Possibly. But I doubt the bills of those few remaining analog users wouldn't be enough to cover the cost of keeping the network up. And all those frequencies are valuable; if they're not being heavily used, it makes not sense to not repurpose them.
You're out of date. SGI is no longer big enough to lose $100M a year. They scaled way back before emerging from bankruptcy. They're now a small (but modestly profitable) company.
In a sense, they did die. They went bankrupt, and their stockholders lost their entire investment. But they had a few products worth saving (massively parallel Itanium and x64 systems), so new investors bought the name and those products. Pretty much a new company, and not a major player.
It's actually kind of similar to Cray, which SGI bought, ran into the ground, and then sold to Tera Computer. Tera did get a couple of Cray products (others stayed with SGI or had already been sold to Sun), but I suspect that Tera just wanted to rename itself Cray.
The workstations are no more, and there are no more Irix/MIPS systems. Everything runs Linux. Hence their interest in a high-performance Linux company.
I'm not saying we should impeach W. I'm just pointing out a nasty inconsistency. Conservative presidents can break the law right and left, and be immune from impeachment. A liberal president gets frisky with an intern behind closed doors, is stupid enough to lie about, and wham there's an impeachment trial.
So what? There are no criminal penalties involved. It would be worth noting if this violation could be noted for impeachment proceedings, but Congress isn't going to impeach W. Not unless he does something really evil, like having sex with an intern.
I own a copy of The Turner Diaries, a novel that envisions (and basically advocates) the future extinction of all Jews. I guess that makes me an anti-Jewish terrorist. But wait! I'm Jewish myself!
It's a good thing I don't live in the UK: the authorities would be so confused by me, they wouldn't know what to do.
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Do you know the difference between a calculator and a computer? Guess not.
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Actually, a skilled abacuser can work a lot more efficiently than most of us can with a calculator.
When you say "people still use old IT technology" you mean they play with it. They don't use it for IT. It's like the fans of medieval warfare who construct and deploy trebuchets. They may enjoy themselves (which is certainly enough reason to do anything), they may even learn something, but you don't hear of them trying to convince the army that they'd be useful in Iraq.
X Windows still has serious users. QBasic does not.
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Actually, QBasic was never in any version of 32-bit (NT-derived) Windows. It would be very hard to do without a virtual machine, because QBasic is a DOS program, and 32-bit Windows isn't built on DOS. Unlike 16-bit Windows, which was really just a GUI and scheduling layer on top of DOS.
You probably associate QBasic's "unbundling" (the more usual term is "end of life", or as nontechnical people say, "death") with XP because that was the first version of 32-bit Windows that had enough 16-bit backward compatibility to be offered to consumers. But it was really a whole new OS. It wasn't just QBasic that was abandoned, it was the whole OS that it ran on.
I can see writing QBasic for fun, or for educational purposes, or for maintaining legacy applications that aren't used heavily enough to be upgraded. But any programmer who tries to impose a new QBasic application on his users should be shot. If you're creating new code, there are better tools. More to the point, there are tools with a talent pool that extends beyond a few hobbyists and fanatics.
No, IT books do go out of date. It happens when no real IT gets done with the technology, and only the abovementioned hobbyists and fanatics care about it. X Windows isn't there yet (and may even stage a comeback in the embedded/appliance world). But QBasic definitely is. And if you don't believe that, perhaps you'd like to buy all my old "data processing" textbooks, with their up-to-the-minute discussion of punched-card management.
In other words, by default you'll get aes, unless you happen to connect to a server that doesn't support it (unlikely). So the question is, which of these is fastest?
Secondly, if you're annoyed by the new theme, just switch to Small Icons. It looks fine, except for the slightly annoying "Home" button.
What annoys me is all the effort being put into theming. The fact is, a good GUI design is a little boring. To be usable, a GUI application has to be predictable.
"Dollhouse" was a working title for The Sims, so that's what he's talking about. Thing is, I've never been all that impressed with the Sims autonomous behavior. Maybe I didn't train mine properly or something, but they can't even make it the bathroom in time without me reminding them. So it's hard for me to take all these "insights" seriously.
OK, I was probably a little to quick to assume this was a common problem. But the fact remains that your language was damned patronizing. Like you, I'm fully aware of the risk of getting bad information off the internet. The fact that I missed the cues in this case is no worse than your sloppy reading of my post ("blaming Vista" indeed!).
Yes i have/do manage people, for more then 20 years. No i don't trust them any farther then i can throw them. Never have, never will. And I'll bet you're a joy to work for.
Why yes, i have been a Rush listener for 15 + years now, and am a fan. ( not a blind follower as some are, but a fan ) If you can listen to Mr. Agree-With-Me-Or-You're-A-Traitor without gagging, you're a blind follower.
Pseudo-moralistic? Morals are completely relative anyway. Christians?? What part of any of my post had a religious aspect? I mention religion not because I'm a believer (I'm a hard-core athiest) but because religious tradition is where most ethical and moral values are recorded. Now, if you don't accept traditional values, that's fine. But don't hide behind traditional moral language like "integrity". You have no right to that terminology when your morality boils down to "do things my way or fuck off".
Once again, I didn't say asking was the *same* as breaking. Asking means you cant be trusted from that point forward,... I'm sorry, that's pretty much what you did say. But if you put strip away the moralistic crap, all we have have is a simple human fallacy: somebody who asks you to make an exception to a rule doesn't intend to obey the rule. That reflects a prejudgment of human behavior that's appallingly stupid, but at least it's honest.
Just because you don't follow it, does not mean logic doesn't exist. True. But if nobody can follow your logic, does it even exist? Or is logic a relative thing as well?
There needs to be something like DKIM which works on email addresses and not domains.
Why? If, v1acra.com turns out to be spam friendly, you stop accepting email from that domain. It's a blacklist, not unlike the IP block blacklists we have now. The difference is that no one person or entity controls every user of an IP block, but you can't use a domain without the permission of the domain holder.
1 - People can not be trusted. At all. None of them.
So basically you assume that everybody's out to screw you over. That must play hell with your personal life.
But never mind that, let's focus on what this implies for your management style. Which is that anybody who works for you is permanently under suspicion. That's a recipe for disaster.
I have to ask: have you ever actually been a manager, or are you just making pronouncements about what you would do if anybody were stupid enough to make you a manager?
2 - People that ask for a contract to be broken can be trusted even less... You've already made that point several times. What you haven't managed to communicate is why .
Not that it matters, because by making that fallacious statement over and over, you're repeatedly ignoring what I'm trying to say: Asking for an exception to a rule is not the same as breaking the rule. Don't take my word for it. Go out and ask 10 people if I'm right.
since you seem to have trouble following the logic in the previous post How can I follow something that doesn't exist?
Here's what you're really saying: You think the idea of Open-Sourcing this project is dumb, and you find it convenient to cloak your prejudice in a line of pseudo-moralistic bullshit. Never mind that nobody interprets moral behavior the way you do. Not conservative Christians. Not liberal Christians. Not secularists. Nobody.
Well, maybe Rush Limbaugh. To him, you're a moral failure if you wear blue jeans. Are you a fan?
Seriously, though, it's a lot harder to send spam if you can't hide behind a forged or throwaway email address. Is there anybody here not totally sick of spam?
For years I've been ranting for an anti-spam solution that uses authentication, and ranting against blacklists, heuristic filters, and all the other evil, unreliable kluges we use now. I guess nobody was willing to invest in the infrastructure that would make authentication work. Thank God for phishers: thanks to their scams, banks are getting hurt, and they're willing to spend a little money to fix the system.
Your remarks will carry more weight if you actually read the comments you're responding to. Nowhere do I "blame Vista". I think I rather made a point of saying that assigning blame was not productive.
But more careful reading wouldn't make your patronizing attitude any less obnoxious. Your experience contradicts somebody else's. Fine. Does that mean that everybody who doesn't know what you know lacks critical thinking skills? It does not.
If somebody claims there's a problem accessing Facebook from a Vista system, that's worth hearing about. Now, if somebody else comes along and says, "That's not my experience", that's also worth hearing about. But should I blindly accept the second assertion and ignore the first one? That would show a lack of critical thinking.
Of course, it would be nice if I had access to a Vista system so I could decide for myself who's right and what the (real or imaginary) problem is. But I don't. And the fact that I don't is itself a significant data point.
I did read your comment. I just can't follow your logic. You seem to think that if somebody asks you for permission to do something, you can assume they intend go ahead and do it whether you give permission or not. Which makes no sense: if somebody has already decided to break their word, why should they bother to ask permission?
If you've ever managed anything bigger than a lemonade stand, I feel sorry for the people who report to you. Obviously they don't dare make any suggestions or requests, least you find some weird reason to indict them for "lack of integrity" or similar crimes against goodness.
Even more, I feel sorry for the people you report to. They've given you responsibility, which you need to exercise by thinking not by hiding behind arbitrary rules. You're clearly incapable of that, so I imagine you'll be shown the door soon.
Then again, you'd be in your element in an organization that relies on strict obedience and punishes any attempt at individual initiative. You might consider a career with the North Korean civil service. Or at Walmart.
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Possibly. But I doubt the bills of those few remaining analog users wouldn't be enough to cover the cost of keeping the network up. And all those frequencies are valuable; if they're not being heavily used, it makes not sense to not repurpose them.
You're out of date. SGI is no longer big enough to lose $100M a year. They scaled way back before emerging from bankruptcy. They're now a small (but modestly profitable) company.
In a sense, they did die. They went bankrupt, and their stockholders lost their entire investment. But they had a few products worth saving (massively parallel Itanium and x64 systems), so new investors bought the name and those products. Pretty much a new company, and not a major player.
It's actually kind of similar to Cray, which SGI bought, ran into the ground, and then sold to Tera Computer. Tera did get a couple of Cray products (others stayed with SGI or had already been sold to Sun), but I suspect that Tera just wanted to rename itself Cray.
The workstations are no more, and there are no more Irix/MIPS systems. Everything runs Linux. Hence their interest in a high-performance Linux company.
I'm not saying we should impeach W. I'm just pointing out a nasty inconsistency. Conservative presidents can break the law right and left, and be immune from impeachment. A liberal president gets frisky with an intern behind closed doors, is stupid enough to lie about, and wham there's an impeachment trial.
Right, because the current Prez is such a paragon of honesty.
I own a copy of The Turner Diaries, a novel that envisions (and basically advocates) the future extinction of all Jews. I guess that makes me an anti-Jewish terrorist. But wait! I'm Jewish myself!
It's a good thing I don't live in the UK: the authorities would be so confused by me, they wouldn't know what to do.
Do you know the difference between a calculator and a computer? Guess not.
Actually, a skilled abacuser can work a lot more efficiently than most of us can with a calculator.
When you say "people still use old IT technology" you mean they play with it. They don't use it for IT. It's like the fans of medieval warfare who construct and deploy trebuchets. They may enjoy themselves (which is certainly enough reason to do anything), they may even learn something, but you don't hear of them trying to convince the army that they'd be useful in Iraq.
X Windows still has serious users. QBasic does not.
Actually, QBasic was never in any version of 32-bit (NT-derived) Windows. It would be very hard to do without a virtual machine, because QBasic is a DOS program, and 32-bit Windows isn't built on DOS. Unlike 16-bit Windows, which was really just a GUI and scheduling layer on top of DOS.
You probably associate QBasic's "unbundling" (the more usual term is "end of life", or as nontechnical people say, "death") with XP because that was the first version of 32-bit Windows that had enough 16-bit backward compatibility to be offered to consumers. But it was really a whole new OS. It wasn't just QBasic that was abandoned, it was the whole OS that it ran on.
I can see writing QBasic for fun, or for educational purposes, or for maintaining legacy applications that aren't used heavily enough to be upgraded. But any programmer who tries to impose a new QBasic application on his users should be shot. If you're creating new code, there are better tools. More to the point, there are tools with a talent pool that extends beyond a few hobbyists and fanatics.
No, IT books do go out of date. It happens when no real IT gets done with the technology, and only the abovementioned hobbyists and fanatics care about it. X Windows isn't there yet (and may even stage a comeback in the embedded/appliance world). But QBasic definitely is. And if you don't believe that, perhaps you'd like to buy all my old "data processing" textbooks, with their up-to-the-minute discussion of punched-card management.
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More like somebody doing a sendup of Heinlein.
In other words, by default you'll get aes, unless you happen to connect to a server that doesn't support it (unlikely). So the question is, which of these is fastest?
"Dollhouse" was a working title for The Sims, so that's what he's talking about. Thing is, I've never been all that impressed with the Sims autonomous behavior. Maybe I didn't train mine properly or something, but they can't even make it the bathroom in time without me reminding them. So it's hard for me to take all these "insights" seriously.
OK, I was probably a little to quick to assume this was a common problem. But the fact remains that your language was damned patronizing. Like you, I'm fully aware of the risk of getting bad information off the internet. The fact that I missed the cues in this case is no worse than your sloppy reading of my post ("blaming Vista" indeed!).
Hey, I didn't think of that. Then again, neither did you.
But never mind that, let's focus on what this implies for your management style. Which is that anybody who works for you is permanently under suspicion. That's a recipe for disaster.
I have to ask: have you ever actually been a manager, or are you just making pronouncements about what you would do if anybody were stupid enough to make you a manager? 2 - People that ask for a contract to be broken can be trusted even less... You've already made that point several times. What you haven't managed to communicate is why .
Not that it matters, because by making that fallacious statement over and over, you're repeatedly ignoring what I'm trying to say: Asking for an exception to a rule is not the same as breaking the rule. Don't take my word for it. Go out and ask 10 people if I'm right. since you seem to have trouble following the logic in the previous post How can I follow something that doesn't exist?
Here's what you're really saying: You think the idea of Open-Sourcing this project is dumb, and you find it convenient to cloak your prejudice in a line of pseudo-moralistic bullshit. Never mind that nobody interprets moral behavior the way you do. Not conservative Christians. Not liberal Christians. Not secularists. Nobody.
Well, maybe Rush Limbaugh. To him, you're a moral failure if you wear blue jeans. Are you a fan?
Seriously, though, it's a lot harder to send spam if you can't hide behind a forged or throwaway email address. Is there anybody here not totally sick of spam?
For years I've been ranting for an anti-spam solution that uses authentication, and ranting against blacklists, heuristic filters, and all the other evil, unreliable kluges we use now. I guess nobody was willing to invest in the infrastructure that would make authentication work. Thank God for phishers: thanks to their scams, banks are getting hurt, and they're willing to spend a little money to fix the system.
Your remarks will carry more weight if you actually read the comments you're responding to. Nowhere do I "blame Vista". I think I rather made a point of saying that assigning blame was not productive.
But more careful reading wouldn't make your patronizing attitude any less obnoxious. Your experience contradicts somebody else's. Fine. Does that mean that everybody who doesn't know what you know lacks critical thinking skills? It does not.
If somebody claims there's a problem accessing Facebook from a Vista system, that's worth hearing about. Now, if somebody else comes along and says, "That's not my experience", that's also worth hearing about. But should I blindly accept the second assertion and ignore the first one? That would show a lack of critical thinking.
Of course, it would be nice if I had access to a Vista system so I could decide for myself who's right and what the (real or imaginary) problem is. But I don't. And the fact that I don't is itself a significant data point.
I did read your comment. I just can't follow your logic. You seem to think that if somebody asks you for permission to do something, you can assume they intend go ahead and do it whether you give permission or not. Which makes no sense: if somebody has already decided to break their word, why should they bother to ask permission?
If you've ever managed anything bigger than a lemonade stand, I feel sorry for the people who report to you. Obviously they don't dare make any suggestions or requests, least you find some weird reason to indict them for "lack of integrity" or similar crimes against goodness.
Even more, I feel sorry for the people you report to. They've given you responsibility, which you need to exercise by thinking not by hiding behind arbitrary rules. You're clearly incapable of that, so I imagine you'll be shown the door soon.
Then again, you'd be in your element in an organization that relies on strict obedience and punishes any attempt at individual initiative. You might consider a career with the North Korean civil service. Or at Walmart.
In other words, he's admitting that he has no chance of getting the nomination. Some of us knew that months ago!
Huh? How does asking for a change to an agreement breach the agreement?