Americans I've known had trouble going without the undies. They just need something tight to squish the package no matter the weather.
I dont know about the arabic dress but the shalwar kameez is awesome and very versatile. People wear it in the morning jogging, soldiers wear it fighting, its a nightgown and a formal dress too. We used to just order 5x of em back home in different colors, and use the older ones for nightgowns etc. The tailor just had our measurements, no hassle, no hawaii shirts for friday or beach shorts or khakhis for casual days or tux for wedding days etc.
Getting back to history, when we (Mongols) had Iraq we couldnt last much long in there. We left some governors in cool areas and the rest left. Russia was much nicer. I dont expect the Americans to simply adjust to the 50C heat, well maybe the aussies and the texans. Certainly not the New Yorkers.
In a different light, I dont think Google would turn into AOL for the alimighty buck. In fact the almighty buck dictates google to stay this way and turn AOL like itself.
AOL hasnt been doing too well recently, but Google has been. Everyone can see whose philosophy works, and whose philosophy brings in the almighty buck.
We know this is good news for google, just not how good of a news is it?
Google bought a browser, and is now buying a major customer base. Theyve bought lots of dark fiber. Theyre in effect buying everything that surrounds a person, everything that a person uses to access the outside world. They wont risk losing such potential by making or using crappy software all of a sudden. If they allow people to use Linux, and one day remove ALL references to Microsoft on the Internet (the way Microsoft once tried for Linux websites), imagine the fallout. Google may be far more evil than AOL and Microsoft combined.
I was wondering if using google now required an extremely crappy browser, a popup laden program installed permanently on your machine making it crawl, and a service which is free for the first 3 months, then too expensive for the bandwidth provided.
I stopped using AOL/ICQ a long time ago. It used to be popular, but AOL did a terrible job of maintaining that service. AOL's program and its assorted popups and ads were the predecessors of modern spyware and that has tainted AOL in the public's eye for the while. I think they should keep the customer base, but any future software endeavors headed by google should not include the AOL name.
AOL Google. Somehow sounds like Microsoft Linux. It doesnt fit.
I dont know. I thought honesty was pretty important. Its generally understood that the candidate is there for a job, and its in his/her best interest to get more income and advance faster. (S)He might be curious about that. Asking questions to impress the interviewee might be apparently faked.
On the other hand, the environment matters to me too. I've met people who hated their new jobs so much they spent all their weekends looking around. Nobody wants to be in that position. Management style matters to many. If youre dictated on what to do, and you know youre doing the wrong thing (and might have to fix it yourself later) that can lead to enough frustration to make the income not worth it, whatever it may be. Benefits, bonuses, educational allowances also matter to most.
But 'on the other side of the table' I've heard candidates discuss the direction and future of the company in such business detail that the interviewers didnt have enough answers. The candidate looked like a chartered accountant, but the job function was very different. It seemed that the candidate wanted to make up for her lack of knowledge of the functions of her future job.
The REAL disturbing part would be to have FBI after people who called (!OMFG! Terrorist!) countries for any reason. Maybe he's trying to expand his market. Maybe he's trying to strike new business deals with carriers in those countries. Maybe he wants to buy or sell equipment there. Maybe he's working with a factory there to make cheaper cellphone sets. a LOT of different things happen in a country, and branding a whole country terrorist is like not dealing with ANY Nigerian treating him/her like a thief.
Aiming at their calls to (!Terrorist!) countries is just trying to get back to them. Focus instead on the real problem, of Rogers overcharging people.
In our case, they added 10-20$ CAD to our Internet bill. We complained, they apologized and removed the additional amount. Next month we again saw additional charges. In total they overcharged us 3 times. Since we cant audit monthly bills, we switched to Bell (another hated ISP for various reasons). I've since warned every Rogers customers to check their bills regularly... they play dirty.
But I wont go ahead and link them to Osama bin Laden anytime soon. That takes the focus away from the real problem.
DirectX might also be slow since it might sit outside the kernel along with other gui junk. However, just as the AGP interface was created to take the graphic system closer to the cpu, directx and opengl were (partly) created to allow more direct access to graphic hardware. Other efforts include DRI on Linux and Cocoa... Graphics have to be real fast and either close to the kernel, or given a much nicer priority than the average task. In other words it should be running like a realtime OS process.... on Desktop systems.
So this might make desktops crappy... not too different from just using X with no acceleration in Linux (whereby X runs as a client process outside the kernel). Now if Microsoft is sneaky enough, they'll put DirectX and part of the graphic drivers in the kernel anyway, just as a way to force opengl and other non microsoft api (like glide) out. This will force all developers to use DirectX and portable applications will run real slow unless programmed under DirectX in the first place.
I doubt this is the case since many graphic wrapper APIs use both opengl and directx, allowing software portability in either case. It is in microsoft's best interest to force developers to use EITHER DirectX OR OpenGL, but not both. This way most developers, in order to pay their rent, will develop on DirectX and will have nothing to easily port to other OSes like OSX or Linux. If Microsoft loses its binary application base, it will lose most of its current value as a software company. People will invariably use opensource software, os and api and will have far more options.
Even if they were sneaky, Microsoft really needs to SELL the next Windows. How many people already running Windows XP or 2000 will dump their computers + OS to buy the next Windows from Microsoft? What can the next Windows offer to make people pay around $500 for the next computer + OS?
So why get angry? Perl is free as beer, and someone else will get us a win32 version fast.
Activestate's perl got me my current job. I did a data entry thingy in a short amount of time, then joined the IT team. Since then I've not used it ever, and I never paid for it. Somehow I feel secure about any OSS project and its future. Now if Opera was discontinued, I'd get angry.
Take a Trireme and sail off to a new island. Take a settler. Press B and start out new. Disband only if youre in a Democracy and the unit is weighing you down, or if its a very old unit.
I've contributed (and been rebuffed) on the history of my own community, and have entered articles on the places I visited (which did not have entries) in Wikipedia. I can personally attest to Wikipedia's accuracy....
However, Wikipedia is as accurate as the majority of the people want them to be. Currently most of the submitters are educated enthuisiasts, but this can change as more people start submitting. What the majority of the people want to believe will enter Wikipedia compared to what the scholars think.
For now anyway, Wikipedia is doing better. Uighurs will write about Uighurs, Slovaks will write about Slovaks, Baloch will write about Baloch etc, rather than have some Oxford Englishman decide on the world history's accuracy. In the long run, thats as bad as a good thing.
"Microsoft's willingness to spend some of its cash pile" ???
I think someone's coffee lacks that caffine.
Microsoft spending money on the mac mini? Microsoft will never do anything that goes against their cash cow, Windows. That makes Apple an arch enemy.
Dont include Microsoft in any partnerships unless Apple decides to dump OSX and use Windows while making money on hardware alone. In that case, it becomes easy to take the IBM chips, make cheaper ATX motherboards that can run the same OS, kill Apple and make lots of money.
When you call IANA to ask for 5 more IP addresses to use for new servers, and get the answer of "ummm uhhh umm.. heheh.. uhhh." then you'll feel its REALLY WORTH IT.
Until then, its billions going down the drain, or millions if you switch away from cisco hardware.
A space base camp does much more than sleep and feed the mountaineers. Its the whole science of figuring out what space does to all things before all future projects, not just the Mars project, is carried out.
The Mars project will take years. It will take months to get people there. Imagine a problem with the spacecraft a year after launch, killing everyone on board near Mars just because of a problem we didnt know about. We wouldnt even know what the problem was at that point, and will be bound to repeat it.
Better have all projects fail close by so we can refine space technologies. After all, the two space shuttle disasters happened close enough for us to learn alot from it.
"The first settlers in America experienced enormous causalities their first years they were in America. Entire colonies were lost."
How do you know that?
"The original colonies included a substantial variety of fundamentally differing approaches to settling North America."
Thats not true. All the original nations respected a tribal lifestyle and had great respect for nature. There were several waves of settlement, the last three being the arrival of the Inuit (I bet you dont know what that is, its ESKIMO), the Viking visits and the Europeans (white settlers). It was the last group of settlers who had fundamentally differing approaches to settling North America.
"Let's not forget who settled the frontier, how those "immigrants" differed from later immigrants, and what sort of "program" they had to settle the new frontier."
Now why dont they also add a small handgun in there with the eye as well? Let them throw the ball in their, and let the geek kid in the van do all the shooting. Come to think of it, why not use the camera and the gun on a 4x4 buggy? OK now I want to be police!
And I can tell you you dont have to know much about ISDN. Certainly dont need an ISDN switch..
I started studying for the CCNA by preparing for the CCNP. Thats how I study. I bought 2 1600 routers, 7 2500 and 1 2600 routers. Also got 2 switches and started working on them. Next I bought tonnes of old machines to remoteboot, load linux using PXE, and run gated to increase the number of 'routers' I had so I can just work on them and fix them, and therefore know all networking. I bought arcnet cards, atm cards and switches, fddi cards and switch, wireless stuff etc. Still studying for the CCNP.
The one thing I dont have is an ISDN switch. Its because its so god damn expensive for something that does so little. The pci-card-isdn-switch youll find on ebay is the cheapest one I've seen, at about 300. I DID buy a broken isdn switch... turned out to be a PRI switch, and requiring special windows software to work it, not available from ANYWHERE. I'd rather study for the voice stuff from cisco, theres more market for it anyway. Even those parts are expensive and require cisco 2600 and 3600 routers, each of which being expensive.
Studying at home for ccnp or ccie is not cheap. I tried to BUY an ISDN BRI line from Bell for a few months (should be cheaper than buying a switch), but they only continue their current installations. Most of their tech people had NO IDEA what ISDN is, and tried hard to sell me DSL. A T1 connection was expensive too, and download being slower than DSL!
Keep an eye on ebay. And just read up on the things you cant get hardware for, and rent a cisco stack a month before the exams. For all the basic stuff, 2500 routers should go a long way, even in the days of IOS 12.3.
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Americans I've known had trouble going without the undies. They just need something tight to squish the package no matter the weather.
I dont know about the arabic dress but the shalwar kameez is awesome and very versatile. People wear it in the morning jogging, soldiers wear it fighting, its a nightgown and a formal dress too. We used to just order 5x of em back home in different colors, and use the older ones for nightgowns etc. The tailor just had our measurements, no hassle, no hawaii shirts for friday or beach shorts or khakhis for casual days or tux for wedding days etc.
Getting back to history, when we (Mongols) had Iraq we couldnt last much long in there. We left some governors in cool areas and the rest left. Russia was much nicer. I dont expect the Americans to simply adjust to the 50C heat, well maybe the aussies and the texans. Certainly not the New Yorkers.
In a different light, I dont think Google would turn into AOL for the alimighty buck. In fact the almighty buck dictates google to stay this way and turn AOL like itself.
AOL hasnt been doing too well recently, but Google has been. Everyone can see whose philosophy works, and whose philosophy brings in the almighty buck.
We know this is good news for google, just not how good of a news is it?
Google bought a browser, and is now buying a major customer base. Theyve bought lots of dark fiber. Theyre in effect buying everything that surrounds a person, everything that a person uses to access the outside world. They wont risk losing such potential by making or using crappy software all of a sudden. If they allow people to use Linux, and one day remove ALL references to Microsoft on the Internet (the way Microsoft once tried for Linux websites), imagine the fallout. Google may be far more evil than AOL and Microsoft combined.
I was wondering if using google now required an extremely crappy browser, a popup laden program installed permanently on your machine making it crawl, and a service which is free for the first 3 months, then too expensive for the bandwidth provided.
I stopped using AOL/ICQ a long time ago. It used to be popular, but AOL did a terrible job of maintaining that service. AOL's program and its assorted popups and ads were the predecessors of modern spyware and that has tainted AOL in the public's eye for the while. I think they should keep the customer base, but any future software endeavors headed by google should not include the AOL name.
AOL Google. Somehow sounds like Microsoft Linux. It doesnt fit.
I dont know. I thought honesty was pretty important. Its generally understood that the candidate is there for a job, and its in his/her best interest to get more income and advance faster. (S)He might be curious about that. Asking questions to impress the interviewee might be apparently faked.
On the other hand, the environment matters to me too. I've met people who hated their new jobs so much they spent all their weekends looking around. Nobody wants to be in that position. Management style matters to many. If youre dictated on what to do, and you know youre doing the wrong thing (and might have to fix it yourself later) that can lead to enough frustration to make the income not worth it, whatever it may be. Benefits, bonuses, educational allowances also matter to most.
But 'on the other side of the table' I've heard candidates discuss the direction and future of the company in such business detail that the interviewers didnt have enough answers. The candidate looked like a chartered accountant, but the job function was very different. It seemed that the candidate wanted to make up for her lack of knowledge of the functions of her future job.
And for how long? 1uS?
I bet the static cracks from my sweater provide MORE than 10kW, for a very short amount of time. We need JOULES here...
The REAL disturbing part would be to have FBI after people who called (!OMFG! Terrorist!) countries for any reason. Maybe he's trying to expand his market. Maybe he's trying to strike new business deals with carriers in those countries. Maybe he wants to buy or sell equipment there. Maybe he's working with a factory there to make cheaper cellphone sets. a LOT of different things happen in a country, and branding a whole country terrorist is like not dealing with ANY Nigerian treating him/her like a thief.
Aiming at their calls to (!Terrorist!) countries is just trying to get back to them. Focus instead on the real problem, of Rogers overcharging people.
In our case, they added 10-20$ CAD to our Internet bill. We complained, they apologized and removed the additional amount. Next month we again saw additional charges. In total they overcharged us 3 times. Since we cant audit monthly bills, we switched to Bell (another hated ISP for various reasons). I've since warned every Rogers customers to check their bills regularly... they play dirty.
But I wont go ahead and link them to Osama bin Laden anytime soon. That takes the focus away from the real problem.
DirectX might also be slow since it might sit outside the kernel along with other gui junk. However, just as the AGP interface was created to take the graphic system closer to the cpu, directx and opengl were (partly) created to allow more direct access to graphic hardware. Other efforts include DRI on Linux and Cocoa... Graphics have to be real fast and either close to the kernel, or given a much nicer priority than the average task. In other words it should be running like a realtime OS process.... on Desktop systems.
So this might make desktops crappy... not too different from just using X with no acceleration in Linux (whereby X runs as a client process outside the kernel). Now if Microsoft is sneaky enough, they'll put DirectX and part of the graphic drivers in the kernel anyway, just as a way to force opengl and other non microsoft api (like glide) out. This will force all developers to use DirectX and portable applications will run real slow unless programmed under DirectX in the first place.
I doubt this is the case since many graphic wrapper APIs use both opengl and directx, allowing software portability in either case. It is in microsoft's best interest to force developers to use EITHER DirectX OR OpenGL, but not both. This way most developers, in order to pay their rent, will develop on DirectX and will have nothing to easily port to other OSes like OSX or Linux. If Microsoft loses its binary application base, it will lose most of its current value as a software company. People will invariably use opensource software, os and api and will have far more options.
Even if they were sneaky, Microsoft really needs to SELL the next Windows. How many people already running Windows XP or 2000 will dump their computers + OS to buy the next Windows from Microsoft? What can the next Windows offer to make people pay around $500 for the next computer + OS?
So why get angry? Perl is free as beer, and someone else will get us a win32 version fast.
Activestate's perl got me my current job. I did a data entry thingy in a short amount of time, then joined the IT team. Since then I've not used it ever, and I never paid for it. Somehow I feel secure about any OSS project and its future. Now if Opera was discontinued, I'd get angry.
I am officially releasing my certification of "The Highest Level Of Security", and giving it to my pet OS, ELKS!
Therefore, ELKS is the most secure OS in the world.
The press meeting will be at 24:01 December 31st.
Take a Trireme and sail off to a new island. Take a settler. Press B and start out new.
Disband only if youre in a Democracy and the unit is weighing you down, or if its a very old unit.
I've contributed (and been rebuffed) on the history of my own community, and have entered articles on the places I visited (which did not have entries) in Wikipedia. I can personally attest to Wikipedia's accuracy....
However, Wikipedia is as accurate as the majority of the people want them to be. Currently most of the submitters are educated enthuisiasts, but this can change as more people start submitting. What the majority of the people want to believe will enter Wikipedia compared to what the scholars think.
For now anyway, Wikipedia is doing better. Uighurs will write about Uighurs, Slovaks will write about Slovaks, Baloch will write about Baloch etc, rather than have some Oxford Englishman decide on the world history's accuracy. In the long run, thats as bad as a good thing.
Hopefully you can now login into Google Groups using Opera!
(I know you can do that since the past few months... but they ignored opera for a while there...)
Imagine watching the Terminator 2 without ads:
"I'll be back... with some Coke(tm)"...wearing a GAP T-shirt.
Ad placements like these are disgusting and makes the movie less immersive and believable.
"Microsoft's willingness to spend some of its cash pile" ???
I think someone's coffee lacks that caffine.
Microsoft spending money on the mac mini? Microsoft will never do anything that goes against their cash cow, Windows. That makes Apple an arch enemy.
Dont include Microsoft in any partnerships unless Apple decides to dump OSX and use Windows while making money on hardware alone. In that case, it becomes easy to take the IBM chips, make cheaper ATX motherboards that can run the same OS, kill Apple and make lots of money.
When you call IANA to ask for 5 more IP addresses to use for new servers, and get the answer of "ummm uhhh umm.. heheh.. uhhh." then you'll feel its REALLY WORTH IT.
Until then, its billions going down the drain, or millions if you switch away from cisco hardware.
Or more simply, use headless Linux boxes instead of rediculous cisco 3700 and 3800 routers.
Then it'll cost next to squat.
Real gamers are better at driving on black ice sheets with a cellphone in one hand and coffee mug in the other.
Lets not start this pissing contest or we'll lose many gamers.
I will kill you!
Saying that can get me into trouble.
Oh wait...
So why should I ban the products those poor workers depend on for a living?
Thats like the ban on products of child labour. LET THEM BE PROSTITUTES INSTEAD!
A space base camp does much more than sleep and feed the mountaineers. Its the whole science of figuring out what space does to all things before all future projects, not just the Mars project, is carried out.
The Mars project will take years. It will take months to get people there. Imagine a problem with the spacecraft a year after launch, killing everyone on board near Mars just because of a problem we didnt know about. We wouldnt even know what the problem was at that point, and will be bound to repeat it.
Better have all projects fail close by so we can refine space technologies. After all, the two space shuttle disasters happened close enough for us to learn alot from it.
Not About Space Anymore. All About Beuraucracy Now.
"The first settlers in America experienced enormous causalities their first years they were in America. Entire colonies were lost."
How do you know that?
"The original colonies included a substantial variety of fundamentally differing approaches to settling North America."
Thats not true. All the original nations respected a tribal lifestyle and had great respect for nature. There were several waves of settlement, the last three being the arrival of the Inuit (I bet you dont know what that is, its ESKIMO), the Viking visits and the Europeans (white settlers). It was the last group of settlers who had fundamentally differing approaches to settling North America.
"Let's not forget who settled the frontier, how those "immigrants" differed from later immigrants, and what sort of "program" they had to settle the new frontier."
Indeed. Let us NOT forget.
Now why dont they also add a small handgun in there with the eye as well? Let them throw the ball in their, and let the geek kid in the van do all the shooting. Come to think of it, why not use the camera and the gun on a 4x4 buggy? OK now I want to be police!
And I can tell you you dont have to know much about ISDN. Certainly dont need an ISDN switch..
I started studying for the CCNA by preparing for the CCNP. Thats how I study. I bought 2 1600 routers, 7 2500 and 1 2600 routers. Also got 2 switches and started working on them. Next I bought tonnes of old machines to remoteboot, load linux using PXE, and run gated to increase the number of 'routers' I had so I can just work on them and fix them, and therefore know all networking. I bought arcnet cards, atm cards and switches, fddi cards and switch, wireless stuff etc. Still studying for the CCNP.
The one thing I dont have is an ISDN switch. Its because its so god damn expensive for something that does so little. The pci-card-isdn-switch youll find on ebay is the cheapest one I've seen, at about 300. I DID buy a broken isdn switch... turned out to be a PRI switch, and requiring special windows software to work it, not available from ANYWHERE. I'd rather study for the voice stuff from cisco, theres more market for it anyway. Even those parts are expensive and require cisco 2600 and 3600 routers, each of which being expensive.
Studying at home for ccnp or ccie is not cheap. I tried to BUY an ISDN BRI line from Bell for a few months (should be cheaper than buying a switch), but they only continue their current installations. Most of their tech people had NO IDEA what ISDN is, and tried hard to sell me DSL. A T1 connection was expensive too, and download being slower than DSL!
Keep an eye on ebay. And just read up on the things you cant get hardware for, and rent a cisco stack a month before the exams. For all the basic stuff, 2500 routers should go a long way, even in the days of IOS 12.3.