We've come far enough now that pretty much any non-budget laptop should be able to run Linux without the gamut of driver issues that existed in years past. I don't think there's much of a difference between the sets of reliable Windows laptops and reliable Linux laptops anymore. The keyword to look for is _reliable_, not Linux.
What is the difference between selective breeding and genetic modification?... nothing. GM is more efficient at selecting genes but no qualitative difference. BTW, mother nature has been doing GM for millions of years and randomly inserting genes across all types of organisms and so far, that seems to be working out just fine. So please, Keep Calm and Don't Panic.
Once upon a time, certain single-celled organisms happened upon a new process to make food, and its only novel byproduct was free oxygen. For a time, things continued swimmingly as the iron on earth rusted, until it was all rusted and no longer consumed the oxygen. Then most organisms couldn't cope with this highly toxic element and died. Certainly today, this is seen as a valuable transition on the way to life as we know it, but I'd hardly like to be on the other side of it.
Part of the problem with trying to relieve the pressure is that many eruptions occur because of gases suspended in the magma. Once the pressure drops enough, the gas ceases to be soluble in the magma and it's the expansion of the gas that causes the violent eruption. It follows that relieving the pressure could easily trigger the eruption you are trying to prevent in this case. Whether this is the actual cause of an eruption in a specific case is dependent on the volcano, I believe, and is implicated in the more explosive ones, as opposed to the gentler flowing eruptions found with others.
This isn't the first time the Redskins trademarks have been revoked. The previous case started in the late 90s and ended on appeals in maybe 2009 with the finding that the plaintiffs didn't have standing to bring the case, as I recall.
If you're in a small company but still managing 50 servers, what is your role on the CAB? You should advocate to be part of the CAB, at the very least, so that you can coordinate processes to streamline critical and security patches, and keep management informed of the process. If you are approaching this with a hostile or obstructive attitude, it doesn't reflect well on you and it injures your ability to get management to listen to you when it counts. A CAB can be a rubber stamp, for the most part, that ensures that there is at least documentation and a modicum of thought going into the maintenance of the company's infrastructure. The creation of a CAB is pretty reasonable, but the key is to be involved in its creation and ongoing existence as well so that you can eliminate the red tape while still documenting the process to CYA in case something goes wrong. And something, sometime, will go wrong.
It's possible that moving to a more validated and controlled environment will increase your workload, but again, documenting the volume of changes, etc. is to your benefit. That is the data you need in order to provide management the justification for getting a second admin hired. This is also the data that you can use to justify a big raise or promotion at your next review, instead of people wondering what exactly you do all day.
Also, as mentioned previously, you really should have WSUS or a similar solution to deploy patches across your organization, both to make administration easier and to help enforce a consistent environment across all the systems. If you patch everything piecemeal, it's quite difficult to tell whether a patch will break one system with a different set of patches than this other one.
Shock and confusion caused by roundabouts is great, because it means people will actually pay attention to what the other cars are doing when they go through, for a change.
Oh look, it's the "language evolves" horse shit again. Language also devolves. People using the language incorrectly is detrimental the core purpose of the language (communication), and thus detrimental to the language itself.
Yes, because 20,000 years ago we all spoke the one pure language that perfectly described everything and since that fell apart the world has gone to shit.
Traffic stops are one of the most dangerous activities that the police engage in on a regular basis. It's very easy to get hit by traffic, and you don't know who the person in the car is. They might just as well decide to pull a gun on you and when you try to put a little distance between you, you get hit by the truck in the next lane.
Why do you assume people won't take care of their basic needs on their own? Requiring that a certain amount of money be dedicated to those needs just means that there's no incentive for thrift, because savings mean wasted money.
Package routing is just the same as network package routing. I can't directly send a packet to the office next door just because they're nearby... it has to follow the various routing paths I have available, and the physical packages are routed similarly. Also, you don't expect the truck delivering a bunch of packages to dallas to stop at your house just for a sec to deliver your package, do you?
It also requires that you live someplace suitably dense for it to be cost effective. Policy aside, this is easier in Europe because the continent is much more densely populated than the US.
The problem with this argument is that most of these are really just one example, because they are already known to be descended from a common source. In order to determine a true relationship, you have to go back to the earliest form of a word known, and you have to demonstrate that the relationship is not a coincidence. Namely, that you can see other examples of the same sound change in the two languages, and that neither language borrowed the word from the other or a third source.
The problem with going back earlier than proto indo-european is that PIE is a reconstructed language based on the earliest attestations we have from various Indo-European languages, like Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Hittite, and Latin. This means that any PIE word you are using to build a relation to another linguistic group is a reconstruction which 1) we may not know how to pronounce correctly in the first place and 2) may not have been reconstructed correctly.
Another issue with Chomsky's work is that his universals are based on the assumption that children can't possibly hear enough language and enough varied forms to reconstruct the language in their mind without access to linguistic universals. This is the 'poverty of stimulus' argument. The only problem is that it's been demonstrated to be false, now that children can be recorded 24/7.
To continue the analogy, it's saying that every processor performs several functions, and that it can excel in some and be deficient in others. Kind of like adding the math co-processor to your 386.
Anyone who buys a futures contract using bitcoin is an idiot or a scam artist. No one who is actually hedging risk is going to use bitcoin to do it so all that is left is speculators. Speculating in futures contracts is highly risky even without adding an additional level of exchange rate risk in using bitcoins. Furthermore, I'm rather doubtful that if you purchased a futures contract through this "market" that you could actually take delivery of the products that underlie the contract.
I must respecfully disagree. This futures market is a great thing, because it allows you to hedge against wild fluctutation in the value of bitcoins with a known commodity, which is probably the only reason you'd want to invest in it.
A lot of the original migration to Appalachia and westward from there came out of Scotland, apparently, so it's not suprising that a Scottish regional dialect attribute would carry over into the local speech in areas which they settled.
It's from the '80s, but David Hackett Fisher's book Albion's Seed is a fascinating examination of waves of early immigration to America and the regional variation that sprung from it.
This sort of thing looks crazy when you are not part of the desicion making process, for example I knew an executive who got hauled over the coals for saving the company $4.5M, his problem was that the original estimate was $9M so he had "unecassarlily tied up" half of that money for a year. I still don't fully understand why this pissed off the bean-counters but it did. The wisdom in these situations is to accept most people are NOT idiots in their own job and that there is a valid reason for their behaviour that you are simply unaware of. In other words don't run around telling people how to suck eggs (unless it's your job to train egg suckers), just ask them (in a non-critical manner) why they took the desicion they did, at least one of you will learn something.
In this particular example, the bean counters are pissed because they have a certain funds to allocate over the coming year, and they want to see a return on investment on all those funds. By being 50% under budget, that means that $4.5 million which could have been allocated to another project, business development, or some other investment instead sat in the bank or other short-term market and did effectively nothing for the company over that time.
The answer to this is not to then spend the rest of the funds to make up the difference, but to budget more accurately in the first place. Unfortunately, that's not the lesson that gets taken away from it, resulting in massive spending sprees to match the budget near the end of the fiscal year in far too many situations.
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We've come far enough now that pretty much any non-budget laptop should be able to run Linux without the gamut of driver issues that existed in years past. I don't think there's much of a difference between the sets of reliable Windows laptops and reliable Linux laptops anymore. The keyword to look for is _reliable_, not Linux.
What is the difference between selective breeding and genetic modification?... nothing.
GM is more efficient at selecting genes but no qualitative difference.
BTW, mother nature has been doing GM for millions of years and randomly inserting genes across all types of organisms and so far, that seems to be working out just fine.
So please, Keep Calm and Don't Panic.
Once upon a time, certain single-celled organisms happened upon a new process to make food, and its only novel byproduct was free oxygen. For a time, things continued swimmingly as the iron on earth rusted, until it was all rusted and no longer consumed the oxygen. Then most organisms couldn't cope with this highly toxic element and died. Certainly today, this is seen as a valuable transition on the way to life as we know it, but I'd hardly like to be on the other side of it.
Gandhi, or at least Mahatma Gandhi, never had political power beyond inspiring the fight for independence, so it's hard to talk about how he used it.
You use a dot to delimit factors, since it's now unused, or some places, a space.
Part of the problem with trying to relieve the pressure is that many eruptions occur because of gases suspended in the magma. Once the pressure drops enough, the gas ceases to be soluble in the magma and it's the expansion of the gas that causes the violent eruption. It follows that relieving the pressure could easily trigger the eruption you are trying to prevent in this case. Whether this is the actual cause of an eruption in a specific case is dependent on the volcano, I believe, and is implicated in the more explosive ones, as opposed to the gentler flowing eruptions found with others.
This isn't the first time the Redskins trademarks have been revoked. The previous case started in the late 90s and ended on appeals in maybe 2009 with the finding that the plaintiffs didn't have standing to bring the case, as I recall.
After careful consideration, I've come up with the following function which should fit their needs:
int detect_sarcasm(string potential_threat) //return 0 if serious, 1 if sarcastic
{
return 1;
}
I guarantee it will improve their false positive rate.
... tort reform is really about immunizing the powerful from liability for even the most grievous corruption or negligence.
That can't be right. They're already much more immune than the rest of us.
If you're in a small company but still managing 50 servers, what is your role on the CAB? You should advocate to be part of the CAB, at the very least, so that you can coordinate processes to streamline critical and security patches, and keep management informed of the process. If you are approaching this with a hostile or obstructive attitude, it doesn't reflect well on you and it injures your ability to get management to listen to you when it counts. A CAB can be a rubber stamp, for the most part, that ensures that there is at least documentation and a modicum of thought going into the maintenance of the company's infrastructure. The creation of a CAB is pretty reasonable, but the key is to be involved in its creation and ongoing existence as well so that you can eliminate the red tape while still documenting the process to CYA in case something goes wrong. And something, sometime, will go wrong.
It's possible that moving to a more validated and controlled environment will increase your workload, but again, documenting the volume of changes, etc. is to your benefit. That is the data you need in order to provide management the justification for getting a second admin hired. This is also the data that you can use to justify a big raise or promotion at your next review, instead of people wondering what exactly you do all day.
Also, as mentioned previously, you really should have WSUS or a similar solution to deploy patches across your organization, both to make administration easier and to help enforce a consistent environment across all the systems. If you patch everything piecemeal, it's quite difficult to tell whether a patch will break one system with a different set of patches than this other one.
We do. You start at 1 and go on to 2, then 3...
Sometimes, the Tao can be found through its absence.
Shock and confusion caused by roundabouts is great, because it means people will actually pay attention to what the other cars are doing when they go through, for a change.
Oh look, it's the "language evolves" horse shit again.
Language also devolves. People using the language incorrectly is detrimental the core purpose of the language (communication), and thus detrimental to the language itself.
Yes, because 20,000 years ago we all spoke the one pure language that perfectly described everything and since that fell apart the world has gone to shit.
You can thank the NSA for stopping this wanton criminal before he can enter the US.
Traffic stops are one of the most dangerous activities that the police engage in on a regular basis. It's very easy to get hit by traffic, and you don't know who the person in the car is. They might just as well decide to pull a gun on you and when you try to put a little distance between you, you get hit by the truck in the next lane.
Why do you assume people won't take care of their basic needs on their own? Requiring that a certain amount of money be dedicated to those needs just means that there's no incentive for thrift, because savings mean wasted money.
Package routing is just the same as network package routing. I can't directly send a packet to the office next door just because they're nearby... it has to follow the various routing paths I have available, and the physical packages are routed similarly. Also, you don't expect the truck delivering a bunch of packages to dallas to stop at your house just for a sec to deliver your package, do you?
It also requires that you live someplace suitably dense for it to be cost effective. Policy aside, this is easier in Europe because the continent is much more densely populated than the US.
The problem with this argument is that most of these are really just one example, because they are already known to be descended from a common source. In order to determine a true relationship, you have to go back to the earliest form of a word known, and you have to demonstrate that the relationship is not a coincidence. Namely, that you can see other examples of the same sound change in the two languages, and that neither language borrowed the word from the other or a third source.
The problem with going back earlier than proto indo-european is that PIE is a reconstructed language based on the earliest attestations we have from various Indo-European languages, like Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Hittite, and Latin. This means that any PIE word you are using to build a relation to another linguistic group is a reconstruction which 1) we may not know how to pronounce correctly in the first place and 2) may not have been reconstructed correctly.
Another issue with Chomsky's work is that his universals are based on the assumption that children can't possibly hear enough language and enough varied forms to reconstruct the language in their mind without access to linguistic universals. This is the 'poverty of stimulus' argument. The only problem is that it's been demonstrated to be false, now that children can be recorded 24/7.
To continue the analogy, it's saying that every processor performs several functions, and that it can excel in some and be deficient in others. Kind of like adding the math co-processor to your 386.
That's because Apple has already gotten all the lemmings on board.
Anyone who buys a futures contract using bitcoin is an idiot or a scam artist. No one who is actually hedging risk is going to use bitcoin to do it so all that is left is speculators. Speculating in futures contracts is highly risky even without adding an additional level of exchange rate risk in using bitcoins. Furthermore, I'm rather doubtful that if you purchased a futures contract through this "market" that you could actually take delivery of the products that underlie the contract.
I must respecfully disagree. This futures market is a great thing, because it allows you to hedge against wild fluctutation in the value of bitcoins with a known commodity, which is probably the only reason you'd want to invest in it.
A lot of the original migration to Appalachia and westward from there came out of Scotland, apparently, so it's not suprising that a Scottish regional dialect attribute would carry over into the local speech in areas which they settled.
It's from the '80s, but David Hackett Fisher's book Albion's Seed is a fascinating examination of waves of early immigration to America and the regional variation that sprung from it.
This sort of thing looks crazy when you are not part of the desicion making process, for example I knew an executive who got hauled over the coals for saving the company $4.5M, his problem was that the original estimate was $9M so he had "unecassarlily tied up" half of that money for a year. I still don't fully understand why this pissed off the bean-counters but it did. The wisdom in these situations is to accept most people are NOT idiots in their own job and that there is a valid reason for their behaviour that you are simply unaware of. In other words don't run around telling people how to suck eggs (unless it's your job to train egg suckers), just ask them (in a non-critical manner) why they took the desicion they did, at least one of you will learn something.
In this particular example, the bean counters are pissed because they have a certain funds to allocate over the coming year, and they want to see a return on investment on all those funds. By being 50% under budget, that means that $4.5 million which could have been allocated to another project, business development, or some other investment instead sat in the bank or other short-term market and did effectively nothing for the company over that time.
The answer to this is not to then spend the rest of the funds to make up the difference, but to budget more accurately in the first place. Unfortunately, that's not the lesson that gets taken away from it, resulting in massive spending sprees to match the budget near the end of the fiscal year in far too many situations.