Looks like nobody's mentioned polyphasic sleep so far, so I guess I'll do it:
Polyphasic sleep is sleeping in multiple phases in a day. So you don't sleep for 8 hours, and stay awake for 16. Instead, you spread your sleep out over the day.
Although spreading 8 hours over multiple stretches might be beneficial for some, reducing your total sleep time is where it gets interesting.
A article in Time Magazine from 1943 describes how Buckminster Fuller devised a system (called Dymaxion sleep) where he slept a half-hour every 6 hours, sleeping 2 hours in a day. That gives an amazing 22 hours a day to do stuff, build Beowulf clusters of N900s, keep a watch out for the Bat-Signal, or whatever.
The biggest problem with minimal, polyphase sleep systems is that you have to sleep on a schedule. You can't postpone sleep for a business meeting or a late lunch. That's the reason most people (including Fuller) have to drop it.
People want tools to just work, and they want to use those tools to create or do something else.
I get that.
But I the point one of the earlier posters was making was that the new generation of even computer techs are non-curious and don't really have clue about the command line, assembly, etc. It's not that they know about assembly, have dabbled a bit in it, and kinda-sorta understand how a processor executes instructions, but use higher-level languages.
It's that they don't have a clue how a computer works.
Amen. There's a free market insofar as people can open their own private car dealerships, restaurants, stores, etc., on the sides of highways, but the roads themselves are owned by a neutral party (the government). The road are not owned by private parties which then prevent their competitors from moving traffic over the road.
Car analogy: You can drive your car (forklift/golf cart/etc) on private roads however you want. But on the public roads, you have to abide by some standards, and if you're the contractor that built a toll road, you can't disallow competing contractors from passing through.
I've been looking for a good home finance program for a while.
I don't need stock tracking, electronic integration, and other frills, but I'd like something which makes it easy to enter the week's transactions (I usually like to track more detail than "groceries", otherwise, what's the point).
Stuff like autofill, drop down selection, fields which are arranged in a logical order, easy keyboard navigation and accelerators (to avoid having to mouse around all the time).
If a group of people, any single one of whom could not afford a TV ad(s), say African-Americans in certain states, wanted to advocate a certain position on a ballot measure to their fellow citizens, could they band together and do so?
When they band together, would it be acceptable for them to form a non-profit organization for that purpose (i.e., a corporation)?
Secondly, could that corporation (profit or non-profit) also sell CDs and DVDs explaining their positions to the general public?
While I agree that the influence of corporations on the political process seems ornery, it's hard to dispute (some) of the logic behind Citizens United.
For example, you say that speech isn't money (or vice versa).
So does that mean you're defining speech to be only vocal articulation without any further mechanical accompaniment? For example loudspeakers, mikes, video cameras? All of which have to be bought or rented with money.
And are you also saying the 1st Amendment doesn't protect expression of opinion other than voice? For example, flyers, pamphlets, books, newspapers, websites, blogs, e-mails, etc.? All of which require money.
Finally the NY Times Corp. can engage in political speach, but, say an engine manufacturer can't? What if engine manufacturer bought a TV network? Would that be OK? (GE buys NBC.)
You're talking about small businesses. Hats off to you and to all the other small businesses which actually provide most of the jobs that people depend on.
Running a business is grinding work. Finding and wooing customers, regulatory/tax/financial compliance, meeting payroll, balancing cashflow, managing product lines, warranties/customer service, chargebacks, etc.
You put your own money up as capital and you deserve all of the rewards after expenses have been paid.
That's not what we're talking about here.
Management didn't put up a single cent for these firms.
Yet they take in orders of magnitude money more than the programmers. It's hard to see exactly what they're getting paid for, since high-frequency trading happens so fast that human intervention couldn't possibly even occur.
The only reason that programmers hadn't woken up to this before is that, in general, geeks lose all reasoning/negotiating power when presented with a powerful computer.
The managers (especially "C" class) do not have any kind of risk to speak of.
The only people who have risk are the stockholders.
It's totally ridiculous to pay the geniuses who do the actual work (the programmers) technocrat salaries while managers get owner-level salaries.
Somehow or another, the standard lecture about "you're not paid what you make for the company, you're paid according to the supply of other workers like you" never seems to apply to management. What, there isn't a ready supply of 3-martini leather chair warmers?
Now, tell me exactly how irreplaceable the MBA is who partied all through college and gets a cushy Wall Street job "managing" according to some textbook formula with nary an original thought to his name.
Yeah, good question. Also, what if you're in California, and you have a dispute with someone (or a corporation or government entity) in Nevada. Normally, you wouldn't have access (through a state court) to their files, but since Google's located in CA, could a state court force Google to divulge documents?
What's funny is stupid/corrupt judges (in the sense of favoring expansion of the power of the government of which they are a part) have found some way to not apply wiretapping laws to warrantless Internet taps, yet recording a public servant right out in public is somehow a *wire*tap.
Who modded this Troll, for crying out loud? Troll is for the weird nasty drive-by anonymous comments. Unfortunately, I've already commented, so I can't mod you up.
I agree with you, I hold off on upgrades, too.
For one thing, you can't be sure all your plugins (Firefox, etc.) will work.
For another Ubuntu seems to have a rule that they're going mess something major up (PulseAudio, grub2, etc.) in every release.
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Are there increased operating costs for not implementing favoritism among packets destined for YouTube vs. Comcast?
Take a toll road built by a private company. Would it increase costs to prohibit it from preventing its competitors from passing through?
Well, that gives pause to the way some corps are putting their entire IT infrastructure on Google.
I'd guess that Google Apps for Government is in a different category. (Does FIPS cover that, or is that something else?)
The thing is, I don't quite know why they need a separate census tool when the update tool runs either daily or weekly anyway.
Looks like nobody's mentioned polyphasic sleep so far, so I guess I'll do it:
Polyphasic sleep is sleeping in multiple phases in a day. So you don't sleep for 8 hours, and stay awake for 16. Instead, you spread your sleep out over the day.
Although spreading 8 hours over multiple stretches might be beneficial for some, reducing your total sleep time is where it gets interesting.
A article in Time Magazine from 1943 describes how Buckminster Fuller devised a system (called Dymaxion sleep) where he slept a half-hour every 6 hours, sleeping 2 hours in a day. That gives an amazing 22 hours a day to do stuff, build Beowulf clusters of N900s, keep a watch out for the Bat-Signal, or whatever.
The biggest problem with minimal, polyphase sleep systems is that you have to sleep on a schedule. You can't postpone sleep for a business meeting or a late lunch. That's the reason most people (including Fuller) have to drop it.
Yeah, don't some of the human rights organizations function (by effect if not intention) as preparation for war?
I.e., play up human rights violations in Iraq by Saddam, and you have a justification for war?
This won't be true of all such groups, or all people in them, but it's probably true for some people in those groups.
Thanks for the information, and the link. I didn't know.
But what about security? Case 1 is your gmail is in a secure Google facility.
Case 2 is it's in some unmanned central office somewhere where the janitor (actually a social engineer) has physical access.
What I don't get is how it could possibly not "traverse the Internet". For example, take gmail.
Your gmail is located somewhere in some central Google server, not in a VZ CO near you, so you'll still have to traverse the Internet.
I could imagine caching the top 1000 YouTubes, though.
People want tools to just work, and they want to use those tools to create or do something else.
I get that.
But I the point one of the earlier posters was making was that the new generation of even computer techs are non-curious and don't really have clue about the command line, assembly, etc. It's not that they know about assembly, have dabbled a bit in it, and kinda-sorta understand how a processor executes instructions, but use higher-level languages.
It's that they don't have a clue how a computer works.
LOAD "*", 8, 1
'nuff said.
The thing with those roads is:
1) Everybody has equal access to the roads (provided they pay the fee).
2) The owner/operator of the toll road is not allowed to block competing road contractors from traversing the road (provided they pay the toll).
A situation wherein a toll road contractor was allowed to "prioritize" traffic wouldn't be tolerated.
Can't phone companies block, drop, or otherwise deal with abusive phone customers now?
E.g., someone who took the wire pair and started tapping out Morse code on it?
I don't know, I'm just asking.
Amen. There's a free market insofar as people can open their own private car dealerships, restaurants, stores, etc., on the sides of highways, but the roads themselves are owned by a neutral party (the government). The road are not owned by private parties which then prevent their competitors from moving traffic over the road.
Car analogy: You can drive your car (forklift/golf cart/etc) on private roads however you want. But on the public roads, you have to abide by some standards, and if you're the contractor that built a toll road, you can't disallow competing contractors from passing through.
Car analogy: A trucking company delivering goods from out of state is engaging in interstate commerce, even though it may be an independent trucker.
I've been looking for a good home finance program for a while.
I don't need stock tracking, electronic integration, and other frills, but I'd like something which makes it easy to enter the week's transactions (I usually like to track more detail than "groceries", otherwise, what's the point).
Stuff like autofill, drop down selection, fields which are arranged in a logical order, easy keyboard navigation and accelerators (to avoid having to mouse around all the time).
I've tried jgnash as well.
OK, just trying to understand your stance.
Hypothetical for you:
If a group of people, any single one of whom could not afford a TV ad(s), say African-Americans in certain states, wanted to advocate a certain position on a ballot measure to their fellow citizens, could they band together and do so?
When they band together, would it be acceptable for them to form a non-profit organization for that purpose (i.e., a corporation)?
Secondly, could that corporation (profit or non-profit) also sell CDs and DVDs explaining their positions to the general public?
While I agree that the influence of corporations on the political process seems ornery, it's hard to dispute (some) of the logic behind Citizens United.
For example, you say that speech isn't money (or vice versa).
So does that mean you're defining speech to be only vocal articulation without any further mechanical accompaniment? For example loudspeakers, mikes, video cameras? All of which have to be bought or rented with money.
And are you also saying the 1st Amendment doesn't protect expression of opinion other than voice? For example, flyers, pamphlets, books, newspapers, websites, blogs, e-mails, etc.? All of which require money.
Finally the NY Times Corp. can engage in political speach, but, say an engine manufacturer can't? What if engine manufacturer bought a TV network? Would that be OK? (GE buys NBC.)
Interested in your opinion.
Umm, yeah, well, blackhats would never steal digital products, of course.
Watching a few self-proclaimed bad guys talk about security is like stealing from Mother Teresa, right?
You're talking about small businesses. Hats off to you and to all the other small businesses which actually provide most of the jobs that people depend on.
Running a business is grinding work. Finding and wooing customers, regulatory/tax/financial compliance, meeting payroll, balancing cashflow, managing product lines, warranties/customer service, chargebacks, etc.
You put your own money up as capital and you deserve all of the rewards after expenses have been paid.
That's not what we're talking about here.
Management didn't put up a single cent for these firms.
Yet they take in orders of magnitude money more than the programmers. It's hard to see exactly what they're getting paid for, since high-frequency trading happens so fast that human intervention couldn't possibly even occur.
The only reason that programmers hadn't woken up to this before is that, in general, geeks lose all reasoning/negotiating power when presented with a powerful computer.
Preach it.
The managers (especially "C" class) do not have any kind of risk to speak of.
The only people who have risk are the stockholders.
It's totally ridiculous to pay the geniuses who do the actual work (the programmers) technocrat salaries while managers get owner-level salaries.
Somehow or another, the standard lecture about "you're not paid what you make for the company, you're paid according to the supply of other workers like you" never seems to apply to management. What, there isn't a ready supply of 3-martini leather chair warmers?
OK, that's the theory.
Now, tell me exactly how irreplaceable the MBA is who partied all through college and gets a cushy Wall Street job "managing" according to some textbook formula with nary an original thought to his name.
Old & busted: DOS isn't done till Lotus won't run.
New hotness: Java isn't done till Eclipse won't run.
Yeah, good question. Also, what if you're in California, and you have a dispute with someone (or a corporation or government entity) in Nevada. Normally, you wouldn't have access (through a state court) to their files, but since Google's located in CA, could a state court force Google to divulge documents?
Yeah.
What's funny is stupid/corrupt judges (in the sense of favoring expansion of the power of the government of which they are a part) have found some way to not apply wiretapping laws to warrantless Internet taps, yet recording a public servant right out in public is somehow a *wire*tap.
Who modded this Troll, for crying out loud? Troll is for the weird nasty drive-by anonymous comments. Unfortunately, I've already commented, so I can't mod you up.
I agree with you, I hold off on upgrades, too.
For one thing, you can't be sure all your plugins (Firefox, etc.) will work.
For another Ubuntu seems to have a rule that they're going mess something major up (PulseAudio, grub2, etc.) in every release.