I'm assuming with the way the portland job market is right now, that it is probably higher. Like 8-10% of workers are unemployed IS/IT workers. So, it could be as high as 6,000.
So, the number might have been right. I probably just added too many zeros in my head when I posted.:)
Nice try. Most power transfer mechanisms rely on the venerable E-TAGing system. Most are highly customized, and written in C. AFAIK, none of them use Windows RPC code.
Conspiracy theories are only good when they are believable. Do some more research next time.
It's very sad considering Oregon, and Portland in specific, have very large IT infrastructure. And no jobs. We have exactly 1.9 trillion unemployed IS/IT consultants in Portland alone. I think keeping some of the money in our state instead of shipping it off to washington in boat loads is a great idea.
Let's see: Create jobs. Save money. Why didn't anyone think of this a long time ago?
As an aside, Oregon public schools use Linux probably as much or more than any other school district. They even have their own distro!
No. I know a few power schedulers who could tell you how bad deregulation has hit them. It means that more power is travelling farther on 40+ year old systems.
PS: Everyone in the northwest who is giddy about not getting hit by the blackout shouldn't feel too smug. The same thing could happen here. In fact, the chances of it happening on the California ISO are high.:)
PC laptops are nice for a lot of reasons. Not the least of which is commodity hardware and compatible software. There are also some who are forced to use the laptop they have because they have VMWare and have to run x86 binaries for work. There are always complications. Sometimes, it's not a choice.
While it's no speed demon, my old Fujitsu Lifebook Just Works. Except the shitty winmodem. I got that fixed with a PCMCIA replacement in the form of a Lan card. Got X, networking, KDE, Qt 3.2, everything on it runs perfect. Still a little slow. And the video card, although supported, still sux!
Postgres is one of the oldest and best supported dbms around. It doesn't have a couple of features Oracle has, but it is a highly superior product compared to most others in it's class. That's in a business setting anyways. MySQL is easy to use, relatively fast at simple operations. DB2 is nice. Good for big computers with lots of ram. That's my observation, there probably is no rhyme or reason to it. I have lots of ram, and I like DB2. It's just fun! MSSQL sucks rocks. I developed a lot of websites using MSSQL as a backend and just couldn't make it feel right. Oracle is great for big iron. They say it's good on x86. I say Ellison is full of shit.
Here's my personal dbms preference list: Business DB2 Oracle Postgres MSSQL MySQL Hobby/Pleasure MySQL Postgres DB2 MSSQL Oracle(unless you are masochistic)
Oddly enough. I did a random number project in high school. My random number's were derived from a combination of mathematics, analog-digital converters, and a 4 FM radio tuners. It took 2^34 samples and the longest recurrent sequence was 39 bits long.
Hah! Here's a funny story for you. When I was 17, I pointed out nVidia as an up and coming star. I got a loan, for $6000. Bought at $6.22 a share. That's a bunch of shares. Almost a 1000.:(
I wasn't old enough, per SEC, to own stock. So, in my parents name, I purchased the stock. When they found out about it, they sold it and kept the profits and didn't tell me until the end of the fiscal year. I had an outstanding sell order to sell at $50 and would have made over $40,000 if they hadn't sold. Apparently, they hadn't heard from me in a couple days and the stock went down. They assumed I wanted to sell. I didn't.
My parents sold my college education fund:( It's only funny now because that was years ago. I was bitter pissed at the time and moved a really long ways away from them.
That's the fucking point. They have to get it right the first time. There probably won't be driver updates, even when the XBox2 is online. I don't know if I trust ATI to get it right the first time. They have a hard enough time on Windows PC's after dozens of revisions.
Sorry. I worked a 16 hour shift(6 PM - 10 AM, PST:-[ ) this morning. I have to apologize for my poor grammar and spelling. I typically write much better. As an aside, my high school was the single school to meet the guidelines. And, I got a 4.0, thank you very much.
Yeah. And in most states, you only have to get through high school with a diploma to hold a position in office. Seeing how 9 out of 10(litterally) high schools in my local area don't meet federal guidlines, I wouldn't trust any of their graduates to sharpen pencils at city hall.
On the other hand, if the contracts are just plain contradictory (or can be interpreted that way), then the later one will usually win Not necessarily. It could be said, with legal precedent, that the second contract is invalidated by the first because the company didn't have the legal means to fulfill contract obligations of the second contract. It would probably be nullified. Here's an example Contract A: company 1 signs contract with company 2 Contract B: company 2 signs contract with company 3, but A & B's clauses are contradictory.
Contract B is deemed null and void by a court because company 2 didn't have the legal means to enter into contract B.
I've oversimplified this, and this isn't true for all cases(most commonly, when any of contract A's terms are illegal), but this is generally true.
AFAIK, the only time contract B would supercede contract A is if both contracts were between the same parties. However, I'm not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice. However, I have taken a few classes in contract law(many years ago).
Linux In schools
It would seem in the state of Oregon, they are now implementing Linux in a lot of places that save them money, all with self developed software. They even have their own distro, which is generic to work for any school that wants it.
You can see that there is already government support for local projects. In Oregon, the K12Linux project was started by schools with the help of the Portland Linux User Group, Multnomah County Education Service District, and Red Hat.
Good point. There are some projects that take a long time when only written by volunteers. As an example, take KDE. Although the quality is getting much better, as is the development speed, the development is still a little slow. Some bugs remain for several versions running. Official releases take time.
On the other hand, look at how a company project can win too: Trolltech Qt. Anyone who follows their CVS activity knows there programmers must work around the clock because the speed at which new features are implemented and debugged is just unreal. New releases don't take very long because the project management can raise the efficiency of programmers resources.
Which is better is a matter of opinion. Both have advantages and are good solutions.
I won't trust digital voting. A lot of people won't. I seriously hope someone hacks it in November next year to such an extreme amount that the politicians see the error in their stupidity. This won't work.
I hope the results are wacked out like this one
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With the buyout, will I still be able to get a Visor?
No, it probably is that much. Well...
:)
Lets see: Portland + Suburbs, ~1,000,000 people.
Unemployment: 60,000 @ 6% unemployment rate
IS/IT workers: 3,000 @ a measly 5%.
I'm assuming with the way the portland job market is right now, that it is probably higher. Like 8-10% of workers are unemployed IS/IT workers. So, it could be as high as 6,000.
So, the number might have been right. I probably just added too many zeros in my head when I posted.
No. But, there are plenty of lowly minions to throw switches based off of ETag transaction reports.
Nice try. Most power transfer mechanisms rely on the venerable E-TAGing system. Most are highly customized, and written in C. AFAIK, none of them use Windows RPC code.
Conspiracy theories are only good when they are believable. Do some more research next time.
It's very sad considering Oregon, and Portland in specific, have very large IT infrastructure. And no jobs. We have exactly 1.9 trillion unemployed IS/IT consultants in Portland alone. I think keeping some of the money in our state instead of shipping it off to washington in boat loads is a great idea.
Let's see: Create jobs. Save money. Why didn't anyone think of this a long time ago?
As an aside, Oregon public schools use Linux probably as much or more than any other school district. They even have their own distro!
No. I know a few power schedulers who could tell you how bad deregulation has hit them. It means that more power is travelling farther on 40+ year old systems.
:)
PS: Everyone in the northwest who is giddy about not getting hit by the blackout shouldn't feel too smug. The same thing could happen here. In fact, the chances of it happening on the California ISO are high.
Think basic upgrades. SODIMMS, processor(sometimes), PCMCIA cards(modems,wireless,ethernet,sound,whatever).
Average Linux user?
Cowboyneal get's more than Darl. He's just jealous.
Two questions:
1) Did you run out of hard drive space for your spell checker?
2) 50000, more? Are these yen or pesos?
I just worked 12.25 hours straight.
And I have to go to my other job, for another six hours.
PS: It's six AM. Not nine.
Yes, the world does revolve around my timezone.
Shut up.
Need coffee... Must smoke...
ahh....
much better.
PC laptops are nice for a lot of reasons. Not the least of which is commodity hardware and compatible software. There are also some who are forced to use the laptop they have because they have VMWare and have to run x86 binaries for work. There are always complications. Sometimes, it's not a choice.
While it's no speed demon, my old Fujitsu Lifebook Just Works. Except the shitty winmodem. I got that fixed with a PCMCIA replacement in the form of a Lan card. Got X, networking, KDE, Qt 3.2, everything on it runs perfect. Still a little slow. And the video card, although supported, still sux!
Just a little info for you:
Postgres is one of the oldest and best supported dbms around. It doesn't have a couple of features Oracle has, but it is a highly superior product compared to most others in it's class. That's in a business setting anyways. MySQL is easy to use, relatively fast at simple operations. DB2 is nice. Good for big computers with lots of ram. That's my observation, there probably is no rhyme or reason to it. I have lots of ram, and I like DB2. It's just fun! MSSQL sucks rocks. I developed a lot of websites using MSSQL as a backend and just couldn't make it feel right. Oracle is great for big iron.
They say it's good on x86. I say Ellison is full of shit.
Here's my personal dbms preference list:
Business
DB2
Oracle
Postgres
MSSQL
MySQL
Hobby/Pleasure
MySQL
Postgres
DB2
MSSQL
Oracle(unless you are masochistic)
Oddly enough. I did a random number project in high school. My random number's were derived from a combination of mathematics, analog-digital converters, and a 4 FM radio tuners. It took 2^34 samples and the longest recurrent sequence was 39 bits long.
Is that good? I have no idea. But it was fun.
Hah! Here's a funny story for you. When I was 17, I pointed out nVidia as an up and coming star. I got a loan, for $6000. Bought at $6.22 a share. That's a bunch of shares. Almost a 1000. :(
:(
I wasn't old enough, per SEC, to own stock. So, in my parents name, I purchased the stock. When they found out about it, they sold it and kept the profits and didn't tell me until the end of the fiscal year. I had an outstanding sell order to sell at $50 and would have made over $40,000 if they hadn't sold. Apparently, they hadn't heard from me in a couple days and the stock went down. They assumed I wanted to sell. I didn't.
My parents sold my college education fund
It's only funny now because that was years ago. I was bitter pissed at the time and moved a really long ways away from them.
That's the fucking point. They have to get it right the first time. There probably won't be driver updates, even when the XBox2 is online. I don't know if I trust ATI to get it right the first time. They have a hard enough time on Windows PC's after dozens of revisions.
Are you retarded?
:)
Yesterday was a better day to buy stock.
You can't buy after a press release, because everyone else is. That's why the price is going up. You have to buy before the press release.
Oh nevermind. Neither of them was a good day to buy. It's going down today
It couldn't possibly be based on technical criteria. First off, nVidia has better drivers. This is important.
Based only on performance and features, it is a close race. They both support Microsoft's DirectX features for current and future releases.
(notice my self restraint: I didn't mention SCO!)
Yes you did. Right there at the end. Do you see it now? You mentioned SCO. Bad RealAlaskan.
Sorry. I worked a 16 hour shift(6 PM - 10 AM, PST :-[ ) this morning. I have to apologize for my poor grammar and spelling. I typically write much better. As an aside, my high school was the single school to meet the guidelines. And, I got a 4.0, thank you very much.
Yeah. And in most states, you only have to get through high school with a diploma to hold a position in office. Seeing how 9 out of 10(litterally) high schools in my local area don't meet federal guidlines, I wouldn't trust any of their graduates to sharpen pencils at city hall.
On the other hand, if the contracts are just plain contradictory (or can be interpreted that way), then the later one will usually win
Not necessarily. It could be said, with legal precedent, that the second contract is invalidated by the first because the company didn't have the legal means to fulfill contract obligations of the second contract. It would probably be nullified. Here's an example
Contract A: company 1 signs contract with company 2
Contract B: company 2 signs contract with company 3, but A & B's clauses are contradictory.
Contract B is deemed null and void by a court because company 2 didn't have the legal means to enter into contract B.
I've oversimplified this, and this isn't true for all cases(most commonly, when any of contract A's terms are illegal), but this is generally true.
AFAIK, the only time contract B would supercede contract A is if both contracts were between the same parties. However, I'm not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice. However, I have taken a few classes in contract law(many years ago).
Linux In schools
It would seem in the state of Oregon, they are now implementing Linux in a lot of places that save them money, all with self developed software. They even have their own distro, which is generic to work for any school that wants it.
You can see that there is already government support for local projects. In Oregon, the K12Linux project was started by schools with the help of the Portland Linux User Group, Multnomah County Education Service District, and Red Hat.
Good point. There are some projects that take a long time when only written by volunteers. As an example, take KDE. Although the quality is getting much better, as is the development speed, the development is still a little slow. Some bugs remain for several versions running. Official releases take time.
On the other hand, look at how a company project can win too: Trolltech Qt. Anyone who follows their CVS activity knows there programmers must work around the clock because the speed at which new features are implemented and debugged is just unreal. New releases don't take very long because the project management can raise the efficiency of programmers resources.
Which is better is a matter of opinion. Both have advantages and are good solutions.
I won't trust digital voting. A lot of people won't. I seriously hope someone hacks it in November next year to such an extreme amount that the politicians see the error in their stupidity. This won't work. I hope the results are wacked out like this one