This retreat-to-the-castle-and-raise-the-drawbridge mentality that seems to pervade Congress is the reason that elections are so hotly contested
Which makes an excellent argument for going back to the way Senators were originally chosen: by state legislatures. If they didn't have to pander to their most vocal supporters then you wouldn't see a lot of the public mudslinging that Senators engage in these days. House of Reps works great as directly elected but each individual Senator has too much power to pander to the loudest (lowest?) common denominator. If their elections were removed by a layer then they could afford to be more understanding in public of the other side.
I used to work as a tester and can tell you that to simulate a low-power (low power as in cheap and slow) and fairly simple x86 compatible chip took a staggerly hugemongous server running at full load for weeks at a time; nevermind simumlating a dual-core Pentium M. And then the thing would spit out some percentages on how well it thought the design would translate to actual silicon. That was it.
You might think a chip simulator is like the emulator you can get for a palm pilot or Commodore 64. Nope, those don't pretend to be the actual silicon moving bits around at the right timing frequencies; they just translate the instruction set and introduce delays to seem like the slower processors. A real chip simulator tries to estimate what's happening all the way down to whether or not the electrical signal coming out of gate 1 meets with the signal from gate 2 at gate 3 all at the same time as the clock pulse. And there's millions of these going off in a modern CPU. Simulating that is some wild calculations, and no, they aren't anywhere near perfect.
Even if it works it won't catch on. Wine is like exotic stereo equipment: people are paying for expensiveness.
Check the demographic; it's being tried out in Japan where people go nuts over the latest techno-fad. I'm suprised the wine makers aren't lined up for it.
Are you completely unable understand what you read? 'Reporting lies about how life was great under Stalin' clearly refers to 'emerged as benefactor of mankind'. Which part of that didn't make sense? Which part equates reporting with being responsible for muderous policies? Duh!
Stalin killed 10 million MORE, and despite that, he emerged as a "benefactor of mankind"
Special thanks to the New York Times and the Pulitzer Prize Walter Duranty won for reporting how happy and wonderful life was under Stalin's wise rule in the 1930's.
it's a witchhunt for "undesirables" and those who aren't quite right-of-center (Academia is considered to be more liberal than conservative, or at least it's presented as such)
As someone who recently got back out of college I can tell you that this is far from the case. Academia is not "presented" as liberal; a lot of it is outright hard core leftist. One professor in the liberal arts department started the first day with "If you're a conservative, drop this class". That's the kind of crap this group is trying to find.
So you disagree with your professor? Big deal - take it like an adult and agree to disagree.
But do so silently. Do not argue with the tenured person who hands out grades unless you have deep pockets and the time to wait out a lawsuit to get your grade reversed thus getting graduation requirements filled. Sound fair?
dual monitors with different sync rates give me headaches
I completely agree but dual monitors with the same sync at different distances from your face is great. It gets your eyes to focus back and forth. I put a monitor at normal distance and a second about twice that, at a lower resolution, and use it for things that don't need fine resolution like email. It pretty much stopped eye strain for me.
Other billionaires, on the other hand (Trump, for example)
To be fair, Trump's billions are in real estate that's leveraged up to his wavy hairdo While he's pretty rich from anyone's point of view, he probably has very little free cash flow to donate to charities. BG on the other hand, is swimming in cash. A better comparison would be other billionaires with whopping piles of cash and nothing leveraged, say Lucas, for example.
Don't waste your fingers replying to that nit; he's unaware of USB hubs, nevermind how to network a print server gadget. I also find it amazing that anyone who has the money for inflated Mac prices complains about a widget costing 10 pounds to hook up a laser printer.
At that price, and supposedly with "all the best components" and all it has built into that hugemongous case is a touchpad. There's more than enough space to have a combination of touchpad and trackpoint. Heck, you could even have a trackball on it too. If even Dell can put a combination of both on some of their bigger models then this beast can certainly offer a choice.
a perfectly good HP laser printer that only had a parallel port. It drove me nuts when I couldn't connect it from some new laptops
Did these new laptops not have USB or ethernet ports? Plenty of companies, from Belkin to brand X, make USB and ethernet to parallel for printers, scanners, or whatever legacy device you have. These exceptionally handy devices are not at all expensive if you shop around. You save the aggrevation of getting a laptop that isn't the model you want but have to get for its built in parallel port. Or you save the aggrevation of complaining that you can't hook up a parallel printer to a powerbook.
So is it going to be like European style internet (see yesterday's articles) where opposition political parties are fined for trying to use it? Ba-dump-bump!
The WTO is as despised by large corporations as it is by the economic education challenged. Barriers to trade mean little to a multinational corporation that has their entire chain from factories to sales in multiple countries. Barriers to trade mean everything to special interest groups of much small producers. Take for example the most vocal group who hates the WTO: farmers in advanced western nations and Japan. Cutting their subsidies would shave a good 25% off the tab at the grocery store in the USA and in certain European countries the savings would be astronomical. But the farmers would have to run market efficient operations and not get big time handouts. So forget it. And they've got extremely slick FUD campaigns to make you think the WTO is in it for the faceless multinational corps. The WTO is in it for the consumer and the honest working producers.
The more power government holds, the greater the chance of oppression taking place
I think the key is not power but accountability. All governments have a heck of a lot of power by default. The trick is to make the people in power answer in some fashion; regularly scheduled elections with unoppressed opposition parties is one of the best methods. In the case at hand, a member of the opposition party is being sensored apparently for political reasons. VERY bad sign.
Ever since a state-run health care program named "TennCare" started in the mid-90s, state expenditures have skyrocketed and the government has been in a huge budget crunch
Yet another example of how health care is relatively affordable until government makes it "free".
We don't have to pay a cent for the visit...We have a much higher tax however
So you DO pay for it. It doesn't make sense to say a government provided service is free and then say you're taxed to pay for it. The only people for whom it's free are unemployed or criminals doing illegal (and untaxed) economic activity.
Almost all employers larger than a few dozen employees have some kind of medical insurance coverage for employees at highly discounted rates for the employees to purchase. Even people who are self employeed join cooperative groups to get decent rates for themselves. While much wailing and lamenting goes on in the press about medical insurance in the USA, it really is not a problem. There are government programs with staggeringly huge budgets that pay for the very few people who are not covered by an employer's program.
Now you know how, with a company that sells basically one product and its support, Larry Ellison gets his fortune within spitting distance of B. Gates's; whose company sells a bewildering slew of products found preinstalled (and prepaid) on virtually all new PCs.
Dear foreign citizen, Our constitution is not being torn to shreds. It is politics as usual; the party whose members were in power for quite some time are spreading FUD about the party whose members have gotten more votes in the last few election cycles.
who needs an extension to the PATRIOT act, when the President can just issue an executive order?
Because the P-Act has to do with domestic wiretaps, etc, leading to arrests. The commander in chief can only order surveillance on international communications in order to gather intelligence that isn't intended to for use in criminal trials.
I assume this is a cheap dig by the uninformed re: the NYT article giving away national secrets. For futher reading see: Carter's and Clinton's use of such survellance powers and the court cases upholding.
My experience is that management usually won't take any action until things get bad
A lot of previous comments along the same line all indicate one thing: Too many universities don't put the MIS department in the college of business. The flip side of your complain about management is: Management won't lift a finger until they see a proper business plan indicating the benefits of *insert project here*.
It isn't an IT problem. A factory manager might want to expand his loading dock area but management won't lift a finger until he shows them a plan indicating the benefits.
All this whining about management not wanting to do anything really means that the IT people doing the whining don't know how to make the case. And since the golden rule is that those with the gold make the rules, the topic poster had better learn to speak management if he wants better responsiveness.
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This retreat-to-the-castle-and-raise-the-drawbridge mentality that seems to pervade Congress is the reason that elections are so hotly contested
Which makes an excellent argument for going back to the way Senators were originally chosen: by state legislatures. If they didn't have to pander to their most vocal supporters then you wouldn't see a lot of the public mudslinging that Senators engage in these days. House of Reps works great as directly elected but each individual Senator has too much power to pander to the loudest (lowest?) common denominator. If their elections were removed by a layer then they could afford to be more understanding in public of the other side.
WHAT happened to the "chip simulators"?
I used to work as a tester and can tell you that to simulate a low-power (low power as in cheap and slow) and fairly simple x86 compatible chip took a staggerly hugemongous server running at full load for weeks at a time; nevermind simumlating a dual-core Pentium M. And then the thing would spit out some percentages on how well it thought the design would translate to actual silicon. That was it.
You might think a chip simulator is like the emulator you can get for a palm pilot or Commodore 64. Nope, those don't pretend to be the actual silicon moving bits around at the right timing frequencies; they just translate the instruction set and introduce delays to seem like the slower processors. A real chip simulator tries to estimate what's happening all the way down to whether or not the electrical signal coming out of gate 1 meets with the signal from gate 2 at gate 3 all at the same time as the clock pulse. And there's millions of these going off in a modern CPU. Simulating that is some wild calculations, and no, they aren't anywhere near perfect.
So yes, the answer is that it is the complexity.
Even if it works it won't catch on. Wine is like exotic stereo equipment: people are paying for expensiveness.
Check the demographic; it's being tried out in Japan where people go nuts over the latest techno-fad. I'm suprised the wine makers aren't lined up for it.
Are you completely unable understand what you read? 'Reporting lies about how life was great under Stalin' clearly refers to 'emerged as benefactor of mankind'. Which part of that didn't make sense? Which part equates reporting with being responsible for muderous policies? Duh!
Stalin killed 10 million MORE, and despite that, he emerged as a "benefactor of mankind"
Special thanks to the New York Times and the Pulitzer Prize Walter Duranty won for reporting how happy and wonderful life was under Stalin's wise rule in the 1930's.
it's a witchhunt for "undesirables" and those who aren't quite right-of-center (Academia is considered to be more liberal than conservative, or at least it's presented as such)
As someone who recently got back out of college I can tell you that this is far from the case. Academia is not "presented" as liberal; a lot of it is outright hard core leftist. One professor in the liberal arts department started the first day with "If you're a conservative, drop this class". That's the kind of crap this group is trying to find.
So you disagree with your professor? Big deal - take it like an adult and agree to disagree.
But do so silently. Do not argue with the tenured person who hands out grades unless you have deep pockets and the time to wait out a lawsuit to get your grade reversed thus getting graduation requirements filled. Sound fair?
From that geeks.com spec sheet:
* Supports two SATA and two PATA hard disk drives
* Only SATA supports RAID
* Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and JBOD
Somebody tell me how that's possible!
But what to do when your boss doesn't get it?
Don't just talk; write up a business plan demonstrating the savings of standardization versus the costs of what you do now.
a guy who somehow gets away with "secretly" smoking a joint in the server room
One anonymous call to OSHA can create massive havoc.
Then present plan in part 1 to new boss.
dual monitors with different sync rates give me headaches
I completely agree but dual monitors with the same sync at different distances from your face is great. It gets your eyes to focus back and forth. I put a monitor at normal distance and a second about twice that, at a lower resolution, and use it for things that don't need fine resolution like email. It pretty much stopped eye strain for me.
Yes, lovely. Lets apply it to our legal system.
No need to wait. It's called jury-shopping and judge-shopping right now.
I was thinking more like Peril Sensitive Sunglasses rather than Marvin. The computer turns your glasses to total black so you can't see to kick it.
Other billionaires, on the other hand (Trump, for example)
To be fair, Trump's billions are in real estate that's leveraged up to his wavy hairdo While he's pretty rich from anyone's point of view, he probably has very little free cash flow to donate to charities. BG on the other hand, is swimming in cash. A better comparison would be other billionaires with whopping piles of cash and nothing leveraged, say Lucas, for example.
Don't waste your fingers replying to that nit; he's unaware of USB hubs, nevermind how to network a print server gadget. I also find it amazing that anyone who has the money for inflated Mac prices complains about a widget costing 10 pounds to hook up a laser printer.
At that price, and supposedly with "all the best components" and all it has built into that hugemongous case is a touchpad. There's more than enough space to have a combination of touchpad and trackpoint. Heck, you could even have a trackball on it too. If even Dell can put a combination of both on some of their bigger models then this beast can certainly offer a choice.
a perfectly good HP laser printer that only had a parallel port. It drove me nuts when I couldn't connect it from some new laptops
Did these new laptops not have USB or ethernet ports? Plenty of companies, from Belkin to brand X, make USB and ethernet to parallel for printers, scanners, or whatever legacy device you have. These exceptionally handy devices are not at all expensive if you shop around. You save the aggrevation of getting a laptop that isn't the model you want but have to get for its built in parallel port. Or you save the aggrevation of complaining that you can't hook up a parallel printer to a powerbook.
So is it going to be like European style internet (see yesterday's articles) where opposition political parties are fined for trying to use it?
Ba-dump-bump!
the WTO is a tool for the multi-nationals
The WTO is as despised by large corporations as it is by the economic education challenged. Barriers to trade mean little to a multinational corporation that has their entire chain from factories to sales in multiple countries. Barriers to trade mean everything to special interest groups of much small producers. Take for example the most vocal group who hates the WTO: farmers in advanced western nations and Japan. Cutting their subsidies would shave a good 25% off the tab at the grocery store in the USA and in certain European countries the savings would be astronomical. But the farmers would have to run market efficient operations and not get big time handouts. So forget it. And they've got extremely slick FUD campaigns to make you think the WTO is in it for the faceless multinational corps. The WTO is in it for the consumer and the honest working producers.
The more power government holds, the greater the chance of oppression taking place
I think the key is not power but accountability. All governments have a heck of a lot of power by default. The trick is to make the people in power answer in some fashion; regularly scheduled elections with unoppressed opposition parties is one of the best methods. In the case at hand, a member of the opposition party is being sensored apparently for political reasons. VERY bad sign.
Yet another nail in the coffin for the idea of having more EU control over the internet.
Ever since a state-run health care program named "TennCare" started in the mid-90s, state expenditures have skyrocketed and the government has been in a huge budget crunch
Yet another example of how health care is relatively affordable until government makes it "free".
We don't have to pay a cent for the visit...We have a much higher tax however
So you DO pay for it. It doesn't make sense to say a government provided service is free and then say you're taxed to pay for it. The only people for whom it's free are unemployed or criminals doing illegal (and untaxed) economic activity.
Almost all employers larger than a few dozen employees have some kind of medical insurance coverage for employees at highly discounted rates for the employees to purchase. Even people who are self employeed join cooperative groups to get decent rates for themselves. While much wailing and lamenting goes on in the press about medical insurance in the USA, it really is not a problem. There are government programs with staggeringly huge budgets that pay for the very few people who are not covered by an employer's program.
Oracle 10g costs $24 grand Per CPU!?!?!?!?
Now you know how, with a company that sells basically one product and its support, Larry Ellison gets his fortune within spitting distance of B. Gates's; whose company sells a bewildering slew of products found preinstalled (and prepaid) on virtually all new PCs.
Dear foreign citizen,
Our constitution is not being torn to shreds. It is politics as usual; the party whose members were in power for quite some time are spreading FUD about the party whose members have gotten more votes in the last few election cycles.
who needs an extension to the PATRIOT act, when the President can just issue an executive order?
Because the P-Act has to do with domestic wiretaps, etc, leading to arrests. The commander in chief can only order surveillance on international communications in order to gather intelligence that isn't intended to for use in criminal trials.
I assume this is a cheap dig by the uninformed re: the NYT article giving away national secrets. For futher reading see: Carter's and Clinton's use of such survellance powers and the court cases upholding.
My experience is that management usually won't take any action until things get bad
A lot of previous comments along the same line all indicate one thing: Too many universities don't put the MIS department in the college of business. The flip side of your complain about management is: Management won't lift a finger until they see a proper business plan indicating the benefits of *insert project here*.
It isn't an IT problem. A factory manager might want to expand his loading dock area but management won't lift a finger until he shows them a plan indicating the benefits.
All this whining about management not wanting to do anything really means that the IT people doing the whining don't know how to make the case. And since the golden rule is that those with the gold make the rules, the topic poster had better learn to speak management if he wants better responsiveness.