That's bullshit. Hungry insurance salesmen REGULARLY aid and abbet their customers in such fraud; How many miles are REALLY driven, who's actually the primary driver (you, or your teenage son?) - etc.
I think that when they start hooking up these devices, the milage estimates on policies will be found to be under on an average of 100% or more.
You *can* get and do the job without a degree. If you're good.
You *will* be paid about 20% less without a degree. Whether you're good or not.
You *will* be at or near the top of the "list" come layoff-time. Even if you're good. (your manager who knows you do good work does not make this decision. Some bean-counter in HR who never met you makes this decision).
Your resume *will* be at or near the bottom of the "list" when you look for a new job. No matter how good you are.
This is what my 14 years of experience and no degree has taught me.
Guys, all you gotta do is tell your cable/sat. provider to feed you the NASA channel.
This stuff was on ALL THE TIME back when America used to do Manned Spaceflight. You know. The good old days. Before the Bush-appointed bean-counter ruined NASA.
The scientists who wanted it, thought it should be built in Illinois, so that Fermilab could be used as an injector ring. It would have been merely an expansion of Fermilab, and thus, would have saved taxpayers BILLIONS of dollars in construction of new facilities (and would have allowed scientists who already live there to stay living there). Additionally, there already existed in Illinois, several firms with lots of experience in deep tunnel boring projects (for Chicago water pipelines, etc.) In Texas, the plan was for some oil-service companies (run by buddies of Bush), to expand their businesses to acquire the capability for that kind of tunneling. They did not have that capability when the contracts were awarded.
Bush pulled strings to get it built in his home state of Texas. Yes, the religions wingnuts have no qualms spending big money on big science, as long as their contributors get to feed at the trough.
Likewise, Clinton performed a mercy-killing on the project, partially as a politically-motivated attack on Bush's supporters, and partially as an attempt to show that they were serious about fighting pork in the federal budget. But there were sound scientific reasons too. Ongoing expansion projects at other facilities in the world will fill in the gaps left by the loss of the SSC. There would be no such alternative for the ISS. On the other hand - I agree that for the money spent, the SSC had a better promise of delivering more useful science than the ISS. Right now, the ISS does provide some limited capability there, but the cost of maintenence (including the Shuttle) is just plain crippling the space program's more worthwhile scientific projects.
He offers the Rodney King tapes and the Abu Gharib prison photos as ways in which saturation surveillance has advanced the cause of justice and the empowerment of the citizenry.
What about the Bush administration's abuse of Executive Privilege, the DOJ's inability to stop Arthur Anderson from shredding hundreds of truckloads of Enron documents during their bankruptcy proceedings, stonewalling of the Valerie Plame investigation, Rush Limbaugh's whining about Doctor/Patient privilege (with the dozens of Doctors from whom he obtained illegal prescriptions), or Dick Cheney's daughter's sexual orientation?
Configuration Management means:
- controlling the Configuration of equipment, in order to ensure consistent behavior.
Unfortunately, Configuration Management often does not take into account the fact that when you put a system on a network, it becomes part of a larger system, and unless you manage the entire network of systems, then you cannot really control your conditions, nor can you ensure consistent behavior.
This needs to be taken into account as a basic "sky is blue" assumption of Configuration Management.
Also, there's a Registry tweak that ensures the kernel does not get paged.
Apparently - not widely known (suprising) because it works well on systems that are not heavily taxed, memory-wise (most desktop systems these days).
Here's the ref::::::::::::
Document ID: CTX195098, Created on: Jul 28, 2000, Updated: Apr 23, 2003
Products: Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 for Microsoft Windows 2000, Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 for Microsoft NT 4.0 Server Terminal Server Edition
Even on a system with a large amount of memory, NT will page out portions of the Executive in order to maximize available memory for applications. Disabling paging can improve OS performance when RAM is available.
Disable paging of exec by setting the following registry key (wrapped for readability):
If NT PPC/Alpha/Mips still existed TODAY - they'd have a much better chance of survival (mainly as web/application servers), because the core apps like backoffice, etc, coupled with a more mature Java implementation, and/or.NET (choose your poison) and/or Perl, would have made such a beast actually useful.
As opposed to an NT PPC/Alpha/MIPS box in 1995, which would be pretty much useless.
What should be MORE terrifying, is I was actually involved in a developer-support issue with WFP (Windows File Protection, the repository you're talking about - not sure what it has to do with Terminal Server's Install/Execute mode crap). - and it (WFP) was "behaving in a manner highly inconsistent with Microsoft's documentation". It was totally fucking with our backup/restore software (if you restore a file, WFP will silently replace it with whatever IT had backed up in it's "repository" directory).
Over a period of weeks, I was shifted from developer to developer in trying to troubleshoot what was really a very simple problem, VERY easily provable with Filemon. What was terrifying, was that Microsoft simply FAILED to find a single one of their developers who had any idea how WFP worked, or what it did. In the end, they told me to tell my customer that WFP behaves as we observed, not as how Microsoft documented it. I asked them to write a KnowledgeBase article documenting this. AFAIK, they never did.
Fucking scary. (\no longer work for the Backup software company, software has been end-of-lifed).
If the world were full of nothing but 5-star restaurants, serving $100 dinners of steak and lobster, many people would just plain starve to death.
However, say, in this hypothetical world, that one day, a "McDonalds" arose to challenge the high-end dining monopoly. Everyone could now afford a meal. If someone had a large family, they could feed them for far less money. The 5-star restaurants would take a HUGE hit on marketshare. Would there still be 5-star restaurants at the end of that day? Certainly. There will always be people willing to pay $100 to not have to eat a mass-produced burger.
Now imagine a few days later, and all the 5-stars have gone out of business, simply because now that everyone's eating at "McDonalds" - the market for the 5-stars is far less than the basic requirements of infrastructure to support the 5-star restaurant industry costs to maintain. It collapses, and we're in a world with one choice. The Crappy Meal.
There would be some people who still crave a Steak. There would even be some people who could afford a steak. But there would be nobody left who could afford to make, and sell a steak.
Market Fundamentalists would say that this is a good thing. Even a NECESSARY thing. If there's insufficient market to support a product or service, such a product or service does not "merit" existence.
Until someone in another country who craved steak enough, paid for it on his Oil Revenues, grew strong on the real red meat, came and kicked the soyburger-eating asses of the narrow-minded fools who let themselves lose leadership in yet another security-critical industry.
Tens of thousands of years ago, humans migrated from Northeast Asia, across a landbridge, and settled in North America.
A thousand years ago, Chinese ships sailed to the American West coast, and dropped anchors, later found by Archeologists.
Nine hundred years ago, Leif Ericson followed a tale of a previous Viking explorer blown off course in a storm, to find and settle Vineland (Modern Greenland). But the settlement did not last long, and the inhabitants (likely) returned to Iceland.
Five hundred years ago, Columbus landed in North America, followed by more European settlers, who built, created industries, raised armies, and developed two new continents, (displacing the indiginous peoples in the process - but I digress).
Columbus gets all the credit - and his followers - US, we're still here mostly.
In 2000 years, nobody's going to remember much about the guy who put the first footprints on the Moon or Mars. People will remember the ones who made it possible for THEM to put their own footprints, (and buildings, and farms, and offspring) on the Moon or Mars (or elsewhere).
Foundation? WTF are they going to do with Foundation? I'm skeptical that any well-known, well-intentioned producer could come up with ANY reasonable adaptation of that series.
Another disaster waiting to happen. . .
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Bullshit.
Football and Baseball are so ANTI-intellectual, that fans have to INVENT intellectual aspects (like the obsessive-compulsive need for fans to compete on the rote memorization of obscure and trivial statistics - which is really just all about trying to intellectualize the gambling side of sports).
Good managers learn by common sense and OJT; those who think management can be condensed into buzzword-laden bestsellers are inevitably terrible at actually doing it.
True; but there's GOT to be some technical aspect to it. At least in the realm of designing business processes. There are good ways of doing this and bad ways of doing this. Currently, I have yet to encounter one that seems to be the result of a good way. You can't just sit back and say "all management is art, and can't be quantified or approached scientifically". On the other hand, of course there's a lot of bunk out there getting published. Back at the turn of the centruy, all kinds of crap was being sold as remedies for every ailment known to man - because the field of Medicine was so lacking back then. Business is in the same state today.
probably contributed significantly to the restraint exercised by the USA and the USSR, two countries that could have killed many tens of millions ouright in a nuclear war and many more later through its aftermath.
Soviet tactical plans for major cities were to use thermonuclear devices, then, a few days later, an arial spray of anthrax on any survivors. With the radiation exposure, a weakened immune system, and limited access to antibiotics, survial within 50 miles of the epicenter was estimated to be less then 1/10 of 1 percent. Tens of millions dead? Gross understatement. Who knows what the Americans had cooking.
Democracy in action is when provisions of the PATRIOT ACT are tested in court, and found to be in violation of the Constitution.
The people can and will vote for whatever crazy shit the "herd" wants. But even the will of the people MUST be subservient to the Constitution. (or, the Constitution can be amended. ..) Because the will of the "herd" often is to give up individual will to the "shepherd" in exchange for security, protection from the wolves. The problem arises, of course, when the shepherd starts abusing this authority and trust granted to him, by cutting throats and selling carcasses at the market. THAT is what the Constitution was designed to protect against.
Let's quote that flaming liberal Activist Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia: "Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis---that, at the extremes of military exigency, inter arma silent leges. Whatever the general merits of the view that war silences law or modulates its voice, that view has no place in the interpretation and application of a Constitution designed precisely to confront war and, in a manner that accords with democratic principles, to accommodate it."
The sooner the Patriot Act gets a fair look by the judicial branch, under our Constitutional Framework, the better.
I vaccuumed dust out of the case of a machine I had back in 1998. Put it back together, pushed the power switch. The power supply came on, but no post, no nothing. Must have fried every IC on the logic board.
I had a Beige, that I upgraded over and over, ran OS X 10.3.3 on it, etc. But then apple took away support for old ROM machines, and I couldn't wait for X post Facto to update to fix the problem - I thought about buying older power macs. Then the G5 came out.
I was thinking wrong before. My Beige was $1500 when I bought it. It lasted me 7 years. The top end G5 was $3000 - compare to a top-end Dell. With reasonably equivalent capabilities, we're talking maybe $5000. And (hopefully) - this G5 lasts me as long as my Beige - perhpas longer. Will I be putting $500 upgrades on the G5 tower? Who knows? I'm already spending money on things like flash card readers, external firewire hard drives, things like that. But still - the top-end G5, for me - is a VERY thrifty deal - when you factor in longevity, price-performance, etc. I just have to pray that Jobs doesn't obsolete my hardware through software upgrades. When that happens, maybe it's Linux-time. (My Beige is now running Yellowdog.)
Now I do understand that it's fashionable on/. to bitch and moan about how you should be allowed to steal everyone's work.
Thanks for the bullshit strawman.
What we're bitching and moaning about is that the language covering patent law in the Constitution doesn't support most of this crap, and that patent law is a very easy tool used by bureaucrats to pander influence, and use barratry to stifle competition - which is PRECISELY the opposite intent for patents, stated in the US Constitution.
Construction techniques required to build the Las Vegas Monorail are essentially no different than what was needed to build I-215
Actually, far easier. The concrete can be poured and set offsite, in a factory, and the track sections trucked in and erected on site. The potential for economies of scale are pretty huge. The cars could be mass produced. The control system could be mass produced (but it would still require some calibration once installed) and the track can be mass produced (but it requires construction labor, of course, to install.)
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That's bullshit.
Hungry insurance salesmen REGULARLY aid and abbet their customers in such fraud;
How many miles are REALLY driven, who's actually the primary driver (you, or your teenage son?) - etc.
I think that when they start hooking up these devices, the milage estimates on policies will be found to be under on an average of 100% or more.
A welcome improvement - folks who eat poorly, smoke, and don't excercise will get their health insurance rates jacked up.
I'd agree with that far more than the corporate big-brother in my car.
You *can* get and do the job without a degree.
If you're good.
You *will* be paid about 20% less without a degree.
Whether you're good or not.
You *will* be at or near the top of the "list" come layoff-time.
Even if you're good.
(your manager who knows you do good work does not make this decision. Some bean-counter in HR who never met you makes this decision).
Your resume *will* be at or near the bottom of the "list" when you look for a new job.
No matter how good you are.
This is what my 14 years of experience and no degree has taught me.
Guys, all you gotta do is tell your cable/sat. provider to feed you the NASA channel.
This stuff was on ALL THE TIME back when America used to do Manned Spaceflight. You know. The good old days. Before the Bush-appointed bean-counter ruined NASA.
Duh.
SSC was pork-barrel politics from Bush Sr.
The scientists who wanted it, thought it should be built in Illinois, so that Fermilab could be used as an injector ring. It would have been merely an expansion of Fermilab, and thus, would have saved taxpayers BILLIONS of dollars in construction of new facilities (and would have allowed scientists who already live there to stay living there). Additionally, there already existed in Illinois, several firms with lots of experience in deep tunnel boring projects (for Chicago water pipelines, etc.) In Texas, the plan was for some oil-service companies (run by buddies of Bush), to expand their businesses to acquire the capability for that kind of tunneling. They did not have that capability when the contracts were awarded.
Bush pulled strings to get it built in his home state of Texas. Yes, the religions wingnuts have no qualms spending big money on big science, as long as their contributors get to feed at the trough.
Likewise, Clinton performed a mercy-killing on the project, partially as a politically-motivated attack on Bush's supporters, and partially as an attempt to show that they were serious about fighting pork in the federal budget. But there were sound scientific reasons too. Ongoing expansion projects at other facilities in the world will fill in the gaps left by the loss of the SSC. There would be no such alternative for the ISS. On the other hand - I agree that for the money spent, the SSC had a better promise of delivering more useful science than the ISS. Right now, the ISS does provide some limited capability there, but the cost of maintenence (including the Shuttle) is just plain crippling the space program's more worthwhile scientific projects.
He offers the Rodney King tapes and the Abu Gharib prison photos as ways in which saturation surveillance has advanced the cause of justice and the empowerment of the citizenry.
What about the Bush administration's abuse of Executive Privilege, the DOJ's inability to stop Arthur Anderson from shredding hundreds of truckloads of Enron documents during their bankruptcy proceedings, stonewalling of the Valerie Plame investigation, Rush Limbaugh's whining about Doctor/Patient privilege (with the dozens of Doctors from whom he obtained illegal prescriptions), or Dick Cheney's daughter's sexual orientation?
Double double standards standards.
Configuration Management means:
- controlling the Configuration of equipment, in order to ensure consistent behavior.
Unfortunately, Configuration Management often does not take into account the fact that when you put a system on a network, it becomes part of a larger system, and unless you manage the entire network of systems, then you cannot really control your conditions, nor can you ensure consistent behavior.
This needs to be taken into account as a basic "sky is blue" assumption of Configuration Management.
Sadly, it is not.
Notice, he said POPULAR creative arts.
Creative arts will still exist.
The money-making pop machine churning out garbage that must be "promoted" will die.
IMNSHO, this would be a VERY good thing indeed.
Also, there's a Registry tweak that ensures the kernel does not get paged.
Apparently - not widely known (suprising) because it works well on systems that are not heavily taxed, memory-wise (most desktop systems these days).
Here's the ref::::::::::::
Document ID: CTX195098, Created on: Jul 28, 2000, Updated: Apr 23, 2003
Products: Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 for Microsoft Windows 2000, Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 for Microsoft NT 4.0 Server Terminal Server Edition
Even on a system with a large amount of memory, NT will page out portions of the Executive in order to maximize available memory for applications. Disabling paging can improve OS performance when RAM is available.
Disable paging of exec by setting the following registry key (wrapped for readability):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Current ControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
DisablePagingExecutive:DWORD:00000001
If NT PPC/Alpha/Mips still existed TODAY - they'd have a much better chance of survival (mainly as web/application servers), because the core apps like backoffice, etc, coupled with a more mature Java implementation, and/or
As opposed to an NT PPC/Alpha/MIPS box in 1995, which would be pretty much useless.
What should be MORE terrifying, is I was actually involved in a developer-support issue with WFP (Windows File Protection, the repository you're talking about - not sure what it has to do with Terminal Server's Install/Execute mode crap). - and it (WFP) was "behaving in a manner highly inconsistent with Microsoft's documentation". It was totally fucking with our backup/restore software (if you restore a file, WFP will silently replace it with whatever IT had backed up in it's "repository" directory).
Over a period of weeks, I was shifted from developer to developer in trying to troubleshoot what was really a very simple problem, VERY easily provable with Filemon. What was terrifying, was that Microsoft simply FAILED to find a single one of their developers who had any idea how WFP worked, or what it did. In the end, they told me to tell my customer that WFP behaves as we observed, not as how Microsoft documented it. I asked them to write a KnowledgeBase article documenting this. AFAIK, they never did.
Fucking scary.
(\no longer work for the Backup software company, software has been end-of-lifed).
If the world were full of nothing but 5-star restaurants, serving $100 dinners of steak and lobster, many people would just plain starve to death.
However, say, in this hypothetical world, that one day, a "McDonalds" arose to challenge the high-end dining monopoly. Everyone could now afford a meal. If someone had a large family, they could feed them for far less money. The 5-star restaurants would take a HUGE hit on marketshare. Would there still be 5-star restaurants at the end of that day? Certainly. There will always be people willing to pay $100 to not have to eat a mass-produced burger.
Now imagine a few days later, and all the 5-stars have gone out of business, simply because now that everyone's eating at "McDonalds" - the market for the 5-stars is far less than the basic requirements of infrastructure to support the 5-star restaurant industry costs to maintain. It collapses, and we're in a world with one choice. The Crappy Meal.
There would be some people who still crave a Steak. There would even be some people who could afford a steak. But there would be nobody left who could afford to make, and sell a steak.
Market Fundamentalists would say that this is a good thing. Even a NECESSARY thing. If there's insufficient market to support a product or service, such a product or service does not "merit" existence.
Until someone in another country who craved steak enough, paid for it on his Oil Revenues, grew strong on the real red meat, came and kicked the soyburger-eating asses of the narrow-minded fools who let themselves lose leadership in yet another security-critical industry.
Tens of thousands of years ago, humans migrated from Northeast Asia, across a landbridge, and settled in North America.
A thousand years ago, Chinese ships sailed to the American West coast, and dropped anchors, later found by Archeologists.
Nine hundred years ago, Leif Ericson followed a tale of a previous Viking explorer blown off course in a storm, to find and settle Vineland (Modern Greenland). But the settlement did not last long, and the inhabitants (likely) returned to Iceland.
Five hundred years ago, Columbus landed in North America, followed by more European settlers, who built, created industries, raised armies, and developed two new continents, (displacing the indiginous peoples in the process - but I digress).
Columbus gets all the credit - and his followers - US, we're still here mostly.
In 2000 years, nobody's going to remember much about the guy who put the first footprints on the Moon or Mars. People will remember the ones who made it possible for THEM to put their own footprints, (and buildings, and farms, and offspring) on the Moon or Mars (or elsewhere).
More precisely, Hanford is about secrecy and unaccountability.
Foundation? WTF are they going to do with Foundation? I'm skeptical that any well-known, well-intentioned producer could come up with ANY reasonable adaptation of that series.
Another disaster waiting to happen. . .
Bullshit.
Football and Baseball are so ANTI-intellectual, that fans have to INVENT intellectual aspects (like the obsessive-compulsive need for fans to compete on the rote memorization of obscure and trivial statistics - which is really just all about trying to intellectualize the gambling side of sports).
Good managers learn by common sense and OJT; those who think management can be condensed into buzzword-laden bestsellers are inevitably terrible at actually doing it.
True; but there's GOT to be some technical aspect to it. At least in the realm of designing business processes. There are good ways of doing this and bad ways of doing this. Currently, I have yet to encounter one that seems to be the result of a good way. You can't just sit back and say "all management is art, and can't be quantified or approached scientifically". On the other hand, of course there's a lot of bunk out there getting published. Back at the turn of the centruy, all kinds of crap was being sold as remedies for every ailment known to man - because the field of Medicine was so lacking back then. Business is in the same state today.
probably contributed significantly to the restraint exercised by the USA and the USSR, two countries that could have killed many tens of millions ouright in a nuclear war and many more later through its aftermath.
Soviet tactical plans for major cities were to use thermonuclear devices, then, a few days later, an arial spray of anthrax on any survivors. With the radiation exposure, a weakened immune system, and limited access to antibiotics, survial within 50 miles of the epicenter was estimated to be less then 1/10 of 1 percent. Tens of millions dead? Gross understatement. Who knows what the Americans had cooking.
NO!
.) Because the will of the "herd" often is to give up individual will to the "shepherd" in exchange for security, protection from the wolves. The problem arises, of course, when the shepherd starts abusing this authority and trust granted to him, by cutting throats and selling carcasses at the market. THAT is what the Constitution was designed to protect against.
Democracy in action is when provisions of the PATRIOT ACT are tested in court, and found to be in violation of the Constitution.
The people can and will vote for whatever crazy shit the "herd" wants. But even the will of the people MUST be subservient to the Constitution. (or, the Constitution can be amended. .
Let's quote that flaming liberal Activist Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia:
"Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis---that, at the extremes of military exigency, inter arma silent leges. Whatever the general merits of the view that war silences law or modulates its voice, that view has no place in the interpretation and application of a Constitution designed precisely to confront war and, in a manner that accords with democratic principles, to accommodate it."
The sooner the Patriot Act gets a fair look by the judicial branch, under our Constitutional Framework, the better.
Worst disaster ever:
I found out why people use those dust-off cans.
The hard way.
I vaccuumed dust out of the case of a machine I had back in 1998. Put it back together, pushed the power switch. The power supply came on, but no post, no nothing. Must have fried every IC on the logic board.
I used to think that way.
I had a Beige, that I upgraded over and over, ran OS X 10.3.3 on it, etc. But then apple took away support for old ROM machines, and I couldn't wait for X post Facto to update to fix the problem - I thought about buying older power macs. Then the G5 came out.
I was thinking wrong before. My Beige was $1500 when I bought it. It lasted me 7 years. The top end G5 was $3000 - compare to a top-end Dell. With reasonably equivalent capabilities, we're talking maybe $5000. And (hopefully) - this G5 lasts me as long as my Beige - perhpas longer. Will I be putting $500 upgrades on the G5 tower? Who knows? I'm already spending money on things like flash card readers, external firewire hard drives, things like that. But still - the top-end G5, for me - is a VERY thrifty deal - when you factor in longevity, price-performance, etc. I just have to pray that Jobs doesn't obsolete my hardware through software upgrades. When that happens, maybe it's Linux-time. (My Beige is now running Yellowdog.)
Now I do understand that it's fashionable on /. to bitch and moan about how you should be allowed to steal everyone's work.
Thanks for the bullshit strawman.
What we're bitching and moaning about is that the language covering patent law in the Constitution doesn't support most of this crap, and that patent law is a very easy tool used by bureaucrats to pander influence, and use barratry to stifle competition - which is PRECISELY the opposite intent for patents, stated in the US Constitution.
That's what we're bitching about.
Anyone out there writing cross-platform documentation ever run into this little ditty?:
In Windows, you LOGON to the system.
In Linux (and every other flavor of Unix I'm familliar with) you LOGIN to the system.
(I just noticed this a few days ago - I'm wondering about Novell and OS/2 - - anyone know?)
Construction techniques required to build the Las Vegas Monorail are essentially no different than what was needed to build I-215
Actually, far easier. The concrete can be poured and set offsite, in a factory, and the track sections trucked in and erected on site. The potential for economies of scale are pretty huge. The cars could be mass produced. The control system could be mass produced (but it would still require some calibration once installed) and the track can be mass produced (but it requires construction labor, of course, to install.)
It's all interesting that of the dozens of cab companies in Vegas, all are owned by three different people.