Wow... I was hoping the world would grow out of this whole god thing... I'm sure people said the same baseless bullshit about electricity, nuclear power, cars, vaccines, organ transplants and a host of other great advances. In another post you claim not to be a ludite.. but really you're a very similar kind of evil, you reject advancement and hide behind your "god".
"Why would a god put a pleasure area so close to a waste disposal area" -- some movie
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What will become of the disabled, forgotten and unwanted children associated with creating the perfect child?
They will live like everyone else... doing the best they can and surviving the best they can.. What else?
Now, how about saying "any social system where WOMEN are EXPECTED to be POORER than MEN?".
It's also a point of pride in many countries! If there were more women than men you can almost be assured that the men would be the poorer ones! I think you have the cause and effect backwards. Women are poorer and expected to be poorer than men because they are not seen as equals.
To a point, sure. It's legal and the information they found should probably be in the open anyway. However, I don't think ethically Oracle needs to be playing detective just to help the DOJ drive home their point. I'm sure if I had a couple million to spend I could get Sherlock Holmes' great grandson to dig up all sorts of trash on oracle, does that mean I should?
And what is it that makes Oracle "good" while "Microsoft" is bad?
My comment was poorly phrased.. I should have said microsoft products are bad and oracle products are good. I meant it as a subjective statement but, I see it came off as an objective one... sorry.
I don't think it's to cool that Oracle is going around investigating the competition.. where is the line between what they did and industrial espionage(sp?)? Oracle is a great company and microsoft is a horrible one but, I dont think that gives oracle the right to dig up dirt, after all, supposedly thats what this anti-trust stuff is supposed to do.
We had a dish grabbing images of much of the east coast every hour or so from 3 NOAA sats with a resolution of ~1.2km/pixel (iirc) so the raw data after being captured was anywhere between 20M and 50M. It was highly dependant on the angle of approach and the time of day.
At any rate, each image was stored directly on to an 8G DAT drive (which was changed every 7-10 days) and then a rectangle around the state of Maine and the Gulf of Maine was cut out and placed in a directory on the hard drive. I would manually line up the physical coast on the image with where the computer believed the coast was with some fancy (read expensive) software. Then each images would be processed by a script I wrote (and some of that fancy stuff too). To make a long story longer, the channels of the data would be combined to get the temp of the land and sea (and clouds) into a data format called MCSST where every pixel directly translates into a ~1.2km square's temp, called MCSST or Multi Channel Sea Surface Temperature. MCSST is the stuff the researchers and students used for doing science. We also made gif's and thumbnails of the entire state/gulf as well as focus in on a few areas like penobscott bay. I then wrote a simple CGI to display a gallery of the thumnails and allow you to view any image you wanted as they became processed each day. We allowed anyone who wanted the raw data to access that as well.
The point of this long winded story is that we let people who were interested in our data see the light weight gif's before they wasted badwidth or disks (writable dvd is WAY more expensive per gig than DAT) on the huge data. It wouldnt have been hard to set up a burner to burn from the DAT to make custom data dvd's from a shopping cart type deal on the the web site.
It would be even cooler if it used other computer noises... typing, fan noise, HD grinding (fsck), monitor degausing(sp?), ink jet, mouse clicks... on second thought maybe that would just sound like my office...
Just make a form with a spot for all relevant credit card info (i.e. name, number, exp. date) and write it into a text file. Then once a week you send them to me. I take them to this guy I know, bob "chainsaw" griffin, and he gives me $100 for every number that works! I give you 60% and everyone is happy... ------ www.chowda.net ------
No.. but I worked at a papermill with highly dangerous compounds and heavy machinery. And I smoked dope WITH my co-workers on lunch breaks... I also worked paving driveways... dope smokers, every one of us. Now I write software... nothing will kill you here (unless you try really, really hard) and we all smoke dope. I've never been responsible for or anyway involved in any kind of accident at any place of employment I've ever had... masonry, carpentry, landscaping, paving, papermilling, programming, selling retail, tutoring, flipping burgers, and shipping/recieving. ------ www.chowda.net ------
its probably not actually a month.. but I know it was longer than 2 weeks... I dont know what they expected to find out as he knew when it was happening:) Obviously there are too many federal agents with nothing to do:) ------ www.chowda.net ------
If they want to know what school I graduate from I'll give them the school name and the dean's phone number... just ask ME... ------ www.chowda.net ------
Anything that requires clearance is not worth it, in my opinion. My friend's dad has a job that requires him to change security levels once every few years and the company stakes out his house and taps his phone for like a month.... that's just fscking rediculous. ------ www.chowda.net ------
Of course I have a price... I'd let someone write a book about my bathroom habits if the price was right... I would submit to background checks if the job was worth millions of dollars a year.. couldnt really pass it up... but for eighty thousand a year.. they can take the background checks 'n' shuv 'em. ------ www.chowda.net ------
I just wont work for people who require any information other than some business or personal references. I never agree to drug or criminal checks, and I don't even have anything to hide... on the second one that is:)
If a company can't hire me based on what I can show I can do then I dont want to work for them anyway... not like geeks are hard up for work these days... ------ www.chowda.net ------
I'm not sure if static bags provide RF sheilding to the necessary degree, however, I am sure something similar exists. I know for a fact it's going to be much more difficult to find a substance that will hold up to the ventillation ass... but with enough NASA research we shouldnt be too far from an adequate ventillation ass solution. ------ www.chowda.net ------
I think it would be pretty sweet to have a computer case made of legos! You could add ventelation ass needed and add new hardware at will... My computer would have a drink holder (not just the cd rom tray) an ashtray, and a place to putt all my N.P. pictures... and of course there would be a hot grits container, as it is very inconvienent to walk all the way to the crock-pot in the kitchen... ------ www.chowda.net ------
Boy, it's always such a treat when the government decides to regulate something else! Where would we be with out regulations... more free and less paranoid? naaaah. ------ www.chowda.net ------
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Wow... I was hoping the world would grow out of this whole god thing... I'm sure people said the same baseless bullshit about electricity, nuclear power, cars, vaccines, organ transplants and a host of other great advances. In another post you claim not to be a ludite.. but really you're a very similar kind of evil, you reject advancement and hide behind your "god".
"Why would a god put a pleasure area so close to a waste disposal area" -- some movie
What will become of the disabled, forgotten and unwanted children associated with creating the perfect child?
They will live like everyone else... doing the best they can and surviving the best they can.. What else?
Now, how about saying "any social system where WOMEN are EXPECTED to be POORER than MEN?".
It's also a point of pride in many countries! If there were more women than men you can almost be assured that the men would be the poorer ones! I think you have the cause and effect backwards. Women are poorer and expected to be poorer than men because they are not seen as equals.
To a point, sure. It's legal and the information they found should probably be in the open anyway. However, I don't think ethically Oracle needs to be playing detective just to help the DOJ drive home their point. I'm sure if I had a couple million to spend I could get Sherlock Holmes' great grandson to dig up all sorts of trash on oracle, does that mean I should?
Once one company starts "investigating" another, the line between espionage and "uncovering the truth" is microscopic at best.
I'm sure my comment confused you, and I'm sorry for you.
And what is it that makes Oracle "good" while "Microsoft" is bad?
My comment was poorly phrased.. I should have said microsoft products are bad and oracle products are good. I meant it as a subjective statement but, I see it came off as an objective one... sorry.
I don't think it's to cool that Oracle is going around investigating the competition.. where is the line between what they did and industrial espionage(sp?)? Oracle is a great company and microsoft is a horrible one but, I dont think that gives oracle the right to dig up dirt, after all, supposedly thats what this anti-trust stuff is supposed to do.
We had a dish grabbing images of much of the east coast every hour or so from 3 NOAA sats with a resolution of ~1.2km/pixel (iirc) so the raw data after being captured was anywhere between 20M and 50M. It was highly dependant on the angle of approach and the time of day.
At any rate, each image was stored directly on to an 8G DAT drive (which was changed every 7-10 days) and then a rectangle around the state of Maine and the Gulf of Maine was cut out and placed in a directory on the hard drive. I would manually line up the physical coast on the image with where the computer believed the coast was with some fancy (read expensive) software. Then each images would be processed by a script I wrote (and some of that fancy stuff too). To make a long story longer, the channels of the data would be combined to get the temp of the land and sea (and clouds) into a data format called MCSST where every pixel directly translates into a ~1.2km square's temp, called MCSST or Multi Channel Sea Surface Temperature. MCSST is the stuff the researchers and students used for doing science. We also made gif's and thumbnails of the entire state/gulf as well as focus in on a few areas like penobscott bay. I then wrote a simple CGI to display a gallery of the thumnails and allow you to view any image you wanted as they became processed each day. We allowed anyone who wanted the raw data to access that as well.
The point of this long winded story is that we let people who were interested in our data see the light weight gif's before they wasted badwidth or disks (writable dvd is WAY more expensive per gig than DAT) on the huge data. It wouldnt have been hard to set up a burner to burn from the DAT to make custom data dvd's from a shopping cart type deal on the the web site.
It would be even cooler if it used other computer noises... typing, fan noise, HD grinding (fsck), monitor degausing(sp?), ink jet, mouse clicks... on second thought maybe that would just sound like my office...
Just make a form with a spot for all relevant credit card info (i.e. name, number, exp. date) and write it into a text file. Then once a week you send them to me. I take them to this guy I know, bob "chainsaw" griffin, and he gives me $100 for every number that works! I give you 60% and everyone is happy...
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I thought it was funny... but I think the backstreet boys are a comedy troup...
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Could it be Ponce DeLeon(?) was on the wrong planet?
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yeah... it's too bad I've never done anything... 3.6 gpa
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No.. but I worked at a papermill with highly dangerous compounds and heavy machinery. And I smoked dope WITH my co-workers on lunch breaks... I also worked paving driveways... dope smokers, every one of us. Now I write software... nothing will kill you here (unless you try really, really hard) and we all smoke dope. I've never been responsible for or anyway involved in any kind of accident at any place of employment I've ever had... masonry, carpentry, landscaping, paving, papermilling, programming, selling retail, tutoring, flipping burgers, and shipping/recieving.
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its probably not actually a month.. but I know it was longer than 2 weeks... I dont know what they expected to find out as he knew when it was happening :) Obviously there are too many federal agents with nothing to do :)
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If they want to know what school I graduate from I'll give them the school name and the dean's phone number... just ask ME...
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Anything that requires clearance is not worth it, in my opinion. My friend's dad has a job that requires him to change security levels once every few years and the company stakes out his house and taps his phone for like a month.... that's just fscking rediculous.
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Of course I have a price... I'd let someone write a book about my bathroom habits if the price was right... I would submit to background checks if the job was worth millions of dollars a year.. couldnt really pass it up... but for eighty thousand a year.. they can take the background checks 'n' shuv 'em.
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I just wont work for people who require any information other than some business or personal references. I never agree to drug or criminal checks, and I don't even have anything to hide... on the second one that is :)
If a company can't hire me based on what I can show I can do then I dont want to work for them anyway... not like geeks are hard up for work these days...
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I'm not sure if static bags provide RF sheilding to the necessary degree, however, I am sure something similar exists. I know for a fact it's going to be much more difficult to find a substance that will hold up to the ventillation ass... but with enough NASA research we shouldnt be too far from an adequate ventillation ass solution.
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you could probably sue her based on psychological damage....
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I guess that preview button is there for a reason huh? damn it....
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I think it would be pretty sweet to have a computer case made of legos! You could add ventelation ass needed and add new hardware at will... My computer would have a drink holder (not just the cd rom tray) an ashtray, and a place to putt all my N.P. pictures... and of course there would be a hot grits container, as it is very inconvienent to walk all the way to the crock-pot in the kitchen...
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Boy, it's always such a treat when the government decides to regulate something else! Where would we be with out regulations... more free and less paranoid? naaaah.
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Jesus built my race car. dang a dang dang....
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