Dumb question: I just installed RH9 last night, and I had a choice of files systems, including ext3 and LVM. Does LVM do its own journaling, (i.e., fast, clean recovery following a crash)? Does it build on top of ext3 or something similar?
"... a listener of music should not say "That is good music" because that implies that the listener is a superior musician, and in a position to judge the player. Rather, the listener should say something like "Your music moves me"
This sounds an awful lot like "E Prime", which is English without the verb "to be", e.g. see this. It sounds extremely wacky when you first hear about it, but some of the rationale does make sense.
Well that was a predictable set of witless responses.
I seriously think that is a great suggestion, and I bet that she would agree to it. If she cares what the/. crowd thinks about her at all, then such a move could do nothing but improve her image. What could she possibly have to lose by agreeing to such an interview?
Here, in one sentence, is everything that's wrong with Gartner:... more than 95 percent (by volume in gigabytes) of human-to-computer information input will remain keyboard- and mouse-based (0.6 probability)....
Let's break it down:
Mindless extrapolation of the obvious: "... will remain keyboard- and mouse-based."
Authoritative sounding numbers pulled out of the air: "... more than 95 percent... 0.6 probability..."
Sheer idiocy: "... 95 percent (by volume in gigabytes)..." (If it's a percentage, then why does the unit matter?)
Even if he wanted to keep the book, as a non-Omnicare customer the license prohibited him from doing so. And since Omnicare claimed to retain ownership of his copy, he couldn't destroy it either. If the license agreement was to be taken seriously, he either had to go to the trouble of trying to ship the book back or he had to become an Omnicare customer somehow.
There is a third option: Put the book on your bookshelf, and send a monthly bill for storage. If they don't pay, then turn the bill over to bill collectors.
Speaking from experience: If it's feasible, finish the project yourself. Don't count on people who have proven incompetent.
If this isn't feasible: Either your product is vital to your company's survival, or it isn't. If it is, then it is your responsibility to let your boss know about your project's troubles, and his boss, and keep going until you reach the CEO, if necessary. If this doesn't work, then the next thing I'd design, if I were you, would be my escape.
If your product is not vital to your company's survival, then either it will get done, slowly, and you'll have no life until you're done; or it will just fall apart.
KDE is beautiful. Browsers look horrible until you install xfstt and decent fonts (any distributions do this out of the box?). StarOffice and OpenOffice are decent enough. But those applications look absolutely horrible because of the fonts, and I haven't figured out how to get either to use TT fonts, even after setting up xfstt.
Imagine a marketroid given a linux box with email, a browser, and OpenOffice. He's going to absolutely hate it because of the fonts. I am a hard-core techie and I have a hard time looking at OpenOffice. But give the marketroid the same box with great-looking fonts and his tolerance for linux will go way up.
You have now made your employer aware that you are unhappy. From this day on, your loyalty will always be in question.
If you are valuable to the company, loyalty isn't an issue. If you aren't, you should worry anyway.
When promotion time comes around, your employer will remember who is loyal and who is not.
See above.
When times get tough, your employer will begin the cutbacks with you.
See above.
Accepting a counteroffer is an insult to your intelligence and a blow to your personal pride; you were bought.
You're bought no matter where you go. You think that CEOs aren't bought? They are, and they're a lot more successful at it than anyone reading slashdot.
Where is the money for the counteroffer coming from? All companies have wage and salary guidelines which must be followed. Is it your next raise early?
Sounds good to me. And the company sees that as real money. They prefer to delay expenses when possible.
Your company will immediately start looking for a new person at a cheaper price.
Again, only if you aren't all that valuable to start with.
The same circumstances that now cause you to consider a change will repeat themselves in the future, even if you accept a counteroffer.
So in the meanwhile you've made more money. And maybe you get another counteroffer the next time you get fed up.
Statistics show that if you accept a counteroffer, the probability of voluntarily leaving in six months or being let go in one year is extremely high.
Again, so what?
Once the word gets out, the relationship that you now enjoy with your co-workers will never be the same. You will lose the personal satisfaction of peer group acceptance.
I accepted a counter-offer. Not clear if my co-workers know, but my relationship with them gas been fine. Again, if you are worth the money, no one in his right mind will object to you getting it.
What type of company do you work for if you have to threaten to resign before they will give you what you are worth?
It isn't just Cyc. This sort of AI is always just around the corner from true intelligence.
Cyc is a wonder to behold. Not the technology, but the business side. It is a perpetual funding machine. How many times will investors hear, and believe, "just another $10 million and Cyc will be [insert favorite milestone here], and then the commercial possibilities will be limitless. Get in on the ground floor of this exciting opportunity now!"
It reminds me a lot of the various religious loonies predicting the return of the messiah. They're always wrong, but that doesn't prevent more predictions being made and more people believing in those predictions.
A toxin might kill an astronaut. That would be tragic, but not a disaster. The problem to be worried about is communicable disease, namely an organism (bacteria, virus) that harms the host and can spread. The organisms that work this way on this planet have evolved with us over a very long period of time. An organism that had never encountered a human before, or perhaps even earthly DNA, seems exceedingly unlikely to be communicable -- hasn't had the practice.
Still, I have to admit, this sounds an awful lot like, "this code should work".
I think it's very funny that it took another hacker to figure out that kazaa etc. could be disabled in this way. If the RIAA had any brains at all, they would have figured this out and... uhh... wait a minute, maybe Yuri == RIAA?
... had a system that relied on a deck of cards, and figured in the plot. The scheme was designed by Bruce Schneier, and described in great detail in an appendix. The system looked quite difficult in practice.
I had a series of bad Jaz drives (not disks). I got fed up and wanted a refund, for all hardware, including disks I had bought. I phoned the president or CEO (don't remember which) left a moderately brief voicemail summarizing my problems, and finally got action. Normal channels (support email and phone) produced absolutely nothing.
This was during a period of bad press for Iomega (remember Click of Death?) so maybe they were being more responsive than usual.
COBOL is still around. FORTRAN is still around. The reverberations of 80-column cards can still be heard. Screen-scraping is alive and well. HTTP will be with us when Bill Gates' ghostly presence is roaming Internet2.
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Should that be "QBASIC: Programming for Dummies"?
Dumb question: I just installed RH9 last night, and I had a choice of files systems, including ext3 and LVM. Does LVM do its own journaling, (i.e., fast, clean recovery following a crash)? Does it build on top of ext3 or something similar?
The prontolite faq does say that the range will be
worse on the older palms.
"... a listener of music should not say "That is good music" because that implies that the listener is a superior musician, and in a position to judge the player. Rather, the listener should say something like "Your music moves me"
This sounds an awful lot like "E Prime", which is English without the verb "to be", e.g. see this. It sounds extremely wacky when you first hear about it, but some of the rationale does make sense.
I seriously think that is a great suggestion, and
I bet that she would agree to it. If she cares
what the
such a move could do nothing but improve her image.
What could she possibly have to lose by agreeing
to such an interview?
Let's break it down:
Plasmonic nanomaterials
Plasmonic nanomaterials
Plasmonic nanomaterials
Now I'm sorry I went into software. I really, really wish I could tell people that I was into plasmonic nanomaterials.
Even if he wanted to keep the book, as a non-Omnicare customer the license prohibited him from doing so. And since Omnicare claimed to retain ownership of his copy, he couldn't destroy it either. If the license agreement was to be taken seriously, he either had to go to the trouble of trying to ship the book back or he had to become an Omnicare customer somehow.
There is a third option: Put the book on your bookshelf, and send a monthly bill for storage. If they don't pay, then turn the bill over to bill collectors.
Speaking from experience: If it's feasible, finish the project yourself. Don't count on people who have proven incompetent.
If this isn't feasible: Either your product is vital to your company's survival, or it isn't. If it is, then it is your responsibility to let your boss know about your project's troubles, and his boss, and keep going until you reach the CEO, if necessary. If this doesn't work, then the next thing I'd design, if I were you, would be my escape.
If your product is not vital to your company's survival, then either it will get done, slowly, and you'll have no life until you're done; or it will just fall apart.
Time to emigrate to Canada.
about the guy with the backyard gauss gun?
But do you use OpenOffice? How do you get OpenOffice to use the tt fonts?
Imagine a marketroid given a linux box with email, a browser, and OpenOffice. He's going to absolutely hate it because of the fonts. I am a hard-core techie and I have a hard time looking at OpenOffice. But give the marketroid the same box with great-looking fonts and his tolerance for linux will go way up.
Fix the @#$%ing fonts!
I have nothing else to say on this. Thank you.
The following is not meant as a flame.
This is an odd question coming from a cs/ce senior. What, may I ask, have you been studying, when you should have been in a compiler course?
I've been out of school for a while, but it is inconceivable that compilers would now be an optional part of any CS curriculum.
You have now made your employer aware that you are unhappy. From this
day on, your loyalty will always be in question.
If you are valuable to the company, loyalty isn't an issue. If you
aren't, you should worry anyway.
When promotion time comes around, your employer will remember who is
loyal and who is not.
See above.
When times get tough, your employer will begin the cutbacks with you.
See above.
Accepting a counteroffer is an insult to your intelligence and a blow
to your personal pride; you were bought.
You're bought no matter where you go. You think that CEOs aren't
bought? They are, and they're a lot more successful at it than anyone
reading slashdot.
Where is the money for the counteroffer coming from? All companies
have wage and salary guidelines which must be followed. Is it your
next raise early?
Sounds good to me. And the company sees that as real money. They prefer to delay expenses when possible.
Your company will immediately start looking for a new person at a
cheaper price.
Again, only if you aren't all that valuable to start with.
The same circumstances that now cause you to consider a change will
repeat themselves in the future, even if you accept a counteroffer.
So in the meanwhile you've made more money. And maybe you get another
counteroffer the next time you get fed up.
Statistics show that if you accept a counteroffer, the probability of
voluntarily leaving in six months or being let go in one year is
extremely high.
Again, so what?
Once the word gets out, the relationship that you now enjoy with your
co-workers will never be the same. You will lose the personal
satisfaction of peer group acceptance.
I accepted a counter-offer. Not clear if my co-workers know, but my
relationship with them gas been fine. Again, if you are worth the
money, no one in his right mind will object to you getting it.
What type of company do you work for if you have to threaten to resign
before they will give you what you are worth?
They're all like that. Get over it.
It isn't just Cyc. This sort of AI is always just around the corner from true intelligence.
Cyc is a wonder to behold. Not the technology, but the business side. It is a perpetual funding machine. How many times will investors hear, and believe, "just another $10 million and Cyc will be [insert favorite milestone here], and then the commercial possibilities will be limitless. Get in on the ground floor of this exciting opportunity now!"
It reminds me a lot of the various religious loonies predicting the return of the messiah. They're always wrong, but that doesn't prevent more predictions being made and more people believing in those predictions.
A toxin might kill an astronaut. That would be tragic, but not a disaster. The problem to be worried about is communicable disease, namely an organism (bacteria, virus) that harms the host and can spread. The organisms that work this way on this planet have evolved with us over a very long period of time. An organism that had never encountered a human before, or perhaps even earthly DNA, seems exceedingly unlikely to be communicable -- hasn't had the practice.
Still, I have to admit, this sounds an awful lot like, "this code should work".
Here it is, an ASCII rimshot:
\/!
This is my invention, which is mine.
I think it's very funny that it took another hacker to figure out that kazaa etc. could be disabled in this way. If the RIAA had any brains at all, they would have figured this out and ... uhh ... wait a minute, maybe Yuri == RIAA?
... had a system that relied on a deck of cards, and figured in the plot. The scheme was designed by Bruce Schneier, and described in great detail in an appendix. The system looked quite difficult in practice.
First of all, it's "algorithm". Second, an algorithm, by definition, terminates...
I had a series of bad Jaz drives (not disks). I got fed up and wanted a refund, for all hardware, including disks I had bought. I phoned the president or CEO (don't remember which) left a moderately brief voicemail summarizing my problems, and finally got action. Normal channels (support email and phone) produced absolutely nothing.
This was during a period of bad press for Iomega (remember Click of Death?) so maybe they were being more responsive than usual.
COBOL is still around. FORTRAN is still around. The reverberations of 80-column cards can still be heard. Screen-scraping is alive and well. HTTP will be with us when Bill Gates' ghostly presence is roaming Internet2.
I mean, this was probably done before Microsoft spent 20 business days plugging all their security holes.