You can say that again. The problem is the people living 10 miles below, and the noise they have to deal with.
I really feel sorry for people living around airports today. We have noise pollution laws for everything but aircraft. The reason for this is the FAA, which has historically been more very receptive to air industry lobbying, and so more interested in promoting air travel than in limiting the consequences of air travel (a de-facto tax on those of us who have to listen to jets takeoff and land from 10s of miles away, night and day).
I live 5 blocks away from JFK long term parking. Grew up my whole life there. Watched the concord fly over my head, not to mention a slew of standard aircraft countless times.
It is worth the noise and stained lawn furniture to be able to wake up in the morning walk to the air train and get on a plane like its a commuter train. If you don't like it move.
Crap like Google Maps I find insulting. We had map software 15 years ago. The only thing we needed was periodic udpates, but web apps go to a completely opposite extreme, every single data request is serviced live, nobody finds it acceptable to risk that data might be hours or days old. If I'm actually using my connection to retrieve data (files, audio, video, etc.) all those web-apps slow to a crawl.
Well them, buy your map software or even a dedicated GPS device. Personally I'm happy with google maps. It also makes a nice backup to my gps that I have it installed on my blackberry. If I had enough of a need I'd buy mapping software.
Youtube is an example of a great webapp. For most video needs it works great. There are times I want better than a small flv file, and I will watch a dvd or mpeg 4 in those cases.
Why on earth would you want everyone with a gun? Surely it's much better for no-one to have guns? And seriously, why do you want your government waging wars? The world is in enough strife at the moment without more idiots with guns running into other countries yards.
I want a gun to be able to shoot someone thast wants to shoot me, preemptively. Its only fair to allow my neighbor the same.
I am still saying that wars are waged outside your own country (short of a coup/civil war). Soldiers protecting a country within it's borders doesn't count as "waging war".
I said fight wars not wage them. If someone attacks me and I defend myself, then they are waging war against me, therefore I am fighting a war. Also, sometimes preemptive war is justified. For example, after Japan attacked us, it made sense to aide the allies attack of Germany even though they only declared war to reciporicate to our declaring war against japan.
BTW I am American and a bit of googling would assure anyone of that fact.
Oh, yes. That good old American myth that the world would be safe if everyone and their dog were packing some heat. I guess I'll have to move to Baghdad or Mogadishu, which must be the safest places on Earth, since everybody there is armed to the teeth.
Maybe it comes down to society you want to live in. If I had a choice, I'd prefer a society where everyone had guns and the government didn't do anything but pave roads and wage war. Within that context, I am willing to take steps to increase the wealth and safety of myself and others.
Actually you get massive speed gains if you use SSE assembly (and your app benefits from SSE) because the compiler often doesn't produce it willingly.
SSE-intrisinc functions are much better though.
I'm not sure what the SSE instructions are, I have never coded assembly outside of one class in college. However, maybe the key is to fix the compiler to produce the proper SSE code. If a human can produce better assembly than a compiler, he can probably teach the compiler to do the same.
They probably need to give compiler specific hint flags therefore marrying the build to a specific compiler. This still produces code that can be changed quickly and is free of the errors that the particular automations prevent. However, this still speeds up development time, at the cost of forcing everyone to use the same compiler.
Well, then, they're just going to love make menuconfig!
I'm not sure if that was sarcasm or not. Both my coworkers with SCO experience mainly dealt with BSD machines, as did I. We were all perfectly comfortable with building linux and bsd kernels. They both talked about SCO kernel kits with great dread.
Regardless, there's very little need to recompile ones kernel these days. Most distros include everything as a module and most hardware gets autodetected. The problem with SCO, similar to Solaris x86, and windows for that matter was you had to go find all these third party drivers.
Telligent Community Server does. Invision Power Board does. vBulletin does too.
So what's these "most forums" you speak of? I just picked some of the largest in the field, and they all support threading/nesting.
I guess its the forums I belong to then. SharpDevelop and Cacti off the top of my head do not support threading. I don't think the crackberry forums do either.
What if McDonald's buys SCO? McD's could hire a couple devs (since that is all SCO needs, apparently..) for maintenance and some support personnel, then service their own stores as well as other existing customers. Maybe they'd wind up saving, if not making, some money in a few years. Perhaps give Darl a store to manage...
SCO has several POS installations. The biggest complaint I heard from my coworkers that has sco experience when I was a unix admin was rebuilding the kernel. Apparently, you had to use some sort of linker to add drivers to the kernel. The second biggest was modern hardware support.
For B&W POS terminals these things are not concerns. If McDonalds bought all the source code outright, they could probably port everything to another unix in 6 months. A smarter move would be to work out some kind of deal where Sun ended up supporting the POS terminals, and McDonalds ended up getting a share of the profits from SCOs other POS customers. SCO has other POS customers, and McDonalds is not in the POS business. While they probably have some internal IT staff, they might not have any experience managing software developers.
Well, let's not forget that Google rarely seems to advance a software "release" to anything beyond "Beta."
They did for Chrome, which is the particular piece of software we are talking about here.
Also, they are really pushing this browser, to end users. I don't think their plan is browser dominance. I think their plan is to prevent any browser from becoming too dominant.
It's not clear to me how top posting makes *anything* easier, other than it's what Outlook users expect. What am I missing?
You are missing the fact that most people complain about the nested hierarchy that "proper" reply's create. Why do you think most forums don't nest like slashcode does? Most users would rather deal with reading a bottom-up reply, because they can map it linearly in their brains.
Maybe if management tried to force it upon them as opposed to us computer geeks, they might find their brans can handle it if they try. I'm not saying top posting is correct. I'm just saying this is the argument I got when I started responding to a normal users long emails point by point in the proper fashion.
I admittedly dos not know exchange very well, but I do run mail servers that do extensive spam filtering,and a few things strike me as odd.
1. How come a large amount of extra mail crash and just not slow down a mail server?
Thats a good question. Perhaps an exchange expert could answer.
2. In my experience, something in the neighbor hood of 5-10 % of mail is legit, relay doubling, tripling or even multiplying the amount of legit mail still counts for less mail that what I would expect during peek spam periods.....
Usually the spam filtering is done before the exchange servers by unix servers running the same software you use, or appliances. Therefore, the exchange servers only deal with the 10-15% of legitimate email.
And next I expect you're going to try and teach them to edit their quotes and to stop top posting ?
I'm close to giving up on educating users with email, it's pretty hopeless I think.
Top posting is easier for most users to understand. For business users, its best to top post by default, unless you are going to counter a long email point by point. In that case please be sure to top post the words "see below."
On open mailing lists (anything not run by your employer where you decide to subscribe) I bottom post and edit posts. At work, I top post. It gives a complete linear history of a conversation, which is good because most outlook users just sort email by date.
Some people just can't handle reading properly formatted reply emails, let alone writing them.
If it did, then Native Americans tribes would still be fully enjoying their inalienable rights to their homelands, which as a just society we would surely be honoring.
I never said the Indians had no right to go to war with us to claim our land. I never said European countries had a right to colonize America.
Now, at some point Great Britain had established control of the 13 colonies. They had no right to do so at the time. However, they had before the American Revolution, established a degree of control over the colonies. When that control was threatened, they had a right to fight to retain control of it. The colonists, had been wronged by Great Britain, and therefore had a right to secede. Both sides were right. Their cause were both just.
America in fact did not have the right to secede from the British Empire. That's one major reason that wars are fought: it's a way that a group of people can accomplish things that they don't have a right to do. Whether they accomplish their goal depends on who wins the war, regardless of any "rights".
I'm talking about inalienable rights, not legal right. Those that lean religiously call them "God given rights." Others call them intrinsic or self appointed rights.
Government != Society. A group of people get together and form a government. They appoint people to implement that government. Government exists at the consent of the governs. Some times those appointed to positions of power get that consent by force, but it is still consent.
If we the people decide to allow the government to treat the government as a "living document," it will happen. If that bothers the majority of the people, we will get up an do something about it. We might vote people out of office, we might protest, or we might start shooting.
A perfect example is gun rights in urban areas. People in cities think guns are unnecessary, bad or dangerous. As a result, people allow laws to be passed that people in other parts of the country would consider unconstitutional.
My rather long winded point is the people of America had an intrinsic right to secede from Britian. They used war as that means, as the laws and their enforcers did not acknowledge that right.
Only in USA would someone call a talk show host with rather specific target audience (middle aged lower middle-class women) to be one of the most influential women on planet and putting her on the same lists as people like Angela Merkel.
Oprah is rich and her target audience is rather huge. The fact that a black single mother managed to become so popular amongst white lower middle class republican voting women, is significant. I say this not because of my prejudices, but the prejudices of those that are her fans.
I know a handful of middle class white women that didn't like it when black people move on their blocks. They love Oprah though. In some cases the black families were significantly more affluent than their own families. She managed to convince these women shes "black but not really black," when someone that lived a few houses down could not accomplish that.
God help Germany if Oprah ever told her legions of followers to invade.
First of all, I would have picked Russia to make your point. Secondly, Oprah is not particularly good at getting hey fans to do anything, except maybe vote for Obama.
I shouldn't feed the trolls but I do think this is an example worth pointing out.
The confederacy was right about states' rights. They were wrong about slavery. I think that a war to end slavery was justified, but it really sucks that "limited government" was killed along with it.
People don't get that the formation of confederation was a principled objection to the methods being implemented to end slavery. You can not argue that America had a right to secede from the British Empire, but states have no right to secede from the United States.
I'm against abortion. However, I want Roe versus Wade and each state to individually ban abortion because I believe its a states right issue. I would not object to a constitutional amendment banning it, but I prefer it be dealt with at the state level, as murder is. It would be hypocritical for me to think otherwise. I believe it to be murder and murder is rightfully dealt with at the state level,
I find nothing wrong with that particular dichotomy. Since we don't realize that term limits are in our best interests, we might as well hate whoever we elect enough to not want to reelect them.
Those MSI's actually made me send my resume to that company years ago. That and their pay for products. How can you not love a company that was able to engage in all the windows api trickery they had. Making a non shortcut icon to firefox on the desktop like it was "My Computer." Flash animations for the windows login page. I never paid much attention to the UI, they make it cool.
I have a feeling its a one or two man shop though. I doubt they do much hiring.
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This happened in the US where much of our wealth ultimately comes from that sort of "attitude problem."
Never forget this country was founded by rich white land owners that didn't want to pay taxes.
You can say that again. The problem is the people living 10 miles below, and the noise they have to deal with.
I really feel sorry for people living around airports today. We have noise pollution laws for everything but aircraft. The reason for this is the FAA, which has historically been more very receptive to air industry lobbying, and so more interested in promoting air travel than in limiting the consequences of air travel (a de-facto tax on those of us who have to listen to jets takeoff and land from 10s of miles away, night and day).
I live 5 blocks away from JFK long term parking. Grew up my whole life there. Watched the concord fly over my head, not to mention a slew of standard aircraft countless times.
It is worth the noise and stained lawn furniture to be able to wake up in the morning walk to the air train and get on a plane like its a commuter train. If you don't like it move.
Crap like Google Maps I find insulting. We had map software 15 years ago. The only thing we needed was periodic udpates, but web apps go to a completely opposite extreme, every single data request is serviced live, nobody finds it acceptable to risk that data might be hours or days old. If I'm actually using my connection to retrieve data (files, audio, video, etc.) all those web-apps slow to a crawl.
Well them, buy your map software or even a dedicated GPS device. Personally I'm happy with google maps. It also makes a nice backup to my gps that I have it installed on my blackberry. If I had enough of a need I'd buy mapping software.
Youtube is an example of a great webapp. For most video needs it works great. There are times I want better than a small flv file, and I will watch a dvd or mpeg 4 in those cases.
Why on earth would you want everyone with a gun? Surely it's much better for no-one to have guns? And seriously, why do you want your government waging wars? The world is in enough strife at the moment without more idiots with guns running into other countries yards.
I want a gun to be able to shoot someone thast wants to shoot me, preemptively. Its only fair to allow my neighbor the same.
I am still saying that wars are waged outside your own country (short of a coup/civil war). Soldiers protecting a country within it's borders doesn't count as "waging war".
I said fight wars not wage them. If someone attacks me and I defend myself, then they are waging war against me, therefore I am fighting a war. Also, sometimes preemptive war is justified. For example, after Japan attacked us, it made sense to aide the allies attack of Germany even though they only declared war to reciporicate to our declaring war against japan.
BTW I am American and a bit of googling would assure anyone of that fact.
Oh, yes. That good old American myth that the world would be safe if everyone and their dog were packing some heat. I guess I'll have to move to Baghdad or Mogadishu, which must be the safest places on Earth, since everybody there is armed to the teeth.
Maybe it comes down to society you want to live in. If I had a choice, I'd prefer a society where everyone had guns and the government didn't do anything but pave roads and wage war. Within that context, I am willing to take steps to increase the wealth and safety of myself and others.
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Ok, it seems to be similar to the mmx instructions. Everything I said about building better compilers still applies.
Actually you get massive speed gains if you use SSE assembly (and your app benefits from SSE) because the compiler often doesn't produce it willingly.
SSE-intrisinc functions are much better though.
I'm not sure what the SSE instructions are, I have never coded assembly outside of one class in college. However, maybe the key is to fix the compiler to produce the proper SSE code. If a human can produce better assembly than a compiler, he can probably teach the compiler to do the same.
They probably need to give compiler specific hint flags therefore marrying the build to a specific compiler. This still produces code that can be changed quickly and is free of the errors that the particular automations prevent. However, this still speeds up development time, at the cost of forcing everyone to use the same compiler.
Well, then, they're just going to love make menuconfig!
I'm not sure if that was sarcasm or not. Both my coworkers with SCO experience mainly dealt with BSD machines, as did I. We were all perfectly comfortable with building linux and bsd kernels. They both talked about SCO kernel kits with great dread.
Regardless, there's very little need to recompile ones kernel these days. Most distros include everything as a module and most hardware gets autodetected. The problem with SCO, similar to Solaris x86, and windows for that matter was you had to go find all these third party drivers.
Drinking is an inalienable right? (pursuit of happiness? :)
Yes people have an inalienable right to inflict self harm.
Telligent Community Server does. Invision Power Board does. vBulletin does too.
So what's these "most forums" you speak of? I just picked some of the largest in the field, and they all support threading/nesting.
I guess its the forums I belong to then. SharpDevelop and Cacti off the top of my head do not support threading. I don't think the crackberry forums do either.
What if McDonald's buys SCO? McD's could hire a couple devs (since that is all SCO needs, apparently..) for maintenance and some support personnel, then service their own stores as well as other existing customers. Maybe they'd wind up saving, if not making, some money in a few years. Perhaps give Darl a store to manage...
SCO has several POS installations. The biggest complaint I heard from my coworkers that has sco experience when I was a unix admin was rebuilding the kernel. Apparently, you had to use some sort of linker to add drivers to the kernel. The second biggest was modern hardware support.
For B&W POS terminals these things are not concerns. If McDonalds bought all the source code outright, they could probably port everything to another unix in 6 months. A smarter move would be to work out some kind of deal where Sun ended up supporting the POS terminals, and McDonalds ended up getting a share of the profits from SCOs other POS customers. SCO has other POS customers, and McDonalds is not in the POS business. While they probably have some internal IT staff, they might not have any experience managing software developers.
Well, let's not forget that Google rarely seems to advance a software "release" to anything beyond "Beta."
They did for Chrome, which is the particular piece of software we are talking about here.
Also, they are really pushing this browser, to end users. I don't think their plan is browser dominance. I think their plan is to prevent any browser from becoming too dominant.
It's not clear to me how top posting makes *anything* easier, other than it's what Outlook users expect. What am I missing?
You are missing the fact that most people complain about the nested hierarchy that "proper" reply's create. Why do you think most forums don't nest like slashcode does? Most users would rather deal with reading a bottom-up reply, because they can map it linearly in their brains.
Maybe if management tried to force it upon them as opposed to us computer geeks, they might find their brans can handle it if they try. I'm not saying top posting is correct. I'm just saying this is the argument I got when I started responding to a normal users long emails point by point in the proper fashion.
I admittedly dos not know exchange very well, but I do run mail servers that do extensive spam filtering,and a few things strike me as odd. 1. How come a large amount of extra mail crash and just not slow down a mail server?
Thats a good question. Perhaps an exchange expert could answer.
2. In my experience, something in the neighbor hood of 5-10 % of mail is legit, relay doubling, tripling or even multiplying the amount of legit mail still counts for less mail that what I would expect during peek spam periods.....
Usually the spam filtering is done before the exchange servers by unix servers running the same software you use, or appliances. Therefore, the exchange servers only deal with the 10-15% of legitimate email.
And next I expect you're going to try and teach them to edit their quotes and to stop top posting ?
I'm close to giving up on educating users with email, it's pretty hopeless I think.
Top posting is easier for most users to understand. For business users, its best to top post by default, unless you are going to counter a long email point by point. In that case please be sure to top post the words "see below."
On open mailing lists (anything not run by your employer where you decide to subscribe) I bottom post and edit posts. At work, I top post. It gives a complete linear history of a conversation, which is good because most outlook users just sort email by date.
Some people just can't handle reading properly formatted reply emails, let alone writing them.
That sounds like the 'it's not rape if she enjoys it'-policy. Nice.
Well enjoying it implies their was probably consent. That being said, no means no.
A *territory* has no "inalienable rights".
If it did, then Native Americans tribes would still be fully enjoying their inalienable rights to their homelands, which as a just society we would surely be honoring.
I never said the Indians had no right to go to war with us to claim our land. I never said European countries had a right to colonize America.
Now, at some point Great Britain had established control of the 13 colonies. They had no right to do so at the time. However, they had before the American Revolution, established a degree of control over the colonies. When that control was threatened, they had a right to fight to retain control of it. The colonists, had been wronged by Great Britain, and therefore had a right to secede. Both sides were right. Their cause were both just.
America in fact did not have the right to secede from the British Empire. That's one major reason that wars are fought: it's a way that a group of people can accomplish things that they don't have a right to do. Whether they accomplish their goal depends on who wins the war, regardless of any "rights".
I'm talking about inalienable rights, not legal right. Those that lean religiously call them "God given rights." Others call them intrinsic or self appointed rights.
Government != Society. A group of people get together and form a government. They appoint people to implement that government. Government exists at the consent of the governs. Some times those appointed to positions of power get that consent by force, but it is still consent.
If we the people decide to allow the government to treat the government as a "living document," it will happen. If that bothers the majority of the people, we will get up an do something about it. We might vote people out of office, we might protest, or we might start shooting.
A perfect example is gun rights in urban areas. People in cities think guns are unnecessary, bad or dangerous. As a result, people allow laws to be passed that people in other parts of the country would consider unconstitutional.
My rather long winded point is the people of America had an intrinsic right to secede from Britian. They used war as that means, as the laws and their enforcers did not acknowledge that right.
Only in USA would someone call a talk show host with rather specific target audience (middle aged lower middle-class women) to be one of the most influential women on planet and putting her on the same lists as people like Angela Merkel.
Oprah is rich and her target audience is rather huge. The fact that a black single mother managed to become so popular amongst white lower middle class republican voting women, is significant. I say this not because of my prejudices, but the prejudices of those that are her fans.
I know a handful of middle class white women that didn't like it when black people move on their blocks. They love Oprah though. In some cases the black families were significantly more affluent than their own families. She managed to convince these women shes "black but not really black," when someone that lived a few houses down could not accomplish that.
God help Germany if Oprah ever told her legions of followers to invade.
First of all, I would have picked Russia to make your point. Secondly, Oprah is not particularly good at getting hey fans to do anything, except maybe vote for Obama.
I shouldn't feed the trolls but I do think this is an example worth pointing out.
The confederacy was right about states' rights. They were wrong about slavery. I think that a war to end slavery was justified, but it really sucks that "limited government" was killed along with it.
People don't get that the formation of confederation was a principled objection to the methods being implemented to end slavery. You can not argue that America had a right to secede from the British Empire, but states have no right to secede from the United States.
I'm against abortion. However, I want Roe versus Wade and each state to individually ban abortion because I believe its a states right issue. I would not object to a constitutional amendment banning it, but I prefer it be dealt with at the state level, as murder is. It would be hypocritical for me to think otherwise. I believe it to be murder and murder is rightfully dealt with at the state level,
Ah America, to have completely lost faith in those you elect ....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Postal/
I find nothing wrong with that particular dichotomy. Since we don't realize that term limits are in our best interests, we might as well hate whoever we elect enough to not want to reelect them.
So what happens when their shovelware casino games don't run under Wine?
That's a serious question, BTW. Getting them to stop playing them is, unfortunately, not an option. =Smidge=
Find them web sites with free casino games. They might actually like playing cards with other people.
How about Frontmotions MSI packages?
Those MSI's actually made me send my resume to that company years ago. That and their pay for products. How can you not love a company that was able to engage in all the windows api trickery they had. Making a non shortcut icon to firefox on the desktop like it was "My Computer." Flash animations for the windows login page. I never paid much attention to the UI, they make it cool.
I have a feeling its a one or two man shop though. I doubt they do much hiring.