Can I have at this? I would so dearly love to have the ability to deep-six the link-farmers that still seem to pervade some searches...but I have to admit that Google has made great strides in quashing most of it in the past year or so.
Kid I went to elementary school with (Billy M.), lived about three blocks away, was hit by a bus at the age of 7. He lived, albeit with multiple disabilities and a long-ass convalescence.
Nope.
I've been hit and dragged by a car. Wasn't fun, but all I got was scraped up badly. My bike, OTOH, had its rear wheel pretzelized and I had to carry it home. The driver of the car, after seeing my get up off the street and ask for a pen and paper, went back to his car and drove off. (Karma bites, pal, and I hope you survive yours.)
Knew a fellow who was hit by lightning back in the '50s as he was twisting wrenches on a car in a driveway somewhere in west Kansas. He said it changed him profoundly, and the effects of the event plus his exposure to some really skeevy chemicals during his Navy tours led to his blowing his head off with a double-barrel 12-ga. 18 years ago. Still miss ya, Bro. Gene.
Three out of four ain't bad, huh? None of this excuses Childs from saving running configs, keeping backups and oh-shit-what-do-we-do recipes in a secure location, and cross-training a worthy understudy. Nor does it excuse his managers from using firm yet non-confrontational means to make those things happen.
It doesn't matter. Even at a ten percent grade, which is steeper than you will find on any main road traveled by passenger cars, the path length difference between the road and a "level" (conforms to geoid surface) distance from one endpoint to the other is 0.5 percent.
When was the last time Microsoft admitted liability in a fitness-for-purpose case and paid damages?
Say again? I didn't hear you.
Oh, you didn't read the EULA. Neither did a single one of those idiots who came up with the brilliant idea to deploy a consumer-grade OS in settings where high availability is paramount.
The sooner fuckups like this can be made actionable in a legal context the better.
You miss the point. Learning fractions can be done effectively with a stick and some sand. Learning about technology requires an environment where things can be taken apart and put back together. Your argument plays to the same problem with most "technology" education curricula in the industrial world: Teach the future corporate drones just enough about driving Windows/Office so that they'll fit into the computing monoculture, then wonder why the numbers of science grads are dropping.
Let M'beka learn how to actually design and build stuff that could power his village, rather than grooming him for a nonexistent career.
This guy is a bit unhinged and it harms his case. He really goes nonlinear about 12 paragraphs down when after tries to rip RMS a new one and says
If proprietary software is half as good as free software at aiding children's learning, you're damn right it makes the world a better place to get the software out to children. Hell, if it doesn't actively inhibit learning, it makes the world a better place.
Well, I respectfully submit that the worldview favored by Microsoft actively inhibits learning. As a blindingly mundane example: Make an OS (Windows) which uses filename extensions to divine metadata about certain files (bad, but we'll let that slide for the moment). Next, release a version of said OS which has a default UI setting to hide these filename extensions from the user. This very demonstrably inhibits learning -- even the casual user picks up fairly quickly on things like ".txt" and ".exe" -- and gives people a distorted picture due to the missing information. That, in turn, increases confusion (why are there 4 things called "Setup" in this folder, why do they have different icons and which one do I click?) and paves the way for some of the the crudest exploits (somebadvirus.doc.exe) simply by dumbing down the user. Not only has the prevailing approach by the monopoly software vendor actively inhibited learning, but the net result of that has been several iterations of malware which Just Didn't Need To Happen.
How can you develop a culture of innovation when you promote a mindset which discourages tinkering? Sorry, but in this case half a loaf is worse than no loaf at all. People like Krsti should at least be able to notice this bias in proprietary operating systems and applications. He makes enough reasonable points that it's even more important not to let him off the hook for something like this.
Man, that's a brilliant idea. Just move the water from where it's purportedly abundant to where it's not. You should get a Nobel prize for that type of thinking.
Oh, wait.
Water's heavy and hard to move. Wisconsin and Minnesota are relatively flat and low-elevation places. You propose lifting and hauling significant volumes of water across the Plains, up at least 3-4k feet in elevation just to take over for the fast-diminishing Ogallala Aquifer. Have a quick look at the gross hydraulic effort involved in that feat (please account for static, pressure and friction losses) before you tell us how much energy will need to be put into the system to make it work. Oh, you want to get it over the Continental Divide? Cool. Choose the route carefully and you can either write off the longer pipe run (more friction) with the lower elevation pass near Deming NM or spin a few turbines for parasitic reclamation of some of the static head gained by forcing it up and over Wolf Creek Pass CO.
Hey, but once you get it to Arizona, it's all good! Turn it loose in the SRP or (better yet) the CAP and let a third of it evaporate under the blazing sun. What's left will be a splendid bargain for watering all those nice golf courses and green lawns around the strip malls and office complexes.
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Hey, if you can repost that same crap drivel, back atcha homes:
You obviously have never had to implement anything that needed to conform to a defined, published standard. If you had, you would never in a million years defend a ragged mess which can't even deal with Julian dates without referencing a broken proprietary binary (Excel 97). And you wouldn't defend OOXML, in raving terms including liberal usage of boldface, all caps and ad hominem attacks, if you understood the difference between a properly written standard and one cobbled together in panic that large institutional customers would abandon a proprietary format over concerns of long-term data accessibility, bit rot and lock-in.
You obviously have never had to implement anything that needed to conform to a defined, published standard. If you had, you would never in a million years defend a ragged mess which can't even deal with Julian dates without referencing a broken proprietary binary implementation (Excel 97). And you wouldn't defend OOXML, in raving terms including liberal usage of boldface, all caps and ad hominem attacks, if you understood the difference between a properly written standard and one cobbled together in panic that large institutional customers would abandon a proprietary format over concerns of long-term data accessibility, bit rot and lock-in.
But the T1 is a tariffed product and comes with built-in SLAs, supported by telco copper infrastructure built to an amazingly high level of reliability. What are the uptime and bandwidth guarantees on your FiOS pipe?
Actually, for web app developers using AJAX and DOM scripting, the YUI Widgets are a great resource and are all under a BSD license. Yahoo also owns Zimbra, an open source (not GPL) mail and groupware server that has made some inroads on the MS Exchange hegemony.
Yes, DC transmission. Ever try synchronizing the phase of multiple AC distribution networks? Also, AC has its own set of issues, especially when you get to the > 400KV end of things where corona discharge is problematic. HVDC cuts these losses in half. There's also the elimination of reactive loads and noise, and you can use the earth as the return for your current (there goes half of your materials cost). See the Wikipedia entry for some good info.
It's not a one-size-fits-all solution, which is why it's not ubiquitous. But it does have its place.
In an ironic twist to the shrinking planet, New Zealand and Australian internet users felt Oregon's pain, too. The storm took out a vital piece of fiber interconnect linking one of the two US landing points of the Southern Cross transpacific cable to the NAPs. We limped along on reduced bandwidth and flapping routes for almost two days over here. Luckily, the damaged portion was terrestrial and has already been patched.
Weird part was that there was hardly a mention of it in either NZ or AU media, let alone any official word from SC...but the ISP I use got word out to its customers within hours. Thanks, Inspire Net!
Time for the grown-up stuff: How about some arc-suppressing actuator-driven disconnect armatures used to de-energize transmission lines in the 115-1000 KV range? Now we're talking UberSwitch. If you're not afraid of some really ugly mid-90s HTML, see some action shots.
Slashdot Mirror
Can I have at this? I would so dearly love to have the ability to deep-six the link-farmers that still seem to pervade some searches...but I have to admit that Google has made great strides in quashing most of it in the past year or so.
$ME reels at the mental imagery associated with this statement. What sort of local stores do you frequent, anyway?
And if your house burns down?
Three out of four ain't bad, huh? None of this excuses Childs from saving running configs, keeping backups and oh-shit-what-do-we-do recipes in a secure location, and cross-training a worthy understudy. Nor does it excuse his managers from using firm yet non-confrontational means to make those things happen.
It doesn't matter. Even at a ten percent grade, which is steeper than you will find on any main road traveled by passenger cars, the path length difference between the road and a "level" (conforms to geoid surface) distance from one endpoint to the other is 0.5 percent.
Simple trig.
Say again? I didn't hear you.
Oh, you didn't read the EULA. Neither did a single one of those idiots who came up with the brilliant idea to deploy a consumer-grade OS in settings where high availability is paramount.
The sooner fuckups like this can be made actionable in a legal context the better.
And what caused the storm surge? Think hard....
Libraries of Congress, silly.
You miss the point. Learning fractions can be done effectively with a stick and some sand. Learning about technology requires an environment where things can be taken apart and put back together. Your argument plays to the same problem with most "technology" education curricula in the industrial world: Teach the future corporate drones just enough about driving Windows/Office so that they'll fit into the computing monoculture, then wonder why the numbers of science grads are dropping.
Let M'beka learn how to actually design and build stuff that could power his village, rather than grooming him for a nonexistent career.
Well, I respectfully submit that the worldview favored by Microsoft actively inhibits learning. As a blindingly mundane example: Make an OS (Windows) which uses filename extensions to divine metadata about certain files (bad, but we'll let that slide for the moment). Next, release a version of said OS which has a default UI setting to hide these filename extensions from the user. This very demonstrably inhibits learning -- even the casual user picks up fairly quickly on things like ".txt" and ".exe" -- and gives people a distorted picture due to the missing information. That, in turn, increases confusion (why are there 4 things called "Setup" in this folder, why do they have different icons and which one do I click?) and paves the way for some of the the crudest exploits (somebadvirus.doc.exe) simply by dumbing down the user. Not only has the prevailing approach by the monopoly software vendor actively inhibited learning, but the net result of that has been several iterations of malware which Just Didn't Need To Happen.
How can you develop a culture of innovation when you promote a mindset which discourages tinkering? Sorry, but in this case half a loaf is worse than no loaf at all. People like Krsti should at least be able to notice this bias in proprietary operating systems and applications. He makes enough reasonable points that it's even more important not to let him off the hook for something like this.
Man, that's a brilliant idea. Just move the water from where it's purportedly abundant to where it's not. You should get a Nobel prize for that type of thinking.
Oh, wait.
Water's heavy and hard to move. Wisconsin and Minnesota are relatively flat and low-elevation places. You propose lifting and hauling significant volumes of water across the Plains, up at least 3-4k feet in elevation just to take over for the fast-diminishing Ogallala Aquifer. Have a quick look at the gross hydraulic effort involved in that feat (please account for static, pressure and friction losses) before you tell us how much energy will need to be put into the system to make it work. Oh, you want to get it over the Continental Divide? Cool. Choose the route carefully and you can either write off the longer pipe run (more friction) with the lower elevation pass near Deming NM or spin a few turbines for parasitic reclamation of some of the static head gained by forcing it up and over Wolf Creek Pass CO.
Hey, but once you get it to Arizona, it's all good! Turn it loose in the SRP or (better yet) the CAP and let a third of it evaporate under the blazing sun. What's left will be a splendid bargain for watering all those nice golf courses and green lawns around the strip malls and office complexes.
Paul McGuinness is behind this?
Hey, if you can repost that same crap drivel, back atcha homes:
You obviously have never had to implement anything that needed to conform to a defined, published standard. If you had, you would never in a million years defend a ragged mess which can't even deal with Julian dates without referencing a broken proprietary binary (Excel 97). And you wouldn't defend OOXML, in raving terms including liberal usage of boldface, all caps and ad hominem attacks, if you understood the difference between a properly written standard and one cobbled together in panic that large institutional customers would abandon a proprietary format over concerns of long-term data accessibility, bit rot and lock-in.
Enjoy your new spec.
You obviously have never had to implement anything that needed to conform to a defined, published standard. If you had, you would never in a million years defend a ragged mess which can't even deal with Julian dates without referencing a broken proprietary binary implementation (Excel 97). And you wouldn't defend OOXML, in raving terms including liberal usage of boldface, all caps and ad hominem attacks, if you understood the difference between a properly written standard and one cobbled together in panic that large institutional customers would abandon a proprietary format over concerns of long-term data accessibility, bit rot and lock-in.
Enjoy your new spec.
But the T1 is a tariffed product and comes with built-in SLAs, supported by telco copper infrastructure built to an amazingly high level of reliability. What are the uptime and bandwidth guarantees on your FiOS pipe?
s/fundemental/fundamental
Do you even understand what the fundemental purpose of an open standard is? Your comment suggests utter cluelessness on this matter.
I'll be off to update mine today. It's the best improvement on tcpdump I've ever used.
Oh, the irony...that having one's heart in the right place means that one's heart is not on the right.
Actually, for web app developers using AJAX and DOM scripting, the YUI Widgets are a great resource and are all under a BSD license. Yahoo also owns Zimbra, an open source (not GPL) mail and groupware server that has made some inroads on the MS Exchange hegemony.
If only Frank could have lived to see the birth of not one, but a litter of Sons of Mr. Green Genes....
Yes, DC transmission. Ever try synchronizing the phase of multiple AC distribution networks? Also, AC has its own set of issues, especially when you get to the > 400KV end of things where corona discharge is problematic. HVDC cuts these losses in half. There's also the elimination of reactive loads and noise, and you can use the earth as the return for your current (there goes half of your materials cost). See the Wikipedia entry for some good info.
It's not a one-size-fits-all solution, which is why it's not ubiquitous. But it does have its place.
In an ironic twist to the shrinking planet, New Zealand and Australian internet users felt Oregon's pain, too. The storm took out a vital piece of fiber interconnect linking one of the two US landing points of the Southern Cross transpacific cable to the NAPs. We limped along on reduced bandwidth and flapping routes for almost two days over here. Luckily, the damaged portion was terrestrial and has already been patched.
Weird part was that there was hardly a mention of it in either NZ or AU media, let alone any official word from SC...but the ISP I use got word out to its customers within hours. Thanks, Inspire Net!
Those are cute, friendly switches.
Time for the grown-up stuff: How about some arc-suppressing actuator-driven disconnect armatures used to de-energize transmission lines in the 115-1000 KV range? Now we're talking UberSwitch. If you're not afraid of some really ugly mid-90s HTML, see some action shots.
ALTITUDE 0
SPEED OF DESCENT 100
FUEL REMAINING 0
NEW RATE: 0
YOU LEFT A 2 MILE CRATER. PLAY AGAIN?