I can't wait until he goes into Civil Torts and IP law especially about the GPL - I hope. I really hate it when I have a question and some IANAL chimes in with an opinion and says that "it's right there in the GPL in black and white" and how can I be so stupid as to not understand it! But yet, folks get into trouble with it all the time without any intent on malice. The GPL is all legalese that I don't understand and therefore, I will not use it or software under it for commercial use without advice from an IP attorney and since I can't afford one, I will not use the GPL.
Nevertheless, since that first flight, the 747 has fulfilled the faith of its designers and has led to reductions in air fares, opening up air travel to many in a way that was previously unimaginable
The 747 was developed for the airline business before the Airline Deregulation Act signed into law by Jimmy Carter. Before that, it was profitable for the airlines to operate under the "hub and spoke" business model: condense a bunch of folks going to a certain destination at a hub and then send them all at once to said destination. Which worked at the time because because all the airlines had to follow Federal rules; which, by the way, the airlines really miss those Government regulations.
Now, the way to be profitabile in the air ravel business is smaller fuel efficient aircraft with schedules more like trucks: Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale to Tampa to New Orleans to Atlanta again - for example. Not get a bunch of people to go to Fort Lauderdale from Atlanta and go back. My point? Big jets for anything other than long haul (Ocean crossings) are not worth it. The 380 is not going to have the market Airbus thought it would have.
New York to San Francisco? Please. The airline that runs the most flights between those cities is going to get the lucrative business travellers; not the airline that has a slightly cheaper fare that runs once a day, at most. Those once a day airlines are going to get the tourist business and you know what those flights are going to be like for a 380: 2 hours to board because the tourists have to figure out where aisle '34' is and where seat 'H' is. And then they have to figure out where they're going to put their trunk that should be checked. Then they'll argue with the stewardess about how this is a carry on, while their little brat is screaming because they couldn't get their French Fries from McDonald's. Then the.....
In the meantime, rich fat cat Wall street Banker Federal Welfare receiver has his own jet and just sails over to San Francisco. Then the SOB has the nerve to comment on how your suit is wrinkled and how your tired and absent minded.....
You reminded me of a professor several years ago for one of my grad classes. Part of the class was that we had to design and implement a web site. He chose ASP.NET because that's where most of the jobs are and he wanted to make sure that he added to our marketable skills.
Universities are no longer about getting an education. It's mostly about vocational training. Getting a degree in something for career purposes - unless you're a trust fund baby.
Now, as far as your assertion that there endowment is down 30-50%, I doubt that. They have their own money management office that has some very sharp folks investing. Not your typical IRA or retirement money manager like we peons have. Let's say you're right. So now it's down to only 17 billion! Boo hoo! I'm sure they're starving over there!
If they really need it make up for short falls, then why does it keep increasing every year? Ah, more donations - you may say. That's true. As a matter of fact, people who have never even attended Harvard give them money. What I'm saying is, Harvard could piss their entire endowment away, and there would be plenty of folks out there who'd give them money. Why? Because Harvard (and all the other Ivy League schools for that matter) have a name. They'd have their money back in a few years.
As far as research is concerned, I don't know. But the thing is, I see they get a lot of corporate and Government grants for research. I never see anything about Harvard themselves funding something.
Whatever. You can't lump in an Ivy League university with the rest of US higher education. Those folks are in their own league and I would be incredibly surprised if they ever have financial difficulties.
$9 Million stolen from a bank? Peanuts compared to the next $900 Billion the banks are stealing back again - a hundred thousand times more.... I can't even get to grips with that scale of money....
There's a BIG difference. One group was a bunch of unimaginative, unethical, thieving liars and cowards. The other group had the imagination to do something and take advantage of a weak poorly designed system that gets the guys with the badges and guns after you.
It takes a REAL criminal mind to lobby the regulatory agencies and Congress with dirty money to make your thieving legal. And it's really a piece of work when those lying thieves walk away with tens of millions of dollars in bonuses for cheating.
NoScript (which is really annoying in and of itself, but that's another story).
You got that right! I removed 'NoScript'. Every, and I mean every, stinking website I went to had most of their content dependent on scripts. So, I had to constantly click on allow for this time, or for this page, etc... And many times, even after enabling scripts for that page, they still wouldn't run. Very few websites didn't have that problem. Scripts are just too ubiquitous to block.
none of them even Google on how to fix a problem.(I know why should they when they got me.) I talked to a family friend about issues with her computer. She took it to Best Buy and didn't like the way they sounded ($79 to diagnose the problem and then more to fix. The $79 was to be put towards any fixes that may arise. They gave the creeps.), so I talked to her.
The problem with her computer was between the chair and the keyboard. Anyway, to shorten the story, I asked her if she's ever Googled for answer to her problems or looked at the manual. Nope.
Folks like that who would actually benefit from something like that will never come across it because they don't even think of searching the net for a solution; let alone of actually reading the manual and following the trouble shooting guide in the back.
People like us, tech savy, will never trust a script like that from MS.
Besides managing stockpiles of rusty old nukes, Sequoia will also be used for research into astronomy, energy, the human genome and climate change, according to IBM.
It could also be used to search for "suspicious behaviour" by searching Government databases, Credit card companies' databases, credit bureau databases, Choicepoint's, telecommunication companies' databases, airlines, and any other firm that the Government bullies into giving access. Own a gun, buy some grow lights for your reef tank, and fertilizer for your spinach fields and that'lll be a searching and detainment because of the "War on Drugs", "War on Terror", and "War on [insert here]".
Will we be allowed any sort of control over our own information? I think not!
Have you seen Rick Steve's Iran yet? He walked up to a bunch of women as asked them what they were studying in university. All of them said Chemistry. A conservative Muslim country and they're sending they're women to university to study science - at no cost to these women!
Here in the States, we spend our resources on making sure that everyone can get TV reception and we spend money on lawsuits so that "Intelligent Design" can be taught in science class. In developing countries, science, engineering and medicine are a kid's dream career. Here, it's being famous for some reason - usually for getting drunk and doing outrageous things.
I have no idea how much your government spent on... 'that', but I just know that with one billion dollars you can give 20'000 people 50'000 dollars, each. I'm just asking myself whether rerouting such money directly into the pockets of those laid off wouldn't make more sense.
Because big screen TVs and beer sales would go through the roof?
I wasn't coached, and certainly didn't have a network of interview cheats. A friend who got hired a few months before me told me basically the same information that I've just told you. He gave me an example of a question (estimate how many gas stations in the US, I think) and told me to make sure I remembered my sorting algorithms. So I studied my algorithms text book on the trip to Redmond for the interview, and I never was asked the gas stations question.
Those little Mars rovers seem to be going strong. Lets put our money where it seems to be providing the bes
(Now the 'Buttface') However, manned space flight gives all of us hope that there's more to life than this pathetic little planet with all of its pathetic little battles. You want peace on Earth? Have an Alien ship blow up the Whitehouse.
Man needs something greater. Aside from finance, we, as citizens of the World, need to compete for something greater. Struggling on how to defeat this finance bogeyman seams so...demeaning to all of us humans.
Joe 'the Programmer' Smith died from a heart attack. He lived a very boring life. He hated getting up in the Morning. He hated sitting behind a computer all day. He hated the fact that he had to work so much, leave his children and his wife was bored. He dreamed of doing something that made him feel alive. He dreamed of adventure. He dreamed of not being safe.
Get my drift folks? Astronauts do not become Astronauts because they want a safe job. If I were capable, I'd risk my life to be in Space.
We were certainly paid the same as any other employee with a similar job and similar experience.
Really? Folks openly talked about how much they were being paid? Hmmm. Interesting.
The major bottleneck was waiting to get any resumes for candidates that seemed worth interviewing.
I was once being prepped for interviews after grad school and the placement office told us about an interviewing technique by a local company that was lifted from MS:
The candidate was asked, "How many diapers are sold in the US?" (Saying I'll Google it is the 'wrong' answer, BTW.)
The successful candidate said something like, "Well, there are 300 million people in the US and 1% are having kids. Therefore, there are 3 million babies. Now, babies need to be changed 3 times a day. So that's 9 million diapers a day. Which is 63 million diapers per week."
She got the job. BTW, all of those numbers were pulled out of her ass, but she got the job because of her "logical" thinking.
I can create hiring standards that no one can satisfy. Are those standards pertinent to the job? Nope. But it sure makes my standards look exclusive.
If you consider how un-innovative MS is, I think their standards are completely bogus.
Another thing, how may people coached you about the interviewing process? I had Indian friends in Grad school and I know about and participated in the network of test and interview 'cheats'.
The internet can be a great research tool - when you filter out the billions of pages of shit out there.
It can be a great communications tool - when you filter out the trillions of shit messages.
It a great source for news without having to listen to the overpaid talking heads - after you filter out the millions of lies, half-truths, agendas, and propaganda.
And the internet a is a great way to suck away valuable time on shit. For example, online message boards. This thread will offer me absolutely nothing to enrich my life, but here I am. I should do something a little more productive with my time.
Broadband can be addicting. With it, you can more bandwidth hogging content which, for the most part, is crap. Again, here I am.
I think the people who don't want it are wise enough to know that it is not right for them or for their families.
Who doesn't want broadband? Old people, that's who.
Nope. That hasn't been my experience. Many old folks have discovered that the internet allows them to keep in touch with their families. Since folks no longer stick around where they were born and instead move all over the place, the internet is a great way to keep in touch and with broadband, they can have tele -visits and things like that. Also, with the internet, it can be easier to contact a family member. Many folks don't like talking on the phone for hours with their Mother; whereas, email and whatnot make it less painful. And the old folks LOVE getting pictures via email of their grand kids.
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They couldn't call it "Rainman"?
Yeah, I know. I should have asked her if she wanted a cherry on top and for me to add a pony to her list while she was at it.
That depends. Was she hot? God, back when I was in school, there were constantly hot chicks in and out of the Law school!
I guess I'm too stupid to use GPL software.
Nevertheless, since that first flight, the 747 has fulfilled the faith of its designers and has led to reductions in air fares, opening up air travel to many in a way that was previously unimaginable
The 747 was developed for the airline business before the Airline Deregulation Act signed into law by Jimmy Carter. Before that, it was profitable for the airlines to operate under the "hub and spoke" business model: condense a bunch of folks going to a certain destination at a hub and then send them all at once to said destination. Which worked at the time because because all the airlines had to follow Federal rules; which, by the way, the airlines really miss those Government regulations.
Now, the way to be profitabile in the air ravel business is smaller fuel efficient aircraft with schedules more like trucks: Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale to Tampa to New Orleans to Atlanta again - for example. Not get a bunch of people to go to Fort Lauderdale from Atlanta and go back. My point? Big jets for anything other than long haul (Ocean crossings) are not worth it. The 380 is not going to have the market Airbus thought it would have.
New York to San Francisco? Please. The airline that runs the most flights between those cities is going to get the lucrative business travellers; not the airline that has a slightly cheaper fare that runs once a day, at most. Those once a day airlines are going to get the tourist business and you know what those flights are going to be like for a 380: 2 hours to board because the tourists have to figure out where aisle '34' is and where seat 'H' is. And then they have to figure out where they're going to put their trunk that should be checked. Then they'll argue with the stewardess about how this is a carry on, while their little brat is screaming because they couldn't get their French Fries from McDonald's. Then the .....
In the meantime, rich fat cat Wall street Banker Federal Welfare receiver has his own jet and just sails over to San Francisco. Then the SOB has the nerve to comment on how your suit is wrinkled and how your tired and absent minded. ....
Tell us how you stole music and got away with it.
She'll need to wear spiked heeled boots and a leather corset.
I think I have issues.
Universities are no longer about getting an education. It's mostly about vocational training. Getting a degree in something for career purposes - unless you're a trust fund baby.
Now, as far as your assertion that there endowment is down 30-50%, I doubt that. They have their own money management office that has some very sharp folks investing. Not your typical IRA or retirement money manager like we peons have. Let's say you're right. So now it's down to only 17 billion! Boo hoo! I'm sure they're starving over there!
If they really need it make up for short falls, then why does it keep increasing every year? Ah, more donations - you may say. That's true. As a matter of fact, people who have never even attended Harvard give them money. What I'm saying is, Harvard could piss their entire endowment away, and there would be plenty of folks out there who'd give them money. Why? Because Harvard (and all the other Ivy League schools for that matter) have a name. They'd have their money back in a few years.
As far as research is concerned, I don't know. But the thing is, I see they get a lot of corporate and Government grants for research. I never see anything about Harvard themselves funding something.
Whatever. You can't lump in an Ivy League university with the rest of US higher education. Those folks are in their own league and I would be incredibly surprised if they ever have financial difficulties.
$9 Million stolen from a bank? Peanuts compared to the next $900 Billion the banks are stealing back again - a hundred thousand times more.... I can't even get to grips with that scale of money....
There's a BIG difference. One group was a bunch of unimaginative, unethical, thieving liars and cowards. The other group had the imagination to do something and take advantage of a weak poorly designed system that gets the guys with the badges and guns after you.
It takes a REAL criminal mind to lobby the regulatory agencies and Congress with dirty money to make your thieving legal. And it's really a piece of work when those lying thieves walk away with tens of millions of dollars in bonuses for cheating.
My fonts are a little small and I'm kind of old. I thought it said, "rapes off cliffs". Thinking, all right, NASA has invented a deviant sex robot.
I would assume the direction of gravitational pull as being down.
I had all three installed and I ended up spending most of my time temporarily enabling scripts and Flash for most sites I visit.
Which really annoys the piss out of me! WTF do web designers have to use Flash for every stupid little thing!
NoScript (which is really annoying in and of itself, but that's another story).
You got that right! I removed 'NoScript'. Every, and I mean every, stinking website I went to had most of their content dependent on scripts. So, I had to constantly click on allow for this time, or for this page, etc... And many times, even after enabling scripts for that page, they still wouldn't run. Very few websites didn't have that problem. Scripts are just too ubiquitous to block.
The problem with her computer was between the chair and the keyboard. Anyway, to shorten the story, I asked her if she's ever Googled for answer to her problems or looked at the manual. Nope.
Folks like that who would actually benefit from something like that will never come across it because they don't even think of searching the net for a solution; let alone of actually reading the manual and following the trouble shooting guide in the back.
People like us, tech savy, will never trust a script like that from MS.
This is doomed to fail.
Besides managing stockpiles of rusty old nukes, Sequoia will also be used for research into astronomy, energy, the human genome and climate change, according to IBM.
It could also be used to search for "suspicious behaviour" by searching Government databases, Credit card companies' databases, credit bureau databases, Choicepoint's, telecommunication companies' databases, airlines, and any other firm that the Government bullies into giving access. Own a gun, buy some grow lights for your reef tank, and fertilizer for your spinach fields and that'lll be a searching and detainment because of the "War on Drugs", "War on Terror", and "War on [insert here]".
Will we be allowed any sort of control over our own information? I think not!
Here in the States, we spend our resources on making sure that everyone can get TV reception and we spend money on lawsuits so that "Intelligent Design" can be taught in science class. In developing countries, science, engineering and medicine are a kid's dream career. Here, it's being famous for some reason - usually for getting drunk and doing outrageous things.
Iran isn't the only country doing this.
We also need to embargo movie special effects software and computers!
*Snooooooooor*
I have no idea how much your government spent on... 'that', but I just know that with one billion dollars you can give 20'000 people 50'000 dollars, each. I'm just asking myself whether rerouting such money directly into the pockets of those laid off wouldn't make more sense.
Because big screen TVs and beer sales would go through the roof?
I wasn't coached, and certainly didn't have a network of interview cheats. A friend who got hired a few months before me told me basically the same information that I've just told you. He gave me an example of a question (estimate how many gas stations in the US, I think) and told me to make sure I remembered my sorting algorithms. So I studied my algorithms text book on the trip to Redmond for the interview, and I never was asked the gas stations question.
DUDE! That's a HUGE leg up!
Those little Mars rovers seem to be going strong. Lets put our money where it seems to be providing the bes
(Now the 'Buttface') However, manned space flight gives all of us hope that there's more to life than this pathetic little planet with all of its pathetic little battles. You want peace on Earth? Have an Alien ship blow up the Whitehouse.
Man needs something greater. Aside from finance, we, as citizens of the World, need to compete for something greater. Struggling on how to defeat this finance bogeyman seams so ...demeaning to all of us humans.
Get my drift folks? Astronauts do not become Astronauts because they want a safe job. If I were capable, I'd risk my life to be in Space.
We were certainly paid the same as any other employee with a similar job and similar experience.
Really? Folks openly talked about how much they were being paid? Hmmm. Interesting.
The major bottleneck was waiting to get any resumes for candidates that seemed worth interviewing.
I was once being prepped for interviews after grad school and the placement office told us about an interviewing technique by a local company that was lifted from MS:
The candidate was asked, "How many diapers are sold in the US?" (Saying I'll Google it is the 'wrong' answer, BTW.)
The successful candidate said something like, "Well, there are 300 million people in the US and 1% are having kids. Therefore, there are 3 million babies. Now, babies need to be changed 3 times a day. So that's 9 million diapers a day. Which is 63 million diapers per week."
She got the job. BTW, all of those numbers were pulled out of her ass, but she got the job because of her "logical" thinking.
I can create hiring standards that no one can satisfy. Are those standards pertinent to the job? Nope. But it sure makes my standards look exclusive.
If you consider how un-innovative MS is, I think their standards are completely bogus.
Another thing, how may people coached you about the interviewing process? I had Indian friends in Grad school and I know about and participated in the network of test and interview 'cheats'.
It can be a great communications tool - when you filter out the trillions of shit messages.
It a great source for news without having to listen to the overpaid talking heads - after you filter out the millions of lies, half-truths, agendas, and propaganda.
And the internet a is a great way to suck away valuable time on shit. For example, online message boards. This thread will offer me absolutely nothing to enrich my life, but here I am. I should do something a little more productive with my time.
Broadband can be addicting. With it, you can more bandwidth hogging content which, for the most part, is crap. Again, here I am.
I think the people who don't want it are wise enough to know that it is not right for them or for their families.
Who doesn't want broadband? Old people, that's who.
Nope. That hasn't been my experience. Many old folks have discovered that the internet allows them to keep in touch with their families. Since folks no longer stick around where they were born and instead move all over the place, the internet is a great way to keep in touch and with broadband, they can have tele -visits and things like that. Also, with the internet, it can be easier to contact a family member. Many folks don't like talking on the phone for hours with their Mother; whereas, email and whatnot make it less painful. And the old folks LOVE getting pictures via email of their grand kids.