate. It's quite simple.
No, because what immediately occurred to me was that this is anoter one of those patents that should never have been issues because it's old hat. Prior art. Whatever.
We went through this at one of the largest computer companies around, 15 years ago. We were told by management, ``Just document what you do enough that anyone can do it from the docs. Since you've already done that for most things, just do it for the rest. Don't get fancy.''
So we didn't. Straight text docs, simple instructions. Just cleaned up what we had laready written (didn't take that much), put things together in order and added a few checklists and charts, filled in the blanks, and made up a higher level doc. Our department passed with flying colors.
Drivers using cell phones for voice are bad enough, drivers trying to *look* at their cell phones are a truly terrifying thought.
This may be the first time I'm actually *glad* I no longer have a street bike, and it's making me wonder if it's not time to trade in the Miata for a surplus HumVee with armor plating.
Try to search for information on a specific product, esp. a piece of hardware. In a lot of cases you have to get tricky to see anything in the first page or two (I get 50 results per page) besides lots of sites claiming the lowest price on whatever you're looking for. I love it (NOT) when I see something like "Lowest prices... comparison of..."; I go there, and there's not even a useful *link* to a comparison.
I'd be *much* happier with google if they gave me a box to click to "turn off shopping sites".
Exactly! Before I even finished the summary, I realized they missed the obvious: Market saturation.
They've saturated the easy sell portion of the market. Now all they can do is go after upgrades (most people won't), or the harder markets (technophobes, poor people, etc).
Businesses will still need new systems, but not at the rate they have in the past. And they aren't being allowed to spend at the rate they were in the past. So even the business market slows down.
Dell and Apple picked a good time to diversify their consumer markets.
Kids can get socialized anywhere. We homeschooled, and our kids are plenty social. There are certainly people who lock their kids away, but that's just one end of what should be a bell curve. Unfortunately, the fat part of the bell curve is growing weirder and weirder WRT socialization. The public schools have less and less discipline, and more each day become problematic.
There *are* good public schools, both in terms of education per se, and socilaization, but not nearly enough.
Furthermore, school is not the best place to learn socialization. As others have noted, putting kids in with a group of other kids their age all day is not a good idea for broad socialization skills. Having a couple of adults in the mix doesn't change it that much.
Beyond that, school shouldn't *be* about socialization. It should be about teh more classical education aspects. Quit consuming all the kids' time with insane amounts of homework and extracurricular activities (sports here in my beloved Texas being a classic, over the top example) and let them *have* time to socialize. Quit making the planet off limits to kids, too. No skating, no bikes, no this, no that, no the other. Bleah.
That said, yeah, a lot of today's parents won't do any better at this than the public schools. Parents are at least as much to blame as the schools. Parents, teachers and administrators do all have the excuse that they are products of the predecessors to today's silly programs. But excuses don't matter.
This kind of thing is one of the main reasons the quality of life is going downhill in the US. Costs continue to go up with *no benefit* to anyone but the people who win stupid (nevermind frivolous) lawsuits. Oh, an dthe lawyers of course. When the money is going for thing sthat have no value, it screws the economy up for everyone.
Add in the paranoia that stifles innovation, the loss of productivity, the screwed up lives, and it's just pathetic. Another place we should bring back the stocks. A judge should be able to provide a summary judgement. This case is a menace to society's health". Into the public stocks you go.
Wow. A really informative response by *the expert* to a fairly typical knee-jerk post. Good job. I don't currently have any use for the OpenDNS service, but I'm a lot more interested after this response than I was from the article. I hope y'all do well.
Dual (and higher) Opteron boxes are coming down in price. You can get a rackmount dual Opteron with 16GB or 32GB, maybe more. Some systems with more processors allow more RAM. Nevermind clusters.
Is there any way to determine, or at least reasonably estimate, how many public DNS entries there are at a point in time? If so, one has an idea how much RAM is requiired.
PayPal was actually much better, IMO, until ebay bought it. Now it's almost as screwed up as ebay. ebay has made a *lot* of bad decisions. But, like certain other companies, they think that being the 900 pound gorilla in their space means they can do whatever they want.
Normally, they'd be right. But any student of high tech can tell you it doesn't always work that way just because it did for MS.Once upon a time, IBM *owned* the computing world. Who owns it now? Nobody, but MS is probably closer than most, and they're primarily a software company. Auspec once owned the filer market, but they did som stupid stuff, and NetApp kicked their butts. Now NetApp is following in their footsteps. Nobody has kicked their butts yet, but they're having to start looking at things a lot more seriously.
Once upon a time I liked ebay. Once upon a time I liked PayPal. I still use them both, but the day I see a better alternative for what I do, I quit using them. I already use them less than I used to, and a lot less than I thought I would by now.
Everyone sweats out the file and FS size limits, but it's amazing to me that Linux's most popular filesystem still limits you to under 32K directories at one level in a directory. Does ext4 address this? Why not?
I realize this is irrelevant for most people, but for some of us it's crucial.
I agree the kid was stupid. Doing that sort of thing today is going to cause problems.
I agree the parents are stupid. They should have had a long talk with the kid, then a long talk with the school, and tried to come up with a reasonable punishment for the kid.
But the teacher was also stupid. This is gross over-reaction. Fear and trembling, terrified for his six month old? The guy shouldn't be given a drivers license, much less licensed to teach. The school needs to have a long talk with him, as well.
But he'd probably just sic a stupid lawyer on them.
Eminent death of usenet? Nah. But this country is screwed if it doesn't wake up and start thinking rationally.
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My thoughts exactly. I used American's system a number of times recently due to a death in the family, and it worked just fine.
I liked it better than the touch tone systems. And it works *much* better for phones where the keypad is on the handset; then you have to keep moving the handset away from your head to push a button, and hope you don't miss any of the next voice part.
I would much rather just deal with a human, though.
Put him to work doing something physical. I guess cleaning trash off roadsides would be a minimum; I'd rather see him using a pick on thr road or something. And make him wear a vest with giant letters in international orange stating "CONVICTED SPAMMER".
That's a message for him *and* the other clueless twits who might be headed his direction.
Just use any of the Intel processors produced in 2005. Of course, you might have to beef up the A/C to keep the warehouse from thawing...
It's not quite simple. It's admittedly very simple in the abstract, for a model star...
I bought a model star once. Probably a Revell kit. It was quite simple. Too simple. Two halves of a ball, with a page of assmbly instructions, three pages of instructions on the proper use of model glue, two pages of instructions on the proper application of model paint, and seven pages of disclaimers. All in 8 languages.
I filled it with hydrogen and detonated it. Made a really nice star for a few milliseconds...
When at least once a week I'm assaulted on the public highway for no reason other than the fact that I'm driving on the same highway as a bunch of nut jobs, I'm not real worried about internet assault. I never thought I'd miss Atlanta traffic, but Austin is making me do just that.
Yeah, I may have to move to the UK. At last, a regime I can support that is properly repressive but doesn't require me to wear a turban. Why can't the US catch up this way? We're ahead in some similar ones.
That's for the developers to decide. They're the ones investing their time and lives. If they don't want to support it, then either someone else needs to support it, or someone needs to motivate them to do it, or the support goes away. Without knowing the developers and the community, I don't know what form that would take. Money? Toys? Jolt Cola for life? Ask the developers!
If the people forking out for Oracle can't find a way to motivate the developers, they'll have to switch databases, switch apps, or switch developers. If they're just too cheap (or too broke after paying for Oracle 8^) to help out, they deserve their fate. It's quite simple.
Does that mean each day we'll work faster?
Not only that, each day we'll get hotter! Yow!
But alas, a day later we'll all be obsoleteexcept for a few niche lives...
No, because what immediately occurred to me was that this is anoter one of those patents that should never have been issues because it's old hat. Prior art. Whatever.
We went through this at one of the largest computer companies around, 15 years ago. We were told by management, ``Just document what you do enough that anyone can do it from the docs. Since you've already done that for most things, just do it for the rest. Don't get fancy.''
So we didn't. Straight text docs, simple instructions. Just cleaned up what we had laready written (didn't take that much), put things together in order and added a few checklists and charts, filled in the blanks, and made up a higher level doc. Our department passed with flying colors.
The 9th Circuit Court made a stupid decision. Now there's a surprise.
The most overturned court in the country, they are.
Drivers using cell phones for voice are bad enough, drivers trying to *look* at their cell phones are a truly terrifying thought.
This may be the first time I'm actually *glad* I no longer have a street bike, and it's making me wonder if it's not time to trade in the Miata for a surplus HumVee with armor plating.
Try to search for information on a specific product, esp. a piece of hardware. In a lot of cases you have to get tricky to see anything in the first page or two (I get 50 results per page) besides lots of sites claiming the lowest price on whatever you're looking for. I love it (NOT) when I see something like "Lowest prices... comparison of ..."; I go there, and there's not even a useful *link* to a comparison.
I'd be *much* happier with google if they gave me a box to click to "turn off shopping sites".
Microsoft pitching a hissy fit about someone possibly taking "food off their plate"?
Microsoft, the company who built its business on destroying the competition, upset that someone might touch a market they claim to own?
It's hysterical!
And for the record, Microsoft has not one iota of our enterprise search business. Not one.
Exactly! Before I even finished the summary, I realized they missed the obvious: Market saturation.
They've saturated the easy sell portion of the market. Now all they can do is go after upgrades (most people won't), or the harder markets (technophobes, poor people, etc).
Businesses will still need new systems, but not at the rate they have in the past. And they aren't being allowed to spend at the rate they were in the past. So even the business market slows down.
Dell and Apple picked a good time to diversify their consumer markets.
The top 13 systems in this year's Top 500 supercomputers might be ab;le to pull it off.
Then again, maybe not.
Kids can get socialized anywhere. We homeschooled, and our kids are plenty social. There are certainly people who lock their kids away, but that's just one end of what should be a bell curve. Unfortunately, the fat part of the bell curve is growing weirder and weirder WRT socialization. The public schools have less and less discipline, and more each day become problematic.
There *are* good public schools, both in terms of education per se, and socilaization, but not nearly enough.
Furthermore, school is not the best place to learn socialization. As others have noted, putting kids in with a group of other kids their age all day is not a good idea for broad socialization skills. Having a couple of adults in the mix doesn't change it that much.
Beyond that, school shouldn't *be* about socialization. It should be about teh more classical education aspects. Quit consuming all the kids' time with insane amounts of homework and extracurricular activities (sports here in my beloved Texas being a classic, over the top example) and let them *have* time to socialize. Quit making the planet off limits to kids, too. No skating, no bikes, no this, no that, no the other. Bleah.
That said, yeah, a lot of today's parents won't do any better at this than the public schools. Parents are at least as much to blame as the schools. Parents, teachers and administrators do all have the excuse that they are products of the predecessors to today's silly programs. But excuses don't matter.
This kind of thing is one of the main reasons the quality of life is going downhill in the US. Costs continue to go up with *no benefit* to anyone but the people who win stupid (nevermind frivolous) lawsuits. Oh, an dthe lawyers of course. When the money is going for thing sthat have no value, it screws the economy up for everyone.
Add in the paranoia that stifles innovation, the loss of productivity, the screwed up lives, and it's just pathetic. Another place we should bring back the stocks. A judge should be able to provide a summary judgement. This case is a menace to society's health". Into the public stocks you go.
Wow. A really informative response by *the expert* to a fairly typical knee-jerk post. Good job. I don't currently have any use for the OpenDNS service, but I'm a lot more interested after this response than I was from the article. I hope y'all do well.
Dual (and higher) Opteron boxes are coming down in price. You can get a rackmount dual Opteron with 16GB or 32GB, maybe more. Some systems with more processors allow more RAM. Nevermind clusters.
Is there any way to determine, or at least reasonably estimate, how many public DNS entries there are at a point in time? If so, one has an idea how much RAM is requiired.
PayPal was actually much better, IMO, until ebay bought it. Now it's almost as screwed up as ebay. ebay has made a *lot* of bad decisions. But, like certain other companies, they think that being the 900 pound gorilla in their space means they can do whatever they want.
Normally, they'd be right. But any student of high tech can tell you it doesn't always work that way just because it did for MS.Once upon a time, IBM *owned* the computing world. Who owns it now? Nobody, but MS is probably closer than most, and they're primarily a software company. Auspec once owned the filer market, but they did som stupid stuff, and NetApp kicked their butts. Now NetApp is following in their footsteps. Nobody has kicked their butts yet, but they're having to start looking at things a lot more seriously.
Once upon a time I liked ebay. Once upon a time I liked PayPal. I still use them both, but the day I see a better alternative for what I do, I quit using them. I already use them less than I used to, and a lot less than I thought I would by now.
A good flogging, followed by time in the public stocks-- say, a week or two.
Per incident.
Oddly enough, that's the same punsihment I'd recommend for the purely criminal activity of the same sort.
Everyone sweats out the file and FS size limits, but it's amazing to me that Linux's most popular filesystem still limits you to under 32K directories at one level in a directory. Does ext4 address this? Why not?
I realize this is irrelevant for most people, but for some of us it's crucial.
I agree the kid was stupid. Doing that sort of thing today is going to cause problems.
I agree the parents are stupid. They should have had a long talk with the kid, then a long talk with the school, and tried to come up with a reasonable punishment for the kid.
But the teacher was also stupid. This is gross over-reaction. Fear and trembling, terrified for his six month old? The guy shouldn't be given a drivers license, much less licensed to teach. The school needs to have a long talk with him, as well.
But he'd probably just sic a stupid lawyer on them.
Eminent death of usenet? Nah. But this country is screwed if it doesn't wake up and start thinking rationally.
If you have a few hundred grand to drop, try Vignette's software.
I've never understood why they refuse to do a lower end product...