Christian parties, you say, hmmmm. The whole "no other Gods before me" thing must have whooshed over their heads, then? Ah, nothing new, nothing new:(
To preempt the obvious: probably they figured out that if they can't have other Gods before the one and only God, they surely can have them right after. I feel much better now, why, thank you!
While you're correct, it's fairly immaterial as the AoA vane readout is not a standard cockpit instrument. By default, the AoA data is only used in conjunction with airspeed to generate stall warnings. AoA displays are optional, and only some carriers insist on them. I think the military uses them way more. An AoA indicator is a cool thing to have.
There's profit, then there's profit at all costs. Everyone in business appears to think that there's this tug of war between failure at profitability and failure at providing good customer experience. I have no doubt most telecoms are profitable, but the customer experience sucks donkey balls. You'd think an intelligent person wouldn't spit on other people just because they can and because apparently it not only doesn't hurt the bottom line, but it seems to improve it -- at least for the time being. There's more to intelligence than profit maximization. It's a strange truth that while Fortune 500s are usually profitable and not failures in the business sense, they are run like a hydra, with all its heads cut off and in seclusion. I'm sure that most CEOs have grandeur visions of how great their businesses are -- visions that would be, no doubt, dispelled, once they spoke to a random sampling of their customers. Even the best run companies, such as Apple, suffer from that to some extent. Some business intelligence that is, my ass.
I'm not claiming another mechanism, just that said double-entry bookkeeping is somewhat problematic because it's not exactly like in a bank. We don't know what the time constants are on process parameters. We can't really tell if the oceans of today will be doing the same thing as the oceans a 100 years ahead of us. As the temperatures go up, they may end up releasing a lot CO2 back into the atmosphere, or they may do the reverse, we don't have very solid answers on that, I don't think. Yes, it is double entry accounting, but you don't know if the loans you've taken have any balloon payments coming up, or maybe there is a forgiveness program ahead...
Do the test by directly connecting the servers to each other; if you give the ports their own IP it won't affect anything else. For all I know the switches may be configured differently, or do some extra processing, or who knows what. All I know is that I don't see such differences merely due to switching the medium. Sure the fiberoptic is somewhat slower than copper due to different propagation speed, but that's all there should be to it, and it doesn't matter much within a wiring closet. Optical fiber propagates around 200m/us.
Yep. I used kde 3 for quite a while from Fedora Core, but I got tired of the upgrade treadmill -- I wanted to stay secure but didn't need all the new functionality. CentOS 5 worked quite well then. Eventually I moved from a desktop to an OS X laptop and had no need for a linux desktop anymore. CentOS 6 has kde 4.3 IIRC and that works reasonably well too, I use it in a VM every once in a while when I feel like testing my software under linux.
I know nothing about SUSE or any other distros, I was stubborn and stuck to redhat since the very early days (redhat linux 2 IIRC). Perhaps other distros are crap. I would not recommend Fedora Core unless you plan to fix things every time a new release comes out.
Alas, not-Barbie uses a heavyhanded, desperate approach. I don't think I ever had to reinstall Linux for reasons other than a safe upgrade between incompatible releases (for RHEL/CENTOS it'd be between major releases). Even RHEL 4 to RHEL 5 to RHEL 6 can be done in place if you're brave enough, not that I recommend it.
I tried it with KDE, my cpu went to 100% and never even loaded the desktop, requiring a reinstall from scratch
I don't quite get what you've tried -- was it the bug/crash reporter? Alas, why would you need to reinstall anything from scratch? The most you'd need to do is to wipe ~/.kde or similar to get to a clean slate from kde's point of view. I just don't get your first paragraph. I do agree with everything else save for the GPL rant (it's not a problem for you if you don't use it, so don't).
Oh, please, not the "nearly every job out there" strawman. The deal is: bureacurats want everyone to believe that evaluations are cheap. They pretty much always try to sidestep the issue of such cost, and pretend that it's not important. Then they get some token bullshit "evaluation" system in place that doesn't do anyone any good, but looks good on paper. That's the widespread disease one has to deal with now.
I agree that good effort must be made to evaluate workers and eliminate poor performers! But, sorry, sometimes no system at all is far better, because the broken system of teacher "evaluations" we have now is fit for an office comedy show. It penalizes everyone, even the school districts that implement it.
OK, I stand corrected, but then I don't see your outrage. Those nice numbers in graphical depictions of carbon cycle are somewhat a ballparkguestimates when it comes to ocean's influence as far as storage goes. It's not entirely trivial to measure them, and various papers I've dug out that source those numbers (they are buried quite deep) are a prudent guess, but nothing more IMHO.
AoA vane is subject to similar icing conditions as its usually close to the pitot, although I wouldn't be surprised if they wouldn't stop working at the same time. Alas, the AoA signals are not used directly, but in conjunction with airspeed, to generate stall warning. Thus if either AoA vane or the pitot system gets knocked out, they are both as good as dead as far as stall warnings are concerned.
A corporation, in its IPO papers, and subsequent SEC filings, clearly defines what its goals are. You're entirely mistaken if you think that every publicly traded company must "save money and maximize shareholder ROI". It's a common misconception. Stop repeating it.
Move to a place with lower property taxes, then. Heck, you may even go to a place that has a better school district that is actually worth your upkeep, ekhm, taxes.
Because it's quite hard to do truly objectively. Looking at some numbers doesn't cut it, but the bureaucrats don't see past that. That's all there's to it. If you want to evaluate a teacher, and do it well, it will cost you real money in time of people who will do the evaluation. And it's not something you can do in an hour, nor even in a day.
If your accountant said he could save you $5,000 a year by doing something perfectly legal that will only cost you $200
Up to a point. I'd say it's entirely crossing the line if you change your tax locale just to lower your taxes. If you're located in a given community (country, state, county, town), pay the damn taxes there, not elsewhere. What's so hard about that?
methods of tax minimization that are not available to him
Lol, wealthy individuals do all sorts of tax evasion in quite same way as corporations do it. Those methods are available to him, assuming he'd make enough money for them to make financial sense. I personally think it's unethical. Not every legal thing out there is ethical or the right thing to do.
Pray tell, if you imply that such comments are misanthropic, why do would think that? How is it hating the humankind to comment like that? It may be objectification the woman, but hey, objectively, she is one nice looking object. Perhaps I just missed your cleverly disguised point.
I would not trust any AoA data with air data sensors acting up. It wouldn't be a prudent thing to do. If your ground track speed is decent (hundreds of knots), then you don't worry about AoA, you simply fly the plane within the usual attitudes and you'll be fine. You don't really need AoA unless you're at the ceiling extremes. Close to the highest operational ceiling the difference between a stall and overspeed is slim. Close to ground you go slow and you don't want to stall before you're within a foot or two from the runway. That's about it.
If you're in tough luck, ground track speed is to be had from your cellphone laying on the glareshield.
Unless crippling bureaucracy prevents taking the sensible option, of course....
That'd about sum it up. The U.S. governmental thinking is, often, that anything that comes in contact with "top secret" stuff becomes somehow contaminated. Thus you buy some test equipment (stuff without any persistent memory that could store secrets) at a government auction, and months or years later you get a friendly call saying that "well, we'd want those back please". Whatever time you spent refurbishing the stuff is your loss at that point. I wish I was making this up.
Go to a few eastern european university math departments. You'll find ladies who won't only beat you at, say, analysis or algebra, but will probably be a treat to look at. I've had a calculus recitation with lady who easily made heads turn, and she knew her stuff cold. Alas, in science, a lot is a paraphrase. Few people bothered to rederive everything they used, because few had the capacity, discipline and throughput to do so. Feynman was one such man, but I'm sure you'd find a proportional number of women who pulled it off as well. I went to college with a girl with a body to kill for who was quite Feynman-esque in that way: to understand almost anything, she had to work it out on her own.
My wife yelled stop a couple times like that at me, I think once or twice just to check me out. My instinct was, as it turned out, to get my foot off the accelerator and look around. And I'm not bragging, I was fairly surprised by my reaction as well. I can't tell you what's the reason for that. I think that if you really did such a test, you'd find out that many people won't in fact stomp the brake. Perhaps it'd be a good test to weed out the panickers among us?...
I haven't listened to the transcript, but there's a procedure for taking over controls. Was there ever a "my plane" or "my controls" yell from the captain to the fo? Did the capt confirm that the other pilot had his hand off the stick? I mean, damnit, if you're experienced and shit goes wrong, you must presume that the other people are fucking up until you confirm for yourself that they aren't.
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Christian parties, you say, hmmmm. The whole "no other Gods before me" thing must have whooshed over their heads, then? Ah, nothing new, nothing new :(
To preempt the obvious: probably they figured out that if they can't have other Gods before the one and only God, they surely can have them right after. I feel much better now, why, thank you!
While you're correct, it's fairly immaterial as the AoA vane readout is not a standard cockpit instrument. By default, the AoA data is only used in conjunction with airspeed to generate stall warnings. AoA displays are optional, and only some carriers insist on them. I think the military uses them way more. An AoA indicator is a cool thing to have.
There's profit, then there's profit at all costs. Everyone in business appears to think that there's this tug of war between failure at profitability and failure at providing good customer experience. I have no doubt most telecoms are profitable, but the customer experience sucks donkey balls. You'd think an intelligent person wouldn't spit on other people just because they can and because apparently it not only doesn't hurt the bottom line, but it seems to improve it -- at least for the time being. There's more to intelligence than profit maximization. It's a strange truth that while Fortune 500s are usually profitable and not failures in the business sense, they are run like a hydra, with all its heads cut off and in seclusion. I'm sure that most CEOs have grandeur visions of how great their businesses are -- visions that would be, no doubt, dispelled, once they spoke to a random sampling of their customers. Even the best run companies, such as Apple, suffer from that to some extent. Some business intelligence that is, my ass.
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Please spend some time getting intimate with a writing course. Such as this one by prof. Armstrong. Come back when you'll have a clue.
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PS. Prof. Armstrong is geeky. She is quite rational and measured in her speech, even if that means many /. "articles" would make her barf.
Business intelligence. Sounds oxymoronic to me, at least if applied to many among Fortune 500.
I'm not claiming another mechanism, just that said double-entry bookkeeping is somewhat problematic because it's not exactly like in a bank. We don't know what the time constants are on process parameters. We can't really tell if the oceans of today will be doing the same thing as the oceans a 100 years ahead of us. As the temperatures go up, they may end up releasing a lot CO2 back into the atmosphere, or they may do the reverse, we don't have very solid answers on that, I don't think. Yes, it is double entry accounting, but you don't know if the loans you've taken have any balloon payments coming up, or maybe there is a forgiveness program ahead...
Do the test by directly connecting the servers to each other; if you give the ports their own IP it won't affect anything else. For all I know the switches may be configured differently, or do some extra processing, or who knows what. All I know is that I don't see such differences merely due to switching the medium. Sure the fiberoptic is somewhat slower than copper due to different propagation speed, but that's all there should be to it, and it doesn't matter much within a wiring closet. Optical fiber propagates around 200m/us.
the extra steps to handle the optical signal add latency
Are you serious? The optical-to-electrical transducers maybe would add a couple bit times worth of delay. It's immaterial.
Yep. I used kde 3 for quite a while from Fedora Core, but I got tired of the upgrade treadmill -- I wanted to stay secure but didn't need all the new functionality. CentOS 5 worked quite well then. Eventually I moved from a desktop to an OS X laptop and had no need for a linux desktop anymore. CentOS 6 has kde 4.3 IIRC and that works reasonably well too, I use it in a VM every once in a while when I feel like testing my software under linux.
I know nothing about SUSE or any other distros, I was stubborn and stuck to redhat since the very early days (redhat linux 2 IIRC). Perhaps other distros are crap. I would not recommend Fedora Core unless you plan to fix things every time a new release comes out.
Alas, not-Barbie uses a heavyhanded, desperate approach. I don't think I ever had to reinstall Linux for reasons other than a safe upgrade between incompatible releases (for RHEL/CENTOS it'd be between major releases). Even RHEL 4 to RHEL 5 to RHEL 6 can be done in place if you're brave enough, not that I recommend it.
I tried it with KDE, my cpu went to 100% and never even loaded the desktop, requiring a reinstall from scratch
I don't quite get what you've tried -- was it the bug/crash reporter? Alas, why would you need to reinstall anything from scratch? The most you'd need to do is to wipe ~/.kde or similar to get to a clean slate from kde's point of view. I just don't get your first paragraph. I do agree with everything else save for the GPL rant (it's not a problem for you if you don't use it, so don't).
Oh, please, not the "nearly every job out there" strawman. The deal is: bureacurats want everyone to believe that evaluations are cheap. They pretty much always try to sidestep the issue of such cost, and pretend that it's not important. Then they get some token bullshit "evaluation" system in place that doesn't do anyone any good, but looks good on paper. That's the widespread disease one has to deal with now.
I agree that good effort must be made to evaluate workers and eliminate poor performers! But, sorry, sometimes no system at all is far better, because the broken system of teacher "evaluations" we have now is fit for an office comedy show. It penalizes everyone, even the school districts that implement it.
OK, I stand corrected, but then I don't see your outrage. Those nice numbers in graphical depictions of carbon cycle are somewhat a ballparkguestimates when it comes to ocean's influence as far as storage goes. It's not entirely trivial to measure them, and various papers I've dug out that source those numbers (they are buried quite deep) are a prudent guess, but nothing more IMHO.
AoA vane is subject to similar icing conditions as its usually close to the pitot, although I wouldn't be surprised if they wouldn't stop working at the same time. Alas, the AoA signals are not used directly, but in conjunction with airspeed, to generate stall warning. Thus if either AoA vane or the pitot system gets knocked out, they are both as good as dead as far as stall warnings are concerned.
A corporation, in its IPO papers, and subsequent SEC filings, clearly defines what its goals are. You're entirely mistaken if you think that every publicly traded company must "save money and maximize shareholder ROI". It's a common misconception. Stop repeating it.
Move to a place with lower property taxes, then. Heck, you may even go to a place that has a better school district that is actually worth your upkeep, ekhm, taxes.
Because it's quite hard to do truly objectively. Looking at some numbers doesn't cut it, but the bureaucrats don't see past that. That's all there's to it. If you want to evaluate a teacher, and do it well, it will cost you real money in time of people who will do the evaluation. And it's not something you can do in an hour, nor even in a day.
If your accountant said he could save you $5,000 a year by doing something perfectly legal that will only cost you $200
Up to a point. I'd say it's entirely crossing the line if you change your tax locale just to lower your taxes. If you're located in a given community (country, state, county, town), pay the damn taxes there, not elsewhere. What's so hard about that?
methods of tax minimization that are not available to him
Lol, wealthy individuals do all sorts of tax evasion in quite same way as corporations do it. Those methods are available to him, assuming he'd make enough money for them to make financial sense. I personally think it's unethical. Not every legal thing out there is ethical or the right thing to do.
What did they expect?!
Pray tell, if you imply that such comments are misanthropic, why do would think that? How is it hating the humankind to comment like that? It may be objectification the woman, but hey, objectively, she is one nice looking object. Perhaps I just missed your cleverly disguised point.
I would not trust any AoA data with air data sensors acting up. It wouldn't be a prudent thing to do. If your ground track speed is decent (hundreds of knots), then you don't worry about AoA, you simply fly the plane within the usual attitudes and you'll be fine. You don't really need AoA unless you're at the ceiling extremes. Close to the highest operational ceiling the difference between a stall and overspeed is slim. Close to ground you go slow and you don't want to stall before you're within a foot or two from the runway. That's about it.
If you're in tough luck, ground track speed is to be had from your cellphone laying on the glareshield.
Unless crippling bureaucracy prevents taking the sensible option, of course....
That'd about sum it up. The U.S. governmental thinking is, often, that anything that comes in contact with "top secret" stuff becomes somehow contaminated. Thus you buy some test equipment (stuff without any persistent memory that could store secrets) at a government auction, and months or years later you get a friendly call saying that "well, we'd want those back please". Whatever time you spent refurbishing the stuff is your loss at that point. I wish I was making this up.
Go to a few eastern european university math departments. You'll find ladies who won't only beat you at, say, analysis or algebra, but will probably be a treat to look at. I've had a calculus recitation with lady who easily made heads turn, and she knew her stuff cold. Alas, in science, a lot is a paraphrase. Few people bothered to rederive everything they used, because few had the capacity, discipline and throughput to do so. Feynman was one such man, but I'm sure you'd find a proportional number of women who pulled it off as well. I went to college with a girl with a body to kill for who was quite Feynman-esque in that way: to understand almost anything, she had to work it out on her own.
My wife yelled stop a couple times like that at me, I think once or twice just to check me out. My instinct was, as it turned out, to get my foot off the accelerator and look around. And I'm not bragging, I was fairly surprised by my reaction as well. I can't tell you what's the reason for that. I think that if you really did such a test, you'd find out that many people won't in fact stomp the brake. Perhaps it'd be a good test to weed out the panickers among us?...
I haven't listened to the transcript, but there's a procedure for taking over controls. Was there ever a "my plane" or "my controls" yell from the captain to the fo? Did the capt confirm that the other pilot had his hand off the stick? I mean, damnit, if you're experienced and shit goes wrong, you must presume that the other people are fucking up until you confirm for yourself that they aren't.