There's a whole lot in that McD case that the press didn't point out. Like that McD's had a TON of written complaints about their coffee being too hot, about how the coffee gave her THIRD degree burns - leaving her hospitalized/bed ridden for quite some time (skin grafts even, iirc), about how at first she simply asked them to pay her medical expenses, about how they refused. The US legal system has major problems, but the McD case wasn't one of them.
Would someone tell me why we assume the following?
If there's ET life out there, it's carbon based
If there ET life out there they will talk using radio waves
If there's ET life out ehey will talk at all
My thinking is, as diverse as the universe is, if there's life out there, we may not even recognise it! They may have figured out a way to communicate instantly using what we have labeled "spooky interaction at a distance" (I may have gotten that title wrong, but the more-clued will know what I am referencing)
So, there's my problem with this whole concept - we go forth looking for ET assuming they will have something in common with us (I mean that abstractly: i.e. they will "talk" or "see using light waves" etc), and I think that's short-sighted...
Is the relatively limited amount of current address space the reason for this? And if so, won't the move to IPv6 eliminate this little choke point, thus removing the need for this "fix"?
Option 2 is actually a bit more difficult. I'm just gonna leave it at that for, um, various reasons.;-) I still say it's either A) Real Bad, or B)A Joke
1) This has GOT to be a joke. Ain't NO WAY this is gonna fly in the US, or anywhere else in the west.
2) To folks saying "it's very difficult to make weapons grade uranium out of power plant grade usranium" - BS, if it's going into a WESTERN designed power plant. If it's going into a Chernobyl-esque plant, yup, they use very low enrichments, thus they blow up when they get too hot. But not most western designs, thus they self regulate when they get too hot.
Now, I've oversimplified my #2 option above, but you get the picture. If this is real, it is Real Bad (tm) - me, I'm betting it's a joke
I was a manager type at a financial services firm in the IT department. I had one group of support folks with half height cubes, so they basically had one big open area - and they loved it. It was the ONLY IT dept. where the desktop support guys literally got hugs as they walked through the building. This was at one of our remote sites, and worked so well, that when I got back home I immediatly implemented it there. BLAMMO - it completely SUCKED at our home site. Constant bickering, yada yada yada - it turned a borderline-typical IT department (user base didn't especially care for us, but they weren't openly hostile either) into a pathetic IT department. Not only were the users openly hostile towards us, WE were openly hostile towards us. So, I have learned that it depends - offices, full height cubes, half height cubes - you better take your people into consideration.
I don't about ya'll, but this is what it took for me to actually go order one of them-thar t-shirts. What a bunch of nipple-heads (the lawyers, not copyleft)
I've sort of felt this way for a loong time
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I was in the Navy's Nuclear Power program. The Navy has lost 2 nuke subs (This is a Very Big Deal to us Submariner-types) and I've been in more than one discussion with non-Navy folk who have said "Yea, but how do we KNOW they've only lost 2???". Well, because you'd have a hard time getting hundreds (thousands?) of bright but regular folks like myself to keep something like that a secret. The difficulty of keeping something secret is EXPONENTIALLY proportional to the number of folks who know about it.
i'm betting that after the os2/nt debacle, ibm is just rubbing their hands together in gleeful anticipation of what linux can do in general and specifically to microsoft (how'd they get that name btw? should be unstablemacrosoft)
"Not all versions of Windows are unstable. Ever used Win NT or Win 2K as a desktop machine" whoa, man. Yup. Everyday. I have Win2K on my laptop, and not 2 hours ago it locked up so bad, I had to pull the friggin battery to get it to power cycle and reboot. This happens about every other week, but regular lock-ups are at least weekly. (and no, it's neither a bleeding edge, unsupported new model nor a clunky old model)"I go weeks without rebooting" Install Office on the thing. Then you'll have to reboot. I find having to reboot after an application install inexcusable, but alas, I've had to reboot Win2K after EVERY app install. Anyways, not a flame, but NT and Win2K are jokes, I have a TON of real world, big-company evidence to support this.
Wow - you know what? You make a very good point. I let my seething anti-M$ feelings take over. Lemme re-state: Oh great - now M$ will have some hard data to back up their FUD.... (sorry, I just force myself to go any further than that...)
I remember in the not too distant past when Intel pretty much kept AMD flapping in the wind, snarfing up market crumbs wherever they could eek out a niche that Intel didn't find desireable enough to pursue. Well now - hasn't the little step-son grown up to pop the step-dad squarely on the nose. AMD is now toe to toe on the high end and the low end. And I for one love it!! Could it actually be possible!?!?!? DOJ and Linux (OK, so they're not technically allies) throwing egg on M$'s face and AMD whupping up Intel!?!? I must admit a bit of glee as I sit back and observe...
"got into the habit of having rockets regularly going up and down with a plutonium payload? " sorry, they have been for years. And these things are all but bullet-proof. I read about one satelite that cam crashing back to the ground that had one of these - they picked up the plutonium thingamajig, dusted it off, and plan on using it again. I admittedly have little first hand knowledge of these in particular, but being an ex-nuke industry type I can tell ya that a VAST majority of nuke-paranoia is total BS. It's a shame that an entire US industry is doomed to fail because of some misinformed zealots...
"who are leaving in droves right now" oh please please please tell me this is true and that you are "in the know" (care telling me how?) I cannot tell you at what level I truly despise this company. I work for a hardware maker and we are in that dreaded catch 22 with these folks - if what you say is true the IT world may actually be staring to take a turn for the better...
Quoting "The Microsoft people didn't bother (I'm not sure if they even knew it was there, to be honest), they just rebooted the device every few minutes. " HELLO!?!?!? In the "old" days they either seemed to cover up reboots, or blame them on other things out of their control. Now M$ seems to think everybody will just accept this, and right there, in plain sight, at a product launch no less, says "ah, hold on just a sec and we'll reboot it again" WTF!?!?!? Is the public this accepting of crappy stability that you can be REQUIRED to reboot something at it's launch (when I would think it should be on it's best behaviour) "every few minutes"!?!? Oh jeesh do I truly despise this company....
and I quote thusly "Prone to crashes" - 'nuff said
So it's still vapor-hardware
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I saw this in PM last year. Possibilities??? e-ink
Well, and then there's the snowball effect
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I've seen folks mention/gripe about good companies that are generating better than expected profits STILL having their stock price plummet. One reason why is margin calls. Person A has crappy stock X and awesome stock Y, on margin (he borrowed the money). Crappy stock X starts to tank for good reason, he has to get out, but at below what he borrowed, so he HAS to sell awesome stock Y to cover the loss on crappy stock X. This is just one way that the bad investments can bring down the good ones. Again, I may have some specifics wrong, but I only buy stock through my 401(k) plan and therefore I'm not interested enough to delve any deeper....
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There's a whole lot in that McD case that the press didn't point out. Like that McD's had a TON of written complaints about their coffee being too hot, about how the coffee gave her THIRD degree burns - leaving her hospitalized/bed ridden for quite some time (skin grafts even, iirc), about how at first she simply asked them to pay her medical expenses, about how they refused. The US legal system has major problems, but the McD case wasn't one of them.
(sorry for the bad grammar) BUT: Supported Printers: Any LPD-enabled network printer
I guess that means "yes". I *knew* it'd take a while (years?), I was just wondering if we are seeing a symptom of running out of address space...
Would someone tell me why we assume the following? If there's ET life out there, it's carbon based If there ET life out there they will talk using radio waves If there's ET life out ehey will talk at all My thinking is, as diverse as the universe is, if there's life out there, we may not even recognise it! They may have figured out a way to communicate instantly using what we have labeled "spooky interaction at a distance" (I may have gotten that title wrong, but the more-clued will know what I am referencing) So, there's my problem with this whole concept - we go forth looking for ET assuming they will have something in common with us (I mean that abstractly: i.e. they will "talk" or "see using light waves" etc), and I think that's short-sighted...
Is the relatively limited amount of current address space the reason for this? And if so, won't the move to IPv6 eliminate this little choke point, thus removing the need for this "fix"?
As I sit here on my P3/550 with 512MB RAM running Win2K and Office2K - it's a PIG
heheh - unless those docs come from the military, you're not gonna find the incomplete part I was referencing....
I'm just curious where you learned those numbers from (I'm NOT disputing them). They're right, but, um, incomplete
Option 2 is actually a bit more difficult. I'm just gonna leave it at that for, um, various reasons. ;-) I still say it's either A) Real Bad, or B)A Joke
1) This has GOT to be a joke. Ain't NO WAY this is gonna fly in the US, or anywhere else in the west. 2) To folks saying "it's very difficult to make weapons grade uranium out of power plant grade usranium" - BS, if it's going into a WESTERN designed power plant. If it's going into a Chernobyl-esque plant, yup, they use very low enrichments, thus they blow up when they get too hot. But not most western designs, thus they self regulate when they get too hot. Now, I've oversimplified my #2 option above, but you get the picture. If this is real, it is Real Bad (tm) - me, I'm betting it's a joke
I was a manager type at a financial services firm in the IT department. I had one group of support folks with half height cubes, so they basically had one big open area - and they loved it. It was the ONLY IT dept. where the desktop support guys literally got hugs as they walked through the building. This was at one of our remote sites, and worked so well, that when I got back home I immediatly implemented it there. BLAMMO - it completely SUCKED at our home site. Constant bickering, yada yada yada - it turned a borderline-typical IT department (user base didn't especially care for us, but they weren't openly hostile either) into a pathetic IT department. Not only were the users openly hostile towards us, WE were openly hostile towards us. So, I have learned that it depends - offices, full height cubes, half height cubes - you better take your people into consideration.
I don't about ya'll, but this is what it took for me to actually go order one of them-thar t-shirts. What a bunch of nipple-heads (the lawyers, not copyleft)
I was in the Navy's Nuclear Power program. The Navy has lost 2 nuke subs (This is a Very Big Deal to us Submariner-types) and I've been in more than one discussion with non-Navy folk who have said "Yea, but how do we KNOW they've only lost 2???". Well, because you'd have a hard time getting hundreds (thousands?) of bright but regular folks like myself to keep something like that a secret. The difficulty of keeping something secret is EXPONENTIALLY proportional to the number of folks who know about it.
I know most of my peers call US West US WORST, what's Qwest's rep?
i'm betting that after the os2/nt debacle, ibm is just rubbing their hands together in gleeful anticipation of what linux can do in general and specifically to microsoft (how'd they get that name btw? should be unstablemacrosoft)
"Not all versions of Windows are unstable. Ever used Win NT or Win 2K as a desktop machine" whoa, man. Yup. Everyday. I have Win2K on my laptop, and not 2 hours ago it locked up so bad, I had to pull the friggin battery to get it to power cycle and reboot. This happens about every other week, but regular lock-ups are at least weekly. (and no, it's neither a bleeding edge, unsupported new model nor a clunky old model)"I go weeks without rebooting" Install Office on the thing. Then you'll have to reboot. I find having to reboot after an application install inexcusable, but alas, I've had to reboot Win2K after EVERY app install. Anyways, not a flame, but NT and Win2K are jokes, I have a TON of real world, big-company evidence to support this.
Wow - you know what? You make a very good point. I let my seething anti-M$ feelings take over. Lemme re-state: Oh great - now M$ will have some hard data to back up their FUD.... (sorry, I just force myself to go any further than that...)
yet another source of FUD for M$. I can already see the web page they're gonna put up next to their BS "Linux Myths" page.....
I remember in the not too distant past when Intel pretty much kept AMD flapping in the wind, snarfing up market crumbs wherever they could eek out a niche that Intel didn't find desireable enough to pursue. Well now - hasn't the little step-son grown up to pop the step-dad squarely on the nose. AMD is now toe to toe on the high end and the low end. And I for one love it!! Could it actually be possible!?!?!? DOJ and Linux (OK, so they're not technically allies) throwing egg on M$'s face and AMD whupping up Intel!?!? I must admit a bit of glee as I sit back and observe...
"got into the habit of having rockets regularly going up and down with a plutonium payload? " sorry, they have been for years. And these things are all but bullet-proof. I read about one satelite that cam crashing back to the ground that had one of these - they picked up the plutonium thingamajig, dusted it off, and plan on using it again. I admittedly have little first hand knowledge of these in particular, but being an ex-nuke industry type I can tell ya that a VAST majority of nuke-paranoia is total BS. It's a shame that an entire US industry is doomed to fail because of some misinformed zealots...
"who are leaving in droves right now" oh please please please tell me this is true and that you are "in the know" (care telling me how?) I cannot tell you at what level I truly despise this company. I work for a hardware maker and we are in that dreaded catch 22 with these folks - if what you say is true the IT world may actually be staring to take a turn for the better...
Quoting "The Microsoft people didn't bother (I'm not sure if they even knew it was there, to be honest), they just rebooted the device every few minutes. " HELLO!?!?!? In the "old" days they either seemed to cover up reboots, or blame them on other things out of their control. Now M$ seems to think everybody will just accept this, and right there, in plain sight, at a product launch no less, says "ah, hold on just a sec and we'll reboot it again" WTF!?!?!? Is the public this accepting of crappy stability that you can be REQUIRED to reboot something at it's launch (when I would think it should be on it's best behaviour) "every few minutes"!?!? Oh jeesh do I truly despise this company....
and I quote thusly "Prone to crashes" - 'nuff said
I saw this in PM last year. Possibilities??? e-ink
I've seen folks mention/gripe about good companies that are generating better than expected profits STILL having their stock price plummet. One reason why is margin calls. Person A has crappy stock X and awesome stock Y, on margin (he borrowed the money). Crappy stock X starts to tank for good reason, he has to get out, but at below what he borrowed, so he HAS to sell awesome stock Y to cover the loss on crappy stock X. This is just one way that the bad investments can bring down the good ones. Again, I may have some specifics wrong, but I only buy stock through my 401(k) plan and therefore I'm not interested enough to delve any deeper....