It just seems like they don't give a crap on certain issues.
The funny thing is that I've never experienced those issues on any Mac that I've managed. Ever. (Not that I haven't had other minor problems.) Do we live in two different universes?
Guh. Sorry. I'm tired, and re-reading my comment the english is well-formed but the concepts are jumbled nonsense. Let me try again, by your leave...
Yes, it's unavoidable to rebuild when you lose a disk, and there will be a performance hit unless you go for full on 100% redundancy, and not many companies can afford to do that with a lot of data.
Actually, ALL the companies that I've worked for (from startup to Fortune 100) do full 100% redundancy (RAID 0+1) for all their filesystems (on Sun Solaris). Not some, ALL. OS, straight mirrored. Application space, straight mirrored. Database, straight mirrored. Disk is cheap compared to software cost. Have you priced Oracle Enterprise lately?
I'd feel more comfortable with someone from the research or academic circles than I would with someone from industry for a position like that. Might just be my bias, but I feel that someone from industry might be a little more biased toward a particular set of interests. Although marginalized to some degree, I think someone like current science advisor John Marburger would be a much better choice. Just my $0.02.
You do know that SUN originally stood for Stanford University Networks? Bill Joy IS from academia initially.
EA does do Mac games. Spore and several of the sports games, for example. Furthermore, while they have declined to comment on whether or not they are going to do a Mac version of Warhammer, Mark Jacob's has strongly hinted. E.g., he's said no comment, and then added that the other computer next to him is not a PC.
I'm running Spore on a Mac right now. It is just the PC game running under Wine/Cider, which is why it does not work on PPC machines, only x86. And it is VERY graphics intensive. I see no reason to stop other PC games from doing the same thing.
These days most MD's are nothing but diagnosticians and pill pushers. The term Medical Doctor has lost its meaning. Why not just create a new category between pharmacist and the real MD's and call it "Health Specialist" or somesuch, and put all the supposed MD's there until they prove that they DO understand those "hard" subjects like chemistry and philosophy.
Yes, they need something GPL-like to prevent big corps from taking their research, making a slight tweak and patenting the result...
The difference is that knowledge is not a limited resource, it is only artificially limited by these large corps and the laws they have bought and paid for.
They do this already. A new drug is released, and 7 (?) years later, when the generic hits the shelves, the original company comes out with the 12 hour time release version. 7 years later, when the generic 12 hour time release comes out, the original company releases the 24 hour time release. There is no reason to not sell the 24 hour time release from day one except to stretch out the patents.
Time to take down those videos of MLK and his agitators espousing mass chaos and social disruption with his guerrilla warfare tactic of "civil disobedience."
If you remember your history, the FBI put in a lot of time watching and trying to silence King. Some may argue assassinate also.
Considering alternative, ad-based, free online video sites such as Hulu, is Amazon's service too pricey?
I firmly believe that if content owners and distributors charged a reasonable rate to download a TV show (maybe 10 cents), piracy would be a thing of the past. For 10 cents, very few people would choose black or gray market distribution channels.
Would $0.10 per show pay for disk storage, network bandwidth, accounting work to collect all those piddly amounts? It would probably be a money loser. iTunes $10-$20 for a complete TV show season is about right.
Cinematic Titanic is the real evolution of MST3K. Their first 3 DVD's are hilarious. From the website http://www.cinematictitanic.com/:
Cinematic Titanic is a feature length movie riffing show and is an artist owned and operated venture created by Joel Hodgson, the creator of the Peabody award-winning Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Cinematic Titanic features the original cast and writers of MST3K, which is Hodgson (Joel Robinson), Trace Beaulieu (Crow), and J. Elvis Weinstein (Tom Servo). Filling out the ensemble is Mary Jo Pehl (Pearl Forrester) and Frank Conniff (TVâ(TM)s Frank). Cinematic Titanic's focus is to riff on the movies we love, which are 'the unfathomable', 'the horribly great', and the just plain 'cheesy' movies from the past. Our first feature length DVD Cinematic Titanic's "The Oozing Skull" is available for purchase at EZtakes.com
At the risk of Godwin-ing this post, Hitler was originally elected by popular vote.
I think not. Check wiki. "Finally, the president reluctantly agreed to appoint Hitler Chancellor of a coalition government..." He was appointed, not elected.
A sea urchin is an Echinoderm, like starfish and sea cucumbers. An anemone is a Cnidaria, like coral and jelly fish.
Imagine obligatory wiki links here.
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>> Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. >> For the newbies among us, allow me to explain all the parts. This post is the culmination of 11 Slashdot memes which are, in order: >> 1. Russian reversal - in Soviet Russa joke... >> 11. ??? Profit!!! internet meme - a reference to a joke in a South Park episode
12. Constant misuse of the word "meme" (because it sounds cooler than "joke," "idea," or "concept") meme. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
> How many tickets answered per day? Completed per day?/dev/random is probably the most elegant though
Tickets are completely meaningless in admin work. To wit:
- Fix a simple request in 2 minutes, or make the customer go back and spend 15 minutes filling out a ticket. Happy customers verses happy manager, you can't have both.
- Who takes on the hardest tickets? This isn't phone support. Some are done in 5 minutes, others take days. At one place I worked, we had an admin who would sit and refresh the ticket screen all day just to grab and close the easy tickets. The managers loved him because he seemingly got so much more done than everyone else. I prided myself in being able to tackle the hard tickets. They yelled at me for not getting anything done. I quit soon thereafter.
- Many requests hit mutliple teams. App support, developers, networking, security. Does one ticket bounce around and only the team that closes it get credit? Do you open a new ticket for each subtask? How do you even define a subtask?
- Should you open an RFC (request for change) to make that change, or is the ticket sufficient? Or does the RFC generate multiple tickets? Or the ticket generate multiple RFCs?
- What do you do when your boss's boss says drop what you're doing and take care of a specific customer? You can't ask them to open a ticket. They have already bypassed the ticketing process. Open the ticket yourself, you say? Well, who is the manager of the business unit who's paying for the issue, and what is his cost code? You don't have half of the needed information. Besides, they don't have any idea what they need done anyway.
> So as long as a white-collar criminal stashes his money away where the > government can't get at it, there should be no punishment? > Sorry, jail time is appropriate for some economic crimes. Maybe not > in this case, no, but your blanket statement just doesn't work in all blanket cases.
There are different types of prisons here in the US. There are the maximum security lock-ups for the violent criminals, and the minimal security golf clubs for the white collar millionaires. Do you really think that the CEO of Worldcom spent time as Bubba the rapist's bunk mate? Seriously.
>> Ron Paul basically is calling for a return to a government >> dictated by the constitution -- namely that any powers not >> specifically given to congress by the constitution should be >> left to the states.
(Off topic rant)
That's just what we need. Reestablishment of segregation. Illegal abortions performed in bathrooms. Evolution theory banned in schools. Rampant capital punishment against non-whites. Jail time for buggery. Big red A for adultery. Book burnings.
When you get down to it, the federal government is the only thing keeping the red states from reverting to the worse parts of the previous centuries. Maybe the real solution is to spin them off, like any good corporation would.
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MST3K was created by Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, and Josh Weinstein. The jokes were spontaneous, and show was at its best.
Then Michael J. Nelson became head writer. Kevin Murphy and Frank Conniff took over for Josh, which was a big loss. The jokes started to became a little stale, but the show was still good. Frank simply was not funny, but Trace did what he could to keep the sketches interesting.
Then Joel left, and Nelson took over as the star of the show. Joel played a kind hearted, inventive, make-the-best-of-a-bad-situation character. Nelson just played a looser. The bots went from Joel's friends helping him make fun of the Mad Scientists, to sarcastic little kids who were mean and sarcastic to Nelson.
Then Trace left, to be replaced by Mary Jo Pehl and Bill Corbett. At this point, in my opinion, the sketches became unwatchable. The movie riffing was still OK, but there were way too many scatology and Beavis and Butthead style "heh, he sucks" jokes.
Please do NOT call Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett MST3K. They took over a brilliant concept and kept it alive long after the creaters were tired of it. I give them credit for that. But they could never come close to that first season.
> A universities reputation is based on the quality of its research and how well it's graduates to in the work force.
Last I checked Stanford was a liberal arts university, not a trade school. Their reputation is based on their scholastics, not how much money their graduates make.
> The difference is one of intent. The people in Iraq and many other parts of the world are INTENTIONALLY targeting civilians as a means to an end. They want to get their message out and to terrorize the population. That is NOT the action of freedom fighters, it is the action of brutal thugs. The Mujahidin in Afghanistan were freedom fighters, the American revolutionaries were freedom fighters. When you intentionally target civilians who are not part of the government machine I really don't think you can be considered anything but a coward and a thug.
What about the carpet bombing of Dresdon, Berlin, Tokyo during WWII? The atom bombs we dropped were small compared to the number of civilians that we massacred. Does that make us cowards and thugs?
> Am I the only one that notices when an anti-republican or anti-Bush article is posted, most of the replies focus on how evil Republicans/Bush/Rove are, but when an anti-democrat article is linked, the closest thing to criticism is "both parties suck!"
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See what happens when you keep sending that same Excel spreadsheet back and forth to the whole distribution list?
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It just seems like they don't give a crap on certain issues.
The funny thing is that I've never experienced those issues on any Mac that I've managed. Ever. (Not that I haven't had other minor problems.) Do we live in two different universes?
Guh. Sorry. I'm tired, and re-reading my comment the english is well-formed but the concepts are jumbled nonsense. Let me try again, by your leave...
Yes, it's unavoidable to rebuild when you lose a disk, and there will be a performance hit unless you go for full on 100% redundancy, and not many companies can afford to do that with a lot of data.
Actually, ALL the companies that I've worked for (from startup to Fortune 100) do full 100% redundancy (RAID 0+1) for all their filesystems (on Sun Solaris). Not some, ALL. OS, straight mirrored. Application space, straight mirrored. Database, straight mirrored. Disk is cheap compared to software cost. Have you priced Oracle Enterprise lately?
I'd feel more comfortable with someone from the research or academic circles than I would with someone from industry for a position like that. Might just be my bias, but I feel that someone from industry might be a little more biased toward a particular set of interests. Although marginalized to some degree, I think someone like current science advisor John Marburger would be a much better choice. Just my $0.02.
You do know that SUN originally stood for Stanford University Networks? Bill Joy IS from academia initially.
It's going to be a whole new game, not an expansion for Rock Band. Also, it won't be out until XMas 09.
EA does do Mac games. Spore and several of the sports games, for example. Furthermore, while they have declined to comment on whether or not they are going to do a Mac version of Warhammer, Mark Jacob's has strongly hinted. E.g., he's said no comment, and then added that the other computer next to him is not a PC.
I'm running Spore on a Mac right now. It is just the PC game running under Wine/Cider, which is why it does not work on PPC machines, only x86. And it is VERY graphics intensive. I see no reason to stop other PC games from doing the same thing.
These days most MD's are nothing but diagnosticians and pill pushers. The term Medical Doctor has lost its meaning. Why not just create a new category between pharmacist and the real MD's and call it "Health Specialist" or somesuch, and put all the supposed MD's there until they prove that they DO understand those "hard" subjects like chemistry and philosophy.
Yes, they need something GPL-like to prevent big corps from taking their research, making a slight tweak and patenting the result...
The difference is that knowledge is not a limited resource, it is only artificially limited by these large corps and the laws they have bought and paid for.
They do this already. A new drug is released, and 7 (?) years later, when the generic hits the shelves, the original company comes out with the 12 hour time release version. 7 years later, when the generic 12 hour time release comes out, the original company releases the 24 hour time release. There is no reason to not sell the 24 hour time release from day one except to stretch out the patents.
Time to take down those videos of MLK and his agitators espousing mass chaos and social disruption with his guerrilla warfare tactic of "civil disobedience."
If you remember your history, the FBI put in a lot of time watching and trying to silence King. Some may argue assassinate also.
Considering alternative, ad-based, free online video sites such as Hulu, is Amazon's service too pricey?
I firmly believe that if content owners and distributors charged a reasonable rate to download a TV show (maybe 10 cents), piracy would be a thing of the past. For 10 cents, very few people would choose black or gray market distribution channels.
Would $0.10 per show pay for disk storage, network bandwidth, accounting work to collect all those piddly amounts? It would probably be a money loser. iTunes $10-$20 for a complete TV show season is about right.
Cinematic Titanic is the real evolution of MST3K. Their first 3 DVD's are hilarious.
From the website http://www.cinematictitanic.com/:
Cinematic Titanic is a feature length movie riffing show and is an artist owned and operated venture created by Joel Hodgson, the creator of the Peabody award-winning Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Cinematic Titanic features the original cast and writers of MST3K, which is Hodgson (Joel Robinson), Trace Beaulieu (Crow), and J. Elvis Weinstein (Tom Servo). Filling out the ensemble is Mary Jo Pehl (Pearl Forrester) and Frank Conniff (TVâ(TM)s Frank). Cinematic Titanic's focus is to riff on the movies we love, which are 'the unfathomable', 'the horribly great', and the just plain 'cheesy' movies from the past. Our first feature length DVD Cinematic Titanic's "The Oozing Skull" is available for purchase at EZtakes.com
Aging is not a disease.
Imagine contesting with our own offspring if everybody decides to live forever.
Then stop, or at least severely slow down breeding. What a concept. Not breeding.
I think not. Check wiki.At the risk of Godwin-ing this post, Hitler was originally elected by popular vote.
"Finally, the president reluctantly agreed to appoint Hitler Chancellor of a coalition government..."
He was appointed, not elected.
The same reason they drive Hummers and pickup trucks. Male inadequacy. Yes, dick size. Guns give them a sense of power.
>> It would be an Anenome (sic) ...
A sea urchin is an Echinoderm, like starfish and sea cucumbers.
An anemone is a Cnidaria, like coral and jelly fish.
Imagine obligatory wiki links here.
jfs
>> Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. ...
>> For the newbies among us, allow me to explain all the parts. This post is the culmination of 11 Slashdot memes which are, in order:
>> 1. Russian reversal - in Soviet Russa joke
>> 11. ??? Profit!!! internet meme - a reference to a joke in a South Park episode
12. Constant misuse of the word "meme" (because it sounds cooler than "joke," "idea," or "concept") meme. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
jfs
> How many tickets answered per day? Completed per day? /dev/random is probably the most elegant though
Tickets are completely meaningless in admin work. To wit:
- Fix a simple request in 2 minutes, or make the customer go back and spend 15 minutes filling out a ticket. Happy customers verses happy manager, you can't have both.
- Who takes on the hardest tickets? This isn't phone support. Some are done in 5 minutes, others take days. At one place I worked, we had an admin who would sit and refresh the ticket screen all day just to grab and close the easy tickets. The managers loved him because he seemingly got so much more done than everyone else. I prided myself in being able to tackle the hard tickets. They yelled at me for not getting anything done. I quit soon thereafter.
- Many requests hit mutliple teams. App support, developers, networking, security. Does one ticket bounce around and only the team that closes it get credit? Do you open a new ticket for each subtask? How do you even define a subtask?
- Should you open an RFC (request for change) to make that change, or is the ticket sufficient? Or does the RFC generate multiple tickets? Or the ticket generate multiple RFCs?
- What do you do when your boss's boss says drop what you're doing and take care of a specific customer? You can't ask them to open a ticket. They have already bypassed the ticketing process. Open the ticket yourself, you say? Well, who is the manager of the business unit who's paying for the issue, and what is his cost code? You don't have half of the needed information. Besides, they don't have any idea what they need done anyway.
Tickets for admins. Bad idea.
jfs
> So as long as a white-collar criminal stashes his money away where the
> government can't get at it, there should be no punishment?
> Sorry, jail time is appropriate for some economic crimes. Maybe not
> in this case, no, but your blanket statement just doesn't work in all blanket cases.
There are different types of prisons here in the US. There are the maximum security lock-ups for the violent criminals, and the minimal security golf clubs for the white collar millionaires. Do you really think that the CEO of Worldcom spent time as Bubba the rapist's bunk mate? Seriously.
jfs
> Who in their right mind would specifically subscribe to the
> Game Show Channel, the Reality TV channel, or any home shopping channel?
My Mom for one. She watches the Game Show Channel religiously. Last I checked she was in her right mind.
jfs
>> Ron Paul basically is calling for a return to a government
>> dictated by the constitution -- namely that any powers not
>> specifically given to congress by the constitution should be
>> left to the states.
(Off topic rant)
That's just what we need. Reestablishment of segregation.
Illegal abortions performed in bathrooms. Evolution theory
banned in schools. Rampant capital punishment against non-whites.
Jail time for buggery. Big red A for adultery. Book burnings.
When you get down to it, the federal government is the only
thing keeping the red states from reverting to the worse
parts of the previous centuries. Maybe the real solution is
to spin them off, like any good corporation would.
jfs
MST3K was created by Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, and Josh Weinstein. The jokes were spontaneous, and show was at its best.
Then Michael J. Nelson became head writer. Kevin Murphy and Frank Conniff took over for Josh, which was a big loss. The jokes started to became a little stale, but the show was still good. Frank simply was not funny, but Trace did what he could to keep the sketches interesting.
Then Joel left, and Nelson took over as the star of the show. Joel played a kind hearted, inventive, make-the-best-of-a-bad-situation character. Nelson just played a looser. The bots went from Joel's friends helping him make fun of the Mad Scientists, to sarcastic little kids who were mean and sarcastic to Nelson.
Then Trace left, to be replaced by Mary Jo Pehl and Bill Corbett. At this point, in my opinion, the sketches became unwatchable. The movie riffing was still OK, but there were way too many scatology and Beavis and Butthead style "heh, he sucks" jokes.
Please do NOT call Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett MST3K. They took over a brilliant concept and kept it alive long after the creaters were tired of it. I give them credit for that. But they could never come close to that first season.
jfs
> A universities reputation is based on the quality of its research and how well it's graduates to in the work force.
Last I checked Stanford was a liberal arts university, not a trade school. Their reputation is based on their scholastics, not how much money their graduates make.
jfs
>sorry, their MAIN problem is not in any way a dysfunctional backup system. ever heard of verifying backuped data?
"Yes, we guarantee 100% that your data is being backed up. Look at all those tapes going offsite. You need a recovery? I dunno. We never tested that."
jfs
> The difference is one of intent. The people in Iraq and many other parts of the world are INTENTIONALLY targeting civilians as a means to an end. They want to get their message out and to terrorize the population. That is NOT the action of freedom fighters, it is the action of brutal thugs. The Mujahidin in Afghanistan were freedom fighters, the American revolutionaries were freedom fighters. When you intentionally target civilians who are not part of the government machine I really don't think you can be considered anything but a coward and a thug.
What about the carpet bombing of Dresdon, Berlin, Tokyo during WWII? The atom bombs we dropped were small compared to the number of civilians that we massacred. Does that make us cowards and thugs?
jfs
> Am I the only one that notices when an anti-republican or anti-Bush article is posted, most of the replies focus on how evil Republicans/Bush/Rove are, but when an anti-democrat article is linked, the closest thing to criticism is "both parties suck!"
Because: (See Sig)
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