Why isn't it called murder when the president slaughters people? Every single president we've had has killed at least 1 person. Yet they roam free and give speeches and get applause.
I really haven't seen any evidence of any terrorism in the US since 9/11. Attribute that to George's awesome terrorist stopping powers, the lack of chemistry sets, Guantanamo Bay, the help from Iran of removing the Taliban from power, spying on Americans, or what have you, but I think we can safely rule terrorism out in the US. Osama got what he wanted... the US removed their military bases from Saudi Arabia, and oil prices shot through the roof. Yes, Osama is or was a business man deep down in his cold evil black most likely dead heart. So are the rest of the members of his family.
I think your arithmetic has fallen off it's horse. $50/80GB is not $6.50/GB. It's actually about $.63/GB. Quite a large difference in comparison to $8/GB.
seriously suck my dick. I'm not going to punch the monkey, click to win an iPod, or watch your stupid ass tv show because you want to take up 1/2 my screen for 15 seconds at a time. If ads could be just a little more civil I wouldn't mind them as MUCH. I do, however, still remember a time when the web was completely ad-free and I prefer it that way.
That's akin to the online applications that require you to answer everything from your criminal history (with exceptions for some states) to your beliefs and attitudes. It used to be you just didn't apply with that company if you didn't want to go through all the BS, but now it's so widespread you can't get a job at your local grocer without it.
This also happened to me when I lived in Houston. We had a relatively minor domestic dispute and after I took the time to look up the proper number to the station, they told me to hang up and call 911.
Also I once called 911 over another minor incident and apologized to the dispatcher who promptly told me that I was calling the correct number.
It may behoove you to invest in some services from Postini rather than spend money on more infrastructure. They handle such massive spam mail volumes with relative ease and their customer support is top-notch when a rare spam happens to slip through.
Actually I rarely did server reboots. I handled down circuit issues, messed up routing, advised on different routing strategies, maintained bind, postfix, iis, and a multitude of other things.
I went into networking with NO prior experience other than setting up a simple linksys router for home-use. I learned everything I know about networking ON the job. It took me a good 3 months just to get the lingo and basics down, but afterwards I had to start plowing through vlans and the different routing protocols like BGP and OSPF.
My point is had I actually studied for a CCNA before I was hired, I would've hit the ground running most likely would've advanced to my NOC position in 3 - 4 months less time. The CCNA is not a joke. It may not teach you ALL the terminology and EVERYTHING you need to know about EVERYTHING, but it's a hell of a good start.
Mod this one up as far as it goes. I remember physics class in high school discussing the problems from 20+ years ago. Come on... it's hollywood people... let's get it through our thick skulls.
Indeed. I too was brought into the windows world kicking and screaming. I loved my DOS (would've loved linux/unix a million times more had I known about it back then). Windows 95 required us to upgrade our computer. I loved the new games I could play, but I hated the interface. I still used the command prompt for just about everything. Then 98SE came with a new computer we bought years later and I didn't look back at 95. It was so much more stable. Then a friend gave me 2k to try out and for the first time I owned a computer with an uptime of over a year. When XP came out I was excited to see what innovations it would bring, but was disappointed to find that it looked like someone robbed a candy store and it crashed incessantly. Until SP1, then it was fine, but no better than 2k.
Vista. Meh. I haven't played with it much, but from what I've seen the only major changes are the little things like the name of the control panel and the contents of it. In my field of work, that is not only no reason to upgrade, that is a reason to stay as far away from it as possible until it is absolutely necessary to upgrade. Dealing with farmers who "don't really know much about this here machine" is hard enough already... after 20 repeated calls you can usually get them to remember small things like clicking the start button or how to open the control panel. I do not want to have to re-train that.
As do commercial broadband providers. You made an interesting point, but the fact of the matter is with anything where you absolutely need 99.99% uptime and every kb/s you paid for, then you need a commercial contract with an SLA.
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Why isn't it called murder when the president slaughters people? Every single president we've had has killed at least 1 person. Yet they roam free and give speeches and get applause.
That's a hell of a double standard there.
He didn't say it was an improvement. You put those words in his mouth. He said the impact is off the charts.
Yes, this sounds very familiar over here in the US as well. Maybe not quite to the same extent, but I'm sure that's just down the pipeline.
I really haven't seen any evidence of any terrorism in the US since 9/11. Attribute that to George's awesome terrorist stopping powers, the lack of chemistry sets, Guantanamo Bay, the help from Iran of removing the Taliban from power, spying on Americans, or what have you, but I think we can safely rule terrorism out in the US. Osama got what he wanted... the US removed their military bases from Saudi Arabia, and oil prices shot through the roof.
Yes, Osama is or was a business man deep down in his cold evil black most likely dead heart. So are the rest of the members of his family.
I think your arithmetic has fallen off it's horse. $50/80GB is not $6.50/GB. It's actually about $.63/GB. Quite a large difference in comparison to $8/GB.
I somehow read that as "Valve Locking Out Gamers Who Buy Orange Box Intentionally. That threw me for a loop.
I'm declaring immunity for all sharers of copyrighted materials over the Internet. It's just as lawful.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
- Clarence Darrow
I'm not old.. just became a nerd back when it wasn't cool for kids my age to be one.
seriously suck my dick. I'm not going to punch the monkey, click to win an iPod, or watch your stupid ass tv show because you want to take up 1/2 my screen for 15 seconds at a time. If ads could be just a little more civil I wouldn't mind them as MUCH. I do, however, still remember a time when the web was completely ad-free and I prefer it that way.
I think that by reasoning according to an online article and accepting it implicitly you show just how great of a thinker you are.
By the way, can anyone describe to me exactly what a liberal or conservative is without any contradictions, past or present?
I find it very comparable to racism, but at least with racism there is an easy way to identify who someone is talking about.
That's because they were in New York at the UN... all this time we were invading the wrong country!
Turns out that they were just some industrial cleansers though. So we fail completely.
That's akin to the online applications that require you to answer everything from your criminal history (with exceptions for some states) to your beliefs and attitudes. It used to be you just didn't apply with that company if you didn't want to go through all the BS, but now it's so widespread you can't get a job at your local grocer without it.
This also happened to me when I lived in Houston. We had a relatively minor domestic dispute and after I took the time to look up the proper number to the station, they told me to hang up and call 911.
Also I once called 911 over another minor incident and apologized to the dispatcher who promptly told me that I was calling the correct number.
It was unexpected, clever, and stupid all rolled into one. :)
It may behoove you to invest in some services from Postini rather than spend money on more infrastructure. They handle such massive spam mail volumes with relative ease and their customer support is top-notch when a rare spam happens to slip through.
Actually I rarely did server reboots. I handled down circuit issues, messed up routing, advised on different routing strategies, maintained bind, postfix, iis, and a multitude of other things.
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I went into networking with NO prior experience other than setting up a simple linksys router for home-use. I learned everything I know about networking ON the job. It took me a good 3 months just to get the lingo and basics down, but afterwards I had to start plowing through vlans and the different routing protocols like BGP and OSPF.
My point is had I actually studied for a CCNA before I was hired, I would've hit the ground running most likely would've advanced to my NOC position in 3 - 4 months less time. The CCNA is not a joke. It may not teach you ALL the terminology and EVERYTHING you need to know about EVERYTHING, but it's a hell of a good start.
I just started reading The Art of Deception by K. Mitnick today. Good read.
Mod this one up as far as it goes. I remember physics class in high school discussing the problems from 20+ years ago. Come on... it's hollywood people... let's get it through our thick skulls.
My previous roommate went through a whole year of COBOL in his computer science major just a couple years back...
He works in sales now.
Indeed. I too was brought into the windows world kicking and screaming. I loved my DOS (would've loved linux/unix a million times more had I known about it back then). Windows 95 required us to upgrade our computer. I loved the new games I could play, but I hated the interface. I still used the command prompt for just about everything. Then 98SE came with a new computer we bought years later and I didn't look back at 95. It was so much more stable. Then a friend gave me 2k to try out and for the first time I owned a computer with an uptime of over a year. When XP came out I was excited to see what innovations it would bring, but was disappointed to find that it looked like someone robbed a candy store and it crashed incessantly. Until SP1, then it was fine, but no better than 2k.
Vista. Meh. I haven't played with it much, but from what I've seen the only major changes are the little things like the name of the control panel and the contents of it. In my field of work, that is not only no reason to upgrade, that is a reason to stay as far away from it as possible until it is absolutely necessary to upgrade. Dealing with farmers who "don't really know much about this here machine" is hard enough already... after 20 repeated calls you can usually get them to remember small things like clicking the start button or how to open the control panel. I do not want to have to re-train that.
I firefox searched for than hoping someone on the first page would at least point this out. :) Kudos.
As do commercial broadband providers. You made an interesting point, but the fact of the matter is with anything where you absolutely need 99.99% uptime and every kb/s you paid for, then you need a commercial contract with an SLA.