I happen to recall that these researchers mentioned by Eric J. Lerner had done numerical models on self pinching plasma fluxes resulting in beautiful models of various galaxies. The same people simply suggest that the extreme density variability in the cosmos is due, rather that to some string theory, post big bang inflated density anomaly whatever, stuff that can't per definition be experimentally verified, it may be from long term EM interactions between plasmas and currents.
I don't really know all the quacks that spoil the idea but I get the feeling most of the spite is "ol school boys" attitude
I have this very neat little book about some norwegian Nobel guy called Alfwen... an engineer alas! He criticized all thin "gravity is all there is" approach in cosmology and got the finger from the community. Some "rabid dropouts" picked up the line and followed and have drawn some interesting ideas. Nowhere in this book was it ever assumed that "electromagnetism is all there is", these theorists only dispute that electromagnetism doesn't have anything to do in cosmic interactions as there's a terrible lot of plasma out there (produced by fusion, cosmic ray collisions, etc...) and it moves. I don't think that cheerleading for the current crop of senior scientists has ever done anything good except help careers...
The situation you're describing looks a lot like Accenture. I think GS wants to position itself as a "IT consulting" company it has to act and behave as what the market perceives as the main competitor. I think it doesn't have to do with emulating a successful model in order to acquire the same effectiveness but rather trying to acquire the same image in the eyes of the expected customers. So what Accenture does, GS does too, which is a bloody shame since you're throwing away the essence of being a "through the issue support" machine in a way like HP did in order to emulate Epson and Dell...... bah...
Ok, so the parent is a pinko comic, alternative please Mr. I imagine you stand for 'ol tungsten filament right? What about the extra load on hydrocarbon reserves and subsequent pollution from consumption? Displaces the Mg? Or should we all go semiconductor? Is Si crystal (Chockralsky doesn't sound cheap to me) and doping plants easier on Earth... amicable chems also there, aren't there? I guess our best bet is stay with 'ol bulbs be done with it, right?
If it ain't broke don't fix it, isolate it. If an obsolete application matches business requirements there would be no reason to overhaul it so some new platform if it were isolatable, decoupled from the OS and application platforms deployed on corp desktops. There's a big problem when maintenance of said software requires the conservation of a whole, disperse environment (under one, guess which, monoculture). That's the strategy, fault and guilt of certain companies that tie in beneficial products to the acceptance of a whole package that will, eventually, become a liabitily and hindrance.
trouble is: patents were thought and accredited to individuals, the idea of protection is sold and accepted as a means for the individual to protect itself from abuse. But: corporations are individuals, socipathic, powerful and determined legal individuals and all they want is to maximise investments at all costs.
So the critter sobbed you into buying patents to protect the hero and the lawyer took your word and spun it to help the board screw you... nail you down...
Yeah, with XP... SP2... I remember agonizing on a Windows NT4SP5 with Photoshop, pure pain. Perhaps Microsoft has caught up, the workarounds have been put in place and there's a limit to the state of the art so eventually any system, given enough time will get there.
Thing is, I'm talking about stuff that was state of the art 5-6 years ago, heck even the audio sequencing market has leveled off; the edge today is not PS or DTP but video editing, HD stuff.
Truth is, people get used to what they're trained, as bad as it can be, habit is a cure.
Could it be that Apple software is simply better at things like color matching, font handling and other stuff, like making top hardware manageable by non nerds?(since media processing always required more horsepower than say... Office Word + Norton AV + Outlook... wait, forget it...)
Perhaps, it's a matter of software quality... (limited to certain areas of interest, of course)
Especially because Windows support is limited to the 3R rule: restart, reboot, reinstall. That's all there is to MS support... you might even script it, if you were smart enough (or the scripting language good enough...);-)
If I remember correctly the bug, irritating none the less, kills the local cache (that's what disconnected IMAP stands for) of your mailbox but your messages reside on the remote IMAP server so... what's the point again?
It'd be interesting to know what was the setup that brought to this failure. OS, HW, Application and DB technology involved. I wouldn't want to have the same stuff where I work...;-)
Man, your PC has a couple of basic text communication apps running, the ever so mighty aero flying and you're already 1234 MB swapped out?! Geez... Vista is a memory pig and there must be some serious memory leaks...
Nope... hard links are just the sting-to-inode entry in a directory map (that's why they can't cross mount points, inode IDs are unique only within a single filesystem). A file normally has one hard link and is "deleted" when there's no hard link left that points to it.
Incidentally, now that Linux has the concept of UUID in filesystem structures, one could extend hard links to prefix an inode ID with the owning volume UUID and make cross-mount hard links possible.
Oh yeah, Windows spartphones are so much better they can even run and install ServicePacks and firmware updates to fix bad radio management. How cool...
When launched, the Nokia N70 used to cost 6-700 EUR (down to 450-500 EUR carrier subsidized), I personally know of people shelling out 800 EUR for QTec smartphones. The Apple Phone is pricewise perfectly in line with the intended market and while it won't compete with cheap polyphonic tone cells it's a clear threat for Nokia, Sony/Ericsson and the WinMobile bandwagon (especially those, given the reality trip the users have to suffer...) and it's an iPod... and it has the Apple ergonomics.
I'm buying one as soon as it comes with a 3G radio (luckily I'm European, here we have decent networks).
Blackberries are pure distilled crap: dull, expensive, nasty UI, slow. The only killer feature is network integration for email push, but then again: text/plain or nothing (ah... don't forget the Exchange thing... not to mention rough to manage sysadmin side); what about the desktop software? I got mine synced without blowing the corporate association by pure trial & error. I'm italian, we're all cell geeks over here and the Apple Phone (that'll be its final name) will come with a sweep.
No way. All software providers explicitly deny any responsibility for damages deriving from the use of their product. Ever read an EULA? Why would you trust running your business on native windows (at most you could claim a refund for the OS license) and prentend liability from a third party?
I'm wary of the certain circumstances you mention. It's easy for a lobby to reduce these to wrist slaps; I'd rather see the corporation be held responsible itself it's misdeeds. The legal pressure could translate to measurable (economically) sanctions graphable on a damn presentation. Short of a reform in corp statute I believe there's little chance for correcting such behaviour as a personally responsible CxO can always be treated as a replaceable consumable from the corp's perspective. The legal entity has to be held responsible and pay, that's where the deeper pockets are anyway
So it's okay to expropriate the work of anyone, as long as he learned from others and was funded by the government?
If it's government funded the people have already paid for your time, privided you of the means to pay the mortgage, engege in social activities and exercise a respectable social status. The products, knowledge and advacements of science developed during the time you are eployed by a corporation are the property of said entity, so it's simply applying the same logic to a transaction between you and The People. The one that pays is the ultimate owner, in this case The People should acquire the Public Property of what they payd for; Corps claim ownership of anything anytime, why is it that when The People are part of the sentence does it instantly become "liberal commie drivel"?
Corporations are an artificial construct designed for a purpouse. The mechanisms and engineering built into this artificial creation are so that, assumed it was a person (and since it is for all practical purpouses a "legal person" the premise is acceptable) it manifests the behaviour of a psycotic sociopath.
There's a documentary film, "The Corporation", that neatly expounds this idea. Of course anyone unwilling to argue reasonably will dismiss it as commie drivel and move along... too bad.
I appreciate RH very much where I work; once machines are registered it is quite stable and feels clean and familiar. What I don't think is good is the pricetag: 2.5K per GFS node, 6K for a client limited Satellite and an extra 200 bucks for management and provisioning entitlements. Once you add up it becomes pricey, especially compared to MS sitewide licenses. I understand it beats hands down other UNIX platforms but it's difficult to resist the MS pressure within the datacenter.
I wouldn't mind to see some price cuts, or better bundling/volume discounts.
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I happen to recall that these researchers mentioned by Eric J. Lerner had done numerical models on self pinching plasma fluxes resulting in beautiful models of various galaxies. The same people simply suggest that the extreme density variability in the cosmos is due, rather that to some string theory, post big bang inflated density anomaly whatever, stuff that can't per definition be experimentally verified, it may be from long term EM interactions between plasmas and currents.
I don't really know all the quacks that spoil the idea but I get the feeling most of the spite is "ol school boys" attitude
Complacent go with the crowd thinker.
I have this very neat little book about some norwegian Nobel guy called Alfwen... an engineer alas! He criticized all thin "gravity is all there is" approach in cosmology and got the finger from the community. Some "rabid dropouts" picked up the line and followed and have drawn some interesting ideas. Nowhere in this book was it ever assumed that "electromagnetism is all there is", these theorists only dispute that electromagnetism doesn't have anything to do in cosmic interactions as there's a terrible lot of plasma out there (produced by fusion, cosmic ray collisions, etc...) and it moves. I don't think that cheerleading for the current crop of senior scientists has ever done anything good except help careers...
The situation you're describing looks a lot like Accenture. I think GS wants to position itself as a "IT consulting" company it has to act and behave as what the market perceives as the main competitor. I think it doesn't have to do with emulating a successful model in order to acquire the same effectiveness but rather trying to acquire the same image in the eyes of the expected customers. So what Accenture does, GS does too, which is a bloody shame since you're throwing away the essence of being a "through the issue support" machine in a way like HP did in order to emulate Epson and Dell... ... bah...
Ok, so the parent is a pinko comic, alternative please Mr. I imagine you stand for 'ol tungsten filament right? What about the extra load on hydrocarbon reserves and subsequent pollution from consumption? Displaces the Mg? Or should we all go semiconductor? Is Si crystal (Chockralsky doesn't sound cheap to me) and doping plants easier on Earth... amicable chems also there, aren't there? I guess our best bet is stay with 'ol bulbs be done with it, right?
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If it ain't broke don't fix it, isolate it. If an obsolete application matches business requirements there would be no reason to overhaul it so some new platform if it were isolatable, decoupled from the OS and application platforms deployed on corp desktops. There's a big problem when maintenance of said software requires the conservation of a whole, disperse environment (under one, guess which, monoculture). That's the strategy, fault and guilt of certain companies that tie in beneficial products to the acceptance of a whole package that will, eventually, become a liabitily and hindrance.
trouble is: patents were thought and accredited to individuals, the idea of protection is sold and accepted as a means for the individual to protect itself from abuse. But: corporations are individuals, socipathic, powerful and determined legal individuals and all they want is to maximise investments at all costs.
So the critter sobbed you into buying patents to protect the hero and the lawyer took your word and spun it to help the board screw you... nail you down...
the road to hell is paved of good intentions...
Yeah, with XP... SP2... I remember agonizing on a Windows NT4SP5 with Photoshop, pure pain. Perhaps Microsoft has caught up, the workarounds have been put in place and there's a limit to the state of the art so eventually any system, given enough time will get there.
Thing is, I'm talking about stuff that was state of the art 5-6 years ago, heck even the audio sequencing market has leveled off; the edge today is not PS or DTP but video editing, HD stuff.
Truth is, people get used to what they're trained, as bad as it can be, habit is a cure.
Could it be that Apple software is simply better at things like color matching, font handling and other stuff, like making top hardware manageable by non nerds?(since media processing always required more horsepower than say... Office Word + Norton AV + Outlook... wait, forget it...)
Perhaps, it's a matter of software quality... (limited to certain areas of interest, of course)
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Especially because Windows support is limited to the 3R rule: restart, reboot, reinstall. That's all there is to MS support... you might even script it, if you were smart enough (or the scripting language good enough...) ;-)
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If I remember correctly the bug, irritating none the less, kills the local cache (that's what disconnected IMAP stands for) of your mailbox but your messages reside on the remote IMAP server so... what's the point again?
It'd be interesting to know what was the setup that brought to this failure. OS, HW, Application and DB technology involved. I wouldn't want to have the same stuff where I work... ;-)
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Man, your PC has a couple of basic text communication apps running, the ever so mighty aero flying and you're already 1234 MB swapped out?! Geez... Vista is a memory pig and there must be some serious memory leaks...
Nope... hard links are just the sting-to-inode entry in a directory map (that's why they can't cross mount points, inode IDs are unique only within a single filesystem). A file normally has one hard link and is "deleted" when there's no hard link left that points to it.
Incidentally, now that Linux has the concept of UUID in filesystem structures, one could extend hard links to prefix an inode ID with the owning volume UUID and make cross-mount hard links possible.
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Oh yes? Can you break down what you think are the operating costs of a call centre; don't forget to include taxes, BTW.
Oh yeah, Windows spartphones are so much better they can even run and install ServicePacks and firmware updates to fix bad radio management.
How cool...
When launched, the Nokia N70 used to cost 6-700 EUR (down to 450-500 EUR carrier subsidized), I personally know of people shelling out 800 EUR for QTec smartphones. The Apple Phone is pricewise perfectly in line with the intended market and while it won't compete with cheap polyphonic tone cells it's a clear threat for Nokia, Sony/Ericsson and the WinMobile bandwagon (especially those, given the reality trip the users have to suffer...) and it's an iPod... and it has the Apple ergonomics.
I'm buying one as soon as it comes with a 3G radio (luckily I'm European, here we have decent networks).
Blackberries are pure distilled crap: dull, expensive, nasty UI, slow. The only killer feature is network integration for email push, but then again: text/plain or nothing (ah... don't forget the Exchange thing... not to mention rough to manage sysadmin side); what about the desktop software? I got mine synced without blowing the corporate association by pure trial & error. I'm italian, we're all cell geeks over here and the Apple Phone (that'll be its final name) will come with a sweep.
No Microsoft doesn't. If you read the EULA it states that it's not guaranteed to work at all...
No way. All software providers explicitly deny any responsibility for damages deriving from the use of their product. Ever read an EULA? Why would you trust running your business on native windows (at most you could claim a refund for the OS license) and prentend liability from a third party?
I'm wary of the certain circumstances you mention. It's easy for a lobby to reduce these to wrist slaps; I'd rather see the corporation be held responsible itself it's misdeeds. The legal pressure could translate to measurable (economically) sanctions graphable on a damn presentation. Short of a reform in corp statute I believe there's little chance for correcting such behaviour as a personally responsible CxO can always be treated as a replaceable consumable from the corp's perspective. The legal entity has to be held responsible and pay, that's where the deeper pockets are anyway
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Next time you apply for a grant don't forget to append this comment to the motivational letter...
So it's okay to expropriate the work of anyone, as long as he learned from others and was funded by the government?
If it's government funded the people have already paid for your time, privided you of the means to pay the mortgage, engege in social activities and exercise a respectable social status. The products, knowledge and advacements of science developed during the time you are eployed by a corporation are the property of said entity, so it's simply applying the same logic to a transaction between you and The People. The one that pays is the ultimate owner, in this case The People should acquire the Public Property of what they payd for; Corps claim ownership of anything anytime, why is it that when The People are part of the sentence does it instantly become "liberal commie drivel"?
Corporations are an artificial construct designed for a purpouse. The mechanisms and engineering built into this artificial creation are so that, assumed it was a person (and since it is for all practical purpouses a "legal person" the premise is acceptable) it manifests the behaviour of a psycotic sociopath.
There's a documentary film, "The Corporation", that neatly expounds this idea. Of course anyone unwilling to argue reasonably will dismiss it as commie drivel and move along... too bad.
I appreciate RH very much where I work; once machines are registered it is quite stable and feels clean and familiar. What I don't think is good is the pricetag: 2.5K per GFS node, 6K for a client limited Satellite and an extra 200 bucks for management and provisioning entitlements. Once you add up it becomes pricey, especially compared to MS sitewide licenses. I understand it beats hands down other UNIX platforms but it's difficult to resist the MS pressure within the datacenter.
I wouldn't mind to see some price cuts, or better bundling/volume discounts.