I used to use OneNote for notetaking. (Not in school — I go to a lot of meetings.) After a while I decided that the complexities of dealing with the program were a really nasty distraction.
I was never impressed with the handwriting recognition in OneNote. Yes, the recognition engine is good (weird that Windows, of all platforms, has the best handwriting recognition) but all engines make mistakes, and OneNote doesn't let you fix the mistakes on the fly.
That sounds like one of things that varies by individual. I once asked a classmate if I could borrow her lecture notes so I could read about stuff I'd missed. She just gave them to me — she said that the act of taking notes is what helped her remember the content of a lecture.
Your cherry picking is amazing. Did you miss the part where he used to be a critic of that famous IPCC report? What could be more climate-skeptical than that?
But then he goes and does the scientific thing, and tries to gather data that justifies his climate skepticism. And then he applies scientific logic to the data and discovers he was wrong. And then he does the grownup thing and admits he was wrong.
Of course, that doesn't fit into your paradigm of climate change being a scam. So you retroactively kick him out of the skeptical community. Very Mitt Romney of you.
No, the cherry is that the bag doesn't actually have everything you need, often stops working, and calls the cops if you try to obtain its contents from an unauthorized source.
I didn't say you never need IP addresses. I said that day-to-day users shouldn't need them. If you need to enter an IP address every time you access a node, the node doesn't have a DNS name. Why not?
Now, that brings back painful memories. I used to work at Sun, and I kept suggesting that the IPMI servers that were embedded in all our servers support IPv6. "No, not until our customers start asking for it." And of course the customers aren't asking for it because it's not widely supported. A vicious cycle.
Fine, in emergencies the IP address is something you need to know. But recall that I said "day to day use". We're talking about admins that just use IP addresses for everything because it's too much trouble to assign names.
I'd actually argue that the admin shouldn't be memorizing this stuff, even with IPv4. If it's only recorded in somebody's head, information has a way of not being available when people need it.
Explain to me why you need to know all those IP addresses. Is there a good reason these nodes don't have names?
The fact that IPv6 addresses aren't suitable for casual use would seem to be a good thing, in your case, since your IT people will be forced to take the time to assign names to everything — which they should do anyway.
Slashdot needs a "sniping": downmod for people who write a nasty rebuttal without bothering to explain why they disagree. In this case, you might consider sharing why it's so difficult to manage a network so that nobody needs to know IP addresses.
Your analogy still doesn't go far enough: you need an equivalent of mindlessly channel surfing all evening. Like if you had a compulsion to actually try on all those adult diapers...
This is actually why I don't have cable. I cut it off about 8 years ago because I was broke and couldn't afford it. Later, when I could afford it, I realized I was glad not to have a firehose of crap emptying into my living room. So I never hooked up again.
I've never heard this "Asia myth" and I find it hard to understand why anybody thinks IPv6 is not for the Gweilo. Because lots of Asians are signing on and all the big address blocks are taken? First off, IP address depletion is a problem everywhere and it doesn't make sense for Western ISPs to wait until the last minute to switch over. Though I guess many Asian ISP startups have decided it makes sense to leapfrog over IPv4.
The second point is that IPv6 isn't just about a bigger address space. That's certainly the most urgent, but IPv6 has many other features we need: better security, more efficient routing, more efficient use of mobile networks, etc.
a corporation their size should have been able to see it coming and delay or abort the release of those turds.
As a former corporate minion, I'm here to tell you that large corporations do not have enhanced turd foresight. Exactly the opposite. Large companies have big, clumsy bureaucracies that are staffed with people more concerned with covering their butts than getting things done. The inner cadre has a Charlie-Sheen-like faith in its own infallibility. It's worth your job to suggest that Emperor is naked.
I can think of a few companies that managed to abandon the accumulated cultural cruft and stop making the same mistakes over and over. IBM under Gerstner comes to mind. Can't really think of anybody else.
Pino, how about taking part in the argument instead of sniping at people you disagree with? Yes, it's more work, but your sourceless counterclaims and nitpicks don't change anybody's opinion, so why bother?
Not just the legal immigrants. George Lopez has a joke about his father being rabid on the subject of illegal immigration, even though he himself arrived in LA in the trunk of a car.
So yeah, I'm sure there are lots of immigrants who take the hard line. But your claim that all the ones you know are anti-undocs is a glib implausibility. I suspect that a more scientific survey would show that most people aren't happy about being in a permanent hassle because they have dark skin or funny accents.
Incidentally, guess who's an immigrant: me. But I'm a white guy from Canada, so I don't worry too much about being hassled. Still, I'd make sure my paperwork is order before visiting Arizona. I've already had some minor hassles after moving from California to Oregon. This "Illegals Are Destroying America" bit is just plain lame.
The "President of the Senate" thing is just make work, for an office that they couldn't think of what else to do with. Most legislative bodies just elect their presiding officer from their members — which is actually what the Senate does in practice.
There's a good reason the VP hardly ever presides over the Senate. He's one of the most important politicos in the country. That makes him a valuable resource for his party, much too valuable to have him sitting around banging a gavel. Of course the framers, who didn't believe in political parties, didn't foresee that.
The Vice President doesn't have any constitutional responsibilities, to speak of. The office is one of those weird artifacts of 18th century politics we should have ditched long ago. Do we need another Andrew Johnson holding the nuclear football?
We need a constitutional amendment reforming the whole electoral process. Along with eliminating the VP, we should get rid of that weird monstrosity, the electoral college, which is a constitutional crisis waiting to happen. I'd favor going to a simple popular vote, but if that';s not politically feasible, I'd have most electoral votes allocated by congressional district (as Nebraska already does) and automatically allocated with no actual human elector.
Jesus? The dude with long hair with that socialist line about rich men not being allowed into heaven? I find it hard to believe he's even a Republican!
And the computer industry employs a lot of immigrants. If I were starting a new company, I'd think twice about locating in a state where a funny accent is likely to draw hassles.
Responding to the AC who replied previously: this is not about enforcing the laws. This is about dimwitted politicos pandering to bigotry.
I think your doctor needs to know whether you're taking your pills. When he asks, "Are you taking your pills?" do you answer "none of your business"? If you don't trust your doctor with that level of information, why even see him?
And for many patients, it's not even a privacy issue. Older patients with memory problems, for example.
Slashdot Mirror
If attacking the evidence for climate change doesn't make you a skeptic, what does?
Nobody ever thinks of themselves as evil, except in the movies.
I used to use OneNote for notetaking. (Not in school — I go to a lot of meetings.) After a while I decided that the complexities of dealing with the program were a really nasty distraction.
I was never impressed with the handwriting recognition in OneNote. Yes, the recognition engine is good (weird that Windows, of all platforms, has the best handwriting recognition) but all engines make mistakes, and OneNote doesn't let you fix the mistakes on the fly.
That sounds like one of things that varies by individual. I once asked a classmate if I could borrow her lecture notes so I could read about stuff I'd missed. She just gave them to me — she said that the act of taking notes is what helped her remember the content of a lecture.
Your cherry picking is amazing. Did you miss the part where he used to be a critic of that famous IPCC report? What could be more climate-skeptical than that?
But then he goes and does the scientific thing, and tries to gather data that justifies his climate skepticism. And then he applies scientific logic to the data and discovers he was wrong. And then he does the grownup thing and admits he was wrong.
Of course, that doesn't fit into your paradigm of climate change being a scam. So you retroactively kick him out of the skeptical community. Very Mitt Romney of you.
No, the cherry is that the bag doesn't actually have everything you need, often stops working, and calls the cops if you try to obtain its contents from an unauthorized source.
I didn't say you never need IP addresses. I said that day-to-day users shouldn't need them. If you need to enter an IP address every time you access a node, the node doesn't have a DNS name. Why not?
Now, that brings back painful memories. I used to work at Sun, and I kept suggesting that the IPMI servers that were embedded in all our servers support IPv6. "No, not until our customers start asking for it." And of course the customers aren't asking for it because it's not widely supported. A vicious cycle.
Fine, in emergencies the IP address is something you need to know. But recall that I said "day to day use". We're talking about admins that just use IP addresses for everything because it's too much trouble to assign names.
I'd actually argue that the admin shouldn't be memorizing this stuff, even with IPv4. If it's only recorded in somebody's head, information has a way of not being available when people need it.
Explain to me why you need to know all those IP addresses. Is there a good reason these nodes don't have names?
The fact that IPv6 addresses aren't suitable for casual use would seem to be a good thing, in your case, since your IT people will be forced to take the time to assign names to everything — which they should do anyway.
Slashdot needs a "sniping": downmod for people who write a nasty rebuttal without bothering to explain why they disagree. In this case, you might consider sharing why it's so difficult to manage a network so that nobody needs to know IP addresses.
Your analogy still doesn't go far enough: you need an equivalent of mindlessly channel surfing all evening. Like if you had a compulsion to actually try on all those adult diapers...
This is actually why I don't have cable. I cut it off about 8 years ago because I was broke and couldn't afford it. Later, when I could afford it, I realized I was glad not to have a firehose of crap emptying into my living room. So I never hooked up again.
In this case "Troll" means "dumb". Of course Muller is a climate skeptic. He calls himself a climate skeptic. Read his damn op ed piece.
I've never heard this "Asia myth" and I find it hard to understand why anybody thinks IPv6 is not for the Gweilo. Because lots of Asians are signing on and all the big address blocks are taken? First off, IP address depletion is a problem everywhere and it doesn't make sense for Western ISPs to wait until the last minute to switch over. Though I guess many Asian ISP startups have decided it makes sense to leapfrog over IPv4.
The second point is that IPv6 isn't just about a bigger address space. That's certainly the most urgent, but IPv6 has many other features we need: better security, more efficient routing, more efficient use of mobile networks, etc.
Why do you need to remember it at all? I certainly don't have any of my IP addresses memorized. When I need it, I usually end up cutting and pasting.
The whole point of this DNS thing is that you're not supposed to need to IP address day-to-day. Anything else is sloppy administration.
a corporation their size should have been able to see it coming and delay or abort the release of those turds.
As a former corporate minion, I'm here to tell you that large corporations do not have enhanced turd foresight. Exactly the opposite. Large companies have big, clumsy bureaucracies that are staffed with people more concerned with covering their butts than getting things done. The inner cadre has a Charlie-Sheen-like faith in its own infallibility. It's worth your job to suggest that Emperor is naked.
I can think of a few companies that managed to abandon the accumulated cultural cruft and stop making the same mistakes over and over. IBM under Gerstner comes to mind. Can't really think of anybody else.
Not out of nothing, out of less than you should have put in. It's the difference between a cheap lunch and a free one.
Pino, how about taking part in the argument instead of sniping at people you disagree with? Yes, it's more work, but your sourceless counterclaims and nitpicks don't change anybody's opinion, so why bother?
Not just the legal immigrants. George Lopez has a joke about his father being rabid on the subject of illegal immigration, even though he himself arrived in LA in the trunk of a car.
So yeah, I'm sure there are lots of immigrants who take the hard line. But your claim that all the ones you know are anti-undocs is a glib implausibility. I suspect that a more scientific survey would show that most people aren't happy about being in a permanent hassle because they have dark skin or funny accents.
Incidentally, guess who's an immigrant: me. But I'm a white guy from Canada, so I don't worry too much about being hassled. Still, I'd make sure my paperwork is order before visiting Arizona. I've already had some minor hassles after moving from California to Oregon. This "Illegals Are Destroying America" bit is just plain lame.
The "President of the Senate" thing is just make work, for an office that they couldn't think of what else to do with. Most legislative bodies just elect their presiding officer from their members — which is actually what the Senate does in practice.
There's a good reason the VP hardly ever presides over the Senate. He's one of the most important politicos in the country. That makes him a valuable resource for his party, much too valuable to have him sitting around banging a gavel. Of course the framers, who didn't believe in political parties, didn't foresee that.
The Vice President doesn't have any constitutional responsibilities, to speak of. The office is one of those weird artifacts of 18th century politics we should have ditched long ago. Do we need another Andrew Johnson holding the nuclear football?
We need a constitutional amendment reforming the whole electoral process. Along with eliminating the VP, we should get rid of that weird monstrosity, the electoral college, which is a constitutional crisis waiting to happen. I'd favor going to a simple popular vote, but if that';s not politically feasible, I'd have most electoral votes allocated by congressional district (as Nebraska already does) and automatically allocated with no actual human elector.
Jesus? The dude with long hair with that socialist line about rich men not being allowed into heaven? I find it hard to believe he's even a Republican!
And the computer industry employs a lot of immigrants. If I were starting a new company, I'd think twice about locating in a state where a funny accent is likely to draw hassles.
Responding to the AC who replied previously: this is not about enforcing the laws. This is about dimwitted politicos pandering to bigotry.
I think your doctor needs to know whether you're taking your pills. When he asks, "Are you taking your pills?" do you answer "none of your business"? If you don't trust your doctor with that level of information, why even see him?
And for many patients, it's not even a privacy issue. Older patients with memory problems, for example.