Is it that hard to pop in a diskette or CD the first time you hook the USB 2.0 device to the machine? You usually have to go to the manufacturer's web site anyway since the ones on the original OS are considered crappy by a minimum of one year later.
I would not believe the things China was feeding its people if I were you. "Trust" seems to have been removed from the latest edition of the People's Dictionary.
if they Chinese had the technology to do a 13 mile fly-by of the West Coast, we'd have to let them
Fortunately for us, we've made sure their best technology is making sneakers and barbie dolls! Don't think we have the technology to take them? Their Air Force and Navy are piss poor equipped and their Army only has strength in numbers. This would not be a land war; even if it were, you know what happened to Iraq and Yugoslavia's armies when they tried to go against overwhelming air power followed by armed men.
Those nukes are their only chance but they know if they dared to even twitch them they'd be a second example of the U.S. using nukes to defend itself, and overkill at that.
These two statements do not jive. If it has incredible market share, it is going to be living for quite some time to come. The older x86 designs are just now making it into embedded satellite systems, so you can bet these will still be making money 10 years from now because they will continue to be made in good quantities.
As far as stability and speed, the x86 lines are running faster than most other offerings including Sun and given a good OS, you don't need to worry about stability; you have your hardware and software arguments mixed. Innovation? What the hell are *you* doing with the current things they gave you in the latest round of new chips? Going to overclock it for the sheer joy of doing nothing but overclocking it? Pee-yew. Christ, do something with your systems besides posting whiny trash!!
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Certainly people can make something of themselves by self teaching. Without the degree, which is basically a recommendation by the school that you should be hired, there is a question mark hanging over you. If you are lucky to strike a break right away, then a few years working somewhere puts a number of good things on your resume that make up for not having a degree. If you're not that lucky, then you may have to knock your hands off to get somewhere.
I myself went to school for electrical engineering (VLSI), but almost right away (in the recession years past) I traded it for systems administration in which I'm self taught. I learned it all through the first set of HOW-TOs that were hitting the net around 1991. But without any formal training there were question marks about what my skills were, which always had to be proven instead of being accepted on my word. Now, with close to 10 years experience with Linux and friends, and lots of stuff on the resume, it's no big deal.
I tend to think that in the case where the product is a little more solid, such as human hearts and bridges, that sort of open education is not so easily accepted. In the end, I have to agree that everyone has a right to be educated to however far they want to get, and that their desire to apply what they've been given will determine how far they go. The limits then will be those who don't accept them as learned, who should get out of their way so they can go so far and make this society even more powerful.
Putting the course material up on the site is only meant to get people to start knocking at their door to do something with the material once they have it in their head. You can't successfully be a cival engineer by just reading and understanding. You have to have your work reviewed by professors and peers in labs and you have to be tested to gauge your understanding. Finally, without the degree, you're hands will fall off from knocking on doors looking for work.
There needs to be a central authority or synced authorities for managing the names, but the TLDs have got to go. I said this a while back in Slashdot and was called an "AOL keywordist". I don't want to see keywords, since I'm very much not someone who prefers to dumb things down, but at the same time I don't like to see these inefficient mish mashes. I also don't want to see it all organized so you have to point your browser at "flowers" and then drill down. When I want info I want to go directly to it. That's the current problem with Usenet.
It makes no sense to have a McDonalds.COM and a McDonalds.ORG since all of these are mismanaged anyway (thanks Network Solutions) and creates confusion. I can set whatever nameservers I want for my machines, so this is feasible. We should be using www.mcdonalds to get to those sites. Who cares whether the destination is a COM or an ORG or a NET? They have as much right to set this up as anyone has a right to do anything else. It's a free market, so if no one uses it, then it's either a terrible idea or people are to mired in the current system to move out of it; in either case it will just fade away, but at least we'll have tested it to make sure that it was or was not the thing to do.
The key obstacle will be to make sure this is organized properly. Otherwise, this will be inefficient and collisions will be guaranteed.
You're a moron. Win2k lets you choose whether or not to install MS Messenger in Windows Update. I've got this installed for everyone at work and no one is bitching about their CD burner making their ass itch or their eyes watering from any incompatibilities. For Christmas sake, hard drives are so freakin dirt cheap that if you had been productive with the time you wasted complaining you could have bought yourself a $150 hard drive with so much room you'd puke.
Don't want it? Don't install it!
I'm sick of the "Microsoft made me sleep with my cat" crowd. Are you all too sickly to use something *besides* Hotmail? There are a thousand other places offering free email, none of them run by Bill Gates' lawyers. Stop the Whaa Whaa Whaa and do something for yourselves. Repeat after me: The only reason you are using Passport is because you signed up for it and did not stop using it immediately on hearing about this new policy; you talk some good talk about your privacy, but you show in your actions that you couldn't care. Don't you think they'd notice if no one logged into their service for a week?
Now, if space craft go too fast, comrade, use station for cushioning. Worked good last time. We fix the leaks later.
And yes, I would say that if the other countries told Russia to dump their guy, they should forget about it. Everyone keeps making it a U.S. vs Russia issue when there are other countries that have said NO.
Did slashdot do anything fantastic during the U.S. action against Yugoslavia? Do you really think that Slashdot is a sane alternative to 911 should someone in Oregon report a Chinese bomber overhead?
Oh, right! Slaps Foreheads Why didn't they think of that. Yet another station for the Russians to mooch getting onto while American tax-payers cough up the money. How silly of us Americans to not want to hand over our hard earned cash without question! And at a dime a dozen, who can't afford to build an extra station or two. Heck, I'll take three!
So your a typical American son if you pay the Russians to get up on an American station? Sounds kind of lame to pull an end-around on your own folks.
No Russians have asked about the compentency of American astronauts because there is no question about it, folks! Just wait a few more years until the Russian astronaut gets bumped for a Peruvian astronaut. Haw haw!!! Bet they'll be begging the Chinese to go up in their station.
Tough crap for the Russians. They are an equal partner...not just with the US, but all the countries involved in ISS. Canada said no, too, so tough luckski! It's sad to see Russia too poor to keep their station aloft and then pandering to the quickest $20million in their purse when they have a magnitude more experience in space than the US. Shame, shame, Putin.
...let them run their own space station! They still haven't learned to be part of an International Community where you don't just say "well, I'm Russia, so there". Sorry, but that just doesn't hold water anymore. If everyone else involved in ISS says he doesn't go, then they're looking at a hefty refund. Maybe they should have tried harder to keep Mir up there.
Remember how everyone complained that each successive version of Windows was just a few subtle features and that there were no big interface changes?
Looks like we didn't know what we were asking for. We were expecting Microsoft to get it close to right a second time. Too many wizards give me the chills, so I'll stick with the Win95 interface and hope this goes the way of the channel bar.
So I'm guessing you weren't around when Motif and then CDE (and thus KDE) were conceived to take advantage of people's familiarity with Windows. Still, it is true that there is no reason not to borrow back and forth, but at some point there is a convergence.
Until someone begins making games for Linux that do not exist in the Windows world, Linux will forever be in the shadow of Windows. Once you see people begging for a certain Linux game to be ported to Windows, then you've got a hit. This will never happen unless all of Linux is dumbed down enough that people will be able to concentrate on doing things other than administration or tweaking of their box. At that point it will just have a little penguin bootup screen and an uncountable number of bugs as it asks "where do you want to go today?".
Linux is becoming more and more a Windows clone everyday because even the folks that advocate it cannot think of making it anything else. It will look and feel just like it and at that point, what will be the point?
That's my opinion of Linux on the desktop. My opinion of the server end is, don't you ever show me a Windows box and tell me that you want to put something critical on it. It has to be either Solaris or Linux.
You have no appreciation for the amount of spare time people in the middle ages must have had. If they had the brains to, they probably would have counted to 10,000 just for fun each day.
Let's see. What shall we do today? Kill some innocents out of complete ignorance...did that twice this week. Kick some pebbles? Done that. Work slavishly for the fiefdom...every day this week. Guess I'll stare at this wall for a while and then let my imagination run wild to think up some daemons so we can go kill some more neighbors.
That's good for those companies for the short term, but in the long run if no one is downloading the software, the next round of software won't be popular, and the management might get the idea that something is wrong. Banner ads that support it begin to dry up and internal dollars for that product disappear.
Lack bandwidth on the pipes is not a good thing when you're leasing an expensive pipe and no one is on it. People start to ask questions and begin losing jobs that way.
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Is it that hard to pop in a diskette or CD the first time you hook the USB 2.0 device to the machine? You usually have to go to the manufacturer's web site anyway since the ones on the original OS are considered crappy by a minimum of one year later.
Extract the people with a covert team and bomb the plane on the runway. Case closed.
I would not believe the things China was feeding its people if I were you. "Trust" seems to have been removed from the latest edition of the People's Dictionary.
As if there is anything we would want to learn from a Chinese or Russian plane held together with shoelaces and spit.
if they Chinese had the technology to do a 13 mile fly-by of the West Coast, we'd have to let them
Fortunately for us, we've made sure their best technology is making sneakers and barbie dolls! Don't think we have the technology to take them? Their Air Force and Navy are piss poor equipped and their Army only has strength in numbers. This would not be a land war; even if it were, you know what happened to Iraq and Yugoslavia's armies when they tried to go against overwhelming air power followed by armed men.
Those nukes are their only chance but they know if they dared to even twitch them they'd be a second example of the U.S. using nukes to defend itself, and overkill at that.
These two statements do not jive. If it has incredible market share, it is going to be living for quite some time to come. The older x86 designs are just now making it into embedded satellite systems, so you can bet these will still be making money 10 years from now because they will continue to be made in good quantities.
As far as stability and speed, the x86 lines are running faster than most other offerings including Sun and given a good OS, you don't need to worry about stability; you have your hardware and software arguments mixed. Innovation? What the hell are *you* doing with the current things they gave you in the latest round of new chips? Going to overclock it for the sheer joy of doing nothing but overclocking it? Pee-yew. Christ, do something with your systems besides posting whiny trash!!
Certainly people can make something of themselves by self teaching. Without the degree, which is basically a recommendation by the school that you should be hired, there is a question mark hanging over you. If you are lucky to strike a break right away, then a few years working somewhere puts a number of good things on your resume that make up for not having a degree. If you're not that lucky, then you may have to knock your hands off to get somewhere.
I myself went to school for electrical engineering (VLSI), but almost right away (in the recession years past) I traded it for systems administration in which I'm self taught. I learned it all through the first set of HOW-TOs that were hitting the net around 1991. But without any formal training there were question marks about what my skills were, which always had to be proven instead of being accepted on my word. Now, with close to 10 years experience with Linux and friends, and lots of stuff on the resume, it's no big deal.
I tend to think that in the case where the product is a little more solid, such as human hearts and bridges, that sort of open education is not so easily accepted. In the end, I have to agree that everyone has a right to be educated to however far they want to get, and that their desire to apply what they've been given will determine how far they go. The limits then will be those who don't accept them as learned, who should get out of their way so they can go so far and make this society even more powerful.
Putting the course material up on the site is only meant to get people to start knocking at their door to do something with the material once they have it in their head. You can't successfully be a cival engineer by just reading and understanding. You have to have your work reviewed by professors and peers in labs and you have to be tested to gauge your understanding. Finally, without the degree, you're hands will fall off from knocking on doors looking for work.
There needs to be a central authority or synced authorities for managing the names, but the TLDs have got to go. I said this a while back in Slashdot and was called an "AOL keywordist". I don't want to see keywords, since I'm very much not someone who prefers to dumb things down, but at the same time I don't like to see these inefficient mish mashes. I also don't want to see it all organized so you have to point your browser at "flowers" and then drill down. When I want info I want to go directly to it. That's the current problem with Usenet.
It makes no sense to have a McDonalds.COM and a McDonalds.ORG since all of these are mismanaged anyway (thanks Network Solutions) and creates confusion. I can set whatever nameservers I want for my machines, so this is feasible. We should be using www.mcdonalds to get to those sites. Who cares whether the destination is a COM or an ORG or a NET? They have as much right to set this up as anyone has a right to do anything else. It's a free market, so if no one uses it, then it's either a terrible idea or people are to mired in the current system to move out of it; in either case it will just fade away, but at least we'll have tested it to make sure that it was or was not the thing to do.
The key obstacle will be to make sure this is organized properly. Otherwise, this will be inefficient and collisions will be guaranteed.
You're a moron. Win2k lets you choose whether or not to install MS Messenger in Windows Update. I've got this installed for everyone at work and no one is bitching about their CD burner making their ass itch or their eyes watering from any incompatibilities. For Christmas sake, hard drives are so freakin dirt cheap that if you had been productive with the time you wasted complaining you could have bought yourself a $150 hard drive with so much room you'd puke.
I'm sick of the "Microsoft made me sleep with my cat" crowd. Are you all too sickly to use something *besides* Hotmail? There are a thousand other places offering free email, none of them run by Bill Gates' lawyers. Stop the Whaa Whaa Whaa and do something for yourselves. Repeat after me: The only reason you are using Passport is because you signed up for it and did not stop using it immediately on hearing about this new policy; you talk some good talk about your privacy, but you show in your actions that you couldn't care. Don't you think they'd notice if no one logged into their service for a week?
Byarglaglagla!!!!!
They should have typed faster...
Ugh. God knows how they trained him...
Now, if space craft go too fast, comrade, use station for cushioning. Worked good last time. We fix the leaks later.
And yes, I would say that if the other countries told Russia to dump their guy, they should forget about it. Everyone keeps making it a U.S. vs Russia issue when there are other countries that have said NO.
So all we have to do is keep it ignorant and not have copies of Clarke's 2001 online where it can download it.
Did slashdot do anything fantastic during the U.S. action against Yugoslavia? Do you really think that Slashdot is a sane alternative to 911 should someone in Oregon report a Chinese bomber overhead?
No. The Soyuz launch is the Russian space program. The ISS is an international effort. The guy can stay in the Soyuz and enjoy his stay there.
And besides...all that base really are belong to us, dammit!!!
Build another station?
Oh, right! Slaps Foreheads Why didn't they think of that. Yet another station for the Russians to mooch getting onto while American tax-payers cough up the money. How silly of us Americans to not want to hand over our hard earned cash without question! And at a dime a dozen, who can't afford to build an extra station or two. Heck, I'll take three!
So your a typical American son if you pay the Russians to get up on an American station? Sounds kind of lame to pull an end-around on your own folks.
No Russians have asked about the compentency of American astronauts because there is no question about it, folks! Just wait a few more years until the Russian astronaut gets bumped for a Peruvian astronaut. Haw haw!!! Bet they'll be begging the Chinese to go up in their station.
Tough crap for the Russians. They are an equal partner...not just with the US, but all the countries involved in ISS. Canada said no, too, so tough luckski! It's sad to see Russia too poor to keep their station aloft and then pandering to the quickest $20million in their purse when they have a magnitude more experience in space than the US. Shame, shame, Putin.
...let them run their own space station! They still haven't learned to be part of an International Community where you don't just say "well, I'm Russia, so there". Sorry, but that just doesn't hold water anymore. If everyone else involved in ISS says he doesn't go, then they're looking at a hefty refund. Maybe they should have tried harder to keep Mir up there.
Remember how everyone complained that each successive version of Windows was just a few subtle features and that there were no big interface changes?
Looks like we didn't know what we were asking for. We were expecting Microsoft to get it close to right a second time. Too many wizards give me the chills, so I'll stick with the Win95 interface and hope this goes the way of the channel bar.
So I'm guessing you weren't around when Motif and then CDE (and thus KDE) were conceived to take advantage of people's familiarity with Windows. Still, it is true that there is no reason not to borrow back and forth, but at some point there is a convergence.
Until someone begins making games for Linux that do not exist in the Windows world, Linux will forever be in the shadow of Windows. Once you see people begging for a certain Linux game to be ported to Windows, then you've got a hit. This will never happen unless all of Linux is dumbed down enough that people will be able to concentrate on doing things other than administration or tweaking of their box. At that point it will just have a little penguin bootup screen and an uncountable number of bugs as it asks "where do you want to go today?".
Linux is becoming more and more a Windows clone everyday because even the folks that advocate it cannot think of making it anything else. It will look and feel just like it and at that point, what will be the point?
That's my opinion of Linux on the desktop. My opinion of the server end is, don't you ever show me a Windows box and tell me that you want to put something critical on it. It has to be either Solaris or Linux.
You have no appreciation for the amount of spare time people in the middle ages must have had. If they had the brains to, they probably would have counted to 10,000 just for fun each day.
Let's see. What shall we do today? Kill some innocents out of complete ignorance...did that twice this week. Kick some pebbles? Done that. Work slavishly for the fiefdom...every day this week. Guess I'll stare at this wall for a while and then let my imagination run wild to think up some daemons so we can go kill some more neighbors.
That's good for those companies for the short term, but in the long run if no one is downloading the software, the next round of software won't be popular, and the management might get the idea that something is wrong. Banner ads that support it begin to dry up and internal dollars for that product disappear.
Lack bandwidth on the pipes is not a good thing when you're leasing an expensive pipe and no one is on it. People start to ask questions and begin losing jobs that way.
Explain how that helps them?