Is there any reason to do this other than "just for the sake of doing it"?
Is there some government somewhere that is repressing chess play? Who would gain from anonymously playing chess?!?
If you want to play chess remotely with high lag, just play by postal mail. It may cost a buck or two, but it is private, and if someone decides to read your mail, you will know about it.
I forgot all about the phone line protection actually. I don't use it, becuase on the surge suppressors that I have owned, the telephone protector gives out some sort of EMF that interferes with my radios. (Motorola two-ways and AM radio)
I would say that having using the coax protection is probaly not worth the extra money for the surge strip. (The ones i've seen are like $50-75)
2. Insurance - rental insurance is cheap and homeowners insurance is a necessity. Most insurance companies will cover such damage.
If your house gets stuck by lightning, and your house doesn't have a lightning rod or grounded antenna, most of the electronics in your home will be utterly destroyed. If your house or power pole gets hit by lightning, the current will arc across the blown fuse of a surge protector anyway.
What would be the point of clicking on banners??
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All the banners are OSDN / ThinkGeek / VA ads anyway!
Statistically speaking, you must have an IQ under 90, or have never looked at statistics regarding race and crime. Try it sometime-- you'd be suprised.
Even funnier is when idiots like you spout off about 'welfare mothers' implying that the mothers are black. In NY, 65% are white, 15% hispanic and 20% black.
The death of professional Linux companies like VA will relegate Linux and open source back to the basements and dorm rooms of enthusiasts, and will see enterprise support wither away quicker than you can say "Mozilla"
My environment is alot different. The management is ok, but the people I work with, both contractors and employees are competent and enjoy their work.
Also, I'm not trying to brag at all. I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to illustrate that my job isn't anything like being in some pipefitters or auto worker union. The only union influence i see is during salary negotiation and via benefits.
Please. Tell that to the 20,000+ people laid off from Intel in the last ten years in order to avoid having to pay for benefits & pensions.
The biggest problem in the technology industry is that 3733t techies like yourself do not realize that your jobs will be obsoleted by computers, new technology & cheap foreign labor in another 10 years. We are paid inflated wages because of a tight labor market. Once the market adjusts, 100k java programmers will be a thing of the past.
And don't tell me I have no ambition. I have gone very far very fast in this agency and will go farther.
Due to the nature of my appointment, I am not allowed to strike by law.
If I decide I want alot more money, I'll start consulting, and increase my salary to around 120k.
Apparently YOU have been paying WAY too much attention to the right-wing propaganda and Alger Hiss road to riches stories to. It's also very cool that you have managed to be successful and raise start a family already. I consider that quite an accomplishment.
I haven't bought into the whole philosophy at all, but I've worked at a couple of tech companies and noticed alot of differenes. At my last job, my time was their time. I was compensated well and was in a responsible and interesting job. But I was responsible for things at 2am on saturday or during thanksgiving dinner without compensation. I am still responsible for things now, but get paid when i have to sacrifice my time. And now that it costs money, alot of 'mission critical' things are no longer 'mission critical' at 3am.
If you were put on this earth to toil and sweat to make others rich, god bless you. My 401k needs more people like you. But my loyalties lie with my familiy, myself and my friends, not my employer.
I'm a Programmer/Network Specialist for a state government agency, and required to join a Union.
I pay like $30/month but that includes good dental and vision benefits. I also get up to $2000 a year for tuition reimbursement through the union.
It's a great deal; I'm getting paid a good salary for interesting work, I'm not a slave, have a great pension plan (which is guaranteed by the state constitution) and 401k-like plan and am getting a free master's degree.
The union isn't a be-all end-all, but it serves a purpose. Unless you are a "superstar" who sacrifices his social life to keep completely up-to-date on the hottest tech fads, it is impossible to negotiate a good deal with a large corporation or government agency.
Continentals were a war currency backed the faith and credit of a non-government. They was no claim that continentals were backed by gold. The offical value was simply the same as gold. (Similar to the Ruble in late-Soviet russia) Their market value was nil, and you were often forced to accept them at face value by gunpoint.
Until the constitution and Federal control of the currency, Spanish currency was the favored instrument of trade.
Modern dollars are NOT fiat currency, they are a commidity unto themselves. As I have said before, dollars are backed the nearly unlimited taxing power to meet obligations of the US government.
This page has a decent explanation about why the gold standard is a load of bull.
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Politics/whynotth egoldstandard.html
An example of fiat money would be the "Continentals" of the revolutionary era. These were paper notes printed by congress that traded at par with gold despite having no tie to gold. You traded with them because the army said to take them, and their actual market value was 1/16 of the "face" value.
The government can control the money supply in our current system. In a gold based system, the only means by which control may be exerted is the buying and selling of gold. (Which had disasterous consequences several times in US history alone)
The gold standard in the late 19th century set the price of silver to a specific quantity of gold.
Your statement regarding the "panics" of the 19th century is partially true; but increases in silver supply were more to blame -- little new gold was discovered post 1860
More transactions were made with silver coin & specie, as the supply of gold was constricted. As the supply of silver changed relative to the set silver/gold exchange rate speculators made millions as banks failed and merchants went out of business when their loans were called.
No, gold is a rare and valuable commodity, nothing more.
Government money is backed by the ability of the government to tax and issue bonds; this links the value of a nations money supply to the economic power of the nation.
Many of the benefits of gold that you describe are also attributable to the US dollar, namely universal acceptance (85% of US printed currency is overseas) and that fact that many nations base their currency on the dollar.
The US Dollar, the Euro, and the Yen are 'real money'. Gold is just metal.
"the most reliable standard will emerge (probably gold-backed private reserve notes at this point)"
You have displayed your complete and utter ignorance of economics. The most reliable monetary standard has been (and will be for some time) the US Dollar.
The dollar is not 'fiat' money, as you describe it. The US Dollar is backed by the faith and credit of the United States Government. That means that US specie is backed by the full taxing power of the United States, which is quite alot of value. In addition, the value of currency increases and decreases as the size of the economy rises and falls; limiting inflationary pressures.
Gold is simply a commodity, with no unique value. Why not base your monetary supply on pork bellies, or oil, or iron?
The Gold standard was a nightmare in the United States. There were depressions every 10-15 years caused by bank panics as the relative values of silver and gold shifted. Inflation ran as high as 15%, since after 1860 the amount of gold in the economy ceased to expand.
Take a couple of hours to learn what money is, and you'll find out what all of these 'e-gold' and 'real money' schemes are -- schemes to dump lousy investments (look at the historical price of gold over the last 30 years) into the hands of ignorant suckers at inflated prices.
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What date will Slashdot disappear?
My guess: February 16, 2002
SGI is through. Their mainstay MIPS servers are so behind the curve it's not even funny.
They'll be featured on www.fuckedcompany.com
Solaris is free for machines with less than 8 processors. Has been for some time.
You can even download ISOs there.
Is there any reason to do this other than "just for the sake of doing it"?
Is there some government somewhere that is repressing chess play? Who would gain from anonymously playing chess?!?
If you want to play chess remotely with high lag, just play by postal mail. It may cost a buck or two, but it is private, and if someone decides to read your mail, you will know about it.
I forgot all about the phone line protection actually. I don't use it, becuase on the surge suppressors that I have owned, the telephone protector gives out some sort of EMF that interferes with my radios. (Motorola two-ways and AM radio)
I would say that having using the coax protection is probaly not worth the extra money for the surge strip. (The ones i've seen are like $50-75)
1. Backups to tape/cd
2. Insurance - rental insurance is cheap and homeowners insurance is a necessity. Most insurance companies will cover such damage.
If your house gets stuck by lightning, and your house doesn't have a lightning rod or grounded antenna, most of the electronics in your home will be utterly destroyed. If your house or power pole gets hit by lightning, the current will arc across the blown fuse of a surge protector anyway.
All the banners are OSDN / ThinkGeek / VA ads anyway!
Statistically speaking, you must have an IQ under 90, or have never looked at statistics regarding race and crime. Try it sometime-- you'd be suprised.
Even funnier is when idiots like you spout off about 'welfare mothers' implying that the mothers are black. In NY, 65% are white, 15% hispanic and 20% black.
Yet another database engine...
RedHat will probaly be the only one to use it, I bet they originally wanted a more powerful DB for rpm.
Thank you for reading my post, I think you are the only one to do so.
The death of professional Linux companies like VA will relegate Linux and open source back to the basements and dorm rooms of enthusiasts, and will see enterprise support wither away quicker than you can say "Mozilla"
My environment is alot different. The management is ok, but the people I work with, both contractors and employees are competent and enjoy their work.
Also, I'm not trying to brag at all. I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to illustrate that my job isn't anything like being in some pipefitters or auto worker union. The only union influence i see is during salary negotiation and via benefits.
How dare you criticize Linux on Slashdot!
Linux is the ideal solution for all needs and in all situations.
Please. Tell that to the 20,000+ people laid off from Intel in the last ten years in order to avoid having to pay for benefits & pensions.
The biggest problem in the technology industry is that 3733t techies like yourself do not realize that your jobs will be obsoleted by computers, new technology & cheap foreign labor in another 10 years. We are paid inflated wages because of a tight labor market. Once the market adjusts, 100k java programmers will be a thing of the past.
And don't tell me I have no ambition. I have gone very far very fast in this agency and will go farther.
No, I'm not.
Due to the nature of my appointment, I am not allowed to strike by law.
If I decide I want alot more money, I'll start consulting, and increase my salary to around 120k.
Apparently YOU have been paying WAY too much attention to the right-wing propaganda and Alger Hiss road to riches stories to. It's also very cool that you have managed to be successful and raise start a family already. I consider that quite an accomplishment.
I haven't bought into the whole philosophy at all, but I've worked at a couple of tech companies and noticed alot of differenes. At my last job, my time was their time. I was compensated well and was in a responsible and interesting job. But I was responsible for things at 2am on saturday or during thanksgiving dinner without compensation. I am still responsible for things now, but get paid when i have to sacrifice my time. And now that it costs money, alot of 'mission critical' things are no longer 'mission critical' at 3am.
If you were put on this earth to toil and sweat to make others rich, god bless you. My 401k needs more people like you. But my loyalties lie with my familiy, myself and my friends, not my employer.
I'm a Programmer/Network Specialist for a state government agency, and required to join a Union.
I pay like $30/month but that includes good dental and vision benefits. I also get up to $2000 a year for tuition reimbursement through the union.
It's a great deal; I'm getting paid a good salary for interesting work, I'm not a slave, have a great pension plan (which is guaranteed by the state constitution) and 401k-like plan and am getting a free master's degree.
The union isn't a be-all end-all, but it serves a purpose. Unless you are a "superstar" who sacrifices his social life to keep completely up-to-date on the hottest tech fads, it is impossible to negotiate a good deal with a large corporation or government agency.
Cool, I haven't checked out GNUcash lately, I'll definately give it another look!
Continentals were a war currency backed the faith and credit of a non-government. They was no claim that continentals were backed by gold. The offical value was simply the same as gold. (Similar to the Ruble in late-Soviet russia) Their market value was nil, and you were often forced to accept them at face value by gunpoint. Until the constitution and Federal control of the currency, Spanish currency was the favored instrument of trade. Modern dollars are NOT fiat currency, they are a commidity unto themselves. As I have said before, dollars are backed the nearly unlimited taxing power to meet obligations of the US government. This page has a decent explanation about why the gold standard is a load of bull. http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Politics/whynotth egoldstandard.html
True, true.
I'm working with about 120k nodes... I tend to think big.
I disagree.
An example of fiat money would be the "Continentals" of the revolutionary era. These were paper notes printed by congress that traded at par with gold despite having no tie to gold. You traded with them because the army said to take them, and their actual market value was 1/16 of the "face" value.
The government can control the money supply in our current system. In a gold based system, the only means by which control may be exerted is the buying and selling of gold. (Which had disasterous consequences several times in US history alone)
The gold standard in the late 19th century set the price of silver to a specific quantity of gold.
Your statement regarding the "panics" of the 19th century is partially true; but increases in silver supply were more to blame -- little new gold was discovered post 1860
More transactions were made with silver coin & specie, as the supply of gold was constricted. As the supply of silver changed relative to the set silver/gold exchange rate speculators made millions as banks failed and merchants went out of business when their loans were called.
Is there any plans to integrate check printing support on standardized forms?
I think his point was to take over currently open sessions, PCAnywhere style.
He seems to understand how to export X displays
"Gold on the other hand is Real Money"
No, gold is a rare and valuable commodity, nothing more.
Government money is backed by the ability of the government to tax and issue bonds; this links the value of a nations money supply to the economic power of the nation.
Many of the benefits of gold that you describe are also attributable to the US dollar, namely universal acceptance (85% of US printed currency is overseas) and that fact that many nations base their currency on the dollar.
The US Dollar, the Euro, and the Yen are 'real money'. Gold is just metal.
"the most reliable standard will emerge (probably gold-backed private reserve notes at this point)"
You have displayed your complete and utter ignorance of economics. The most reliable monetary standard has been (and will be for some time) the US Dollar.
The dollar is not 'fiat' money, as you describe it. The US Dollar is backed by the faith and credit of the United States Government. That means that US specie is backed by the full taxing power of the United States, which is quite alot of value. In addition, the value of currency increases and decreases as the size of the economy rises and falls; limiting inflationary pressures.
Gold is simply a commodity, with no unique value. Why not base your monetary supply on pork bellies, or oil, or iron?
The Gold standard was a nightmare in the United States. There were depressions every 10-15 years caused by bank panics as the relative values of silver and gold shifted. Inflation ran as high as 15%, since after 1860 the amount of gold in the economy ceased to expand.
Take a couple of hours to learn what money is, and you'll find out what all of these 'e-gold' and 'real money' schemes are -- schemes to dump lousy investments (look at the historical price of gold over the last 30 years) into the hands of ignorant suckers at inflated prices.