It's funny how long people managed to work without IM, but now IM's around it's a vital necessity.
I'm not going to defend all the rude bozos who pretend to listen to you while really focusing on their blackberrys. But spare us the old "We once did fine without it" argument. We once did without the web, freedom of speech, Mozart, antibiotics, and a widespread ban on slavery.
Your position might have scientific merit. However, 2035 is a little late to start talking about limiting greenhouse gas emissions. As with so many trends that build exponentially (I don't mean "real fast" I mean in the original mathematical sense waiting for the evidence to become irrefutable means waiting until it's too late to do anything about it.
Everybody uses UTC. For official purposes, every non-solar clock is UTC, at varying degrees of accuracy, modified by the local time zone.
(By "solar" I don't just mean sundials. I mean clocks that are set by pointing the hour hand straight up at noon, which is how all clocks were set before time zones were invented.)
I think what you were trying to say is, "most NTP servers are corrected against official UTC time signals."
Sure, one storm isn't proof of anything. 26 storms are quite another matter.
I'm sort of the looking forward to the next hurricane season, which has great potential for settling the argument one way or the other. Of course, I don't live on the Gulf Coast...
Correct. But what I'm really looking for is the reason Stevenson said "Don't wait for the translation." Which is also the reason the Star Trek reference is lame.
That wasn't a serious part of the story, that was just one of many lame Cold War references in the movie. (In the 60s, the stereotypical Russian always insisted "We invented it first!" Yes, just like Chekov in TOS.) The lamest reference of all is "Don't wait for the translation!" A free copy of the Vulcan Joke Book to the first person to correctly identify this reference — persons born before JFK was shot are not eligible!
That simply means that we can't be absolutely sure that 2005 was the worst (is!) the worst storm season ever. That subtracts a little from the evidence -- but there is a fucking huge amount of evidence, and getting bigger by the day.
You can find alternate explanations for any argument. Tell me why you think the world is round, and I'll show you an alternate explanation consistent with the idea that the world is flat. But once the evidence starts mounting up, it's time to stop trying to explain it away and start considering it seriously.
Your previous post made it sound as if you had found a way to block Google ads. In between telling us how much your life sucks, you need to work on expressing yourself clearly.
I feel like ANY abnormal weather has people on edge now.
Of course! It's all hysteria! We shouldn't make over-react to the fact that we had more hurricanes and tropical storms than any year on record, that we had more severe hurricanes than any year on record, and that we're still getting tropical storms in winter.
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We really need a downmod for parochial posts that say things like "This doesn't affect me, so nobody should care" and "X works for me, if it doesn't work for you then stupid".
Anyway, your attitude towards advertising is brainless. Lots of media — newspapers, magazines, TV — have always depended on it. It can be obnoxious, but it isn't the great evil that so many economically illiterate netizens think it is.
And if you actually buy stuff, which some of us overprivileged types have been known to do from time to time, advertising can be something you seek out. Recently I decided to buy a USB hard disk. I Googled those words because I wanted to see the Adsense ads. Does that make me a mindless slave of the advertisers? No, it makes me somebody who needed information, and used the most efficient way to get it.
Now there you have a good point. Sensitive info like passwords should really be encrypted. Unfortunately, forcing all your friends and relatives to encrypt their party invitations and personal notes does nothing to compel web site owners to use encryption.
Even assuming that the Feds are snooping on your email to your mother — why do you care? Is the possibility worth the slightest bit of hassle? I suspect that's what your mother will say when you insist that she learn how to email all over again.
When you get a security clearance, you go through a process that's supposed to verify that you can be trusted with sensitive security or military information. (I have my doubts about that process, but that's another issue.) At a company like Microsoft, the only issue is whether you can be trusted with trade secrets and undisclosed business plans -- serious stuff, but not the life-and-death issues hidden behind security clearances. Both contractors and perms sign agreements that they won't disclose confidental info. Of course, a contractor could ignore the agreement, but so could a regular employee -- and I can cite a zillion cases where they have done so.
Companies do need to control access to information. But doing it based on arbitrary blanket rules like "don't discuss Topic X when a contractor is in the room" is just plain stupid.
That said, it seems obvious that "Security Clearance" is exactly what Microsoft has in mind. Contractors often have distinctive badges (my own has an employee number that begins with "T" for "Temporary", and lists the name of my job shop) but something as conspicuous as a special brightly-colored badge is way beyond that. This is the sort of useless security measure somebody mandates just to prove that they're doing their job. Which is consistent with MS's track record of security -- strong on appearances, weak on substance.
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Your position might have scientific merit. However, 2035 is a little late to start talking about limiting greenhouse gas emissions. As with so many trends that build exponentially (I don't mean "real fast" I mean in the original mathematical sense waiting for the evidence to become irrefutable means waiting until it's too late to do anything about it.
Marketrons are never sarcastic or ironic. They were simply ignoring the Apple debacle. Which is why this headline should have "Good Year" in quotes.
Yeah, if you absolutely have to watch your DVDs on a computer. There's still the old-fashioned TV set with a region-free player.
(By "solar" I don't just mean sundials. I mean clocks that are set by pointing the hour hand straight up at noon, which is how all clocks were set before time zones were invented.)
I think what you were trying to say is, "most NTP servers are corrected against official UTC time signals."
So tell me, what would it take to convince you?
I'm sort of the looking forward to the next hurricane season, which has great potential for settling the argument one way or the other. Of course, I don't live on the Gulf Coast...
Correct. But what I'm really looking for is the reason Stevenson said "Don't wait for the translation." Which is also the reason the Star Trek reference is lame.
That wasn't a serious part of the story, that was just one of many lame Cold War references in the movie. (In the 60s, the stereotypical Russian always insisted "We invented it first!" Yes, just like Chekov in TOS.) The lamest reference of all is "Don't wait for the translation!" A free copy of the Vulcan Joke Book to the first person to correctly identify this reference — persons born before JFK was shot are not eligible!
You can find alternate explanations for any argument. Tell me why you think the world is round, and I'll show you an alternate explanation consistent with the idea that the world is flat. But once the evidence starts mounting up, it's time to stop trying to explain it away and start considering it seriously.
Then your previous post makes no sense.
Your previous post made it sound as if you had found a way to block Google ads. In between telling us how much your life sucks, you need to work on expressing yourself clearly.
Worthless. Easily spammed by flaky people selling crap.
Anyway, your attitude towards advertising is brainless. Lots of media — newspapers, magazines, TV — have always depended on it. It can be obnoxious, but it isn't the great evil that so many economically illiterate netizens think it is.
And if you actually buy stuff, which some of us overprivileged types have been known to do from time to time, advertising can be something you seek out. Recently I decided to buy a USB hard disk. I Googled those words because I wanted to see the Adsense ads. Does that make me a mindless slave of the advertisers? No, it makes me somebody who needed information, and used the most efficient way to get it.
Now there you have a good point. Sensitive info like passwords should really be encrypted. Unfortunately, forcing all your friends and relatives to encrypt their party invitations and personal notes does nothing to compel web site owners to use encryption.
I wouldn't care — but all the folks forced to read the boring details of my life might.
Spare me your crap!
Even assuming that the Feds are snooping on your email to your mother — why do you care? Is the possibility worth the slightest bit of hassle? I suspect that's what your mother will say when you insist that she learn how to email all over again.
That's crap!
Companies do need to control access to information. But doing it based on arbitrary blanket rules like "don't discuss Topic X when a contractor is in the room" is just plain stupid.
That said, it seems obvious that "Security Clearance" is exactly what Microsoft has in mind. Contractors often have distinctive badges (my own has an employee number that begins with "T" for "Temporary", and lists the name of my job shop) but something as conspicuous as a special brightly-colored badge is way beyond that. This is the sort of useless security measure somebody mandates just to prove that they're doing their job. Which is consistent with MS's track record of security -- strong on appearances, weak on substance.
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