The first set of targets (AIA, AMA, the Bar, etc.) are professional organizations. The important part here is that the professionals involved do not have to be members of these organizations. A Capital-A-Architect is not distinguished by the "FAIA" after his name, but by a state board that objectively measures his competence against a set of minimum standards for public welfare. (Well, I goddamn hate architects, licensed or otherwise. Personally, architecture is a poor excuse to combine a building designer with an artist. But that's just me.) I mean, I can be a Professional Engineer without ever joining the AISC or the NSPE, but still need to prove to the government, much like a doctor, that I can do my job without endangering the public.
The second target (driver's license) is misguided. Your license isn't for you, it's for me. You know that saying that the right to swing your fist ends at my face? Well, the right to careen towards me with two thousand pounds of steel ends on a public roadway, unless you agree to play nice, and prove that you know how.
On my company machine, I too have office XP installed. However, the friendly IT-folks have configured it to save in Office 2000 format, the current low denominator. In a couple of years, when we've gotten rid of the Office 2000 machines, the new machines will be configured to write XP format.
My company just moved our internal applications from DOS to web-based. Plusses: central servers and backups, no special software installed on the computer, works from any internet computer (once you VPN in, of course). Downsides: Active-X, shitty copy-paste, wicked klugy-feeling. We probably won't replace it for another fifteen years.
Or, if you want to be practical about the changing nature of language, I'll take my reply from the greatest changer of the English language - William Shakespeare:
"You speak unskilfully: or, if your knowledge be more, it is much darkened in your malice." -Measure for Measure
Yes, my suggestion is definitely geared towards new construction.
Actually, at some point, a decision should be made - is this a vault (concrete, plate, etc) or a fire-resistant secure room (CMU's, steel fire door w/ good locks and hinges, connection to an alarm).
Realistically, most people at home would be alright with a secure room.
If you are going to all of that trouble, why use block masonry?
To make a good strong wall, you should have reinforcement in both directions. Standard blocks don't have the notches for horizontal rebars, leaving you only with vertical reinforcement.
Even more, CMU's aren't really high-strength concrete. The problem is impact resistance, jackhammers and the like.
Best bet: Concrete wall, 6"-12" thick. When you pour it, use a piece of steel plate for the inside form. Now we're talking painful demolition.
Other than that, which forms the entire body of your argument, you're spot on.
Me, I was amused by the name of the safe-cracking book mentioned in the PDF: "The Art of Manipulation." I'm sure that's the name of a low-budget pr0n film.
What he described is used in the construction industry as a 'rod oven' (see the post above) for keeping the moisture out of welding rods or as a cure box to keep concrete test cylinders from freezing.
The favorite rod oven is a mini-fridge with a 40-watt bulb installed in it. However, we build the cure boxes out of plywood and line them with blueboard (dense styrofoam sheeting, about an inch thick or so).
Since the computer produces heat on it's own, a good option (if you can find an acceptable one) would be a unused fridge / freezer. Cut a hole for the cords, seal with spray foam, and you are good to go.
Novel[l] liked Ximian so much they bought em. So all you Suse fans better get ready to love GNOME as the default/only desktop.
My personal take: Novell wanted the Ximian Connector and Mono stuff, and is willing to sacrifice Ximian's GNOME stuff, since that fits better into the Novell interoperability thing. Heck, they bought SuSE first, who supports much KDE development.
2. Platform independence. You can port Gtk/GNOME apps to Windows without worrying about license issues. Not so for KDE/Qt. You can port FROM Windows to the Free world but never the other way. Windows ports of the major GNOME/Gtk apps means a large userbase to tap and when they convert to Linux/GNU/X they will have never seen a KDE app but will already be up to speed on Gimp, Gaim, OpenOffice and such.
You can go both ways if you pay for a QT licence. Users of QT/Windows can in fact, release GPL software. Novell, being a company and having cash, can buy such licences. Oh, I always though that OpenOffice was crossplatform since the StarOffice days, and never depended on GNOME/GTK.
Maybe it's just me, but every time that I've used the GIMP on Windows that it's been as stable as Liza Minnelli about to go into rehab. Not a shining example of GTK prowess, that. (works great on Linux though, no complaints there.)
Not that the GNOME's haven't done some great things, least of which is spurring KDE and preventing complacency in both camps.
Take this statement: If I buy American product A at cost $N, I have $K-N left over to survive and leave to my children,...[whining cut]... bad neighborhood). Combine with this statement: I and my fellow citizens pay our govt to look out for us and this: No, I pay my govt to place me in the best position. Making me compete against low wages foreigners is treason.
And you get a false sense of entitlement. The government owes you nothing. Your taxes are not paid to help you, individually or specifically, they are paid to help us.
Really, do you actually believe that just by being American you have the right to succeed? Malc responded to another of your posts with an idea that I'm going to expound on, and then I will come to a fundamental truth of capitalism. (hold on kids! keep your hands and feet inside the cluetrain!) Malc reminded us about one of the many dangers of import tariffs - retaliatory import tariffs by other countries, and the rebounding ramifications that trade policy can have.
Now, you seem to think of this whole globalization business as some kind of war, what with the shouts for treason, protection, mommy, and so on. Funny thing about war is that the ones who get hurt aren't the ones raising holy hell on either side, it's the poor sons of bitches in the trenches. With this in mind, back to my example with the cranes. (I like cranes, so we're going to keep talking about it.)
One one side, we have a team of machinists, weldors, and engineers from Wisconsin. Good guys, no doubt, even if they drink watery beer and say 'pop' instead of soda or coke. On the other side, we have a team of machinists, weldors, and engineers from Duseldorf. Good guys, no doubt, even if they eat too much sausage and live near France. I'm only buying one crane. This unit costs several million dollars, so there's quite a few manhours involved, and therefore a few jobs. You would have me buy the Manitowoc, since they are your fellow Oppressed American Workers, and our government, in it's infinite wisdom and compasion, tariffs the Liebherr so badly that it is uneconomical to do so. Left to my own devices, I would buy the Liebherr since it is a better piece of equipment for my money.
One way or the other, some poor bastard is not getting the job, and the only difference is whether he's an American bastard or a German bastard. Now, all this said- Why should I give the jobs to the guys in Wisconsin? Because they are nice folks and speak English?
Here's that fundamental truth that I was getting at: You have an equal right to fail or succeed. Here's a fun corollary: Propping up your sorry ass hurts someone else.
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OK, look at it like this: 1) You propose economic treason for a guy that wants to buy a $2 toaster from overseas. 2) You buy foreign goods, even though you say the gov'ment 'made you do it.'
Statement 1 + Statement 2 = Do as I say, not as I do.
The US steel industry, with tariffs so restrictive and protective that he Europeans brought out the WTO, is shit. Bethlehem and USSteel had no need to innovate, no need to get better, no need to control the labor costs. Look where it got them.
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OK. Reality check.
The computer you typed that post with - were all of the circuit boards domestically made? Own a cell phone? Pull the battery cover off and see where it was made. Oo-h! My coffee cup! Made in Mexico!! Do you have an American made coffee cup? I've got about a dozen that aren't. Watch? Japanese. There could be more great examples, but that's what I see in front of me right now.
If you can't catalog your life and say 'yes, I have no forign made products', than YOU'RE THAT GUY that Taco Cowboy is talking about. Pot calling Kettle...
Oh, here's a fun scenario for your economic treason (i.e., where do you draw the line): I work in construction, and we use a lot of cranes. Now, there is a certain class of cranes called Duty-Cycle cranes, mainly for heavy foundation work - slurry walls, drilled shafts, tasks that beat the crap out of equipment. The best American made entry is the Manitowoc 1015, which is a huge POS. Just doesn't do the job. (Too bad really, since the rest of their cranes are wonderful products.) On the other hand, the German Liebherr makes an excellent duty-cycle crane, the HS 833 HD. Should I be punished for buying the Liebherr? Should I buy the Manitowoc out of some sort of loyalty to USA? What you are proposing by such a law is rapidly approaching the "anti-dog-eat-dog rule" from Atlas Shrugged. Honestly, you don't have to agree with everything (or most) of what Ayn Rand says, but it should be very self apparent that rules like that are misguided, idiotic, and self defeating.
First, the goal is / ought to be the widespread use of open standards. If everyone talks the same language - if we can all read and write the same office documents (wether MSOffice, Koffice, OpenOffice, or Appleworks, to name a few), view the web the same (standards compliant rendering) and so on, then we will be somewhere.
At that point, the virtues of each system - Linux, Windows, MacOS, UNIX - are separated from the end useage and FOSS can compete on a level playing ground.
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My problem with what you say is this:
The first set of targets (AIA, AMA, the Bar, etc.) are professional organizations. The important part here is that the professionals involved do not have to be members of these organizations.
A Capital-A-Architect is not distinguished by the "FAIA" after his name, but by a state board that objectively measures his competence against a set of minimum standards for public welfare. (Well, I goddamn hate architects, licensed or otherwise. Personally, architecture is a poor excuse to combine a building designer with an artist. But that's just me.) I mean, I can be a Professional Engineer without ever joining the AISC or the NSPE, but still need to prove to the government, much like a doctor, that I can do my job without endangering the public.
The second target (driver's license) is misguided. Your license isn't for you, it's for me. You know that saying that the right to swing your fist ends at my face? Well, the right to careen towards me with two thousand pounds of steel ends on a public roadway, unless you agree to play nice, and prove that you know how.
On my company machine, I too have office XP installed.
However, the friendly IT-folks have configured it to save in Office 2000 format, the current low denominator. In a couple of years, when we've gotten rid of the Office 2000 machines, the new machines will be configured to write XP format.
Call it a rolling upgrade.
Silly! It's not functional enough!
If it can't get copy and paste right, it's no good. That's so basic I don't even know where to begin.
The thing that bothers me the most is that I can't remap copy from CRTL-C to APPLE-C like every other application.
I ran linux for the last five years, and recently bought a powerbook. For me, it's definitely not the 'pretty' thing.
OOo sucked on linux as well.
Loads fine with Safari on OSX, despite the fact that I probably can't "install thousands of applications simply with a klik.".
Heh. Go Figure.
My company just moved our internal applications from DOS to web-based.
Plusses: central servers and backups, no special software installed on the computer, works from any internet computer (once you VPN in, of course).
Downsides: Active-X, shitty copy-paste, wicked klugy-feeling. We probably won't replace it for another fifteen years.
Synthetic Lubricants are the answer to your questions.
You know, like that $4 / qt Syntec oil down at the Autozone?
To top it off, the synthetics are usually better, since they don't break down as quickly.
Or, if you want to be practical about the changing nature of language, I'll take my reply from the greatest changer of the English language - William Shakespeare:
"You speak unskilfully: or, if your knowledge be more, it is much darkened in your malice."
-Measure for Measure
See? Even the Bard thinks you speak funny.
(Quote borrowed from here)
Yes, my suggestion is definitely geared towards new construction.
Actually, at some point, a decision should be made - is this a vault (concrete, plate, etc) or a fire-resistant secure room (CMU's, steel fire door w/ good locks and hinges, connection to an alarm).
Realistically, most people at home would be alright with a secure room.
Seriously, this place is looking more like comp.sys.advocacy.* every day...
Oh, it always has.
Now, it looks like more than just comp.sys.advocacy.linux and comp.sys.advocacy.bsd-is-dead.
Variety is the spice of life, even if the spice is ass-flavored.
If you are going to all of that trouble, why use block masonry?
To make a good strong wall, you should have reinforcement in both directions. Standard blocks don't have the notches for horizontal rebars, leaving you only with vertical reinforcement.
Even more, CMU's aren't really high-strength concrete. The problem is impact resistance, jackhammers and the like.
Best bet:
Concrete wall, 6"-12" thick. When you pour it, use a piece of steel plate for the inside form.
Now we're talking painful demolition.
To top it off, his mastery of punctuation and the Shift Key is far better than yours.
Except that 'funny' mods don't get karma.
Other than that, which forms the entire body of your argument, you're spot on.
Me, I was amused by the name of the safe-cracking book mentioned in the PDF: "The Art of Manipulation." I'm sure that's the name of a low-budget pr0n film.
90% fewer electrons is all about conservation.
See, it's like recycling - you know, not depleting our natural electron supplies and screwing our grandchildren.
Precisely what I used as a cure box on my current project. Hardest part is making sure the guys don't put their lunches in my concrete samples.
No, it won't.
What he described is used in the construction industry as a 'rod oven' (see the post above) for keeping the moisture out of welding rods or as a cure box to keep concrete test cylinders from freezing.
The favorite rod oven is a mini-fridge with a 40-watt bulb installed in it. However, we build the cure boxes out of plywood and line them with blueboard (dense styrofoam sheeting, about an inch thick or so).
Since the computer produces heat on it's own, a good option (if you can find an acceptable one) would be a unused fridge / freezer. Cut a hole for the cords, seal with spray foam, and you are good to go.
Except, here we are- quite a few comments in and the 8.6 meg quicktime slideshow still loads quickly.
This balloon man taunts us.
He does not deserve your crappy mirrors, and deserves a proper slashdotting.
Bush won! four more years of rape, pillage, burn and rape!
Ob. Blazing Saddles:
Lamarr: Qualifications?
Outlaw: Rape, murder, arson and rape.
Lamarr: You said rape twice.
Outlaw: I like rape.
I don't know why Slashdot doesn't do this more often)
Well, being the curious guy that I am, I tried both the original link and your coral link at the same time. (well, pretty close.)
Funny thing is, the original link opened, slowly, but much quicker than the coral link.
So, to get back to your question:
Q: Why don't we coral?
A: Because it's as effective as pigeonrank.
Novel[l] liked Ximian so much they bought em. So all you Suse fans better get ready to love GNOME as the default/only desktop.
My personal take:
Novell wanted the Ximian Connector and Mono stuff, and is willing to sacrifice Ximian's GNOME stuff, since that fits better into the Novell interoperability thing. Heck, they bought SuSE first, who supports much KDE development.
2. Platform independence. You can port Gtk/GNOME apps to Windows without worrying about license issues. Not so for KDE/Qt. You can port FROM Windows to the Free world but never the other way. Windows ports of the major GNOME/Gtk apps means a large userbase to tap and when they convert to Linux/GNU/X they will have never seen a KDE app but will already be up to speed on Gimp, Gaim, OpenOffice and such.
You can go both ways if you pay for a QT licence. Users of QT/Windows can in fact, release GPL software. Novell, being a company and having cash, can buy such licences.
Oh, I always though that OpenOffice was crossplatform since the StarOffice days, and never depended on GNOME/GTK.
Maybe it's just me, but every time that I've used the GIMP on Windows that it's been as stable as Liza Minnelli about to go into rehab. Not a shining example of GTK prowess, that. (works great on Linux though, no complaints there.)
Not that the GNOME's haven't done some great things, least of which is spurring KDE and preventing complacency in both camps.
Take this statement: ...[whining cut]... bad neighborhood).
If I buy American product A at cost $N, I have $K-N left over to survive and leave to my children,
Combine with this statement:
I and my fellow citizens pay our govt to look out for us
and this:
No, I pay my govt to place me in the best position. Making me compete against low wages foreigners is treason.
And you get a false sense of entitlement.
The government owes you nothing. Your taxes are not paid to help you, individually or specifically, they are paid to help us.
Really, do you actually believe that just by being American you have the right to succeed?
Malc responded to another of your posts with an idea that I'm going to expound on, and then I will come to a fundamental truth of capitalism. (hold on kids! keep your hands and feet inside the cluetrain!)
Malc reminded us about one of the many dangers of import tariffs - retaliatory import tariffs by other countries, and the rebounding ramifications that trade policy can have.
Now, you seem to think of this whole globalization business as some kind of war, what with the shouts for treason, protection, mommy, and so on. Funny thing about war is that the ones who get hurt aren't the ones raising holy hell on either side, it's the poor sons of bitches in the trenches. With this in mind, back to my example with the cranes. (I like cranes, so we're going to keep talking about it.)
One one side, we have a team of machinists, weldors, and engineers from Wisconsin. Good guys, no doubt, even if they drink watery beer and say 'pop' instead of soda or coke.
On the other side, we have a team of machinists, weldors, and engineers from Duseldorf. Good guys, no doubt, even if they eat too much sausage and live near France.
I'm only buying one crane. This unit costs several million dollars, so there's quite a few manhours involved, and therefore a few jobs.
You would have me buy the Manitowoc, since they are your fellow Oppressed American Workers, and our government, in it's infinite wisdom and compasion, tariffs the Liebherr so badly that it is uneconomical to do so.
Left to my own devices, I would buy the Liebherr since it is a better piece of equipment for my money.
One way or the other, some poor bastard is not getting the job, and the only difference is whether he's an American bastard or a German bastard.
Now, all this said- Why should I give the jobs to the guys in Wisconsin? Because they are nice folks and speak English?
Here's that fundamental truth that I was getting at:
You have an equal right to fail or succeed.
Here's a fun corollary:
Propping up your sorry ass hurts someone else.
OK, look at it like this:
x .shtml
1) You propose economic treason for a guy that wants to buy a $2 toaster from overseas.
2) You buy foreign goods, even though you say the gov'ment 'made you do it.'
Statement 1 + Statement 2 = Do as I say, not as I do.
Tariffs lead to this:
http://www.bethsteel.com/BethSteelEstate.com/inde
The US steel industry, with tariffs so restrictive and protective that he Europeans brought out the WTO, is shit.
Bethlehem and USSteel had no need to innovate, no need to get better, no need to control the labor costs. Look where it got them.
OK. Reality check.
The computer you typed that post with -
were all of the circuit boards domestically made?
Own a cell phone? Pull the battery cover off and see where it was made.
Oo-h! My coffee cup! Made in Mexico!! Do you have an American made coffee cup? I've got about a dozen that aren't. Watch? Japanese.
There could be more great examples, but that's what I see in front of me right now.
If you can't catalog your life and say 'yes, I have no forign made products', than YOU'RE THAT GUY that Taco Cowboy is talking about.
Pot calling Kettle...
Oh, here's a fun scenario for your economic treason (i.e., where do you draw the line):
I work in construction, and we use a lot of cranes. Now, there is a certain class of cranes called Duty-Cycle cranes, mainly for heavy foundation work - slurry walls, drilled shafts, tasks that beat the crap out of equipment.
The best American made entry is the Manitowoc 1015, which is a huge POS. Just doesn't do the job. (Too bad really, since the rest of their cranes are wonderful products.) On the other hand, the German Liebherr makes an excellent duty-cycle crane, the HS 833 HD.
Should I be punished for buying the Liebherr? Should I buy the Manitowoc out of some sort of loyalty to USA?
What you are proposing by such a law is rapidly approaching the "anti-dog-eat-dog rule" from Atlas Shrugged. Honestly, you don't have to agree with everything (or most) of what Ayn Rand says, but it should be very self apparent that rules like that are misguided, idiotic, and self defeating.
Fake, probably.
F-ing hot, definitely.
Well, maybe eventually proprietary systems.
First, the goal is / ought to be the widespread use of open standards. If everyone talks the same language - if we can all read and write the same office documents (wether MSOffice, Koffice, OpenOffice, or Appleworks, to name a few), view the web the same (standards compliant rendering) and so on, then we will be somewhere.
At that point, the virtues of each system - Linux, Windows, MacOS, UNIX - are separated from the end useage and FOSS can compete on a level playing ground.
Wow.
That was about as fun as kicking myself in the nuts.