I would like to retract this last sarcastic comment from my part...
Yes, it is pointless argueing that the 1984 LA games belt buckle I also have is a pile of worthless junk. But hold on, have we got this story wrong???
It is not the "holly" object of kitsch that will attract laughter in the future that may or may not have a value, but the DNA enclosed!
The church has been doing this admirably for years with the holly remains of St Thingy or Santa Whatever (check out any small village's church in Europe) and so might do our future generation. "Wow, it has the spunk of Elvis, let's clone him".
See what I mean? (sudden flashbacks of Jurassic Park are now engulfing my damaged brain). This will be a quite unique good to possess in the future, a curiosity that equals the life like remains found in Pompey, something of "importance".
I see a lot of money to be made here! Well in 2000 years maybe... Time to try this cryogenic pod.
What is the point of authenticity in Olympic games goods? Unless you actually win a medal, the rest is just junk that will not survive the decade.
Demonstration: I still have a MOCKBA Olympic bag with Michka the cute little bear of the 80's Olympics on it. It must be in a cellar someplace. Bought it when supermarkets where overpacked of Olympic Addidas junk and every kid at school had one.
Who the *%$£ will want that??? Lot of people cause it has value, you say?
Well about that then:
Will trade for REAL Modigliani or J. Bosch painting.
I went back in Europe after I started a very ealry unix Internet (and uucp) server... Basically I flunked CS to just play with my Linux box Heck, I started it even before SLS/Slackware distros. IT was fun to compile. The rest of the tuition money, I blew it on a Sparc IPX. Back in Europe, I went to Unix Admins interviews and got my first job. After that I went to contracting and ever since System V (hp/ux, Solaris) brought me all the money I could wish for, so I can spend it on Linux boxes. Compared to this, guys who graduated still had no clue how to do things. There is a catch though, back then there was ONE admin in the university and there was NO WAY he was going show you the ropes. For fear you might abuse the system. Now, I understand there are SA classes. This scheme would have not worked at all to become a AI expert, electronic engineer, lawyer... But there have always been docs on the Net, most of us here on Slashdot grew up on them.
I never had anyone asking me about education, nor did any of the NT or VMS guys around. You understand Logical Volume Manager? You pass those practical networking questions they asked you? And you are the person they trully are looking for. Even easier if you contract, in wich case your resume/CV should be 4 pages of past experience. No one will read the last section.
There is only one case where, yes they do make things difficult for you in the HR departement because you don't have a PHD in Medieval Chinese Stenography like Ms Brown in Fixed Income has...
It is in big american corporation, especially banking institutions. But then again you IT manager might just say "we need that guy" or "he has the skills we want".
Fashion in selection and recrutment might change, but in IT/IS it's mostly experience and sometimes certifications (if you can affort the 5,000 bribe to officialize that you can tell "vi" from "ls -l")
So yup, if it's Network Management, PERL coding and UNIX/NT job you want, screw the 6 mounths courses on bubble-sort or PASCAL (aaargh!)
An other morale to the story is: SYS-V brings the money, not BSD. And this I have a grudge against Maddog, whom I saw in person, for sending young folks just armed with Linux and telling them "you will make it tomorrow with your newly aquired UNIX skills". Maddog, you murderer, the industry pays HP/Solaris guys, look at the job offers!
This morning I was looking at my bookshelf full of old PERL v4 O'Reilly books, thinking "Gee what am I going to do with that now?" since I bought twice as much perl v5.00 books over time. Now Slashdot announced last week that a new set of books are out, re-edited for version 5.6 and PERL 6.0 has just been announced.
The morale of the story: Don't buy the new books, boycott PERL 5.6!! (he he he... sounds nuts, but it makes perfect market sense)
Try the OpenGL demos you will somethimes see posted on www.opengl.org. Since NVidia jumped into the GL scene there are plenty of demos that came out and that enticed a lot of people to create more. Also you will have some old demos given with the MESA distribution (I am talking.tar.gz files, not badly precompiled rpms most distributions give nowadays), some of these are still quite ok...
Geeez, if only Future Crew was still around today! Is there an Assembly 2000 ?:>
Above all, stay away from VGAlib demos, you don't want to scare people away, do you?!
This localized notation made sense back then, when UUCP was the most common mean of delivery. TCP/IP was a luxury only available at Universities and some of you BBSers remember that the only online community where you could take part privately was thru your local BBSes who in turn used a city based server that was connect to a network (ahem..) like Fidonet, WWIV-Net and the like.
The first and biggest carriers of USENET News and Email outside of University where little UUCP leaf nodes that connect to other local nodes, and if you where lucky, to a connected provider (UUNET, state University...) Back then it did make a lot of sense, since you also used UUCP maps to calculate the best route (huge monsters) and the best times of call.
It just that the use is now obsolete. But I am a bit surprised, are you guys in UNIX for real or just wearing penguins to look cool?
A much better solution would be to see what getting connected to the Net really means. Any of these sites could have been victim of failing or misconfigured router, victim of legitimate over-use (hey ask any site that suffers from the Slashdot Effect... heheh), a failure of the line provider (MCI, AT&T), a failure of the server hardware. It would have been the same: downtime one way or the other. So, why chase around for eventual culprits? (probably teens anyway)
They are buisnesses, THEY SHOULD GET INSURED for this and stop complaining about individual's actions on the Net. For god sake, these are predictable risks. does Greyhound calls in the FBI cause one of its bus was stopped as a tire got puctured by a broken coke bottle? Do we chase all soda drinkers for it and organise a manhunt? No, it's just part of the risks, so you get insured and that's it. Is that too pro-active for them to handle? Gee, any old fart from before the "MBA generation" would have seen that one comming.
I suppose those new companies need more mature managers.
"For a thousand of years..." Young man, I used to get instant bad marks for starting a homework with such a common place statement....
Ok so the answer to that was given by Sinistrus Domini Glaius of 15 via Aprilia, Herculanum MMCXVII, Roman Empire who unfortunately died some while ago and did not have time to get his work published. So I guess we will never now.
Airbus doesn't just means French, it also means work for all the parties involved in it, (subcontractors, suppliers) mostly other european countries. We live in the European Union and projects of that size are distributed amongst partners. So you should maybe re-read the fact as: "Trade War: US abuses its military powers to deliver major blow to the European industry" But wait, there is much better... Since Boeing, very close to be a monopoly, has been the sole beneficiary of this information they have thus been given an unfair advantage over other american companies in that deal. The US goverment has taken side in its choice and violated the basic rules of free market. This thing is way more serious than a little cultural feud. France took a stand, but there are 11 other countries in Europe that actually have the same thing to say or who will have their own gripes about it. Who is next to follow suit? The only sour thing is maybe the position the UK is in. They took a major part with France in building The Concorde, they suffered the same resistance by the US when the project went on (bickering about the plane specs and tons of propaganda to ban the plane from US airports) and they took side by going on with it. Still if there is a litigation between UK's pretty dynamic free industry and the US, their own Ministry Of Defence will sell them out and turn their back on them. How many inventions and intellectual properties have been stolen like that from the UK my british fellows? What does their government do about it... Well what can it do?:>:> But I disgress here. This post and other threads in this topic are also available from the Echelon Project Press in both hardback and soft cover format, Fort Meade, Virginia, USA or from it's subsiduary branch the MOD, London, UK for those of us oversea. BTW... Will they make those files public in 20/40 years like the FBI has to or do we have to storm the place like East Germans did with the STASI?
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I would like to retract this last sarcastic comment from my part...
Yes, it is pointless argueing that the 1984 LA games belt buckle I also have is a pile of worthless junk. But hold on, have we got this story wrong???
It is not the "holly" object of kitsch that will attract laughter in the future that may or may not have a value, but the DNA enclosed!
The church has been doing this admirably for years with the holly remains of St Thingy or Santa Whatever (check out any small village's church in Europe) and so might do our future generation. "Wow, it has the spunk of Elvis, let's clone him".
See what I mean? (sudden flashbacks of Jurassic Park are now engulfing my damaged brain). This will be a quite unique good to possess in the future, a curiosity that equals the life like remains found in Pompey, something of "importance".
I see a lot of money to be made here! Well in 2000 years maybe... Time to try this cryogenic pod.
What is the point of authenticity in Olympic games goods? Unless you actually win a medal, the rest is just junk that will not survive the decade.
Demonstration: I still have a MOCKBA Olympic bag with Michka the cute little bear of the 80's Olympics on it. It must be in a cellar someplace. Bought it when supermarkets where overpacked of Olympic Addidas junk and every kid at school had one.
Who the *%$£ will want that??? Lot of people cause it has value, you say?
Well about that then:
Will trade for REAL Modigliani or J. Bosch painting.
I went back in Europe after I started a very ealry unix Internet (and uucp) server... Basically I flunked CS to just play with my Linux box Heck, I started it even before SLS/Slackware distros. IT was fun to compile. The rest of the tuition money, I blew it on a Sparc IPX. Back in Europe, I went to Unix Admins interviews and got my first job. After that I went to contracting and ever since System V (hp/ux, Solaris) brought me all the money I could wish for, so I can spend it on Linux boxes. Compared to this, guys who graduated still had no clue how to do things. There is a catch though, back then there was ONE admin in the university and there was NO WAY he was going show you the ropes. For fear you might abuse the system. Now, I understand there are SA classes. This scheme would have not worked at all to become a AI expert, electronic engineer, lawyer... But there have always been docs on the Net, most of us here on Slashdot grew up on them.
I never had anyone asking me about education, nor did any of the NT or VMS guys around. You understand Logical Volume Manager? You pass those practical networking questions they asked you? And you are the person they trully are looking for. Even easier if you contract, in wich case your resume/CV should be 4 pages of past experience. No one will read the last section.
There is only one case where, yes they do make things difficult for you in the HR departement because you don't have a PHD in Medieval Chinese Stenography like Ms Brown in Fixed Income has...
It is in big american corporation, especially banking institutions. But then again you IT manager might just say "we need that guy" or "he has the skills we want".
Fashion in selection and recrutment might change, but in IT/IS it's mostly experience and sometimes certifications (if you can affort the 5,000 bribe to officialize that you can tell "vi" from "ls -l")
So yup, if it's Network Management, PERL coding and UNIX/NT job you want, screw the 6 mounths courses on bubble-sort or PASCAL (aaargh!)
An other morale to the story is: SYS-V brings the money, not BSD. And this I have a grudge against Maddog, whom I saw in person, for sending young folks just armed with Linux and telling them "you will make it tomorrow with your newly aquired UNIX skills". Maddog, you murderer, the industry pays HP/Solaris guys, look at the job offers!
http://www.jobserve.co.uk/
This morning I was looking at my bookshelf full of old PERL v4 O'Reilly books, thinking "Gee what am I going to do with that now?" since I bought twice as much perl v5.00 books over time. Now Slashdot announced last week that a new set of books are out, re-edited for version 5.6 and PERL 6.0 has just been announced.
The morale of the story: Don't buy the new books, boycott PERL 5.6!! (he he he... sounds nuts, but it makes perfect market sense)
Try the OpenGL demos you will somethimes see posted on www.opengl.org. Since NVidia jumped into the GL scene there are plenty of demos that came out and that enticed a lot of people to create more. Also you will have some old demos given with the MESA distribution (I am talking .tar.gz files, not badly precompiled rpms most distributions give nowadays), some of these are still quite ok...
:>
Geeez, if only Future Crew was still around today! Is there an Assembly 2000 ?
Above all, stay away from VGAlib demos, you don't want to scare people away, do you?!
This localized notation made sense back then, when UUCP was the most common mean of delivery. TCP/IP was a luxury only available at Universities and some of you BBSers remember that the only online community where you could take part privately was thru your local BBSes who in turn used a city based server that was connect to a network (ahem..) like Fidonet, WWIV-Net and the like.
The first and biggest carriers of USENET News and Email outside of University where little UUCP leaf nodes that connect to other local nodes, and if you where lucky, to a connected provider (UUNET, state University...) Back then it did make a lot of sense, since you also used UUCP maps to calculate the best route (huge monsters) and the best times of call.
It just that the use is now obsolete. But I am a bit surprised, are you guys in UNIX for real or just wearing penguins to look cool?
A much better solution would be to see what getting connected to the Net really means. Any of these sites could have been victim of failing or misconfigured router, victim of legitimate over-use (hey ask any site that suffers from the Slashdot Effect ... heheh), a failure of the line provider (MCI, AT&T), a failure of the server hardware. It would have been the same: downtime one way or the other. So, why chase around for eventual culprits? (probably teens anyway)
They are buisnesses, THEY SHOULD GET INSURED for this and stop complaining about individual's actions on the Net. For god sake, these are predictable risks. does Greyhound calls in the FBI cause one of its bus was stopped as a tire got puctured by a broken coke bottle? Do we chase all soda drinkers for it and organise a manhunt? No, it's just part of the risks, so you get insured and that's it. Is that too pro-active for them to handle? Gee, any old fart from before the "MBA generation" would have seen that one comming.
I suppose those new companies need more mature managers.
"For a thousand of years..." Young man, I used to get instant bad marks for starting a homework with such a common place statement....
Ok so the answer to that was given by Sinistrus Domini Glaius of 15 via Aprilia, Herculanum MMCXVII, Roman Empire who unfortunately died some while ago and did not have time to get his work published. So I guess we will never now.
Anyways, who wants an answer to that.
Airbus doesn't just means French, it also means work for all the parties involved in it, (subcontractors, suppliers) mostly other european countries. We live in the European Union and projects of that size are distributed amongst partners. So you should maybe re-read the fact as: "Trade War: US abuses its military powers to deliver major blow to the European industry" But wait, there is much better... Since Boeing, very close to be a monopoly, has been the sole beneficiary of this information they have thus been given an unfair advantage over other american companies in that deal. The US goverment has taken side in its choice and violated the basic rules of free market. This thing is way more serious than a little cultural feud. France took a stand, but there are 11 other countries in Europe that actually have the same thing to say or who will have their own gripes about it. Who is next to follow suit? The only sour thing is maybe the position the UK is in. They took a major part with France in building The Concorde, they suffered the same resistance by the US when the project went on (bickering about the plane specs and tons of propaganda to ban the plane from US airports) and they took side by going on with it. Still if there is a litigation between UK's pretty dynamic free industry and the US, their own Ministry Of Defence will sell them out and turn their back on them. How many inventions and intellectual properties have been stolen like that from the UK my british fellows? What does their government do about it... Well what can it do? :> :> But I disgress here. This post and other threads in this topic are also available from the Echelon Project Press in both hardback and soft cover format, Fort Meade, Virginia, USA or from it's subsiduary branch the MOD, London, UK for those of us oversea. BTW... Will they make those files public in 20/40 years like the FBI has to or do we have to storm the place like East Germans did with the STASI?