Ignore the EPA MPG ratings on cars. Go get an online Consumer Reports subscription, and see what their real-world testing revealed about MPG. I've been doing that for all of my car purchases (two recent, because I helped my girlfriend shop for hers).
PTSD is reassuring for me in a way - if humans were truly naturally murderous beasts, as some would like to insist, PTSD would be very rare or non-existant.
Read On Killing. Only psychopaths can kill without emotional consequences. People are naturally opposed to killing when it comes to dealing with members of the same species. Men can hunt and kill a deer. That's instinct. When confronting other humans, the instinct is to posture or submit. Same applies to most other mammals.
Marathoners are often plagued with health problems. Do a little less running and a little more strength training and you'll (surprise) strengthen your body. Marathoning will just turn your body into a skinny little wraith optimized for pounding the pavement for 26.2 miles at a time.
It's a hoax. Notice how all of the images of exotic multi-colored fibers are close-ups where you can't see the person or the sores they talk about. The pictures of people with sores on them show people with plain sores.
It's not outsourcing, it's expanding. Linux doesn't just exist in the US, you know. There are big opportunities in other parts of the world, and apparently they want to be there.
They are firing people in the US and replacing them with people not in the US. You could make the "expanding" argument if they weren't doing the firings. They are not "expanding". They are relocating.
It will establish a European office and expand into Asia.
Lets be honest here. They are outsourcing those jobs. Hey, I'm not complaining. Hooray for the Europeans and the Asians. But the US is slipping further and further behind in the world of techonology.
Will this be how "The Raft" from Snow Crash gets started? Those poor programmers have to live on a damned boat? And, when the Raft drifts close to shore, I wonder how many of them will try to make a break for the mainland.
Really. It doesn't sound like it would be too difficult to write this yourself with some good Unix scripting (Perl, bash, etc.)
You said it's to serve as a test system for a commercial application. I assume you already have a "schedule" in mind, so maybe you could simplify things a bit by writing a system that only runs your specific schedule, rather than writing something more general. I don't know if that would provide a valid test case for your purpose.
I bet that all of those customer service reps on the phone and typing email are all based in India. Could ebay afford to do this without outsourcing it?
That's a little pessimistic. A holodeck could be used for creative exploration and discovery as well as... less noble schemes. Think about what you could discover or learn if you could simulate anything?
This worked on classic MacOS as well. I always wondered how this was done. What's going on in the filesystem code that allows this? I always thought it was pretty cool...
Having a global pool does lessen maintenance/support, but what method are they using to place data on the disks?
Frequently accessed data needs to be spread out on all the disks for the fastest access, so does that mean Sun has FS files/tables that track usage and repositions data based on that?
I would say yes. From the article:
Dynamic striping across all devices to maximize throughput
Ok, that's light on the details, but indicates they have at least considered the issue.
This is the second time I have seen someone (was it you both times?) paste that into a slashdot article and get +5. The word you are seeking is specious, not spacious. I wouldn't normally correct spelling/grammar, but I thought that the next time you post that into a political discussion, you might want to get it right.
If you were like me, you milked those years for all they were worth. But don't imagine for a minute that it represented the normal state of a healthy economy. Complaining about Bush not restoring a speculative market bubble is rather silly.
Fucking leeches like you... What about those of us that didn't graduate until after the bubble burst?
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Ignore the EPA MPG ratings on cars. Go get an online Consumer Reports subscription, and see what their real-world testing revealed about MPG. I've been doing that for all of my car purchases (two recent, because I helped my girlfriend shop for hers).
PTSD is reassuring for me in a way - if humans were truly naturally murderous beasts, as some would like to insist, PTSD would be very rare or non-existant.
Read On Killing. Only psychopaths can kill without emotional consequences. People are naturally opposed to killing when it comes to dealing with members of the same species. Men can hunt and kill a deer. That's instinct. When confronting other humans, the instinct is to posture or submit. Same applies to most other mammals.
Marathoners are often plagued with health problems. Do a little less running and a little more strength training and you'll (surprise) strengthen your body. Marathoning will just turn your body into a skinny little wraith optimized for pounding the pavement for 26.2 miles at a time.
Papers always suggest more work. I've not once in my life seen a paper that said "Nope, that's it, we're done here" :)
Maybe when we get a Grand Unified Theory... :-)
That sort of attitude is incredibly unprofessional. This software engineer may have been wronged, but nothing can justify his actions here.
Grad students are now obsolete.
It's a hoax. Notice how all of the images of exotic multi-colored fibers are close-ups where you can't see the person or the sores they talk about. The pictures of people with sores on them show people with plain sores.
AOLers: Just get a gmail account, and a better ISP.
It's not outsourcing, it's expanding. Linux doesn't just exist in the US, you know. There are big opportunities in other parts of the world, and apparently they want to be there.
They are firing people in the US and replacing them with people not in the US. You could make the "expanding" argument if they weren't doing the firings. They are not "expanding". They are relocating.
It will establish a European office and expand into Asia.
Lets be honest here. They are outsourcing those jobs. Hey, I'm not complaining. Hooray for the Europeans and the Asians. But the US is slipping further and further behind in the world of techonology.
"polling 1,400 IT managers and CIOs"
Polling who? Trying polling the people that actually do things. Those CIOs and managers probably don't even know what Linux and Windows are.
Will this be how "The Raft" from Snow Crash gets started? Those poor programmers have to live on a damned boat? And, when the Raft drifts close to shore, I wonder how many of them will try to make a break for the mainland.
Really. It doesn't sound like it would be too difficult to write this yourself with some good Unix scripting (Perl, bash, etc.)
You said it's to serve as a test system for a commercial application. I assume you already have a "schedule" in mind, so maybe you could simplify things a bit by writing a system that only runs your specific schedule, rather than writing something more general. I don't know if that would provide a valid test case for your purpose.
http://www.gnupg.org/
I bet that all of those customer service reps on the phone and typing email are all based in India. Could ebay afford to do this without outsourcing it?
If they can release something that's better than postgresql, then yay. Otherwise, they shouldn't bother. Simple as that.
I can't imagine IBM allowing a foreign manufacturer to sell products with IBM's name/logo on it. Seems awfully risky to their rep.
You're kidding, right? I bet most of the stuff they sell is already manufactured elsewhere. Manufacturing was outsourced a long time ago.
That's a little pessimistic. A holodeck could be used for creative exploration and discovery as well as... less noble schemes. Think about what you could discover or learn if you could simulate anything?
Not necessarily: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/#mail
- A government may not injure one of its own citizens, or, through inaction, allow the citizens to come to harm.
- A government may consider the well-being of foreigners, except where it would conflict with the First Law.
- A government must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First Law.
Do you see now? Citizens come first. Let the rest of the damned world take care of itself.This worked on classic MacOS as well. I always wondered how this was done. What's going on in the filesystem code that allows this? I always thought it was pretty cool...
/dev/urandom
/dev/zero, because it still takes some CPU time to compute those pseudorandom values, but much faster than /dev/random.
$ man urandom
Not as fast as
Having a global pool does lessen maintenance/support, but what method are they using to place data on the disks?
Frequently accessed data needs to be spread out on all the disks for the fastest access, so does that mean Sun has FS files/tables that track usage and repositions data based on that?
I would say yes. From the article:
Ok, that's light on the details, but indicates they have at least considered the issue.Lisa: That's spacious reasoning, Dad.
This is the second time I have seen someone (was it you both times?) paste that into a slashdot article and get +5. The word you are seeking is specious, not spacious. I wouldn't normally correct spelling/grammar, but I thought that the next time you post that into a political discussion, you might want to get it right.
If you were like me, you milked those years for all they were worth. But don't imagine for a minute that it represented the normal state of a healthy economy. Complaining about Bush not restoring a speculative market bubble is rather silly.
Fucking leeches like you... What about those of us that didn't graduate until after the bubble burst?