Is she pro-Chinese? She is Taiwanese, so being pro-Chinese would be unexpected. Although her family did come from the mainland, so she might be loyal to China, even though her family fled the communists.
Oh! Now we are in a metadiscussion about the discussion!
Actually, this particular thread helped me come up with a new rule about arguing with people on the internet. No longer should it be compared to the special olympics. Instead, it should be compared to masturbation. Some people try to discourage it, but it is really natural and inevitable, and so the only thing to do is to make sure you don't waste too much time doing it, and you don't end up doing doing it in front of a bunch of people who would rather not watch.
First, many organizations with very sophisticated intelligence gathering capabilities often disregard them because they don't want to pay attention to what is going on. I am sure the Soviet Union, back in 1941, could have come to conclusions about what those big lines of German tanks were doing parked at their border, but they chose not to.
Secondly, I think you need to be a little bit more subtle and sophisticated in your thinking. It is true that most of the issues surrounding Wal-Mart can be argued on both sides, but to say that things like de facto economic coercion, third party effect (as with increased traffic), labor conditions in the third world, and the destruction of character in communities are the concerns of "art students" isn't what I would expect from an educated person.
I think it often happens with organizations that are large enough to be insulated from the world, or that have very active propaganda machines, that they start believing their own propaganda. And Wal-Mart is probably one of these. They probably do think that the anti-Wal-Mart people are just a few malcontents, and that for most people, Wal-Mart is the center of happy shiny communities. And so they are probably surprised to learn that among many people, especially the educated, they aren't popular.
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hmmm... From the wine logs, it looks like I am not the only one with this problem. It might be that Civ4 runs fine, but Civ2 does not. Which would be ironic, but not unheard of.
To do system performance, just take pages/data/e-Mail/whatever served from a server, and divide it by the operational cost of the server.
But how do you measure the value of the administrator? I guess I would take the value of what the system would do by itself, if it was just "left running", and divide it by that cost. (You would end up with less cost, but also less productivity, of course). And then, take it with say, a bare bones set up, with only a few, poorly trained administrators, and show what the cost per page/e-Mail delivery would be. And then show your cost as it is now, with you and your sterling team of administrators.
First they came for the botnet scripts, and I said nothing, because I was not a script kiddie Then they came for the portscanners, but I said nothing, because I was not trying to hack boxes Then they came for the packet sniffers, but I said nothing because I thought my firewall was strong enough Then they came for SATAN, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't an admin And then, they came for my elite box, and I had to go back to using my mom's e-Machine, and I cried and cried
You just can't expand into time. You also can't expand into say, love, or the scent of almond, or square root of negative 1. When it comes to extension, expansion is only possible in space. Duh.
And in stability, and if I do say so, its probably due to Linux. It was right after Linux started getting more popular, around 1999 or so, that we saw Microsoft start to be serious about improving the operating system instead of marketing it. I haven't really used Windows in a couple years, but from what I understand, it doesn't blue screen or become incredibly sluggish after three hours, like it used to.
The fact that people are actually going to the lengths of breaking into Windows by using a legitimate driver with kernel access to load in rootkits...the fact that it even requires explaining, means that Windows has reached some type of real security. I mean, with Windows 98, you would just hit enter on the login dialog box, and there you were!
Several people have already commented that they don't see the need for this, which is what I was going to say (because the hum of my harddrive is much less than the hum of several other things in my apartment, and much much less than I-5, which is just outside my window) But I imagine that there is still a few niche markets where the additional cost would be worth it. Is this designed for computers that are to be used in operating rooms, or research labs, or some other exotic locale where noise has to be kept down to a minimum?
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,...in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
So, this is just another example of someone predicting that the internet is the end of the world. It will be balanced out tomorrow, when someone predicts that Web 2.0 will revolutionize human life for the better.
Since there is a big crowd of Slashdotters who are reasonable luddite-like, and who rightfully decry the unnecessary adding of technology to everything, I am guessing that an article suggesting that what the majestic natural experience of ocean and land needs is RFID tags was perhaps posted knowing that it would cause scorn and derision.
Which doesn't mean I am not going to fall for the bait.
The best way to explain it is if you took every Everquest joke ever made, and they weren't jokes, and you doubled them, you would have World of Warcraft.
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Is she pro-Chinese?
She is Taiwanese, so being pro-Chinese would be unexpected.
Although her family did come from the mainland, so she might be loyal to China, even though her family fled the communists.
Oh! Now we are in a metadiscussion about the discussion!
Actually, this particular thread helped me come up with a new rule about arguing with people on the internet.
No longer should it be compared to the special olympics.
Instead, it should be compared to masturbation.
Some people try to discourage it, but it is really natural and inevitable, and so the only thing to do is to make sure you don't waste too much time doing it, and you don't end up doing doing it in front of a bunch of people who would rather not watch.
First, many organizations with very sophisticated intelligence gathering capabilities often disregard them because they don't want to pay attention to what is going on. I am sure the Soviet Union, back in 1941, could have come to conclusions about what those big lines of German tanks were doing parked at their border, but they chose not to.
Secondly, I think you need to be a little bit more subtle and sophisticated in your thinking. It is true that most of the issues surrounding Wal-Mart can be argued on both sides, but to say that things like de facto economic coercion, third party effect (as with increased traffic), labor conditions in the third world, and the destruction of character in communities are the concerns of "art students" isn't what I would expect from an educated person.
I think it often happens with organizations that are large enough to be insulated from the world, or that have very active propaganda machines, that they start believing their own propaganda.
And Wal-Mart is probably one of these.
They probably do think that the anti-Wal-Mart people are just a few malcontents, and that for most people, Wal-Mart is the center of happy shiny communities. And so they are probably surprised to learn that among many people, especially the educated, they aren't popular.
Tip your waitress?
hmmm...
From the wine logs, it looks like I am not the only one with this problem.
It might be that Civ4 runs fine, but Civ2 does not. Which would be ironic, but not unheard of.
To do system performance, just take pages/data/e-Mail/whatever served from a server, and divide it by the operational cost of the server.
But how do you measure the value of the administrator?
I guess I would take the value of what the system would do by itself, if it was just "left running", and divide it by that cost. (You would end up with less cost, but also less productivity, of course).
And then, take it with say, a bare bones set up, with only a few, poorly trained administrators, and show what the cost per page/e-Mail delivery would be.
And then show your cost as it is now, with you and your sterling team of administrators.
Last time I tried using Civ II under Wine, it crashed as soon as it was actually time to play.
Oh, and if you are about to mention FreeCiv, don't. You don't give a chocoholic carob.
Besides, as far as we know, L Frank Baum's obsession with young girls was just a littttttle bit less creepy than Piers Anthony's.
Get progressively sillier, more episodic and more random. Its like Piers Anthony, only possible worse.
I don't get it...is there a geek reference that I am not hip to?
Pretty soon those pills and SCO stock will be showing up as a 2-for-1 sale in my inbox!
Hey! You are stealing my joke!
But I think you did it better than I did...
::: nods :::
Of course, how silly of me not to realize.
First they came for the botnet scripts, and I said nothing, because I was not a script kiddie
Then they came for the portscanners, but I said nothing, because I was not trying to hack boxes
Then they came for the packet sniffers, but I said nothing because I thought my firewall was strong enough
Then they came for SATAN, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't an admin
And then, they came for my elite box, and I had to go back to using my mom's e-Machine, and I cried and cried
muggy, murky, rocky and acidic
It was faked on a soundstage in New Jersey.
You just can't expand into time.
You also can't expand into say, love, or the scent of almond, or square root of negative 1.
When it comes to extension, expansion is only possible in space.
Duh.
And in stability, and if I do say so, its probably due to Linux.
It was right after Linux started getting more popular, around 1999 or so, that we saw Microsoft start to be serious about improving the operating system instead of marketing it.
I haven't really used Windows in a couple years, but from what I understand, it doesn't blue screen or become incredibly sluggish after three hours, like it used to.
The fact that people are actually going to the lengths of breaking into Windows by using a legitimate driver with kernel access to load in rootkits...the fact that it even requires explaining, means that Windows has reached some type of real security. I mean, with Windows 98, you would just hit enter on the login dialog box, and there you were!
Several people have already commented that they don't see the need for this, which is what I was going to say
(because the hum of my harddrive is much less than the hum of several other things in my apartment, and much much less than I-5, which is just outside my window)
But I imagine that there is still a few niche markets where the additional cost would be worth it. Is this designed for computers that are to be used in operating rooms, or research labs, or some other exotic locale where noise has to be kept down to a minimum?
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, ...in short, the period was so far like the present
period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its
being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree
of comparison only.
So, this is just another example of someone predicting that the internet is the end of the world. It will be balanced out tomorrow, when someone predicts that Web 2.0 will revolutionize human life for the better.
Since there is a big crowd of Slashdotters who are reasonable luddite-like, and who rightfully decry the unnecessary adding of technology to everything, I am guessing that an article suggesting that what the majestic natural experience of ocean and land needs is RFID tags was perhaps posted knowing that it would cause scorn and derision.
Which doesn't mean I am not going to fall for the bait.
Man, is this a stupid idea OR WHAT?
BSD is ACCOUNCED!
The best way to explain it is if you took every Everquest joke ever made, and they weren't jokes, and you doubled them, you would have World of Warcraft.
The next thing they have to make is a chain metal bikini that can give Elven Warrior Maidens the protection from dragon fire they need.