As much as I think ROTK sucked ass, and proved to be a bitter disappointment after 30 years of expectations, for the life of me, I can't recall a better movie coming out in 03.
I consider myself a serious technician. If I don't have a static strap available, I at least make sure I'm touching the power supply or the metal frame of the case.
But then that's because my first tech job was assembling and calibrating $50,000 tape autoloaders. (at $8/hr - rather intimidating). The guy who was trained with me killed one (that we know of) because he habitually didn't wear his wrist strap. The boss was watching when he didn't know it.
My suggestion: start studying nursing. They can't outsource that job yet...
a naive and uninformed statement. My mother was a nurse for 20 years. They did this in the 1980's, just before she retired. Her hospital, and others, began stripping out the full-on nurses with nursing degrees, and replacing them with "nurses aides". Doing essentially the same job, with 2 years less school, abbreviated benefits package, and no frickin clue what they were doing.
Of course, during her tenure, the hospital also evolved from a hospital, to what amounts to basically a hip-replacement factory. So some of that knowledge in the nursing staff was not necessary.
They don't claim stock options. Sun didn't pay Income taxes either.
After Enron, Bush's SEC decided to suggest that companies might want to start claiming stock options they offer employees as compensation. Microsoft declined to take them up on that.
A group of say, 6 people get together after work, and decide to pool their money to buy some beer after work. A couple of them don't have any money, and one of them has a big fat wad of cash, but does not disclose this fact to the others. He claims he only has enough money to pay his 1/6th of the cost.
The three with money decide to spot the other two, even though it'll make them short through the weekend, and they buy a case, 4 beers each, and they all get buzzed. Then, while buzzed, the guy with the big fat wad, discloses this fact.
The case of beer was bought and paid for. But 5 people still feel screwed, and ask the guy with the wad to help pay for the two who didn't have any cash.
The guy with the big wad says "Screw you, hippie, get a job."
Next Friday, 5 people go out drinking after work. ..
This is my summary of American Politics today. Thank you.
I bought a Mac G3 Desktop several years ago, 233MHz Beige. By switching some jumpers, I overclocked it to 300MHz, thus saving myself the extra $1500 Apple was charging for their high-end version.
I ran this machine for 5 years with no problems (no problems other than the same problems I hit when the machine was at 233, and the same problems I hit on my previous machine, a 66MHz 601 - those problems were based on the Classic Mac OS's crappy memory and non preemptive multitasking - not overclocking). When I upgraded to OS X, those stability issues disappeared, and it ran fine, if slow. So I upgraded to a G4 ZIF, which shipped as a 450 MHz. I jumpered it to 500 MHz. It ran just fine for two years after that, when I retired the machine because the OS no longer fully supported the hardware.
I wouldn't run a mission-critical server like that. But squeezing a few extra % of performance out of a desktop machine was a great way to get a better price/performance ratio.
On the other hand - I just got a dual 2GHz G5 a few months ago - I have no desire to overclock it. Though I may replace the cooling fans with something quieter. . .
I'd guess that is the cost for actually getting the fuel there - including escorting it with armoured vehicles, patrolling above with helicopter gunships, etc etc, salaries for the bureaucrats keeping track of it, cost of labour at both ends for loading and unloading, etc etc etc.
You're forgetting the cost of compensating ex-executives who are now the president's administration acting as proxy lobbyists, and the cost of getting said ex-executives INTO office via soft campaign contributions, and the cost of buying large chunks of newsmedia outlets to ensure that negative stories don't make it to the public.
The simple fact is that free software/open source is, if successfull, going to be the death of quite a few software companies. Or, if not their death, at least seriously hit their profits.
That's quite an absurd stretch. There will ALWAYS be a market for commercial, closed software. In fact, if commercial software vendors went out of business, then people programming as a hobby and contributing to open source, would lose their jobs, and their means of support, and this would have a negative impact on the amount of man-hours dumped into open source, in general.
I think it's a symbiotic relationship. Or perhaps parasitic, but I don't think that one can really live without the other. (Yes, I believe that software piracy is sort of a proxy open source movement, in the absence of a true open source movement (or any copy protection technology) in the early 80's late 70's, there was rampant piracy - and it was this free-flow of information that effectively created hundreds of thousands of "computer geniuses" which effectively created the computer industry. Without that free-flow of information, expertise would be limited to a few, elite, very expensive experts, and computing, in general, would have been limited to a few data centers in a few very large corporations).
Actually, I was kind of looking at this as sort of an "international Junkyard Wars" (er - Scrapheap Challenge).
Maybe a little freindly competition isn't that bad of a thing afterall. As long as it doesn't turn into a resource-wasting pissing contest, which is where George seems to be pointing it.
I really have had a shit-awful time getting printer sharing to work right on my home LAN of 4 macs. I have one printer, and if the iMac it's connected to goes to sleep - well, first of all, Wake on LAN access does not work. At all. Ever. Second of all, if you try to print while that machine is asleep, you pretty much have to delete and readd the printer through the control panel if you ever want to print again. I'm starting to think that I should just give up and buy a network printer.
. The book cooking CEOs that run these companies, and the accountants that don't stand up for what's right are the criminals who are responsible, and should be treated like the felons they are.
But we all know they won't be, because they exert undue LEGAL influence on our government representatives.
Because it was ruled that money=speech. That is the root of all of our problems.
Money isn't speech. It's stored labor.
I'm not saying we should ban corporations. I'm saying we should ELIMINATE this undue influence they have. So they can focus on business, and let individual voting citizens focus on politics.
You realize you're talking about the starvation or military slaughter of hundreds of millions, possibly billions of civillians, so that the few elite rich can continue to live in luxury, don't you?
Think you're hot shit with your programmer job?
Think computers are going to matter when the electricity to run them is going to be $20/kwh?
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As much as I think ROTK sucked ass, and proved to be a bitter disappointment after 30 years of expectations, for the life of me, I can't recall a better movie coming out in 03.
Prince is washed up.
He went Christian-Fundamentalist, so he can't make any more money, because he made all his money off of selling sexuality in the first place.
(he's reportedly VERY strongly against women's rights now - too bad, Nation of Islam missed out on another potential convert.)
Actually, I still list my 1994 ECNE on my resume. Better than nothing.
I consider myself a serious technician. If I don't have a static strap available, I at least make sure I'm touching the power supply or the metal frame of the case.
But then that's because my first tech job was assembling and calibrating $50,000 tape autoloaders. (at $8/hr - rather intimidating). The guy who was trained with me killed one (that we know of) because he habitually didn't wear his wrist strap. The boss was watching when he didn't know it.
My limited experience with Mensa about 10 years ago seemed to indicate that it was little more than an elitist social club for snobby academics.
No flame intended. That was just a personal observation.
My suggestion: start studying nursing. They can't outsource that job yet...
a naive and uninformed statement. My mother was a nurse for 20 years. They did this in the 1980's, just before she retired. Her hospital, and others, began stripping out the full-on nurses with nursing degrees, and replacing them with "nurses aides". Doing essentially the same job, with 2 years less school, abbreviated benefits package, and no frickin clue what they were doing.
Of course, during her tenure, the hospital also evolved from a hospital, to what amounts to basically a hip-replacement factory. So some of that knowledge in the nursing staff was not necessary.
This also applies to degrees.
You are correct sir.
Microsoft stands upon a very crowded stage as far as this issue is concerned.
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They don't claim stock options. Sun didn't pay Income taxes either.
After Enron, Bush's SEC decided to suggest that companies might want to start claiming stock options they offer employees as compensation. Microsoft declined to take them up on that.
Let's put it this way:
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A group of say, 6 people get together after work, and decide to pool their money to buy some beer after work. A couple of them don't have any money, and one of them has a big fat wad of cash, but does not disclose this fact to the others. He claims he only has enough money to pay his 1/6th of the cost.
The three with money decide to spot the other two, even though it'll make them short through the weekend, and they buy a case, 4 beers each, and they all get buzzed.
Then, while buzzed, the guy with the big fat wad, discloses this fact.
The case of beer was bought and paid for. But 5 people still feel screwed, and ask the guy with the wad to help pay for the two who didn't have any cash.
The guy with the big wad says "Screw you, hippie, get a job."
Next Friday, 5 people go out drinking after work. .
This is my summary of American Politics today.
Thank you.
Microsoft doesn't pay any taxes to begin with.
At least for the last 5 years, they've loopholed out of all their federal taxes, and Washington has not state tax. I suppose they pay sales tax?
Silver CAN build up in your system, and turn your skin PERMANENTLY grey.
/. on this a few months back. . .
There was a
I bought a Mac G3 Desktop several years ago, 233MHz Beige. By switching some jumpers, I overclocked it to 300MHz, thus saving myself the extra $1500 Apple was charging for their high-end version.
I ran this machine for 5 years with no problems (no problems other than the same problems I hit when the machine was at 233, and the same problems I hit on my previous machine, a 66MHz 601 - those problems were based on the Classic Mac OS's crappy memory and non preemptive multitasking - not overclocking). When I upgraded to OS X, those stability issues disappeared, and it ran fine, if slow. So I upgraded to a G4 ZIF, which shipped as a 450 MHz. I jumpered it to 500 MHz. It ran just fine for two years after that, when I retired the machine because the OS no longer fully supported the hardware.
I wouldn't run a mission-critical server like that. But squeezing a few extra % of performance out of a desktop machine was a great way to get a better price/performance ratio.
On the other hand - I just got a dual 2GHz G5 a few months ago - I have no desire to overclock it. Though I may replace the cooling fans with something quieter. . .
But I thought major combat was over?
I'd guess that is the cost for actually getting the fuel there - including escorting it with armoured vehicles, patrolling above with helicopter gunships, etc etc, salaries for the bureaucrats keeping track of it, cost of labour at both ends for loading and unloading, etc etc etc.
You're forgetting the cost of compensating ex-executives who are now the president's administration acting as proxy lobbyists, and the cost of getting said ex-executives INTO office via soft campaign contributions, and the cost of buying large chunks of newsmedia outlets to ensure that negative stories don't make it to the public.
Hey, keeping the oil flowing is HUGELY expensive.
The simple fact is that free software/open source is, if successfull, going to be the death of quite a few software companies. Or, if not their death, at least seriously hit their profits.
That's quite an absurd stretch.
There will ALWAYS be a market for commercial, closed software. In fact, if commercial software vendors went out of business, then people programming as a hobby and contributing to open source, would lose their jobs, and their means of support, and this would have a negative impact on the amount of man-hours dumped into open source, in general.
I think it's a symbiotic relationship. Or perhaps parasitic, but I don't think that one can really live without the other.
(Yes, I believe that software piracy is sort of a proxy open source movement, in the absence of a true open source movement (or any copy protection technology) in the early 80's late 70's, there was rampant piracy - and it was this free-flow of information that effectively created hundreds of thousands of "computer geniuses" which effectively created the computer industry. Without that free-flow of information, expertise would be limited to a few, elite, very expensive experts, and computing, in general, would have been limited to a few data centers in a few very large corporations).
Actually, I was kind of looking at this as sort of an "international Junkyard Wars" (er - Scrapheap Challenge).
Maybe a little freindly competition isn't that bad of a thing afterall. As long as it doesn't turn into a resource-wasting pissing contest, which is where George seems to be pointing it.
I really have had a shit-awful time getting printer sharing to work right on my home LAN of 4 macs. I have one printer, and if the iMac it's connected to goes to sleep - well, first of all, Wake on LAN access does not work. At all. Ever. Second of all, if you try to print while that machine is asleep, you pretty much have to delete and readd the printer through the control panel if you ever want to print again. I'm starting to think that I should just give up and buy a network printer.
. The book cooking CEOs that run these companies, and the accountants that don't stand up for what's right are the criminals who are responsible, and should be treated like the felons they are.
But we all know they won't be, because they exert undue LEGAL influence on our government representatives.
Because it was ruled that money=speech. That is the root of all of our problems.
Money isn't speech. It's stored labor.
I'm not saying we should ban corporations. I'm saying we should ELIMINATE this undue influence they have. So they can focus on business, and let individual voting citizens focus on politics.
You've got a strange view of Discordianism.
Eris LOVES corporations. Corporations struggle and strive against eachother, for resources, for profit. Eris LOVES strife. It's what she's all about.
Invented?
Can you say - Mueybridge? Like, 100 years ago?
Most republicans won't view this as a crime, because the Democrats have their "liberal agenda" and anything that's done to stop that agenda, is okay.
Hot potato?
You realize you're talking about the starvation or military slaughter of hundreds of millions, possibly billions of civillians, so that the few elite rich can continue to live in luxury, don't you?
Think you're hot shit with your programmer job?
Think computers are going to matter when the electricity to run them is going to be $20/kwh?
You'll be a burden at that point.
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