Here's a possible fix for that situation: Document and present to your bosses the nature of what you are preventing On my own time? Let me know when my boss decides to give me funding to figure out new ways to ask him for more money. . .
Dr. Rice is a very bright person with a background as provost at Stanford.
Yes, but she believes that communists are hiding under your bed, that if we just look harder, we'll find more oil, forever and ever, evil muslim governments are out to get weapons of mass destruction and detonate them over US cities, and that by torturing people and using covert propaganda, we can protect freedom.
If one missing chick in Aruba occupied FoxNews main story fo 6+ weeks, then you know 14 hikers killed in Hawai'i would, at least get mentioned somewhere. . .
. . . the other drawback being, just as DSL baby bells aren't particularly in love with voip, the Cable broadband providers won't be particularly in love with delivering TV over IP, and Apple eating their lunch.
Gee - what would *I* do, if I were roadrunner? I suppose I could mess with QoS, or fuck around with ports. . .
Vista now uses much better compontentization, and this allows them to actually know what components were affected by an upgrade, and need to be restarted.
. . . that is, until the application vendors (including Microsoft's own developers) get ahold of the system.
but the point where the atmosphere is lost again is so far in the future as to be meaningless.
Here we go again.
I can see Mars, in the future - the environmentalists will be warning everyone of the danger of atmospheric depletion and the need to invest in replenishment, and the conservatives will claim it's hogwash and that paying for replenishment would be a drain on the economy and cost jobs. . .
if you take the time to look at it, it also shows that juvenile crime specifically is at it's lowest level in over a decade.
You say it's gone down since 1994?
I suppose if I had a computer and internet (pr0n) access when I was a teen, I would have spent a lot less time out drinking and smoking and shooting pool with my buddies.
Now, you can argue that it's the free market, blah blah blah, and that's true, but I'd like to point out that it's the free market that made Titanic the #1 movie of all time and Britney Spears the #1 selling music artist of the past few years. Do you really want to be relying on your fellow customers to support the channels you want well enough to keep them afloat on their own?
No. The free market didn't make Titanic the #1 movie. Distribution and Promotion are oligopolistic markets that are ruled by the dominant players, not market forces.
Same largely goes for cable channels. Good riddance to the bad ones. And for the good ones that will have to charge what they cost (through advertisements or fees or both), and the market won't support that, then good riddance to those as well. Maybe more people will pick up a book or two when they can't afford TV anymore.
It's about putting out of business channels that do anything outside the mainstream.
That's a good thing. Audiences who demand non-mainstream programming will turn to other avenues for their entertainment (DVD rental, video on demand, internet downloads, or something nobody's thought of yet) - and those other avenues will thrive, and that audience will very likely be better off for it.
Letting your kids watch overpaid over-testosteroned men pound eachother into the turf while teenage girls jiggle their jigglies in miniskirts and pom poms on the sidelines isn't indecent?
Where did we get the sick notion in this country that demons tearing people apart is somehow more objectionable than football players tearing eachother apart? Or women debasing themselves as sex objects as the symbolic "reward" for the victor? If you ask me, pro football is a lot sicker than most horror flicks. At least in the horror flick, it's all special effects.
Even Atkins said that his diet was unhealthy - but that it was workable as a last resort for people who could not eat healthy due to "addiction to carbs" -
Atkins has worked well for me in the past - but no way would I try to sustain that diet for more than a couple of months. But when I've used the Atkins technique, it works as a wonderful appetite supressant which lasts for years, if I'm careful and diligent. (I tend to have cravings for mass quantities of carbs this time of year). The Atkins technique (I don't think it's accurate to call it a diet) works well for supressing those times when I get into "crave-mode" - and helps me control my weight. But it's certainly not a good idea for any kind of sustained "lifestyle". Atkins can promote "thinness" - but long term, it doesn't make you "healthy". It can be very dangerous, and a lot of people abuse the concept, and that's where it got a bad rap, I guess.
It is my understanding that this is a fairly common requirement for government contracts involving software.
Approved COTS vendors (like microsoft) are usually exempt.
However, the contractor is usually required to provide documentation (including source code) for customizations - like the vote tallying software, and OS configuration, security templates, etc.
Methinks Diebold is warping the truth somewhat to make it sound as if the law is unreasonable.
Flexibility training (stretching, not yoga) helped me. Didn't totally cure my ills, but it got me good enough to get back on my bike again. I learned the training at a physical therapist my doctor recommended for the back pain. It took about 2 months before it even STARTED to work. It's been very gradual process since then. But sometimes tight ligements can be the cause of joint/cartilege problems.
I don't know if you've ever gone grocery shopping, but unhealthy food is dirt cheap. Healthy food is expensive as hell.
It's not necessarily the quantity of food that makes people fat. It's the quality. And the economics determines that. Fresh veggies and greens, and unprocessed meat costs a lot of money, but spoils quickly. Mass-produced, processed, deep fried, frozen, preservative and salt-laden, sweetened, food, is much cheaper to keep on the shelves, and much worse for you - dollar for dollar, and pound for pound.
People who eat at fast food restaurants every day, instead of taking the time to shop and prepare something healthy, are going to get fat. Of course, that's assuming that the person has the luxury of the spare time, and extra money to go the healthy eating route.
Sounds to me like just a technique for counter-rationalization.
"just this one time" is a common rationalization, used by alcoholics and drug addicts everywhere.
Pondering and meditiating on why one wants a cherry soda (presumably to beat down that rationalization) simply sounds like a counter-rationalization. Maybe the theory behind it, and the key, is simply learning to use the correct rationalization to trick yourself into the healthier behavior.
The right of all the people to access government documents is more important than the {supposed} right of one company to make money by charging the people a fee -- no matter how small -- to access government documents.
My guess?
This is why Microsoft is opening the Office formats. They don't want to lose that govt. teat to Open Office. They're probably also planning on minimally conforming to some arbitrary and weak government spec defining "open" - written by either a former or future employee of Microsoft.
SOme of us also have the dilemma of having worked for companies that folded up, or were eaten by larger companies - and HR records for work experience vanished a decade or more ago.
I could theoretically say anything about my experience 10 years ago. There's nobody left, no files or paperwork that could confirm or deny what I did or didn't do.
I've got 15 years experience working AIX, Linux, Macintosh, Sun, but mostly (by far) Windows. I've done some VB programming, shell scripting, perl, java - not really my bag baby, but I can do it.
And I would have failed your questions. And I would have passed the Windows equivalent of your questions.
And in the real world, were I confronted with those questions, I would have used google or MAN and found answers in under 60 seconds. Inside a week, such trivialities would be second nature to me.
I know Windows, because that's what I'm exposed to on a daily basis, and our company had Linux gurus for Linux problems, and I focus my skills on what's in front of my face on any given day.
If you would fail me on an interview because I couldn't answer those questions, you'd be making a huge, horrible mistake. If you would take it on faith that such questions would not be any trouble for me in the real world where I have resources and can recalibrate, and then offer me $60k, I would laugh in your face. For the Bay area, or where I live today.
Just because a design has been finalized, does not mean that it's cheaper to "mass produce", and doesn't mean that the mass produced item will be as reliable as the prototype. Repeatable process is the goal of sound engineering practices - but it isn't always the result.
I agree with you, that it's a good goal, to get to a place where we can mass-produce these things, and take advantage of economies of scale. But it's a completely different engineering problem. And then, you run into the problem of diminishing returns: How many rovers do we need to send to mars? 4? 20? 1000? How much does it cost to staff that exploration effort, including mission plans, and data analysis? And finally - we've got a rover that works great on Mars - will it also work great on Venus? Phobos? A comet? Luna? Will it need significant alterations to work well in those environments? etc.
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Here's a possible fix for that situation: Document and present to your bosses the nature of what you are preventing On my own time? Let me know when my boss decides to give me funding to figure out new ways to ask him for more money. . .
. .. you forgot the part where the lawyers, in turn, shell out $800 for Microsoft Software to do their lawyerin' with.
Dr. Rice is a very bright person with a background as provost at Stanford.
Yes, but she believes that communists are hiding under your bed, that if we just look harder, we'll find more oil, forever and ever, evil muslim governments are out to get weapons of mass destruction and detonate them over US cities, and that by torturing people and using covert propaganda, we can protect freedom.
I wouldn't say that's very smart.
If one missing chick in Aruba occupied FoxNews main story fo 6+ weeks, then you know 14 hikers killed in Hawai'i would,
at least get mentioned somewhere. . .
n short, the military gave me a virulent anti-authoritarian streak.
Good for you.
Thank you for your service, and I'm proud to call you my countryman.
Now, if you could only re-up for another tour, and infect some others. . . or, hell, why not run for office?
. . . the other drawback being, just as DSL baby bells aren't particularly in love with voip, the Cable broadband providers won't be particularly in love with delivering TV over IP, and Apple eating their lunch.
Gee - what would *I* do, if I were roadrunner? I suppose I could mess with QoS, or fuck around with ports. . .
Don't knock it fella, that's our last best hope. . .
Vista now uses much better compontentization, and this allows them to actually know what components were affected by an upgrade, and need to be restarted.
. . . that is, until the application vendors (including Microsoft's own developers) get ahold of the system.
After all, it's providing a new place to fit billions more people.
You mean billions of poor people.
but the point where the atmosphere is lost again is so far in the future as to be meaningless.
Here we go again.
I can see Mars, in the future - the environmentalists will be warning everyone of the danger of atmospheric depletion and the need to invest in replenishment, and the conservatives will claim it's hogwash and that paying for replenishment would be a drain on the economy and cost jobs. . .
UNTIL THEY ALL CHOKE AND DIE!
if you take the time to look at it, it also shows that juvenile crime specifically is at it's lowest level in over a decade.
You say it's gone down since 1994?
I suppose if I had a computer and internet (pr0n) access when I was a teen, I would have spent a lot less time out drinking and smoking and shooting pool with my buddies.
Now, you can argue that it's the free market, blah blah blah, and that's true, but I'd like to point out that it's the free market that made Titanic the #1 movie of all time and Britney Spears the #1 selling music artist of the past few years. Do you really want to be relying on your fellow customers to support the channels you want well enough to keep them afloat on their own?
No. The free market didn't make Titanic the #1 movie. Distribution and Promotion are oligopolistic markets that are ruled by the dominant players, not market forces.
Same largely goes for cable channels. Good riddance to the bad ones. And for the good ones that will have to charge what they cost (through advertisements or fees or both), and the market won't support that, then good riddance to those as well. Maybe more people will pick up a book or two when they can't afford TV anymore.
It's about putting out of business channels that do anything outside the mainstream.
That's a good thing. Audiences who demand non-mainstream programming will turn to other avenues for their entertainment (DVD rental, video on demand, internet downloads, or something nobody's thought of yet) - and those other avenues will thrive, and that audience will very likely be better off for it.
Letting your kids watch overpaid over-testosteroned men pound eachother into the turf while teenage girls jiggle their jigglies in miniskirts and pom poms on the sidelines isn't indecent?
Where did we get the sick notion in this country that demons tearing people apart is somehow more objectionable than football players tearing eachother apart? Or women debasing themselves as sex objects as the symbolic "reward" for the victor? If you ask me, pro football is a lot sicker than most horror flicks. At least in the horror flick, it's all special effects.
Even Atkins said that his diet was unhealthy - but that it was workable as a last resort for people who could not eat healthy due to "addiction to carbs" -
Atkins has worked well for me in the past - but no way would I try to sustain that diet for more than a couple of months. But when I've used the Atkins technique, it works as a wonderful appetite supressant which lasts for years, if I'm careful and diligent. (I tend to have cravings for mass quantities of carbs this time of year). The Atkins technique (I don't think it's accurate to call it a diet) works well for supressing those times when I get into "crave-mode" - and helps me control my weight. But it's certainly not a good idea for any kind of sustained "lifestyle". Atkins can promote "thinness" - but long term, it doesn't make you "healthy". It can be very dangerous, and a lot of people abuse the concept, and that's where it got a bad rap, I guess.
It is my understanding that this is a fairly common requirement for government contracts involving software.
Approved COTS vendors (like microsoft) are usually exempt.
However, the contractor is usually required to provide documentation (including source code) for customizations - like the vote tallying software, and OS configuration, security templates, etc.
Methinks Diebold is warping the truth somewhat to make it sound as if the law is unreasonable.
Bad knees - I understand.
Bad back, bad knees, bad shoulders.
Flexibility training (stretching, not yoga) helped me. Didn't totally cure my ills, but it got me good enough to get back on my bike again. I learned the training at a physical therapist my doctor recommended for the back pain. It took about 2 months before it even STARTED to work. It's been very gradual process since then. But sometimes tight ligements can be the cause of joint/cartilege problems.
I don't know if you've ever gone grocery shopping, but unhealthy food is dirt cheap. Healthy food is expensive as hell.
It's not necessarily the quantity of food that makes people fat. It's the quality. And the economics determines that. Fresh veggies and greens, and unprocessed meat costs a lot of money, but spoils quickly. Mass-produced, processed, deep fried, frozen, preservative and salt-laden, sweetened, food, is much cheaper to keep on the shelves, and much worse for you - dollar for dollar, and pound for pound.
People who eat at fast food restaurants every day, instead of taking the time to shop and prepare something healthy, are going to get fat. Of course, that's assuming that the person has the luxury of the spare time, and extra money to go the healthy eating route.
Sounds to me like just a technique for counter-rationalization.
"just this one time" is a common rationalization, used by alcoholics and drug addicts everywhere.
Pondering and meditiating on why one wants a cherry soda (presumably to beat down that rationalization) simply sounds like a counter-rationalization. Maybe the theory behind it, and the key, is simply learning to use the correct rationalization to trick yourself into the healthier behavior.
The gulf coast is already being forgotten and ignored.
But those people rioting over xbox360's at walmart are so much more important!
The right of all the people to access government documents is more important than the {supposed} right of one company to make money by charging the people a fee -- no matter how small -- to access government documents.
My guess?
This is why Microsoft is opening the Office formats. They don't want to lose that govt. teat to Open Office. They're probably also planning on minimally conforming to some arbitrary and weak government spec defining "open" - written by either a former or future employee of Microsoft.
What I want to know is:
What happens when you put a Sony Music CD into a Diebold machine?
(you just *know* they've got Autoplay enabled in there. . . )
SOme of us also have the dilemma of having worked for companies that folded up, or were eaten by larger companies - and HR records for work experience vanished a decade or more ago.
I could theoretically say anything about my experience 10 years ago. There's nobody left, no files or paperwork that could confirm or deny what I did or didn't do.
I agree too.
I've got 15 years experience working AIX, Linux, Macintosh, Sun, but mostly (by far) Windows. I've done some VB programming, shell scripting, perl, java - not really my bag baby, but I can do it.
And I would have failed your questions.
And I would have passed the Windows equivalent of your questions.
And in the real world, were I confronted with those questions, I would have used google or MAN and found answers in under 60 seconds. Inside a week, such trivialities would be second nature to me.
I know Windows, because that's what I'm exposed to on a daily basis, and our company had Linux gurus for Linux problems, and I focus my skills on what's in front of my face on any given day.
If you would fail me on an interview because I couldn't answer those questions, you'd be making a huge, horrible mistake. If you would take it on faith that such questions would not be any trouble for me in the real world where I have resources and can recalibrate, and then offer me $60k, I would laugh in your face. For the Bay area, or where I live today.
Your problem is your hiring policy.
$60k is pathetic.
Period.
Look at the price of housing around you, for christ's sake. The price of a lousy Starbucks. The price of an Xbox360. Jeez!
Just because a design has been finalized, does not mean that it's cheaper to "mass produce", and doesn't mean that the mass produced item will be as reliable as the prototype. Repeatable process is the goal of sound engineering practices - but it isn't always the result.
I agree with you, that it's a good goal, to get to a place where we can mass-produce these things, and take advantage of economies of scale. But it's a completely different engineering problem. And then, you run into the problem of diminishing returns: How many rovers do we need to send to mars? 4? 20? 1000? How much does it cost to staff that exploration effort, including mission plans, and data analysis? And finally - we've got a rover that works great on Mars - will it also work great on Venus? Phobos? A comet? Luna? Will it need significant alterations to work well in those environments? etc.