I thought about this some more, and I was going to make another argument about how the same method was used to try to deny voting rights for blacks. By saying they didn't know enough about the system to be an informed voter and would vote by whim, rather than information that mattered. In the end, any time you deny people a vote for any reason, you are fundamentally less democratic.
Actually, they do. Law is, far and away, the most frequent profession of presidents. We have had 25 presidents so far that were lawyers, or at least had a law degree.
"Which brings up problem number two: Most Americans don't know the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America, and are probably not qualified to vote."
Most Christians haven't read the bible, and those that do cherry pick what they like and don't like out of it. Seems very consistent to me.
Personally, I don't like the argument that "[Some group] isn't smart enough to vote." It's discriminatory towards stupid people, who are going to be governed just like everyone else. As sad as that sounds, stupid people have the right to vote too. I prefer the idea of a mandatory voting holiday with fines for those that do not vote. At least that would solve what I consider to be a bigger problem than fundamentalist voters, and that's all of the old fucks who have nothing better to do than vote.
Yeah, I don't think it's case sensitive in GSX/server. Either way, it's possible already in GSX and ESX, and I think that's what the original post was asking for.
If you have GSX or the free server product, there is a command line util that does just that.
"vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 36Gb myDisk.vmdk" for instance would expand the disk to 36GB. You can also convert from automatically resizing to fixed and vice versa.
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Bravo! I couldn't agree more, providing you have a magic terrorist detection system. Otherwise, I kinda like the idea of habeas corpus, being able to confront your accusers, right to a speedy trial, and all the other concepts that make this country great. I can't get behind the unlawful detainment with secret charges and classified intelligence. It's a provably dangerous concept and it's far too easy to exploit. I understand that revealing that intelligence might compromise the way that intelligence is gathered. I think the trade off is worth it, and it would appear the the writers of the bill of rights and constitution would agree.
Who would have thought that quoting the constitution would be regarded as "Anti-patriotic"? What strange time we live in.
As for the rest of it unrelated to terrorists: I know we are at war all too well, I'm paying for it. More taxes would be great, if it were for the top 1% and large corporations. I think social security's viability has more to do with the high cost of health care and the profits of drug companies. And the border (And borders in general, historically.) is a problem that isn't going to be solved by a wall or some other countermeasure. I'd like nothing more than to get every person here illegally a social security number and get them in the system and paying taxes just like me.
I guess the difference is that I'd rather all of those people that disagree with me to be right here in the USA, and I don't want them to leave. People like you, people on FOX news, people on Air America, reds, blues... whatever. I've never learned much from people I agree with. Diversity is a good thing, including the people that don't value diversity.
No, because then when he gets asked that question: "Did someone unknown to you pack your bags?"...he would have to say yes! (And before you say it, he's a Muslim, and they can't lie)
As an atheist, I don't really care for either the parent's or the grandparent's mythology and superstitions. I hope they all stick around in America. Diversity, including the diverse varieties of people that hate diversity, is what makes America great.
It looks like this allows you to break the encryption of files that are yours, which seems a little trivial. Does this allow me to break the encryption on files that actually aren't mine? AAC files that I can't already open?
And, a better question, how do you make money on software marketed to people that don't want to pay for things? Not a great demographic...
"There's been some hype about the Debian fork of FireFox called IceWeasel. Politics aside, this is a bad idea because it fragments the user base, divides the focus, and opens the path for Microsoft and Internet Explorer 7 to regain marketshare."
Wow, this has all the bias of a FOX news headline. I'd hope that the point of a place like slashdot would be to bring many points of view together so you can draw your own conclusion, not spoon feed me your agenda.
...of drawing a caricature of the teacher and passing it around. Although it certainly reaches a wider audience. Made even wider now that the principal has brought it national attention.
But surely a lawsuit will clear all this up, and soundly prove that the princapal is not a lesbian.
"Well, then that is NOT a case of money following the students. Schools should have to compete for their students. If a school is underperforming, it does not need to be funded better...it needs to be closes, shutdown and replaced with a better one. if students all have the choice to go to the schools they want to, they will flock to the better ones..."
You seem to be advocating a sort of free-market education system. I think that's a little drastic of an approach to solve the problem. The problems that are created from that solution are complex too. Just getting all the kids to school is enough trouble, now you have to get a lot of kids to many schools. Now you take simple funding for your local school and have to design a system where your tax goes to whatever school your kid goes to? The teachers are where the rubber meets the road here. Everything else, from the administration to the building they are in and the resources they use, is there to facilitate the meeting of teachers and students. If the teacher teaches the student effectively, nothing else makes as significant of a difference. And all the flat screen plasma displays, smart boards, and laptops in the world, no matter who is paying for them can overcome a shitty teacher.
By making the teachers contractors, and making them have to fight for their job and do it well, you create a small free-market, only where it counts.
As for measurement of performance, I don't think it's as quantifiable as standardized testing. I think there is a value to having them, but it has very little to do with learning. The goal of standardized testing in it's current form is to have a metric to measure and manage amounts of intelligence, and that it fails at that. By allowing the students to vote for their teachers, or hell... use slashdot-style moderation systems even, you can get the feedback from the only place it matters. You could have a mesh of SAT scores and student votes... whatever. As long as there is some kind of feedback.
My point is that there are people out there that hold high paying jobs because they are engaging and effective as teachers. They pursue careers as corporate trainers, motivational speakers, even politicians... because you make money and have power from doing those things. If you got the best of those people to teach kids, and rewarded them for it accordingly, you solve the most important issue. But I'm sure this is frought with it's own problems too.
I couldn't disagree more. I'd rather have more children that can use a calculator proficiently and understand concepts. Sure, teach them how the calculator arrived at the answer it did, but why bother past that? To take your example further, why not remove paper and pencils too, and have kids all become proficient in doing the math in their heads? Because they'll forget all of that and use calculators when they get out of school. Teaching them the effective use of a calculator they will use and remember is better than teaching them fundamentals they don't use and forget. If you want proof of that, ask anyone who took a language class in high school. Most of them, if they haven't found a use for it, have forgotten all or most of it. For further proof, proofread your own post for grammatical and punctuation errors. For instance: "...but really why can a teacher not teach math the long format."
Teaching kids the best method to find a solution should be the focus. Teaching them how to use technology effectively should be the focus. I'd much rather you teach everyone how to be a good driver, rather than how an automatic transmission works. Whether you find information by punching it into a device, or looking it up in a book, it's still a resource. Teaching them to use the most effective resource possible and, while you are at it, teach them to be critical of the information they receive is far more important.
"That's your reality. Not mine, or my work colleagues. We have brand-new XP SP2 machines and get lock-ups doing such challenging tasks as windows update (scanning for - not even installing - fixes). No BSOD - just 100% cpu and unable to get task manager to start. No indications of hardware or driver problems (occurs on multiple machines, some different models). No dodgy software or spyware. But I guess we're imagining it because it doesn't correspond to your reality."
This is absolutely true. Everyone that has ever used a XP SP2 machine on new hardware has had lockups completing windows updates. This is absolutely not an isolated incident, and has nothing to do with the systems, network, preferences, or even the users perceptions. This is a absolute failure of the most prevalent systems completing the most basic tasks. THAT is reality! Thankfully, there are ACs out there like this that are spreading the truth out to the masses.
"I almost think we do need to somehow make US schools private run entities...or at least make the schools truly competitive, where people lose jobs and funding for lack of performance."
It's worked wonders in privatizing prisons, for many of the same reasons!
Let the tax dollars follow the kids...lets schools compete for the students and the dollars that follow them. Hell, if school performance is what drives what schools get the money...they will attract students...from all races I'd think...so, it might also end the dependence we have on busing kids all around."
The problem is that tax dollars DO follow the kids. Poorly performing schools are where money and funding is needed. Rewarding schools for performing well leads to the abuses that you see in "No child left behind" where your incentive is to get rid of kids that aren't learning to boost your stats, rather than having to deal with them. Now the poor schools get poorer, and the rich schools get richer... Well, I guess if you are teaching the kids about reality, that might not be completely out of place.:)
What I would love to see is this: Triple the salaries of school teachers and throw out all that union BS they have. They are all contractors, not state employees. Just watch the kind of talent that you find in public schools after that. Get rid of all the complacence in schools and their comfy life-long careers. Get some competition in there. Make being a teacher a goal, not something that's almost embarrassing. Then if you were to implement something like you are saying, with giving incentive to schools who perform (and not by trimming away students), you can extend that to the teachers in a performance bonus, just like you do with executives in a large corporation. I'm sure this is fraught with so many other problems, but at least it shifts the incentive to perform to the actual people that do the work: The teachers.
"Isn't that a little shortsighted? Wouldn't the appropriate thing to do is punish the student? Because if they don't copy wikipedia, they same student will just copy another website or perhaps a book which is harder to track."
Isn't knowing where to find the answers more useful than supposedly "learning" the topic by memorizing it? This is the same trouble with kids being told to memorize the times-tables, rather than working it out. You get kids that are very good at memorizing things, and not very good at thinking.
If this kid should be punished for anything, it should be for accepting the first information that came along and not being critical of something like wikipedia. Plagerism from something like wikipedia shouldn't be that bad of a thing, it should be seen as poor form, and not very creative. C grade work. Taking several points from several sources and deciding your own point of view should be the point, along with learning how to seek out those sources and determine credibility.
What product were you running? I frankly don't remember much about the trend micro server I had experience with because it was built before I came on site and ran so well that it never required much attention. It was a very elegant interface that seemed to have a lot of good ideas in the way of deployment or clients and administration.
As for the slow response in releasing definitions and updates, there could be many good reasons for that. One of which is this story.:)
Speaking for myself, strictly Corporate products. I haven't used any of their home products in some time since they added all the Anti-spy/spam/worm/pop-up/productivity/time/matter /space 'improvements'. My home computers have never needed AV, I just keep them vigilantly updated and watch the firewall with an occasional free web scan from trend-micro. Then again, my home is also free of attachment clicking dummies, so I am fortunate. Whenever I have a need to install one though, I just use the corp product.
"Many corporations and government agencies are reluctant to update software unless necessary because of fears that doing so might introduce new problems."
The irony of this is, if you made the decision to run Mcafee corporate AV products, you have demonstrated that you do not possess the level of intelligence to comprehend concepts like "introducing new problems". In a decade as an engineer/administrator I have yet to encounter a less user-friendly, more bewildering and functionally inept product. The sheer lack of elegance in the ePO server interface should tip anyone off that this is not ready for prime time. How it gets chosen over Trend-micro and Norton's (Corporate) products, or even finds it's way into the competition is something I have yet to discover.
To anyone that has had the misfortune of being an ePO administrator, none of this news would come as a surprise. Personally, I removed the product from my resume simply because it's presence at a company seems to predicate larger problems, and the only work I ever want to do with it again is replacing it.
If you think about it though, probability-wise the other laptops there now have fantastically low odds of blowing up. What would the chances be of two laptops randomly deciding to blow up at the same time?
Obscure reference, but that reminds me of a scene in "The World According to Garp" when Robin Williams is looking at a house and a plane crashes into it. His wife and the real estate agent are still reeling from it and he suddenly says:
"We'll take the house. Honey, the chances of another plane hitting this house are astronomical. It's been pre-disastered. We're going to be safe here."
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You could probably throw something in there about being so dense that light actually bends around him.
I thought about this some more, and I was going to make another argument about how the same method was used to try to deny voting rights for blacks. By saying they didn't know enough about the system to be an informed voter and would vote by whim, rather than information that mattered. In the end, any time you deny people a vote for any reason, you are fundamentally less democratic.
"All facts are opinions. Because you are choosing that fact from the infinite number of facts, and saying it is important."
Actually, they do. Law is, far and away, the most frequent profession of presidents. We have had 25 presidents so far that were lawyers, or at least had a law degree.
Most Christians haven't read the bible, and those that do cherry pick what they like and don't like out of it. Seems very consistent to me.
Personally, I don't like the argument that "[Some group] isn't smart enough to vote." It's discriminatory towards stupid people, who are going to be governed just like everyone else. As sad as that sounds, stupid people have the right to vote too. I prefer the idea of a mandatory voting holiday with fines for those that do not vote. At least that would solve what I consider to be a bigger problem than fundamentalist voters, and that's all of the old fucks who have nothing better to do than vote.
Yeah, I don't think it's case sensitive in GSX/server. Either way, it's possible already in GSX and ESX, and I think that's what the original post was asking for.
"vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 36Gb myDisk.vmdk" for instance would expand the disk to 36GB. You can also convert from automatically resizing to fixed and vice versa.
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Who would have thought that quoting the constitution would be regarded as "Anti-patriotic"? What strange time we live in.
As for the rest of it unrelated to terrorists: I know we are at war all too well, I'm paying for it. More taxes would be great, if it were for the top 1% and large corporations. I think social security's viability has more to do with the high cost of health care and the profits of drug companies. And the border (And borders in general, historically.) is a problem that isn't going to be solved by a wall or some other countermeasure. I'd like nothing more than to get every person here illegally a social security number and get them in the system and paying taxes just like me.
I guess the difference is that I'd rather all of those people that disagree with me to be right here in the USA, and I don't want them to leave. People like you, people on FOX news, people on Air America, reds, blues... whatever. I've never learned much from people I agree with. Diversity is a good thing, including the people that don't value diversity.
As an atheist, I don't really care for either the parent's or the grandparent's mythology and superstitions. I hope they all stick around in America. Diversity, including the diverse varieties of people that hate diversity, is what makes America great.
And, a better question, how do you make money on software marketed to people that don't want to pay for things? Not a great demographic...
I'm confused. You are supposed to "Do no harm" yet you handed this guy his own ass with this comment? :)
...I think this means that Jupiter is pregnant.
Wow, this has all the bias of a FOX news headline. I'd hope that the point of a place like slashdot would be to bring many points of view together so you can draw your own conclusion, not spoon feed me your agenda.
But surely a lawsuit will clear all this up, and soundly prove that the princapal is not a lesbian.
You seem to be advocating a sort of free-market education system. I think that's a little drastic of an approach to solve the problem. The problems that are created from that solution are complex too. Just getting all the kids to school is enough trouble, now you have to get a lot of kids to many schools. Now you take simple funding for your local school and have to design a system where your tax goes to whatever school your kid goes to? The teachers are where the rubber meets the road here. Everything else, from the administration to the building they are in and the resources they use, is there to facilitate the meeting of teachers and students. If the teacher teaches the student effectively, nothing else makes as significant of a difference. And all the flat screen plasma displays, smart boards, and laptops in the world, no matter who is paying for them can overcome a shitty teacher.
By making the teachers contractors, and making them have to fight for their job and do it well, you create a small free-market, only where it counts.
As for measurement of performance, I don't think it's as quantifiable as standardized testing. I think there is a value to having them, but it has very little to do with learning. The goal of standardized testing in it's current form is to have a metric to measure and manage amounts of intelligence, and that it fails at that. By allowing the students to vote for their teachers, or hell... use slashdot-style moderation systems even, you can get the feedback from the only place it matters. You could have a mesh of SAT scores and student votes... whatever. As long as there is some kind of feedback.
My point is that there are people out there that hold high paying jobs because they are engaging and effective as teachers. They pursue careers as corporate trainers, motivational speakers, even politicians... because you make money and have power from doing those things. If you got the best of those people to teach kids, and rewarded them for it accordingly, you solve the most important issue. But I'm sure this is frought with it's own problems too.
Teaching kids the best method to find a solution should be the focus. Teaching them how to use technology effectively should be the focus. I'd much rather you teach everyone how to be a good driver, rather than how an automatic transmission works. Whether you find information by punching it into a device, or looking it up in a book, it's still a resource. Teaching them to use the most effective resource possible and, while you are at it, teach them to be critical of the information they receive is far more important.
This is absolutely true. Everyone that has ever used a XP SP2 machine on new hardware has had lockups completing windows updates. This is absolutely not an isolated incident, and has nothing to do with the systems, network, preferences, or even the users perceptions. This is a absolute failure of the most prevalent systems completing the most basic tasks. THAT is reality! Thankfully, there are ACs out there like this that are spreading the truth out to the masses.
It's worked wonders in privatizing prisons, for many of the same reasons!
Let the tax dollars follow the kids...lets schools compete for the students and the dollars that follow them. Hell, if school performance is what drives what schools get the money...they will attract students...from all races I'd think...so, it might also end the dependence we have on busing kids all around."
The problem is that tax dollars DO follow the kids. Poorly performing schools are where money and funding is needed. Rewarding schools for performing well leads to the abuses that you see in "No child left behind" where your incentive is to get rid of kids that aren't learning to boost your stats, rather than having to deal with them. Now the poor schools get poorer, and the rich schools get richer... Well, I guess if you are teaching the kids about reality, that might not be completely out of place. :)
What I would love to see is this: Triple the salaries of school teachers and throw out all that union BS they have. They are all contractors, not state employees. Just watch the kind of talent that you find in public schools after that. Get rid of all the complacence in schools and their comfy life-long careers. Get some competition in there. Make being a teacher a goal, not something that's almost embarrassing. Then if you were to implement something like you are saying, with giving incentive to schools who perform (and not by trimming away students), you can extend that to the teachers in a performance bonus, just like you do with executives in a large corporation. I'm sure this is fraught with so many other problems, but at least it shifts the incentive to perform to the actual people that do the work: The teachers.
Isn't knowing where to find the answers more useful than supposedly "learning" the topic by memorizing it? This is the same trouble with kids being told to memorize the times-tables, rather than working it out. You get kids that are very good at memorizing things, and not very good at thinking.
If this kid should be punished for anything, it should be for accepting the first information that came along and not being critical of something like wikipedia. Plagerism from something like wikipedia shouldn't be that bad of a thing, it should be seen as poor form, and not very creative. C grade work. Taking several points from several sources and deciding your own point of view should be the point, along with learning how to seek out those sources and determine credibility.
No one wants the internet to raise their child... that's what the TV is for.
As for the slow response in releasing definitions and updates, there could be many good reasons for that. One of which is this story. :)
Speaking for myself, strictly Corporate products. I haven't used any of their home products in some time since they added all the Anti-spy/spam/worm/pop-up/productivity/time/matter /space 'improvements'. My home computers have never needed AV, I just keep them vigilantly updated and watch the firewall with an occasional free web scan from trend-micro. Then again, my home is also free of attachment clicking dummies, so I am fortunate. Whenever I have a need to install one though, I just use the corp product.
The irony of this is, if you made the decision to run Mcafee corporate AV products, you have demonstrated that you do not possess the level of intelligence to comprehend concepts like "introducing new problems". In a decade as an engineer/administrator I have yet to encounter a less user-friendly, more bewildering and functionally inept product. The sheer lack of elegance in the ePO server interface should tip anyone off that this is not ready for prime time. How it gets chosen over Trend-micro and Norton's (Corporate) products, or even finds it's way into the competition is something I have yet to discover.
To anyone that has had the misfortune of being an ePO administrator, none of this news would come as a surprise. Personally, I removed the product from my resume simply because it's presence at a company seems to predicate larger problems, and the only work I ever want to do with it again is replacing it.
Obscure reference, but that reminds me of a scene in "The World According to Garp" when Robin Williams is looking at a house and a plane crashes into it. His wife and the real estate agent are still reeling from it and he suddenly says:
"We'll take the house. Honey, the chances of another plane hitting this house are astronomical. It's been pre-disastered. We're going to be safe here."