But long car trips without TV? I don't know how our ancient ancestors did it!
I think there were some stern beatings if calm wasn't maintained.
My wife had to say the rosary with her mom on long trips across North Dakota, while her dad chain smoked, with all the windows up in the winter.
I also think in many families there was liberal use of "cough medicine" (anything containing codeine or diphenhydramine) or Dramamine to just drug the kids into submission.
I (foolishly, naively, but showing mostly uncrushable optimism) downloaded the beta and installed it only to be confronted what looked like Server 2008 minus the "classic" theme, perhaps "diet Vista".
Am I the only one that's more turned off by the Vista UI than the shitload of crap under the hood? I find tasks I can do simply and quickly, and with a fair amount of transparency with the "classic" UI, to be made highly opaque by the Vista (for lack of a better word) UI and involving much more effort, often MORE clicking, MORE bullshitting around. I did a Server 2008 server setup the other day (could have done 2003, but it was a small client doing filesharing only, so it was a good way to get my feet wet) and I was astonished that they had managed to make NTFS permissions editing and sharing setup involve more work with less control of the outcome than Server 2003.
Maybe I'm just getting Old And In The Way, but I'm missing the reason why they have to change the way some tasks are performed and the structure of the GUI. It seems like they're just making it different to be different and dumbing it down even dumber than it already was. Is there some sensible reason why the GUI needs to be so substantially changed?
The gimmick is you plead guilty and pay the fine, in cash, on the spot, *or* you can contest it, but that means a trip...somewhere, county jail, county courthouse, something that is such a PITA for out of staters that they would never do.
I don't know how collectible traffic tickets are for out of state drivers. I know I've mailed Monopoly money and written EAT ME on parking tickets I've gotten out of state. I'm sure they figure you will be "oh, sorry officer" and then you throw it out the window as soon as you cross the state line.
Illinois is/was the same way, my dad got nailed there when I was in the car. I think now most states will take plastic which makes it easier for the cop and the traveler.
When you've been married for 15 years come back and tell us how fun it is when your kid is screaming about somemthing and how your wife reacts to your childish stuff after some shitty 3 day business trip -- or how much energy you have for "fun" behavior after working full time and doing solo childcare while she's been on that business trip.
It has rewards, don't get me wrong, but it ain't nearly the pollyanna trip you make it out to be.
No shit. You drive through the low income neighborhoods and you'd think the NSA had taken over the area. There are more satellite dishes than CIA HQ. Drive through at night and you see flat screens, etc. Being poor doesn't mean that good (technically, anyway) TV isn't happening for you.
I have a really hard time understanding the level of "hardship" that they delay crowd think they are saving people from or who they are saving from hardship.
My guess is that the "digital TV box needed" meme will get translated into the various urban patois in about a week, maximum, and the "problem" will solve itself.
Drive off and let them call the cops. When the cops pull you over and you show them the 50/100s they refused as payment *after* you pumped your gas, you're off scott free.
A knew a guy who got pulled over for speeding in rural Wisconsin in the late 80s. Back then they demanded payment in full, in cash, or you went to jail. The fine was $129 or something, and the guy handed the trooper to crisp $100s. Trooper had no change and the guy had no smaller bills. Trooper said "If you need change, the station is 40 miles back" and the guy said "OK, let's go" -- trooper decided he didn't want to go back there, so he tore the ticket and told the guy it was jail next time, cash or not...
Reasonable target practice at 125 yards. I probably should have used steel core surplus ammo, but the 55gr V-Max bullets did plenty of damage, even when the round hit the platters. I got about 4-5 hits per drive before the drive disappeared beyond the pallet I had it propped on.
I bet most people will forget that the UK is deeper in the shit-pit than almost everybody else due to the current government's past policies
The question that's as valid there as in the US is we ever really recover from the 70s recession? Or was that just the first dip in the long decline of civilization?
Basically from what you read, real income started to decline in the 70s and never really stopped. We've had a couple of standard of living boosts powered by technology and the harnessing of cheap third world labor, but beyond that it kind of feels like the crap of the 70s and early 80s is just catching back up with us again and making sure the long-term downward slope stays downward and long term.
...but that has been seen as an acceptable compromise.
...by Mac fanboys who were looking for excuses to upgrade, and by Steve Jobs to obsolete existing products to sell whatever the newest shiny is.
Let's not pretend that Apple is a "computer" company. They are a "consumer electronics" company that has aggressively integrated planned obsolescence into their product lifecycle, down to the level of non-replaceable batteries and other components under the guise of "simplicity" and "elegant design". The real purpose is to underscore the devices temporary, throwaway nature and the need to buy another one.
I have a 20G 3G iPod I replaced the battery on (I'm a network engineer, so it was simple for me) last year after it got down to about 45 minutes of play time. Without it, the device would have been realistically junk about 2 years ago or more (I use it at pretty brief intervals or with a power adapter; serious portability never existed with the stock battery -- 3-4 hours play time, tops). Had I just blindly followed the Apple replacement schedule, I'd probably be looking at my 3rd iPod due to crummy batteries.
The same goes for the Intel Macbook. NIC port unusable after about 6 months, slot loading DVD drive unreliable just over a year. Case trim peeling away at about 9 months. HDD upgrade required a trip to Sears to buy hard-to-find tools for the tiny fasteners. Apple store repair policy laughable compared to Dell next-day-on-site warranty for $600 Vostro.
I like the products and can't help myself sometimes (when the 32 GB Touch is under $300...), but let's quit pretending that they're not eliminating products wholesale on purpose.
Why does it bother you to see it? It shouldn't bother you to see a baby nursing on a mother's breast any more than it would bother you to see the same mother drinking a bottle of water or her baby nursing on a bottle.
Breastfeeding is about the most natural, non-sexual activity that the human body can perform. There's nothing "gross" about it, no blood, no feces, and generally speaking unless the mother is totally topless you'd have to work pretty hard to even see her nipple, since the baby's mouth will obscure it. Even from a "OMFG! TITTIES!" perspective, at most you'll see about as much exposed breast as you would see at ANY public beach or pool where women wear bathing suits.
The problem we have is that our sex-o-meter in the U.S. goes full tilt whenever a bare breast is exposed, regardless of the context. The worst part is that the people who often most want to censor it are childless women who have never breastfed and can't think of their breasts outside of their own sexual context, regardless that most of them under the age of 40 (and it keeps getting older!) will wear low cut or tight fitting tops pretty much anywhere without thinking twice.
What from I read and hear from family who used to be in the health-care field, nurses have so much trouble with being underappreciated and underpaid and overworked (such as being ordered to lift 300lb patients), that there aren't that many people willing to go into that field any more (just like engineering). As a result, hospitals are desperate to hire nurses, but of course they're not willing to raise their pay.
Which IMHO is a major contributor to healthcare costs.
Highly, and in many cases, over-educated doctors make most of the money and have legal & professional roadblocks preventing nurses from doing a lot of the work that requires a "doctor".
I think we'd be better off with nurses adding an extra year of training/education and getting much wider latitude to "practice medicine" while having fewer doctors, mainly specialists.
Given the geographic challenges of flat windy areas for the pumped-water-uphill approach, what's wrong with the 30% efficiency of electrolysis?
There's no real penalty for not perfectly converting the wind to power; it's not like we have to be super-efficient with wind since we can't exhaust it -- we'll always have more.
Furthermore, the resulting hydrogen has an energy density and portability that other storage methods can't match and can be directly used as a fuel for applications which electricity can't be trivially applied (planes, large vehicles and machines) in addition to being usable as a possible power source for areas without wind/sun.
I know hydrogen creation isn't a perfect solution, but when the wind is blowing and nobody needs the power it seems fairly attractive without other available alternatives.
You can have multiple MAPI profiles as well as open additional mailboxes within a single MAPI profile. You need rights to the other mailboxes, but it's not that complicated.
I do agree with the broader complaint, though, that it would be nice if worked in more straightforward manner.
I wish MAPI would die and be replaced with something else; my favorite has always been an enhanced & extended IMAP.
They mentioned this in an ESX class I took. I seem to remember it in the context of setting a processor affinity or creating multi-CPU VMs and how either the hypervisor was smarter than you (eg, don't affinity) or that multi-CPU VMs could actually slow other VMs because the hypervisor would try to keep multi-CPU VMs on the same socket, thus deny execution priority to other VMs (eg, don't assign SMP VMs because you can unless you have the CPU workload).
Can they? AFAIK Verizon/Sprint CDMA phones can generally be made to work on the other's network, and the GSM family of phones can be made to work on the GSM networks of ATT, T-Mobile and European networks by just switching SIM cards.
But do they make cell phones that are "universal" that will work on both CDMA and GSM networks?
VMWare has the management tools and the gee-whiz features in their enterprise virtualization (bare-metal hypervisor) kit.
The management tools matter when you start getting into multi-host clusters. Look up "DRS" and "Vmotion" and then start thinking about racks of servers and virtual machines that basically get rearranged to balance the hardware loads automatically -- yes, that's right, running VMs moving across hardware platforms with virtually no noticeable downtime (I think we've clocked it around 1-2ms of interruption, which you can barely notice watching a real-time animation loop and can't notice as, say, a SQL client or Outlook user). I've heard rumors from insiders that they may even do a kind of real-time high availability where they utilize the VMotion technology to mirror the same guest OS on a second host simultaneously.
They also have other management tools for HA, a desktop broker (ie, automagic desktop VM creation), etc.
IMHO their big challenge isn't more huge-enterprise features (although that's where the margins are) its capturing enough of the SMB space (the 3-4+ server shops run by consultants or do-it-all single admins) so that as these entities grow they move into the higher end product. This is why ESXi is now free-as-in-beer.
Once they figure out how to efficiently virtualize stuff like USB, SATA & graphics acceleration, we'll probably all start installing a "desktop" ESX on our machines first and then add OSes as we see fit. With the right windowing interface integrated into hypervisor management, it may really stop mattering what OS you're running.
It's just a variant of the corporate ownership maze of holding companies, and I think it would work in most situations.
You form a low-level business entity ("Slashdot Consulting") and sell the vehicle to the business entity. Since the vehicle is not owned by a person but is instead owned by a business entity, it may, in some states, reduce the actual owner's exposure to the tickets, especially if they want to impose driving points, etc, since there's no "owner" to nail for infractions against a person. It probably wouldn't eliminate the monetary penalty, but who knows, but some of these automated systems may not impose the fine if there's no "person" to obviously go after.
In Minneapolis the city started to do red light cameras which fined the owner of the vehicle, even if they could prove they weren't in the car, and it was a petty misdemeanor not just some civil infraction. It was thrown out largely on a technicality (it violated the uniformity of traffic laws statewide), but the state supreme court did find that it also violated due process since it created a presumption of guilt and required the owner to prove they weren't driving and that someone else was driving.
I think that a business-entity shell holding ownership of your car would probably help in these situations, since there's no way to ticket a business entity.
I think the whole concept is bad. Minneapolis' cameras were actually owned and operated by a third party which got a cut of the revenue from the tickets (It was overturned in a year and the city refunded 2.6 million dollars in fines). The notion that the state will empower private parties to perform criminal enforcement for profit strikes me as a little too scary.
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Maybe she should have sucked a little more cock.
You can "decide" that up is down and cold is hot or any of an unlimited number of illogical things, but it still doesn't make them true.
The better explanation is that a University employee listed their work number in relation to their car and the numbers got transposed.
I'll bet my gas bill will be something like that.
It was -17F yesterday and they're predicting -25F tonight.
But long car trips without TV? I don't know how our ancient ancestors did it!
I think there were some stern beatings if calm wasn't maintained.
My wife had to say the rosary with her mom on long trips across North Dakota, while her dad chain smoked, with all the windows up in the winter.
I also think in many families there was liberal use of "cough medicine" (anything containing codeine or diphenhydramine) or Dramamine to just drug the kids into submission.
I (foolishly, naively, but showing mostly uncrushable optimism) downloaded the beta and installed it only to be confronted what looked like Server 2008 minus the "classic" theme, perhaps "diet Vista".
Am I the only one that's more turned off by the Vista UI than the shitload of crap under the hood? I find tasks I can do simply and quickly, and with a fair amount of transparency with the "classic" UI, to be made highly opaque by the Vista (for lack of a better word) UI and involving much more effort, often MORE clicking, MORE bullshitting around. I did a Server 2008 server setup the other day (could have done 2003, but it was a small client doing filesharing only, so it was a good way to get my feet wet) and I was astonished that they had managed to make NTFS permissions editing and sharing setup involve more work with less control of the outcome than Server 2003.
Maybe I'm just getting Old And In The Way, but I'm missing the reason why they have to change the way some tasks are performed and the structure of the GUI. It seems like they're just making it different to be different and dumbing it down even dumber than it already was. Is there some sensible reason why the GUI needs to be so substantially changed?
He was out of state.
The gimmick is you plead guilty and pay the fine, in cash, on the spot, *or* you can contest it, but that means a trip...somewhere, county jail, county courthouse, something that is such a PITA for out of staters that they would never do.
I don't know how collectible traffic tickets are for out of state drivers. I know I've mailed Monopoly money and written EAT ME on parking tickets I've gotten out of state. I'm sure they figure you will be "oh, sorry officer" and then you throw it out the window as soon as you cross the state line.
Illinois is/was the same way, my dad got nailed there when I was in the car. I think now most states will take plastic which makes it easier for the cop and the traveler.
In-state residents didn't have this issue.
When you've been married for 15 years come back and tell us how fun it is when your kid is screaming about somemthing and how your wife reacts to your childish stuff after some shitty 3 day business trip -- or how much energy you have for "fun" behavior after working full time and doing solo childcare while she's been on that business trip.
It has rewards, don't get me wrong, but it ain't nearly the pollyanna trip you make it out to be.
No shit. You drive through the low income neighborhoods and you'd think the NSA had taken over the area. There are more satellite dishes than CIA HQ. Drive through at night and you see flat screens, etc. Being poor doesn't mean that good (technically, anyway) TV isn't happening for you.
I have a really hard time understanding the level of "hardship" that they delay crowd think they are saving people from or who they are saving from hardship.
My guess is that the "digital TV box needed" meme will get translated into the various urban patois in about a week, maximum, and the "problem" will solve itself.
Drive off and let them call the cops. When the cops pull you over and you show them the 50/100s they refused as payment *after* you pumped your gas, you're off scott free.
A knew a guy who got pulled over for speeding in rural Wisconsin in the late 80s. Back then they demanded payment in full, in cash, or you went to jail. The fine was $129 or something, and the guy handed the trooper to crisp $100s. Trooper had no change and the guy had no smaller bills. Trooper said "If you need change, the station is 40 miles back" and the guy said "OK, let's go" -- trooper decided he didn't want to go back there, so he tore the ticket and told the guy it was jail next time, cash or not...
Reasonable target practice at 125 yards. I probably should have used steel core surplus ammo, but the 55gr V-Max bullets did plenty of damage, even when the round hit the platters. I got about 4-5 hits per drive before the drive disappeared beyond the pallet I had it propped on.
...considering a real constitution?
Put on a Hank Paulson mask!
Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week before I head out to Vegas for a show at MGM..
If they would offer nearby customers electricity at cost (1-2 cents per KwH), I'd do it.
I bet most people will forget that the UK is deeper in the shit-pit than almost everybody else due to the current government's past policies
The question that's as valid there as in the US is we ever really recover from the 70s recession? Or was that just the first dip in the long decline of civilization?
Basically from what you read, real income started to decline in the 70s and never really stopped. We've had a couple of standard of living boosts powered by technology and the harnessing of cheap third world labor, but beyond that it kind of feels like the crap of the 70s and early 80s is just catching back up with us again and making sure the long-term downward slope stays downward and long term.
...but that has been seen as an acceptable compromise.
...by Mac fanboys who were looking for excuses to upgrade, and by Steve Jobs to obsolete existing products to sell whatever the newest shiny is.
Let's not pretend that Apple is a "computer" company. They are a "consumer electronics" company that has aggressively integrated planned obsolescence into their product lifecycle, down to the level of non-replaceable batteries and other components under the guise of "simplicity" and "elegant design". The real purpose is to underscore the devices temporary, throwaway nature and the need to buy another one.
I have a 20G 3G iPod I replaced the battery on (I'm a network engineer, so it was simple for me) last year after it got down to about 45 minutes of play time. Without it, the device would have been realistically junk about 2 years ago or more (I use it at pretty brief intervals or with a power adapter; serious portability never existed with the stock battery -- 3-4 hours play time, tops). Had I just blindly followed the Apple replacement schedule, I'd probably be looking at my 3rd iPod due to crummy batteries.
The same goes for the Intel Macbook. NIC port unusable after about 6 months, slot loading DVD drive unreliable just over a year. Case trim peeling away at about 9 months. HDD upgrade required a trip to Sears to buy hard-to-find tools for the tiny fasteners. Apple store repair policy laughable compared to Dell next-day-on-site warranty for $600 Vostro.
I like the products and can't help myself sometimes (when the 32 GB Touch is under $300...), but let's quit pretending that they're not eliminating products wholesale on purpose.
I seem to have heard the leaked-to-pirates-intentionally idea more than once..
Why does it bother you to see it? It shouldn't bother you to see a baby nursing on a mother's breast any more than it would bother you to see the same mother drinking a bottle of water or her baby nursing on a bottle.
Breastfeeding is about the most natural, non-sexual activity that the human body can perform. There's nothing "gross" about it, no blood, no feces, and generally speaking unless the mother is totally topless you'd have to work pretty hard to even see her nipple, since the baby's mouth will obscure it. Even from a "OMFG! TITTIES!" perspective, at most you'll see about as much exposed breast as you would see at ANY public beach or pool where women wear bathing suits.
The problem we have is that our sex-o-meter in the U.S. goes full tilt whenever a bare breast is exposed, regardless of the context. The worst part is that the people who often most want to censor it are childless women who have never breastfed and can't think of their breasts outside of their own sexual context, regardless that most of them under the age of 40 (and it keeps getting older!) will wear low cut or tight fitting tops pretty much anywhere without thinking twice.
What from I read and hear from family who used to be in the health-care field, nurses have so much trouble with being underappreciated and underpaid and overworked (such as being ordered to lift 300lb patients), that there aren't that many people willing to go into that field any more (just like engineering). As a result, hospitals are desperate to hire nurses, but of course they're not willing to raise their pay.
Which IMHO is a major contributor to healthcare costs.
Highly, and in many cases, over-educated doctors make most of the money and have legal & professional roadblocks preventing nurses from doing a lot of the work that requires a "doctor".
I think we'd be better off with nurses adding an extra year of training/education and getting much wider latitude to "practice medicine" while having fewer doctors, mainly specialists.
Given the geographic challenges of flat windy areas for the pumped-water-uphill approach, what's wrong with the 30% efficiency of electrolysis?
There's no real penalty for not perfectly converting the wind to power; it's not like we have to be super-efficient with wind since we can't exhaust it -- we'll always have more.
Furthermore, the resulting hydrogen has an energy density and portability that other storage methods can't match and can be directly used as a fuel for applications which electricity can't be trivially applied (planes, large vehicles and machines) in addition to being usable as a possible power source for areas without wind/sun.
I know hydrogen creation isn't a perfect solution, but when the wind is blowing and nobody needs the power it seems fairly attractive without other available alternatives.
You can have multiple MAPI profiles as well as open additional mailboxes within a single MAPI profile. You need rights to the other mailboxes, but it's not that complicated.
I do agree with the broader complaint, though, that it would be nice if worked in more straightforward manner.
I wish MAPI would die and be replaced with something else; my favorite has always been an enhanced & extended IMAP.
They mentioned this in an ESX class I took. I seem to remember it in the context of setting a processor affinity or creating multi-CPU VMs and how either the hypervisor was smarter than you (eg, don't affinity) or that multi-CPU VMs could actually slow other VMs because the hypervisor would try to keep multi-CPU VMs on the same socket, thus deny execution priority to other VMs (eg, don't assign SMP VMs because you can unless you have the CPU workload).
Can they? AFAIK Verizon/Sprint CDMA phones can generally be made to work on the other's network, and the GSM family of phones can be made to work on the GSM networks of ATT, T-Mobile and European networks by just switching SIM cards.
But do they make cell phones that are "universal" that will work on both CDMA and GSM networks?
VMWare has the management tools and the gee-whiz features in their enterprise virtualization (bare-metal hypervisor) kit.
The management tools matter when you start getting into multi-host clusters. Look up "DRS" and "Vmotion" and then start thinking about racks of servers and virtual machines that basically get rearranged to balance the hardware loads automatically -- yes, that's right, running VMs moving across hardware platforms with virtually no noticeable downtime (I think we've clocked it around 1-2ms of interruption, which you can barely notice watching a real-time animation loop and can't notice as, say, a SQL client or Outlook user). I've heard rumors from insiders that they may even do a kind of real-time high availability where they utilize the VMotion technology to mirror the same guest OS on a second host simultaneously.
They also have other management tools for HA, a desktop broker (ie, automagic desktop VM creation), etc.
IMHO their big challenge isn't more huge-enterprise features (although that's where the margins are) its capturing enough of the SMB space (the 3-4+ server shops run by consultants or do-it-all single admins) so that as these entities grow they move into the higher end product. This is why ESXi is now free-as-in-beer.
Once they figure out how to efficiently virtualize stuff like USB, SATA & graphics acceleration, we'll probably all start installing a "desktop" ESX on our machines first and then add OSes as we see fit. With the right windowing interface integrated into hypervisor management, it may really stop mattering what OS you're running.
It's just a variant of the corporate ownership maze of holding companies, and I think it would work in most situations.
You form a low-level business entity ("Slashdot Consulting") and sell the vehicle to the business entity. Since the vehicle is not owned by a person but is instead owned by a business entity, it may, in some states, reduce the actual owner's exposure to the tickets, especially if they want to impose driving points, etc, since there's no "owner" to nail for infractions against a person. It probably wouldn't eliminate the monetary penalty, but who knows, but some of these automated systems may not impose the fine if there's no "person" to obviously go after.
In Minneapolis the city started to do red light cameras which fined the owner of the vehicle, even if they could prove they weren't in the car, and it was a petty misdemeanor not just some civil infraction. It was thrown out largely on a technicality (it violated the uniformity of traffic laws statewide), but the state supreme court did find that it also violated due process since it created a presumption of guilt and required the owner to prove they weren't driving and that someone else was driving.
I think that a business-entity shell holding ownership of your car would probably help in these situations, since there's no way to ticket a business entity.
I think the whole concept is bad. Minneapolis' cameras were actually owned and operated by a third party which got a cut of the revenue from the tickets (It was overturned in a year and the city refunded 2.6 million dollars in fines). The notion that the state will empower private parties to perform criminal enforcement for profit strikes me as a little too scary.