1) Check out TurnkeyLinux for pre-assembled Linux virtual machines.
2) Download the free VMware player from VMware.
3) Start the VMWare player and open the virtual machine on your windows box.
4) Hack away.
This is a very effective solution. I used WinSCP and notepad++ with this setup to create a sophisticated database-driven website. There are web hosts out there who will host your virtual machine.
I telecommute. I get up each morning at *mumble*. I shower, get my office clothes on, and actually wind up putting in a lot more hours than I would at the office. I have concrete tasks to finish and deadlines. If I didn't have concrete tasks and deadlines, I'd probably just sit around in my underwearing, gnawing on a crumbling block of cheese as big as a car battery as well.
The US just leaves industrial policy up the short term whims of the corporate CEOs who make up the big donor base for the politicians.
It is the height of folly to think monetary policy - Quantitative Easing, aka Printing Money - managed by the Fed, can replace a government policy to encourage jobs and consumption here.
The incentives in our society are rapidly gutting it. Welcome to the Declining Standard of Living.
That's the problem with government contracting. They pay for the process, not the end result. I can understand that for single demonstration phase, but network security is commoditized. The flaws and patches are well known. You shouldn't be paying to reinvent the wheel every GD time.
Hire some accomplished network programmers at your headquarters, create a model network and security scheme, and any time you want to add anything, make sure it follows that model.
"I want to set up a network here in the desert. Let me get the checklist. When I make the last check, it's done and we're ready to go."
There are conditions when roundabouts work (improve traffic flow vis a vis a traffic light), and when they don't work (less efficient than a traffic light).
They're not a panacea. True believers should abandon the concept that the roundabout solves all problems.
In DC, they have hybrid roundabouts - roundabouts with traffic lights. That's because pure roundabouts fail when there are lots of connected roads and high traffic volumes.
If your real product - the thing that gets you paid - is the "hour spent programming", you're going to maximize that, and damn the "end product". That's an afterthought. What gets you paid is not the end product, but the hours spent programming.
If they're paying SAIC by the number of hours spent on the project, SAIC will maximize the number of hours spent on the project.
PBS has always done the begathons. They interrupt programming and plead, passive aggressively, for the ungrateful sods leeching off the free service, to please, for the love of all that is good and holy, GIVE US CASH.
There is a long and rich tradition of the free-service types pleading for shekels.
The difficult work in predicting terrorism is getting human intelligence - people on the ground, double agents, infiltrating the terror groups, and getting civilians to tell you the suspicious activity they saw. That is hard, dirty, dangerous work.
Mathematical equations are certainly helpful, and technology is very helpful (see drones), but don't think these things are going to replace HUMINT.
3) No, corn syrup is not worse the can sugar. Please stop spreading that lie. You do know that when you say that you're in the same category as people who don't think we went to the moon, right? Yeah, I've seen those commercial, and base on the HFCS conspiracy nuts, it's well deserved.
The modern obesity epidemic may be caused by highly preserved foods. I recently realized that none of my foods go bad. But if environmental bacteria can't eat them, how can human gut bacteria, which are essential to digestion? I'm guessing that the foods still deliver calories through sugar and fat (essential for taste - and sales). But if nutrients can't be extracted from them, the body is going to continue to be hungry. Heck, it might think there's some kind of starvation event going on. So it craves more food, and burns less calories.
This recently occurred to me when I realized I didn't have to rush to re-cover my peanut butter, when making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. My peanut butter - and all of my foods - don't go bad. My breads get a bit dry after a couple of months. But no mold. I once bought bread from an organic foods store. That went moldy in a matter of several days. This is one reason I'm considering going organic.
One caveat though - regular foods seem to be much more highly fortified with B vitamins and iron than organics. Just a data point to keep in mind.
Practically no one ever considers themselves "the bad guy" even guys like saddam hussein, idi amin and the khmer rouge all rationalized their actions as somehow being for the greater good.
Seems to me that these people don't think like you and me. I suspect the 'greater good' angle is completely missing from their psyche. They're sociopathic enough to think that what is good for them is what is best. As if they were demigods. My pop-psychology analysis suggests they're sociopathically narcissistic and violent.
Good leaders for a band of mafia hitmen.
American lawyers are often put in a bind by professional responsibility. On the one hand, we have a duty to the court--of candor, honesty, and to assist in reaching justice without placing endue burden on the judicial system. On the other, we have duties to our clients--from confidentiality and competence to doing as the client asks.
Fulfilling both duties simultaneously can be very difficult.
And then you figure out where your money is coming from, and for 99.9% of lawyers, which duty to fulfill becomes obvious.
I remember the 1970's plenty well enough to recall that the great fear then was, are you ready for this, Global Cooling!
Hate to snow on your parade, but that's a myth.
Actually, he's right. Here's a Time magazine article from 1974 which was one of the earlier ones talking about the coming Ice Age. In the 70s, a new Ice Age was the fear (I never heard it called "global cooling"). However, I personally do think the concept of anthropogenic global warming due to CO2 emission is correct FYI. Pretty simple really - higher atmospheric amounts of CO2, plus it's a heat trapping gas = voila! Anthropogenic global warming.
Yes, but in combat, you cannot think of your enemy as being just like you. Otherwise, you won't shoot them. And then they might shoot you, or your platoon-mate.
War is hell. If you want to win, you have to be ruthless. Engaging the soldiers in philosophical conversations might undermine their resolve and sap their will. Which makes the other guy win. And no military is going to casually accept that.
That's how out of control patents are. Patents were created to benefit the society by encouraging invention and innovation. Now, they may well be stifling both.
Obama has called on people to actually track and rate the honesty of his platform. That's a first amongst presidents (to my knowledge). You can track the results.
"When I was a young man, they told me if I voted for Goldwater, I'd get sent to Vietnam. I voted for Goldwater and sure enough, I got sent to Vietnam!"
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No, global cooling was the rage in the 70s:
Time Magazine, June 24, 1974
Another Ice Age?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html
All electronic solutions require decoding from degrading media. You could lose access to the decoder or the media.
Until there is a standard for archival decoders plus archival media, your best bet is to print the best images and put them in a photo album.
This requires research on the best photo paper to use and the best inks/printer to use.
Electronic storage simply does not have the longevity of hardcopy storage. And electronic storage requires a decoder, which hardcopy storage does not.
This then indicates that you will have to take time and sift through the pictures to get the best ones. But that could be a rewarding experience.
1) Check out TurnkeyLinux for pre-assembled Linux virtual machines.
2) Download the free VMware player from VMware.
3) Start the VMWare player and open the virtual machine on your windows box.
4) Hack away.
This is a very effective solution. I used WinSCP and notepad++ with this setup to create a sophisticated database-driven website. There are web hosts out there who will host your virtual machine.
I telecommute. I get up each morning at *mumble*. I shower, get my office clothes on, and actually wind up putting in a lot more hours than I would at the office. I have concrete tasks to finish and deadlines. If I didn't have concrete tasks and deadlines, I'd probably just sit around in my underwearing, gnawing on a crumbling block of cheese as big as a car battery as well.
We have government of the highest bidder, by the highest bidder, for the highest bidder.
No one's ever seen them together in the same room. Hmmm.
The US just leaves industrial policy up the short term whims of the corporate CEOs who make up the big donor base for the politicians.
It is the height of folly to think monetary policy - Quantitative Easing, aka Printing Money - managed by the Fed, can replace a government policy to encourage jobs and consumption here.
The incentives in our society are rapidly gutting it. Welcome to the Declining Standard of Living.
That's the problem with government contracting. They pay for the process, not the end result. I can understand that for single demonstration phase, but network security is commoditized. The flaws and patches are well known. You shouldn't be paying to reinvent the wheel every GD time.
Hire some accomplished network programmers at your headquarters, create a model network and security scheme, and any time you want to add anything, make sure it follows that model.
"I want to set up a network here in the desert. Let me get the checklist. When I make the last check, it's done and we're ready to go."
There are conditions when roundabouts work (improve traffic flow vis a vis a traffic light), and when they don't work (less efficient than a traffic light).
They're not a panacea. True believers should abandon the concept that the roundabout solves all problems.
In DC, they have hybrid roundabouts - roundabouts with traffic lights. That's because pure roundabouts fail when there are lots of connected roads and high traffic volumes.
If your real product - the thing that gets you paid - is the "hour spent programming", you're going to maximize that, and damn the "end product". That's an afterthought. What gets you paid is not the end product, but the hours spent programming. If they're paying SAIC by the number of hours spent on the project, SAIC will maximize the number of hours spent on the project.
"It's a bit nutty."
Actually, that's not true. The big SUVs are in fact safer than most other cars: http://www.iihs.org/research/hldi/composite_cls.aspx?y=2007-2009&cls=2&sz=2&sort=name
PBS has always done the begathons. They interrupt programming and plead, passive aggressively, for the ungrateful sods leeching off the free service, to please, for the love of all that is good and holy, GIVE US CASH.
There is a long and rich tradition of the free-service types pleading for shekels.
The difficult work in predicting terrorism is getting human intelligence - people on the ground, double agents, infiltrating the terror groups, and getting civilians to tell you the suspicious activity they saw. That is hard, dirty, dangerous work.
Mathematical equations are certainly helpful, and technology is very helpful (see drones), but don't think these things are going to replace HUMINT.
The modern obesity epidemic may be caused by highly preserved foods. I recently realized that none of my foods go bad. But if environmental bacteria can't eat them, how can human gut bacteria, which are essential to digestion? I'm guessing that the foods still deliver calories through sugar and fat (essential for taste - and sales). But if nutrients can't be extracted from them, the body is going to continue to be hungry. Heck, it might think there's some kind of starvation event going on. So it craves more food, and burns less calories.
This recently occurred to me when I realized I didn't have to rush to re-cover my peanut butter, when making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. My peanut butter - and all of my foods - don't go bad. My breads get a bit dry after a couple of months. But no mold. I once bought bread from an organic foods store. That went moldy in a matter of several days. This is one reason I'm considering going organic.
One caveat though - regular foods seem to be much more highly fortified with B vitamins and iron than organics. Just a data point to keep in mind.
Seems to me that these people don't think like you and me. I suspect the 'greater good' angle is completely missing from their psyche. They're sociopathic enough to think that what is good for them is what is best. As if they were demigods. My pop-psychology analysis suggests they're sociopathically narcissistic and violent. Good leaders for a band of mafia hitmen.
And then you figure out where your money is coming from, and for 99.9% of lawyers, which duty to fulfill becomes obvious.
Sounds like a classic SLAPP suit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation
Hate to snow on your parade, but that's a myth.
Actually, he's right. Here's a Time magazine article from 1974 which was one of the earlier ones talking about the coming Ice Age. In the 70s, a new Ice Age was the fear (I never heard it called "global cooling"). However, I personally do think the concept of anthropogenic global warming due to CO2 emission is correct FYI. Pretty simple really - higher atmospheric amounts of CO2, plus it's a heat trapping gas = voila! Anthropogenic global warming.
Yes, but in combat, you cannot think of your enemy as being just like you. Otherwise, you won't shoot them. And then they might shoot you, or your platoon-mate.
War is hell. If you want to win, you have to be ruthless. Engaging the soldiers in philosophical conversations might undermine their resolve and sap their will. Which makes the other guy win. And no military is going to casually accept that.
A couple of guys patented shining a laser light on a wall to amuse a cat:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5443036.html
That's how out of control patents are. Patents were created to benefit the society by encouraging invention and innovation. Now, they may well be stifling both.
The problem is that UAVs are not currently allowed to operate in civilian airspace. Once that blockage is lifted, Katie bar the door.
Because people wouldn't do this anyway.
"When I was a young man, they told me if I voted for Goldwater, I'd get sent to Vietnam. I voted for Goldwater and sure enough, I got sent to Vietnam!"
This so much reminds me of the Ikea "Sad Lamp" commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBqhIVyfsRg