As a sysadmin I agree. However, various name resolution services (DNS, NIS, etc.) should be able to take care of this for us. Provided you can get it installed and working properly.
What were they supposed to do? They have to do a code-freeze sometime. If they would have waited until 1.0.4 was out, then we would all be screaming that they should have waited until 1.0.5 was out. You know that another security bug will be found in Firefox again. They can't just keep holding off releasing a product because of security exploits that haven't been discovered yet.
Holy shit man. You've just described exactly how I feel.
I've been at my current IT job for almost 3 years (in the field for about 5) and I'm going through the exact same thing. My girlfriend is a graphic artist and is in the same boat as we are. She thinks it's because all the tasks we're given don't challenge us anymore, and the tasks that would challenge us either get outsourced to a consultant or wouldn't be pratical to implement. My current project is implementing a network-wide SNMP monitoring tool. Woo-hoo. I can barely bring myself to read the documentation. Of course, converting our Win2k servers to Linux (something I WOULD enjoy) won't be happening.
Computing used to be my hobby, now it's a job. I haven't found another hobby to replace it.
I did go see a shrink for a while, she thought that it was my co-workers that were bringing me down, and that I should get a different job. All the job's I looked at are carbon copies of my current Network Admin. job. Nothing to get excited about. If fact, there are few things that I get excited about at all anymore.
Here's a quote from Einstein which I think says it best:
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
- Einstein
I admit my 'source' was shaky. But I was at work and didn't want to spend too much time looking things up (I know, a likely story).
So here is an article that has a few tidbits about climate change. An excerpt:
NASA's global temperature tracking between 1979 and 1998 reveal the typical weather anomalies--unseasonably hot summers and warmer winters--during that period; but overall, NASA data from 1979 forward clearly shows there has been no sustained planetary warming. Nor has any been recorded in all of the years that weather tracking data has been compiled. In fact, during the very mild winters that North America experienced since the El Nino winter of 1998, the global temperature departure has been -0.094 degrees.
And here's one from earlier this year. An excerpt:
All predictions of global warming are based on computer models not historical data. In order to get their models to produce predictions that are close to their designers expectations, modelers make adjustments to unknown variables that are many times greater than the effect of doubling carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. For example, knowledge of the amount of energy flowing from the equator to the poles is uncertain by an amount equivalent to 25 to 30 Watts per square meter (W/m2) of the earth's surface. the amount of sunlight absorbed by the atmosphere or reflected by the surface is also uncertain by as much as 25 W/m2. The role of clouds is uncertain by at least 25 W/m2. The heat added to the atmosphere by a doubling of CO2 is not uncertain. It is easily measured in laboratory experiments and amounts to only 4 Watts per square meter (4 W/m2) of the earth's surface. Obviously the uncertainties are many times larger than the input of energy resulting from a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
there is no global climate change (flies in the face of 90%+ of scientific opinion)
The key word here is opinion. There is very little factual evidence to support this. I'm not a pro-Big Business kind of guy, and I think that pollution is a problem, but there really isn't enought evidence available that justifies all the "doom-and gloom" of global warming.
IE's "enhanced security" makes it _really_ paranoid, but I use it only for updates so I couldn't care less (had to add Office Update to the trusted sites though).
Pearl Jam has been doing this since their second album, released way back in 1993. All of their albums since the third (Vitalogy) have come in funky cardboard cases, with booklets containing photos, partial lyrics and full credits. Check it out.
Slashdot Mirror
Philosophy of the Matrix
The D'oh of Homer
Seinfeld and Philosophy
You must be an auditor.
Invent a time machine and go back to the 19th century.
As a sysadmin I agree. However, various name resolution services (DNS, NIS, etc.) should be able to take care of this for us. Provided you can get it installed and working properly.
What were they supposed to do? They have to do a code-freeze sometime. If they would have waited until 1.0.4 was out, then we would all be screaming that they should have waited until 1.0.5 was out. You know that another security bug will be found in Firefox again. They can't just keep holding off releasing a product because of security exploits that haven't been discovered yet.
I've been at my current IT job for almost 3 years (in the field for about 5) and I'm going through the exact same thing. My girlfriend is a graphic artist and is in the same boat as we are. She thinks it's because all the tasks we're given don't challenge us anymore, and the tasks that would challenge us either get outsourced to a consultant or wouldn't be pratical to implement. My current project is implementing a network-wide SNMP monitoring tool. Woo-hoo. I can barely bring myself to read the documentation. Of course, converting our Win2k servers to Linux (something I WOULD enjoy) won't be happening.
Computing used to be my hobby, now it's a job. I haven't found another hobby to replace it.
I did go see a shrink for a while, she thought that it was my co-workers that were bringing me down, and that I should get a different job. All the job's I looked at are carbon copies of my current Network Admin. job. Nothing to get excited about. If fact, there are few things that I get excited about at all anymore.
Here's a quote from Einstein which I think says it best:
I hope this post made some sense.
We can only hope they'll begin pre-installing it on their Thinkpad products.
NERDS!!!!!
The over-clockers are crazy already. Imagine what would happen if that started handling mercury!
So here is an article that has a few tidbits about climate change. An excerpt:
And here's one from earlier this year. An excerpt:
The key word here is opinion. There is very little factual evidence to support this. I'm not a pro-Big Business kind of guy, and I think that pollution is a problem, but there really isn't enought evidence available that justifies all the "doom-and gloom" of global warming.
Can you say FUD?
Or posting at Slashdot during working hours, right?
Oh wait, what?
Isn't this what the Slashdot crowd wanted?
Why are you joining the Marines? If you think you're 'different' and 'very smart', then you're probably going to have a very difficult 4+ years....
No... That's not true... That's impossible!!!!
So, your uncle, right?
How did your grandma feel about the $300 price tag? Or did you just 'borrow' a copy from work/p2p?
Student: Mommy, why can't I look at the moon tonight?
Mother: The server got turned to slag after an afternoon Slashdotting, honey.
Student: It's just not fair!
Mother: I'm sorry dear.
I have friends who positively hate Pearl Jam that love this album.
Disclaimer: I'm a very-biased fan.
I was watching C-SPAN one day and this author (Mark Anderson) said it. I think he's also a musician.
The jokes are just writing themselves today.
No need to create a new one. Use this one.
What, you thought those black helicopters belonged to the government?