I believe he said that the start of the civil war would be sometime in this current presidents term. He also said that this president (obama, though not by name) would be far worse than the preceding president (BUSH) and usher in the civil war. I think he put the date of the war at 2012 with things being resolved in the the late teens 2015-2020 so it could still happen. Personally I thought that it would be the second bush term which would usher in the civil war (titors wording was vague (obviously) and said something to the effect of the president elected after bush, which could have been bush AGAIN or obama now).
I had thought for sure that americans would have risen up during the bush term but i think i gave them too much credit.
"They then worked back to find out who provided the samples and found a mother and daughter who were naturally short sleepers. The women routinely function on about 6 hours of sleep a night; the average person needs 8 to 8.5 hours of sleep."
A great documentary about this subject was from the Horizon program, entitled The Secret Life of Your Bodyclock. One of the things that they stated was some peoples body clocks run on different cycles. I believe they had examples of a 32 hour "day" clock and a 22 hour one and the differences that this placed on the subjects.
The comment that i wanted to make was that there are probably lots of people who do not fit into the 24 hour lifestyle that we are forced into. The secret life of your bodyclock was very eye opening. They had all sorts of great stats on why you shouldn't exercise in the morning, that you should always consume alcohol between 6-8pm (local time) and a great section on why teenagers hate getting up. Its well worth the watch if you can find it somehow....
A fool is someone who blindly sticks to their brand preference. Yes, ten years ago when the athlon xp line of amd processors came out, they were owning up and down the crappy p4s. Intel has come a long way. They pioneered multiple cores, at which time they surpassed amd in terms of performance and heat. Anything before core2 was crap, but after that everyone who doesn't want to lie to themselves switched to intel.
I ran dual opterons for years, but it got replaced with a quad processor intel machine last year. I even had a cyrex back in the day, so I am no fanboi. The better decision is to use what benchmarks the best at the right price point.
As for video cards, ati has always had ass drivers, whereas nvidia drivers are constantly rock solid. For me that is no contest. Being brand loyal is at best a disservice to yourself, and at worst you will make bad purchasing decisions for others. Perhaps if you supplied reasons for your choices, a reasoned argument why ATI and AMD is better (and there are some, price for instance) then people will take you more seriously.
You obviously havent dealt enough with paypal. They will find a way to fuck you.
Personally, I am not sure which is the more evil, spamazon or ebay/paypal. Both companies will outright steal your money, and if you can magically get through to their customer service, they have a whole book of self justification scripts at their disposal.
For instance, I am sure they could argue that the item was defective/damaged/not the same as ordered/broken/etc and got their money back. They arent doing CSI on these transactions. You will be lucky to get some CSR who can even interpret the full transaction properly, let alone be receptive and careful enough to want to go through emails or letters.
There was a good article in the New Yorker which brings one up to date with the genesis and current state of the kindle, and e-books in general. The author orders one and then proceeds to write an article about his experience. He compares it to paper books, discusses amazons choice of a non free and closed format, and generally reviews it quite well. Having an ad blocker and hating all that is spamazon has kept me out of the loop with these new e-book readers so it was a nice intro to the current scene.
Another way to look at it as these organizations have all bought into the "cloud" idea. Anything that they themselves buy into, when it goes down, is a big deal. They are probably highlighting the vulnerability (with scare and hyperbole no doubt) of the information age. You see it all the time from technophobes, making things that are routene (ddos) into a big deal because they dont understand it. All they know is that they cant "twitter" whatever it is that cnn twitters, and for them that is a big deal.
After all, their POTS service probably never goes down.
"Flash is terrible; everyone I know is just too dumb to try living without it."
So whats the alternative to flash that you would recommend?
Flash is a hassle and a half, but for a quick web video I am not sure what would do the job better. Real player and WMV are even worse than flash, and similarly uncompatable.
What would you have youtube run on? Or maybe your post was just to say there was no value in sites like youtube? If so, you will simply be left behind. Video is the new mp3. It might as well be 1998 and have you pushing VQF instead of mp3s. Not gonna happen. This isnt like facebook which is completely useless. Pretty much everyone watches some online videos.
Surely i will be modded down for suggesting a microsoft solution, but your problem is pretty simple to solve with a sharepoint server. Its free (there is a pay version as well), and if you have office and don't mind using IE, it integrates nicely. Plays OK with firefox, just cant do some advanced editing (spreadsheet view, some imports). Sharepoint is a bitch sometimes as its a microsoft product and thus designed badly, but there is certainly alot of support out there in the form of plugins and templates. It has a wide install base.
With sharepoint, you are basically creating lists of things, and linking them together. I think it works pretty well for basic record keeping, athough it does involve alot of data entry. One bonus is if you have all your data in excel, the import process is very simple. I would imagine that is the case with all solutions you would be looking at though...
Another bonus is that if you are using active directory, it is very easy to roll a helpdesk system, intranet site, and wiki at the same time, all in the same framework. Users can submit tickets themselves with their active directoy logins, so no need to manage multiple credential stores.
It may not be the best, but if you need to do it cheap and want integration with windows domains, you cant really go wrong with sharepoint. (cue replies telling me how wrong their sharepoint install went:))
Well his first 100k miles is more spread out (you are measuring by lifetime, by definition an average). It could be argued that infrequent driving results in less familiarity and therefor makes the person more nervous behind the wheel and more prone to error.
I know for a fact this can happen as there was a period of my life where I did not have a car for 7 or 8 months and my driving skills definitely deteriorated in that time. It is like a bicycle, in that you never forget HOW to drive, but it still took some weeks for me to feel comfortable driving again.
That said, I believe insurance should be pretty much flat rate, scaled to the type of car you drive. Higher rates for people who have been convicted of driving while using a phone and children under 20 or so.
An audio splitter for, a mp3 player, or just a headphone jack split. Maybe you could put in some circutry to amplify? Or get some kind of custom ipod cable (ive heard that they are popular mp3 players). Maybe some buttons and stuff to switch tracks?
I am sure if someone made electronics relevant to me in that way when i was growing up, i would have busted out the soldering iron alot sooner than I did.
Not sure if you have drank a bunch of vendor coolaid or if you have real world experience, but in my real world experience, there is zero difference in "raid" and non raid drives. As you have said, mostly its just a different firmware. I have only ever experienced this firmware making drives "incompatible" unless they are installed in the NAS or SAN which they were purchased for. I always considered that a big ripoff.
I am however curious, i doubt seek times could possibly be affected by a new firmware (then why wouldn't they do it to all their drives?). Do you have any benchmarks or print/web evidence that "raid" rated drives actually perform better? Like I said, I dont want to doubt you but I have never personally noticed a difference except in price.
Theoretical "Free trade" does not exist. I think alot of people here are not getting that.
A perfect example is the "buy american" laws that are being passed in the USA which are directly antagonistic to NAFTA. Don't see many people in america complaining about those rules, but you can simply look to canada to see the outrage at the blatant disregard for free trade that america shows time and time again.
That you have to pay more for drugs is only fair, after having to listen to the "america first! 'free trade' " pushed by your government and industry for almost 20 years.
"given the average age of the participants here - I'm not sure most folks here actually understand what it takes to pay the bills/rent/mortgage."... "Frankly, if you're used to being subsidized you're not going to really understand how the real world works."
I think i get the gist of what you are saying, and I do agree with you, college students do not know what things cost. However, most people do not know what things cost either. Plenty of people buy brand new cars, over inflated houses, ring tones, jewelry and watches. Even something as simple as eye glasses are marked up hundreds if not thousands of percent.
I think what your main point is though, is that people should pay companies to subsidize and promote culture. I think this idea is false. Even something like the news, (to stay on topic), ought to be free to everyone. Why should only the rich be able to afford information? I pay alot of bills, yes sir. So many that i barely have enough at the end of the month to put away and save. What I am sick and tired of, is this attitude that people such as yourself put forth, that everything worth while must have a cost, and someone must be, not just surviving by that cost, but making a PROFIT. To me, profit means that someone is making money at my expense and exploit. Newspapers, tv, movies and the radio do this by polluting the world with advertising. They take so much more than they give. Luckily, with the internet, content creators, who are also exploited by these profiteering middlemen, are able to engage the masses directly. This is the reason that big companies are so afraid of the internet. Its not about "paying the bills", its about control.
If you care about your freedom, you should support openness and cultural freedom in whatever form it comes. I could care less if this inconveniences people who have been profiting selling something that should, in all rights be free in the first place.
Thats the exact same shit people said about XP. Its unbelievable how much people forget. Win2k was the best OS ever when XP dropped. Everyone _EVERYONE_ swore up and down that they would never install XP and its "cartoon" interface. 7 years later and I'm the only one still running win2k. I just upgraded my home PC to XP last year.
My point is that its always the same. People will eventually have to upgrade to vista for one reason or another. This does not mean that the initial problems are solved necessarily, or that the old version of windows is inferior. Your comment of "what was the problem with it again?" illustrates this perfectly.
"Why can't the point of closed-source be to put food on the table? If all software is free, what are software developers going to do for a living? Buy an air nailer and become a roofer?"
You do realize that most software developers work for companies designing custom solutions right? Most software developers do not work on for profit apps, but rather build apps, or tools, to enhance a companies business processes and generate money or sales. The point here is that the software is not, by itself, earning most companies revenue. Even if you are buying commercial software, more often than not you are paying for updates and support. If all software was open source, then everyone could use the tools however they see fit. Some would require support, and some would not. The major positive side effect though is that some, a very small percentage to be sure, but some users would themselves be developers and be able to contribute code as well. Then everyone has a better tool in the end.
Secondly, I have given 20-40 dollars to some open source projects that have saved me hundreds of hours of time (filezilla and vnc come to mind). Sure that may not put food on the table for more than a few days, but i would submit that you are missing the point of open source software if you are focusing on "but how do i get mine!" instead of "how do i build better tools". Thats what software development, imho as an end user (arent we all?), should be about.
Maybe running as a normal user is the "correct" way of doing it (gotta love the arrogance there...) but I personally will never run that way.
I have heard all the arguments, from the fact that its easy to type rm -rf/, to the fact that viruses auto install with an IE misclick. The problem with the "correct" way of doing things is that it is very annoying to be typing in passwords all the time! Just try and use a apple mac computer. It asks you to authenticate the keychain consistently. Especially, when as a technician, you are making lots of changes to the OS. I would hate for windows to go this direction. Personally, I believe that it desensitizes people into typing their password into any box that asks.
I will submit that in all the years I have been logging in as root on linux, and administrator on windows, I have NEVER mis typed a file system altering command, deleted my hard drive, or had any other negative experiences running as super users. I also turn off the delete confirmation on my recycle bin. Does this make me a dangerous user? I doubt it.
I just really resent the arrogance of the summary basically stating that super user logins are a design faux pas and should be eliminated anywhere and everywhere. Does my argument have merit? does no one else constantly run as root/admin?
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I believe he said that the start of the civil war would be sometime in this current presidents term. He also said that this president (obama, though not by name) would be far worse than the preceding president (BUSH) and usher in the civil war. I think he put the date of the war at 2012 with things being resolved in the the late teens 2015-2020 so it could still happen. Personally I thought that it would be the second bush term which would usher in the civil war (titors wording was vague (obviously) and said something to the effect of the president elected after bush, which could have been bush AGAIN or obama now).
I had thought for sure that americans would have risen up during the bush term but i think i gave them too much credit.
For the sake of argument:
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One persons fuckwad is another persons herowad.. or something
A great documentary about this subject was from the Horizon program, entitled The Secret Life of Your Bodyclock. One of the things that they stated was some peoples body clocks run on different cycles. I believe they had examples of a 32 hour "day" clock and a 22 hour one and the differences that this placed on the subjects.
The comment that i wanted to make was that there are probably lots of people who do not fit into the 24 hour lifestyle that we are forced into. The secret life of your bodyclock was very eye opening. They had all sorts of great stats on why you shouldn't exercise in the morning, that you should always consume alcohol between 6-8pm (local time) and a great section on why teenagers hate getting up. Its well worth the watch if you can find it somehow....
A fool is someone who blindly sticks to their brand preference. Yes, ten years ago when the athlon xp line of amd processors came out, they were owning up and down the crappy p4s. Intel has come a long way. They pioneered multiple cores, at which time they surpassed amd in terms of performance and heat. Anything before core2 was crap, but after that everyone who doesn't want to lie to themselves switched to intel.
I ran dual opterons for years, but it got replaced with a quad processor intel machine last year. I even had a cyrex back in the day, so I am no fanboi. The better decision is to use what benchmarks the best at the right price point.
As for video cards, ati has always had ass drivers, whereas nvidia drivers are constantly rock solid. For me that is no contest. Being brand loyal is at best a disservice to yourself, and at worst you will make bad purchasing decisions for others. Perhaps if you supplied reasons for your choices, a reasoned argument why ATI and AMD is better (and there are some, price for instance) then people will take you more seriously.
You obviously havent dealt enough with paypal. They will find a way to fuck you.
Personally, I am not sure which is the more evil, spamazon or ebay/paypal. Both companies will outright steal your money, and if you can magically get through to their customer service, they have a whole book of self justification scripts at their disposal.
For instance, I am sure they could argue that the item was defective/damaged/not the same as ordered/broken/etc and got their money back. They arent doing CSI on these transactions. You will be lucky to get some CSR who can even interpret the full transaction properly, let alone be receptive and careful enough to want to go through emails or letters.
There was a good article in the New Yorker which brings one up to date with the genesis and current state of the kindle, and e-books in general. The author orders one and then proceeds to write an article about his experience. He compares it to paper books, discusses amazons choice of a non free and closed format, and generally reviews it quite well. Having an ad blocker and hating all that is spamazon has kept me out of the loop with these new e-book readers so it was a nice intro to the current scene.
The article is available online at the following link: Kindle and the Future of Reading
Another way to look at it as these organizations have all bought into the "cloud" idea. Anything that they themselves buy into, when it goes down, is a big deal. They are probably highlighting the vulnerability (with scare and hyperbole no doubt) of the information age. You see it all the time from technophobes, making things that are routene (ddos) into a big deal because they dont understand it. All they know is that they cant "twitter" whatever it is that cnn twitters, and for them that is a big deal.
After all, their POTS service probably never goes down.
So whats the alternative to flash that you would recommend?
Flash is a hassle and a half, but for a quick web video I am not sure what would do the job better. Real player and WMV are even worse than flash, and similarly uncompatable.
What would you have youtube run on? Or maybe your post was just to say there was no value in sites like youtube? If so, you will simply be left behind. Video is the new mp3. It might as well be 1998 and have you pushing VQF instead of mp3s. Not gonna happen. This isnt like facebook which is completely useless. Pretty much everyone watches some online videos.
Surely i will be modded down for suggesting a microsoft solution, but your problem is pretty simple to solve with a sharepoint server. Its free (there is a pay version as well), and if you have office and don't mind using IE, it integrates nicely. Plays OK with firefox, just cant do some advanced editing (spreadsheet view, some imports). Sharepoint is a bitch sometimes as its a microsoft product and thus designed badly, but there is certainly alot of support out there in the form of plugins and templates. It has a wide install base.
With sharepoint, you are basically creating lists of things, and linking them together. I think it works pretty well for basic record keeping, athough it does involve alot of data entry. One bonus is if you have all your data in excel, the import process is very simple. I would imagine that is the case with all solutions you would be looking at though...
Another bonus is that if you are using active directory, it is very easy to roll a helpdesk system, intranet site, and wiki at the same time, all in the same framework. Users can submit tickets themselves with their active directoy logins, so no need to manage multiple credential stores.
It may not be the best, but if you need to do it cheap and want integration with windows domains, you cant really go wrong with sharepoint. (cue replies telling me how wrong their sharepoint install went :))
Well his first 100k miles is more spread out (you are measuring by lifetime, by definition an average). It could be argued that infrequent driving results in less familiarity and therefor makes the person more nervous behind the wheel and more prone to error.
I know for a fact this can happen as there was a period of my life where I did not have a car for 7 or 8 months and my driving skills definitely deteriorated in that time. It is like a bicycle, in that you never forget HOW to drive, but it still took some weeks for me to feel comfortable driving again.
That said, I believe insurance should be pretty much flat rate, scaled to the type of car you drive. Higher rates for people who have been convicted of driving while using a phone and children under 20 or so.
Unbelievable! after EA ruined bf2, they have the audacity to re-release bf1942, the better version, and try and sell it again?
An audio splitter for, a mp3 player, or just a headphone jack split. Maybe you could put in some circutry to amplify? Or get some kind of custom ipod cable (ive heard that they are popular mp3 players). Maybe some buttons and stuff to switch tracks?
I am sure if someone made electronics relevant to me in that way when i was growing up, i would have busted out the soldering iron alot sooner than I did.
Not sure if you have drank a bunch of vendor coolaid or if you have real world experience, but in my real world experience, there is zero difference in "raid" and non raid drives. As you have said, mostly its just a different firmware. I have only ever experienced this firmware making drives "incompatible" unless they are installed in the NAS or SAN which they were purchased for. I always considered that a big ripoff.
I am however curious, i doubt seek times could possibly be affected by a new firmware (then why wouldn't they do it to all their drives?). Do you have any benchmarks or print/web evidence that "raid" rated drives actually perform better? Like I said, I dont want to doubt you but I have never personally noticed a difference except in price.
Never fear! we have almost come to a point in the timeline where you can just say Auto-inflate!
only 21 years to go!
Pacific Standard Time.
Seattle is on the west coast.
Not everyone lives in new york you know...
No headset at desk.
Needs to be on call and on the move over a large building.
Call forwarding the desk phone is not easy or convenient
Budgets cuts.
Mobile workstation / desk.
shared phone (ive seen it!)
Lower radiation requirement than company provided phone.
Doesnt want to dial 9
DTMF bug in cisco switches unable or unwilling to be patched by IT.
the list is endless. Why nitpick the guy?
When you go to change your password in limesurvey, as expected the characters are bulleted out.
The funny part comes when you click 'change password' and immediately you are presented with a page stating your username and plain text password.
Genius.
Hitler lost the war because his crazy doctor kept giving him more and more methamphetamine.
Theoretical "Free trade" does not exist. I think alot of people here are not getting that.
A perfect example is the "buy american" laws that are being passed in the USA which are directly antagonistic to NAFTA. Don't see many people in america complaining about those rules, but you can simply look to canada to see the outrage at the blatant disregard for free trade that america shows time and time again.
That you have to pay more for drugs is only fair, after having to listen to the "america first! 'free trade' " pushed by your government and industry for almost 20 years.
So true. Why do indians (hindus not natives) so love dot net?
I think i get the gist of what you are saying, and I do agree with you, college students do not know what things cost. However, most people do not know what things cost either. Plenty of people buy brand new cars, over inflated houses, ring tones, jewelry and watches. Even something as simple as eye glasses are marked up hundreds if not thousands of percent.
I think what your main point is though, is that people should pay companies to subsidize and promote culture. I think this idea is false. Even something like the news, (to stay on topic), ought to be free to everyone. Why should only the rich be able to afford information? I pay alot of bills, yes sir. So many that i barely have enough at the end of the month to put away and save. What I am sick and tired of, is this attitude that people such as yourself put forth, that everything worth while must have a cost, and someone must be, not just surviving by that cost, but making a PROFIT. To me, profit means that someone is making money at my expense and exploit. Newspapers, tv, movies and the radio do this by polluting the world with advertising. They take so much more than they give. Luckily, with the internet, content creators, who are also exploited by these profiteering middlemen, are able to engage the masses directly. This is the reason that big companies are so afraid of the internet. Its not about "paying the bills", its about control.
If you care about your freedom, you should support openness and cultural freedom in whatever form it comes. I could care less if this inconveniences people who have been profiting selling something that should, in all rights be free in the first place.
Thats the exact same shit people said about XP. Its unbelievable how much people forget. Win2k was the best OS ever when XP dropped. Everyone _EVERYONE_ swore up and down that they would never install XP and its "cartoon" interface. 7 years later and I'm the only one still running win2k. I just upgraded my home PC to XP last year.
My point is that its always the same. People will eventually have to upgrade to vista for one reason or another. This does not mean that the initial problems are solved necessarily, or that the old version of windows is inferior. Your comment of "what was the problem with it again?" illustrates this perfectly.
You do realize that most software developers work for companies designing custom solutions right? Most software developers do not work on for profit apps, but rather build apps, or tools, to enhance a companies business processes and generate money or sales. The point here is that the software is not, by itself, earning most companies revenue. Even if you are buying commercial software, more often than not you are paying for updates and support. If all software was open source, then everyone could use the tools however they see fit. Some would require support, and some would not. The major positive side effect though is that some, a very small percentage to be sure, but some users would themselves be developers and be able to contribute code as well. Then everyone has a better tool in the end.
Secondly, I have given 20-40 dollars to some open source projects that have saved me hundreds of hours of time (filezilla and vnc come to mind). Sure that may not put food on the table for more than a few days, but i would submit that you are missing the point of open source software if you are focusing on "but how do i get mine!" instead of "how do i build better tools". Thats what software development, imho as an end user (arent we all?), should be about.
Scheduled maintenance windows.
Maybe running as a normal user is the "correct" way of doing it (gotta love the arrogance there...) but I personally will never run that way.
I have heard all the arguments, from the fact that its easy to type rm -rf /, to the fact that viruses auto install with an IE misclick. The problem with the "correct" way of doing things is that it is very annoying to be typing in passwords all the time! Just try and use a apple mac computer. It asks you to authenticate the keychain consistently. Especially, when as a technician, you are making lots of changes to the OS. I would hate for windows to go this direction. Personally, I believe that it desensitizes people into typing their password into any box that asks.
I will submit that in all the years I have been logging in as root on linux, and administrator on windows, I have NEVER mis typed a file system altering command, deleted my hard drive, or had any other negative experiences running as super users. I also turn off the delete confirmation on my recycle bin. Does this make me a dangerous user? I doubt it.
I just really resent the arrogance of the summary basically stating that super user logins are a design faux pas and should be eliminated anywhere and everywhere. Does my argument have merit? does no one else constantly run as root/admin?