"The underfunding of routine exercise programs and the degradation of aging overweight sysadmins poses systemic risk for many IT organizations, thanks to a ballooning 'deferred weight loss program' in the decade since Y2K fears pushed enterprises to invest heavily in dudes who live in their parents' basements", InfoWorld's Bill Snyder reports. And with sysadmins 'scrambling to keep their bodies up and running with foods that barely cover the nutiritional basics',' this 'IT chub' promises only to increase in the coming years, especially as IT continues to defer routine workouts in favor of new 'cost-saving' initiatives, particularly around the refrigerator."
Everyone already has their tracks courtesy of this torrent or that, or they're like me and ripped all their CDs long ago. No one in their right mind is going to pay for Apple DRM this late in the game. See "The Beatles".
I can see two potentially disasterous consequences here:
1) The Centrists vote right in the national election and Palin fucks us worse than W or Obama ever did, or
2) The Right starts their own campaign to nominate unelectable Dems - then we'd truly be choosing between a douche and a turd sandwich.
I sympathize with the cause, but question the method.
And I'll agree that my umbrella statement about ending the wars is also a little simplistic. We've made a mess of things, and now there are large-scale geopolitical problems to consider in the act of leaving. My real problem here is that our enemies are fighting us with $100 AK-47s, and we're spending $40k apiece on warheads for $135 million F-35s. I'm not saying that we should forfeit battlefield superiority in favor of economics, but it seems to me there has to be a more fiscally responsible way to fight a war. Only problem is, our lawmakers either don't care enough, don't know enough, or are in the pocket of the miliarty industrial complex of their choice. Nobody wins wars fought this way.
Yes, it's been said on/. a million times before: end the freakin' wars. Stop the runaway military spending. It's that simple. NSF's annual budget = $7.4 billion (source: NSF). That's about a week in a half in Iraq, if memory serves.
Imagine that you miraculously discovered the Great Library of Alexandria, lost for thousands of years. You're just about to walk inside take a glimpse at all those books that no one alive has ever read, and as you're unrolling the first scroll, some contractor comes along and knocks the whole building over so he can put an apartment complex there instead. Apply this logic to a planet with independently evolved biosphere and aspiring human colonists, except that it'll take thousands of years to build the apartments and the biological information is worth a dozen Libraries of Alexandria.
I'd say learning about a biosphere that (potentially) evolved life separate and independent from our own has far greater implications for the advancement of the human race than interplanetary colonization, at least in the short-term. Finding different types of life will no doubt change our understanding of everything from cosmology to biochemistry. Equate it to the argument against the destruction of ecosystems on Earth, or even to the deletion of a critical file on your hard drive – when you’ve erased that information from existence, it’s gone. And one thing's for sure: if we're going to learn to survive on Mars, we should probably have a pretty good understanding of what we're getting into first.
Considering every mission sent to Mars since Viking has been (in part) to research whether or not Martian life exists, I'd say that populating the planet with Earth-borne bacteria might throw a wrench into the works. And since colonization isn't anywhere near the realm of possibility in the foreseeable future, why risk jeopardizing a real shot at finding extra-terrestrial life?
He's basically saying that he's been able to live as long as he has because his ancestors were members of a species that failed the natural selection test. Hilarious.
The same thing that happens when a Linux box gets rooted - you fix the problem. In the meantime, your VM will almost certainly be unaffected - fire it up on another machine if the host is inoperable.
Not to mention Microsoft's postion in the gaming market - yet another market segment Apple (and Google) has largely ignored. TFA didn't even talk about Xbox with the exception of some random fact about banning Xbox Live users. Note to researchers: Halo Reach sold $200m on launch day alone - MS has to be doing something right in the marketing department.
My little bro just stood in line for a launch copy of Halo Reach. He and all his friends were pretty excited. Maybe not OMFG IPAD excited, but hey, whadaya gonna do?
Don't get me wrong, I think promoting education in Africa is all well and good, but if they really wanted to help, the majority of Africans need the three R's (to start with), not higher ed. The majority of the continent is in the bottom 20% of literacy in the world:
What really scares me is not that someone is calling for the extermination of entire peoples and states (it's been done before); but that while reading this post, for a brief moment...I seriously considered the proposal.
Mariner's press release indicates it's in Vermillion Block 380, and multiple sources have indicated it's about 100 miles off the coast of LA. That puts the rig in about 200-400ft of water, not 2500.
Given that the rig is on the continental shelf, the well can't be in more than 800-1000ft of water, and is likely in closer to 200-400ft. I don't have hard number on this specific rig, but given the relative position the news agencies are reporting, and depth measurments of that area (see Google Earth), it can't possibly be in 2500ft.
In 20 years, I hope to see Congress open up Lieberman's boxes of evidence linking video games with juvenile violence, only to find some MINT copies of the classics - MKII, Night Trap, Doom - man, you could sell 'em at auction and pay down the national debt!
And the WHY use USB? eStata is great and perfect for external drive use and is far more common than USB3.0 AND has a higher sustained transfer rate
USB3 may not be very common yet, but USB2 is a helluva lot more common than eSATA, and in many cases, more convenient (think drives that need external power on eSATA). My organization travels to remote locations to collect data and requires convenient, fast, redundant storage. Our current solution is a 4-bay RAID/5/0+1 array that has USB 2.0 and eSATA interface. eSATA is great for some applications, but USB2 will literally work in any computer they come across, especially older machines. The same will be true for USB3 devices, which we plan to adopt in our next technology refresh. When in doubt, 8000 miles from home and using some random dude's computer, there will be a USB2 port to plug into. Bottom line - USB3 gives better flexibility and similar performance to eSATA.
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"The underfunding of routine exercise programs and the degradation of aging overweight sysadmins poses systemic risk for many IT organizations, thanks to a ballooning 'deferred weight loss program' in the decade since Y2K fears pushed enterprises to invest heavily in dudes who live in their parents' basements", InfoWorld's Bill Snyder reports. And with sysadmins 'scrambling to keep their bodies up and running with foods that barely cover the nutiritional basics',' this 'IT chub' promises only to increase in the coming years, especially as IT continues to defer routine workouts in favor of new 'cost-saving' initiatives, particularly around the refrigerator."
I didn't have my glasses on, though.
Everyone already has their tracks courtesy of this torrent or that, or they're like me and ripped all their CDs long ago. No one in their right mind is going to pay for Apple DRM this late in the game. See "The Beatles".
1) The Centrists vote right in the national election and Palin fucks us worse than W or Obama ever did, or
2) The Right starts their own campaign to nominate unelectable Dems - then we'd truly be choosing between a douche and a turd sandwich.
I sympathize with the cause, but question the method.
And I'll agree that my umbrella statement about ending the wars is also a little simplistic. We've made a mess of things, and now there are large-scale geopolitical problems to consider in the act of leaving. My real problem here is that our enemies are fighting us with $100 AK-47s, and we're spending $40k apiece on warheads for $135 million F-35s. I'm not saying that we should forfeit battlefield superiority in favor of economics, but it seems to me there has to be a more fiscally responsible way to fight a war. Only problem is, our lawmakers either don't care enough, don't know enough, or are in the pocket of the miliarty industrial complex of their choice. Nobody wins wars fought this way.
Yes, it's been said on /. a million times before: end the freakin' wars. Stop the runaway military spending. It's that simple. NSF's annual budget = $7.4 billion (source: NSF). That's about a week in a half in Iraq, if memory serves.
...you don't need a department of Homeland Security to trample on your rights.
iTunes music hasn't had DRM for several years.
Yeah, I just deauthorized my old computer for shits 'n giggles.
Imagine that you miraculously discovered the Great Library of Alexandria, lost for thousands of years. You're just about to walk inside take a glimpse at all those books that no one alive has ever read, and as you're unrolling the first scroll, some contractor comes along and knocks the whole building over so he can put an apartment complex there instead. Apply this logic to a planet with independently evolved biosphere and aspiring human colonists, except that it'll take thousands of years to build the apartments and the biological information is worth a dozen Libraries of Alexandria.
I'd say learning about a biosphere that (potentially) evolved life separate and independent from our own has far greater implications for the advancement of the human race than interplanetary colonization, at least in the short-term. Finding different types of life will no doubt change our understanding of everything from cosmology to biochemistry. Equate it to the argument against the destruction of ecosystems on Earth, or even to the deletion of a critical file on your hard drive – when you’ve erased that information from existence, it’s gone. And one thing's for sure: if we're going to learn to survive on Mars, we should probably have a pretty good understanding of what we're getting into first.
Considering every mission sent to Mars since Viking has been (in part) to research whether or not Martian life exists, I'd say that populating the planet with Earth-borne bacteria might throw a wrench into the works. And since colonization isn't anywhere near the realm of possibility in the foreseeable future, why risk jeopardizing a real shot at finding extra-terrestrial life?
I thought the matter was settled when we learned it was a Mass Relay encased in ice.
He's basically saying that he's been able to live as long as he has because his ancestors were members of a species that failed the natural selection test. Hilarious.
What happens when the Windows host gets a virus?
The same thing that happens when a Linux box gets rooted - you fix the problem. In the meantime, your VM will almost certainly be unaffected - fire it up on another machine if the host is inoperable.
Seeing that SSID in your client list is just Microsoft's subtle way of telling you to INSTALL XP SP3.
We're running out of IPv4 addresses? PANIC!!!!
Not to mention Microsoft's postion in the gaming market - yet another market segment Apple (and Google) has largely ignored. TFA didn't even talk about Xbox with the exception of some random fact about banning Xbox Live users. Note to researchers: Halo Reach sold $200m on launch day alone - MS has to be doing something right in the marketing department.
My little bro just stood in line for a launch copy of Halo Reach. He and all his friends were pretty excited. Maybe not OMFG IPAD excited, but hey, whadaya gonna do?
Don't get me wrong, I think promoting education in Africa is all well and good, but if they really wanted to help, the majority of Africans need the three R's (to start with), not higher ed. The majority of the continent is in the bottom 20% of literacy in the world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate
What really scares me is not that someone is calling for the extermination of entire peoples and states (it's been done before); but that while reading this post, for a brief moment...I seriously considered the proposal.
Just because MS releases a patch doesn't mean that users apply said patch.
But now, thanks to Places and the idiots that use it, burgling is easier than ever!
Mariner's press release indicates it's in Vermillion Block 380, and multiple sources have indicated it's about 100 miles off the coast of LA. That puts the rig in about 200-400ft of water, not 2500.
Given that the rig is on the continental shelf, the well can't be in more than 800-1000ft of water, and is likely in closer to 200-400ft. I don't have hard number on this specific rig, but given the relative position the news agencies are reporting, and depth measurments of that area (see Google Earth), it can't possibly be in 2500ft.
In 20 years, I hope to see Congress open up Lieberman's boxes of evidence linking video games with juvenile violence, only to find some MINT copies of the classics - MKII, Night Trap, Doom - man, you could sell 'em at auction and pay down the national debt!
And the WHY use USB? eStata is great and perfect for external drive use and is far more common than USB3.0 AND has a higher sustained transfer rate
USB3 may not be very common yet, but USB2 is a helluva lot more common than eSATA, and in many cases, more convenient (think drives that need external power on eSATA). My organization travels to remote locations to collect data and requires convenient, fast, redundant storage. Our current solution is a 4-bay RAID/5/0+1 array that has USB 2.0 and eSATA interface. eSATA is great for some applications, but USB2 will literally work in any computer they come across, especially older machines. The same will be true for USB3 devices, which we plan to adopt in our next technology refresh. When in doubt, 8000 miles from home and using some random dude's computer, there will be a USB2 port to plug into. Bottom line - USB3 gives better flexibility and similar performance to eSATA.