It seems that, if you can get a court to accept your definitions of terms, you can watch your opponent's proposed remedies disappear in the wind. - - -
Let's change the definition of "murder" then: abortion euthanasia execution self defense "needed killin'"
If this has happened every 250,000 years, it's obviously not a threat to the existence of life on this planet.
Apparently this article is a flare, to get the public thinking about magnetic field reversal, to hype the upcoming disaster-movie The Core. Expect this story to appear on CNN soon.
Yeah, basically, with things like this going on, what the terrorists of 9/11 have accomplished is no less than the destruction of the USA. We're no longer free, so what's the point?
The reason Apple customers are Apple's worst critics, is because the number one thing most Apple customers want is a decent selection of competetive software. If there were a wider range of software available on the Mac, then prices for the software would be more on par with what's available on the PC side. We pay more for software because of lack of competition.
And the reason why the software market is so much smaller on the Mac side, is because the marketshare that the platform has is very small.
Many Apple customers, especially Mac zealots, belive quite strongly that the only reason why the platform has such a small marketshare, is because Apple simply fails to execute on the potential of the platform. Here's just a list of perceived failures: 1. No cloning. (I personally think the ending of cloning was probably a good move) 2. The MHz gap. (The PPC theoretically should be on-par with Intel MHz-wise, due to RISC, copper, SOI, smaller process, etc. but Motorola keeps lagging) 2.5. Frontside bus technology about 3 generations behind the PC. 3. No PDA. 4. No strategy for the gaming market. 5. No strategy for the server market. 6. No low-end solution with unbundled monitor (monitorless iMac, or Cube-with-realistic-pricing). 7. No yellowbox-for-Windows runtime. (holy CRAP what was Apple thinking?) 8. The dock.
The "Mac faithful" are the ones who pay more money for hardware and software, and when they see Apple make a stupid decision, it hits their bottom line, but they're frustrated because for many - there's simply no comparable solution on the PC side (no colorsync, no consumer-level DVD authoring, etc).
I originally ran OS X on my Beige G3 (300 Mhz, 128 Meg RAM) and it was DOG slow.
I have since upgraded to a 450 MHz G4 CPU, and that pepped things up a bit - but the REAL kicker was going up to 256 Meg of RAM. You need AT LEAST 256 megs of RAM to run OS X reasonably fast.
The effect was so dramatic, I kicked up the RAM to 640 Meg.
Performance is adequate, and if it weren't for the fact that the Beige G3 platform itself wasn't obsoleted by OS X (crappy ADB and SCSI support, no support for Quartz Extreme), I wouldn't even be considering replacing it. But this machine will still be serving me for many years to come.
Yes, we all remember the story about the organic chemistry class, where some female student was mixing something, and it went very wrong, and became a vapor, which rose up and dissolved her polyester blouse. . .
This very much resembles the typical situation where two vendors have a solution that's supposed to work "in theory" but one or both implementations of the "standard" are broken; ie- there's some undocumented behavior.
Quite often, in these situations, Vendor B has set up a test environment, and it works in their lab. But that only matches about 20-30% of the environments you'll hit in the field. (as I've seen, you typically see stuff like this breaking on the Microsoft side, mysteriously dropping names, losing connections, failing to authenticate where there's supposedly a trust - etc. it can be fragile on "difficult" networks).
It's not enough for Vendor B to say that their solution works with Vendor A's solution - it has to be tested, but then you get it out into the field and you run into these "edge cases" and it doesn't work - and the ONLY way ANY vendor can fix it is to plow through it with onsite visits with engineers, LAN analysis, debugging, etc. It's very costly and time consuming. In the end, Vendor B will code around the problems, (or try to get Vendor A to code around them) and the system becomes more robust. This is what is known as a "MATURE" product. An immature product "should" work, and does not when you hit an edge case, and the vendor hasn't "worked it out" yet. Only the companies that "been there done that" have "mature" products. We need to ALL remember that OS X is just a year or so old. Apple has been in the server market (in this incarnation) for less than 6 months. Apple does not have the field force of say, IBM, Sun, or CA. It's going to take time for them to grow the expertise to mature THIS solution, and learn how to mature their other solutions.
This is why the CIO's out there tend to shun products from smaller, newer companies. No matter how cool, great, whiz-bang, or free the product is - it it's going to be costly to implement if it, and the support organization behind it, aren't MATURE.
Yes - the fault lies with Vendor A in this case, most likely, for using a non standard implementation (as Microsoft is FAMOUS for - on purpose, to get the checkmark for compatability, but actually preventing interoperability, in order to persuade people to buy into homogeneous computing - based on their system) - but at the end of the day, if Vendor B wants to play in this market, they've got to mature. Fact of life. Not pretty, just the fact.
I screened the trailer to my 6 yr old daughter and 9 yr old son last night - both were enthusiastic about going to see the movie. A big plus for me: no visible toilet humor. I'm getting kinda sick of fart jokes. Is it me? or am I just getting old and grouchy?
The real question is: why spend millions of dollars researching new technology to create completely perfect photorealistic images, when you can get completely realistic images with a camera?
The unrealistic style is just that; style - something that's not really possible in live-action movies. If you're not going to have style, then you may as well film live-action.
90% of what people bitch about here on slashdot is the direct result of 90% of all consumers being totally in the dark about anything that involves technology. (Man, that would make a great.sig if it weren't for the wimpy length limit).
There are a few potential solutions to this problem:
1. Education - all children should be taught critical thinking, the scientific method, electronics and computers right next to reading, writing, and 'rithmatic. (yeah, like that's ever going to happen in this world - most people in the world are functionally illiterate, because their governments don't fund public education, etc. - in the US, we're lucky if some districts cram creationism down our throats - and between security checks for guns and bombs, drug dealers, gangs, football, etc - Education, will never ever happen).
2. Technocracy - Establish a ruling class of technologically savvy people (who rightfully deserve it!) to lead the unwashed masses into a glorious enlightened future. (this will occur moments after the current monied establishment all keels over from a deadly virus spread by contact with $100 bills - ya, right).
3. This is reality, society has reached a stable equilibrium with the ultra-rich running things, and making sure the ultra-stupid stay that way so that they can be kept as cheap, willing slaves and captive consumers of crippled goods.
no - first you mumble something incoherent, very quietly. They'll ask "what" then you do it again - they'll turn up the volume on their headset, then you scream.
That's the rough equivalent of 26 weeks of severence pay for an engineer.
I was in a company that was bought and shut down, and that was the bonus offered to the people who stayed on an additional 3 months to close up the business. We were the guys to turned out the lights when we left.
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I was disappointed that our tough-talking presidient didn't take up Saddam's offer to settle the whole Iraq deal "mano y mano"
I have to agree - I have worked with some Mitre people in a capacity I won't go into here, and out of all my past customers, they're the most clueful bunch I've ever worked with.
No, here's the kicker. The people who pay $2 for a bottle of water are paying for the convenience. The convenience of having a ready supply of water they can carry with them in a lightweight, disposable (debatable) unbreakable, cheap, reusable (not that many people actually reuse them) bottle.
And here's my point - people would pay for the convenience of having high quality digital tracks on a plastic CD. (would? they do!) - rather than play Kazaa roulette.
it sounds terribly snobbish, because it IS. Terribly snobbish. There's just no damn good reason for suits for technical people.
In an earlier posting, someone pointed out the absurd impracticalities of suits in a Texas environment. That's not the half of it. Then there's the additional cost - not only of the suits, but the maintenance - dry cleaning (which uses some heinously unfriendly to the environment chemicals, by the way), and extra trips to drop off/pick up dry cleaning, with burns more gasoline, takes more time, and generates more traffic on already overcrowded suburban/urban streets. These expenses and inconveniences are borne by the worker. Add that onto an already full schedule. And subtract the costs from their already taxed budget.
I have no argument with demanding a professional appearance in the workplace - especially when there's face to face contact with customers. But that does not have to mean a suit. Business Casual should be good enough.
In fact, there have been many occasions where showing up in a suit actually hurts a technical person's credibility. You look at a guy in jeans and a t-shirt, and you know that that person has their job because they know their shit, their employer can't afford to impose a dress code, because they're so valued for their technical prowess - I'd rather have a person like that working on my system. If they're wearing a suit - you can assume they're just another charleton trying to "look professional" and shmooze their way through life.
public financing is nice and all, but how do you propose stopping organizations or corporations from spending billions on "issue ads" without impinging on the first amendment.
The answer: You can't.
Unfortunately, either freedom of speech has to go, or the filthy influence of money has to stay in the election system.
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It seems that, if you can get a court to accept your definitions of terms, you can watch your opponent's proposed remedies disappear in the wind.
- - -
Let's change the definition of "murder" then:
abortion
euthanasia
execution
self defense
"needed killin'"
If this has happened every 250,000 years, it's obviously not a threat to the existence of life on this planet.
Apparently this article is a flare, to get the public thinking about magnetic field reversal, to hype the upcoming disaster-movie The Core. Expect this story to appear on CNN soon.
Yeah, basically, with things like this going on, what the terrorists of 9/11 have accomplished is no less than the destruction of the USA. We're no longer free, so what's the point?
My brother used to work for Siemens.
He said that their unofficial slogan was:
When you say Siemens, you've said a mouthfull.
WRONG.
cp in the terminal is NOT the same as a copy in the finder.
cp does not respect resource forks.
You need to use something like ditto in the terminal to properly copy HFS+ data.
The reason Apple customers are Apple's worst critics, is because the number one thing most Apple customers want is a decent selection of competetive software. If there were a wider range of software available on the Mac, then prices for the software would be more on par with what's available on the PC side. We pay more for software because of lack of competition.
And the reason why the software market is so much smaller on the Mac side, is because the marketshare that the platform has is very small.
Many Apple customers, especially Mac zealots, belive quite strongly that the only reason why the platform has such a small marketshare, is because Apple simply fails to execute on the potential of the platform. Here's just a list of perceived failures:
1. No cloning. (I personally think the ending of cloning was probably a good move)
2. The MHz gap. (The PPC theoretically should be on-par with Intel MHz-wise, due to RISC, copper, SOI, smaller process, etc. but Motorola keeps lagging)
2.5. Frontside bus technology about 3 generations behind the PC.
3. No PDA.
4. No strategy for the gaming market.
5. No strategy for the server market.
6. No low-end solution with unbundled monitor (monitorless iMac, or Cube-with-realistic-pricing).
7. No yellowbox-for-Windows runtime. (holy CRAP what was Apple thinking?)
8. The dock.
The "Mac faithful" are the ones who pay more money for hardware and software, and when they see Apple make a stupid decision, it hits their bottom line, but they're frustrated because for many - there's simply no comparable solution on the PC side (no colorsync, no consumer-level DVD authoring, etc).
I originally ran OS X on my Beige G3 (300 Mhz, 128 Meg RAM) and it was DOG slow.
I have since upgraded to a 450 MHz G4 CPU, and that pepped things up a bit - but the REAL kicker was going up to 256 Meg of RAM. You need AT LEAST 256 megs of RAM to run OS X reasonably fast.
The effect was so dramatic, I kicked up the RAM to 640 Meg.
Performance is adequate, and if it weren't for the fact that the Beige G3 platform itself wasn't obsoleted by OS X (crappy ADB and SCSI support, no support for Quartz Extreme), I wouldn't even be considering replacing it. But this machine will still be serving me for many years to come.
Yes, we all remember the story about the organic chemistry class, where some female student was mixing something, and it went very wrong, and became a vapor, which rose up and dissolved her polyester blouse. . .
unfortunately, my little ones are in love with Hamtaro - bleaugh!
Um Loony Toons is from the 40's, 50's, and 60's. The Loony Toons you 80's kids know are lame, censored crap.
The rest of the shows you mention are garbage. I highly recommend suicide.
This very much resembles the typical situation where two vendors have a solution that's supposed to work "in theory" but one or both implementations of the "standard" are broken; ie- there's some undocumented behavior.
Quite often, in these situations, Vendor B has set up a test environment, and it works in their lab. But that only matches about 20-30% of the environments you'll hit in the field. (as I've seen, you typically see stuff like this breaking on the Microsoft side, mysteriously dropping names, losing connections, failing to authenticate where there's supposedly a trust - etc. it can be fragile on "difficult" networks).
It's not enough for Vendor B to say that their solution works with Vendor A's solution - it has to be tested, but then you get it out into the field and you run into these "edge cases" and it doesn't work - and the ONLY way ANY vendor can fix it is to plow through it with onsite visits with engineers, LAN analysis, debugging, etc. It's very costly and time consuming. In the end, Vendor B will code around the problems, (or try to get Vendor A to code around them) and the system becomes more robust. This is what is known as a "MATURE" product.
An immature product "should" work, and does not when you hit an edge case, and the vendor hasn't "worked it out" yet. Only the companies that "been there done that" have "mature" products. We need to ALL remember that OS X is just a year or so old. Apple has been in the server market (in this incarnation) for less than 6 months. Apple does not have the field force of say, IBM, Sun, or CA. It's going to take time for them to grow the expertise to mature THIS solution, and learn how to mature their other solutions.
This is why the CIO's out there tend to shun products from smaller, newer companies. No matter how cool, great, whiz-bang, or free the product is - it it's going to be costly to implement if it, and the support organization behind it, aren't MATURE.
Yes - the fault lies with Vendor A in this case, most likely, for using a non standard implementation (as Microsoft is FAMOUS for - on purpose, to get the checkmark for compatability, but actually preventing interoperability, in order to persuade people to buy into homogeneous computing - based on their system) - but at the end of the day, if Vendor B wants to play in this market, they've got to mature. Fact of life. Not pretty, just the fact.
I screened the trailer to my 6 yr old daughter and 9 yr old son last night - both were enthusiastic about going to see the movie. A big plus for me: no visible toilet humor. I'm getting kinda sick of fart jokes. Is it me? or am I just getting old and grouchy?
The real question is:
why spend millions of dollars researching new technology to create completely perfect photorealistic images, when you can get completely realistic images with a camera?
The unrealistic style is just that; style - something that's not really possible in live-action movies. If you're not going to have style, then you may as well film live-action.
That said, I'm in favor of the deal, as long as one's Slashdot id directly determines one's status in the new world order -- the lower the better.
:)
I'm all for that - said I, with #1449
And therin lies the rub.
.sig if it weren't for the wimpy length limit).
90% of what people bitch about here on slashdot is the direct result of 90% of all consumers being totally in the dark about anything that involves technology. (Man, that would make a great
There are a few potential solutions to this problem:
1. Education - all children should be taught critical thinking, the scientific method, electronics and computers right next to reading, writing, and 'rithmatic. (yeah, like that's ever going to happen in this world - most people in the world are functionally illiterate, because their governments don't fund public education, etc. - in the US, we're lucky if some districts cram creationism down our throats - and between security checks for guns and bombs, drug dealers, gangs, football, etc - Education, will never ever happen).
2. Technocracy - Establish a ruling class of technologically savvy people (who rightfully deserve it!) to lead the unwashed masses into a glorious enlightened future. (this will occur moments after the current monied establishment all keels over from a deadly virus spread by contact with $100 bills - ya, right).
3. This is reality, society has reached a stable equilibrium with the ultra-rich running things, and making sure the ultra-stupid stay that way so that they can be kept as cheap, willing slaves and captive consumers of crippled goods.
Sorry to be such a downer, man.
$400,000 beach house? Where? All the beach houses I'm familliar with around here (pretty much anywhere in CA) start in the low $2 millions.
no - first you mumble something incoherent, very quietly. They'll ask "what" then you do it again - they'll turn up the volume on their headset, then you scream.
That's the rough equivalent of 26 weeks of severence pay for an engineer.
I was in a company that was bought and shut down, and that was the bonus offered to the people who stayed on an additional 3 months to close up the business. We were the guys to turned out the lights when we left.
I was disappointed that our tough-talking presidient didn't take up Saddam's offer to settle the whole Iraq deal "mano y mano"
Or as we saw at Enron, Congress, the White House, and the CEO didn't know what the "invisible hand" was doing. (giving investors the finger)
I have to agree - I have worked with some Mitre people in a capacity I won't go into here, and out of all my past customers, they're the most clueful bunch I've ever worked with.
No, here's the kicker. The people who pay $2 for a bottle of water are paying for the convenience. The convenience of having a ready supply of water they can carry with them in a lightweight, disposable (debatable) unbreakable, cheap, reusable (not that many people actually reuse them) bottle.
And here's my point - people would pay for the convenience of having high quality digital tracks on a plastic CD. (would? they do!) - rather than play Kazaa roulette.
it sounds terribly snobbish, because it IS. Terribly snobbish. There's just no damn good reason for suits for technical people.
/pick up dry cleaning, with burns more gasoline, takes more time, and generates more traffic on already overcrowded suburban/urban streets. These expenses and inconveniences are borne by the worker. Add that onto an already full schedule. And subtract the costs from their already taxed budget.
In an earlier posting, someone pointed out the absurd impracticalities of suits in a Texas environment. That's not the half of it.
Then there's the additional cost - not only of the suits, but the maintenance - dry cleaning (which uses some heinously unfriendly to the environment chemicals, by the way), and extra trips to drop off
I have no argument with demanding a professional appearance in the workplace - especially when there's face to face contact with customers. But that does not have to mean a suit. Business Casual should be good enough.
In fact, there have been many occasions where showing up in a suit actually hurts a technical person's credibility. You look at a guy in jeans and a t-shirt, and you know that that person has their job because they know their shit, their employer can't afford to impose a dress code, because they're so valued for their technical prowess - I'd rather have a person like that working on my system. If they're wearing a suit - you can assume they're just another charleton trying to "look professional" and shmooze their way through life.
public financing is nice and all, but how do you propose stopping organizations or corporations from spending billions on "issue ads" without impinging on the first amendment.
The answer: You can't.
Unfortunately, either freedom of speech has to go, or the filthy influence of money has to stay in the election system.
it's aircooled?
(I know, I know, Porsche finally broke down and went watercooled a few years ago - what's next, front wheel drive?)