I would like to see some good version control. If you look at the congressional record, it's full of crap like "Strike out the sixth sentence of chapter 12, paragraph 348, replacing with: 'b. except where already addressed under USC 90.01.23'"
WTF? I would like something like Trac where you can click on ANY statement in the US Code and see instantly:
What changes have been made, over time Who sponsored the changes Who voted for, against, present Links to related code, as needed Public opinion related to the law Press releases by public offices/personel about the law
Microsoft is a successful PUBLISHING company. It's not a tragedy, it is the goal of any corporation to get enough market share to be the leader. There had to be some standard OS, they happened to be it at the time when it all started taking off, and they continued to improve their products enough that the public wanted them. In the later years (>1995), when Bill was arguably less in control than the board, is when they began the more deceptive business practices. Bill the man wants now to make a difference in the world with the Gates Foundation. Especially education, and Bill comes from a different mindset than the last generation of rich billionaires like the Carnegies and Rockefellers. Both of them came from industrial backgrounds, and their main goal was to reform education to improve the workforce. Bill wants to improve computer literacy, communications, both in the US and the world. I've been reading some of his more recent commentary about education and it's actually pretty fascinating. Not that I'm a fan of MSFT but I think Bill's a decent guy and he deserves a fair shake now that he's giving a lot of the money back.
Google releases a Beta phone on a carrier network, so they had to bait the carrier a little bit.. Once Google or a subsidiary gets the spectrum they are trying to get, this thing will be so open you'll not believe it. And Google's business is search, so you'd better believe they are going to dominate mobile search also. The ads thing is secondary, just an evolution. The marketplace demands ads on everything, and when they are ready to move into mobile, Google will already be there with a solid database of mobile searches, mobile pages and they'll be in the phone too.
Yeah, I was going to say... A "good" offer is when you get enough dough to pay the bills. Don't worry about the market, worry about yourself. If, in a year, you feel like you're not making enough, ask for a raise or find another job. The money is all back up at the experience level now. Interns don't make crap because they don't have experience. You might be the smartest man/woman around, but if you've never experienced a long call with the IRS or getting sued, you're pretty useless. Most people making over 100K have, is all I'm saying. Make mistakes, focus on learning and not money. The money will just come.
It's called a "religibusiness". There are thousands of these out there. The biggest ones have many millions of customers (700 club, anyone). It doesn't have to be about Jesus or whatever, it's about momentum. The same could be said for the latest pop music phenomenon.
Guess what, those people ARE seeing red and white cars and hearing people snickering. But it's by the same tendency that you'll notice all the orange things around you, now that I've mentioned it. You have a sub-conscious mind that does a pretty good job of filtering things and finding important patterns in other things. Sometimes people's minds start focusing too much on patterns that aren't meaningful and attach meaning to them. Sometimes, like in the case of the orange stuff, we filter and tag other, important things as not meaningful (like having a home, or bathing). It's not surprising that multiple people notice the same patterns--in fact, merely talking about it reinforces the plastic links between neurons and makes it more likely they will notice the pattern from then on. This isn't meaningful, but it is interesting. I think it is wise to focus on the positive aspects of the community, that people are communicating with others, sharing meaning where there is none, not unlike christianity. In fact, I'm certain bands of people like this are what caused the mass migrations of the early humans. Religion is all about patterns that reoccur. The Bible is successful because it documents so many common ones that it's likely every human on earth will experience at least one of them in his lifetime. Likewise our consumer culture has created new patterns. Look in your cupboard and see the patterns created by the uniform container sizes, even more striking in the grocery store of course. And standard lengths of everything from lumber to keyboards affect us every day. Next, take a walk in the woods, arguably where we last evolved as humans. Notice that the patterns are quite different, every thing is unique, yet the pattern of the whole exists in each cell of the tree. That is because time is at work, and therefore the consistency of the pattern is affected more. Solar energy is slowly harnessed to move individual molucules in hopefully the right direction--by the time they get there it might be the wrong spot. The cans in the cupboard are the exact opposite. Massive energy is spent to immedately seal the can, encapsulate the contents, literally encapsulate time. And the patterns they make speak that to many. Unless we somehow evolve (or our creations somehow evolve to be more flexible), this type of overwhelming feeling, this panic many are experiencing, will continue to be more and more common.
If your documents are that sensitive, why aren't you using DRM? But true, threats, especially a message displayed at every login stating the policy, go a long way to keeping people on their toes. Periodically audit the machines remotely to see if there are any copied files, also.
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Yes, they use a java app which utilizes the SSL capabilties in the browser to create a tunnel. Usuallly they do like a lightweight remote desktop type thing, or you can spawn something that redirects IP. Lastly, they usally have a link to install a package for a standard IPSEC VPN client. Cisco offers this in their ASA (formerly PIX) firewalls, Sonicwall does also. It's helpful for users logging in from a non-company computer as there's not much config/support required. Obviously your LAN needs to be secure also, in case they log in at an airport kiosk and forget to log out or something. With RADIUS and some auditing, you're almost as safe as in the office.
Amazing Toys is a site I stumbled upon a long time ago that has a lot of cool stuff. Gigantic bubbles, water balloon slingshots, etc. Good service also.
It's called an SSD (solid state disk) and sleep mode. Why even reboot? Unless there's a hardware addition that requires a power down, there's no reason to "reboot". Booting, by it's very nature, is simply the initialization of all the hardware in the system. In VISTA, even, most of this is done upon driver loading and in userland. If you have a ton of kernal initialization, it's going to be slow. And linux comes with a LOT of stuff in the kernel. You need to recompile your kernel with only the hardware support you need, and then push as much to userland as possible. Then you're down to BIOS (which is basically just a memory test these days, with USB keys and userland disk drivers) (and stupid power management), and your bootloader and the time it takes to read your kernel binary(s) from disk (usually a few MB, so not long). It's pretty easy to get any mainsteam linux distro to a single user prompt in a few seconds. X, and your window manager, and all the shared libraries they need to operate is going to take a while. But on an SSD you can have that basically as a disk-stored RAM image, and it takes a few miliseconds to transfer that into RAM for use. With some intelligence you could whittle that down to the bare necessities for widgets and stuff and get that up very quickly also.
Microsoft is talking about scanning hardware, setting up a HAL and stuff, and all the other crap it does to just kindof work when you turn it on. Their shared libraries have never been that fast or optimized. Because THEY compile the binaries, they have to do it in such a way that either is very unoptimized or has some sort of runtime check to determine which binary to load based on the hardware. That can take a long time, with the millions of hardware configurations out there. What Linux COULD do is make a way to compile at install time everything. Gentoo kindof does this, but you'd need it to automatically optimize out everything you don't have. Microsoft should do the same, but it would require including the source;)
Okay, boss, this LTX-71 concealable mike is part of the same system that NASA used when they faked the Apollo Moon landings. They had the astronauts broadcast around the world from a sound stage at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernadino, California. So it worked for them, shouldn't give us too many problems.
It's because of developers. See, all this stuff is developer stuff. Because MSFT just wants to sell the OS (that being the stack of typical OS stuff, plus enterprise SSO/Management like AD, Sharepoint, IE, and MS Office). Yes, they offer a huge range of other products, but they make money on selling copy after copy of Windows, not selling a few copies of Great Plains, or CRM or whatever. So, the more reasons they give you to run windows on your server, desktop, whatever the more money they make. Right now, that means developers, since they can't buy any more software companies without the DoJ breathing down their neck.
But yes, I was going to bring up LDAP, DNS and Kerberos, since that's what AD is, with some minor incompatibilities. All of which have been around for >30 years..
Yeah, Important point about XHTML is that it's XML. So it's extensible. Basically, you should have your controller output in your XML format (your middleware format or whatever), and reformat it with XSL to whatever presentation format X the user is using. XHTML is a standard for the structure of the data, but the way it actually renders is up to the browser. So even if you are 100% compliant, there might be some order of operations thing in a specific browser that kills you.
In this case standards ARE the problem. XHTML is a data formatting standard and not actually a display/design standard (although it tries to be). Therefore yes, your page presentation is being accurately transmitted to the browser, and the browser is doing everything it's supposed to but it still doesn't work.
From a design perspective, XHTML sucks, because you cannot get very creative with your design because you don't know what might be on the other end. It is, on the other hand, very easy to make a form that functions in every web browser...
The ideal solution is to avoid the design entirely and have a single framework for UI design in the browser. Of course you'll find that Microsoft uses Active X, whereas everyone else uses Java applets.
Thus Javascript has filled the hole, and the major Javascript frameworks are filling the smaller browser design holes with transparent workarounds. It just shows that even if Microsoft tries to go monolithic, the market demands openness and standards. So, since designers couldn't rely on HTML they went behind MSFT's back to JS which still conforms to standards on all platforms.
Which reminds me, MS has adopted jQuery as it's official framework for JS. What do you know.
The Linux Terminal Server Project is actually pretty good. And useful for a variety of things beyond just saving dough on the desktop end. Remote access is one that comes to mind. Sure, you could have a bunch of X terms, but this will work with ANY box with a PXE (hell even Netboot) NIC. You don't need virtualization or any of that garbage. UNIX was designed as a "multi-luser" operating system;), back when mainframes were last in vogue. Xwindows is really quite good over a slow network and has been for DECADES.
Now, I want to stress that I am a proponent of terminals in only certain areas. A public library computer bank. A factory environment, where you want your server safe and securely away from sparks and heat. A customer service environment where the employee is only doing one or two things. My business ops people would have real computers for the reasons you mentioned. I want them to be accounting and developing even if the server is down.
It really irks me that people keep mentioning the same facts over and over again. Everyone knows how FRB works. Everyone knows they printed money. Everyone who is going to know knows. So why are you wasting brain power trying to educate people when you could be coming up with solutions.
I saw I story today about Iceland. You may or may not know that Iceland is a sort of banking haven for Europe. Anyway, they bought up a lot of these bad securities based on loans that may or may not currently be bad. Anyway, the story mentioned that the depositors from England and Germany and Europe are coming and wanting their money from the Icelandic banks and they don't have any. And it ended with "poor Iceland, what will they do now that their economy has collapsed"?
It's this type of stupid story that the media JUST LOVE to splatter about. They don't understand that they are CAUSING the mess. Guess what? NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN ICELAND. The farmer still grows his stuff. The geothermal energy is still coming from the ground. The snow is still white and cold. Nothing is different except the assumed value of a few sheets of paper.
Likewise, in America and world-wide, nothing REAL has changed. Yes, there are shysters who make money off confidence, and they are suffering right now. Oh, who's this guy Henry Paulson? The FORMER CEO of Goldman Sachs you idiots! But in reality, we are all still going to work, still producing the little amount of stuff we produce in this country. But we produce everything we need to exist, food, housing, medicine. So, again, I ask, what's the problem? If I'm hungry, can I get food? Yes. If I need a place to stay, is there one? Yes. If I'm sick is there a hospital mandated by law to provide care for me? Yes. So, what's the problem?
Buy local and DO NOT buy gold, since you can't buy food with gold. You can, in very bad times, buy gold with food:) So yes, if they weren't already speculated to record highs by people who saw this whole thing coming 18 months ago, buy commodities. Hell, REAL ESTATE is a great investment right now. If you have cash.. Some lucky asshole is going to swipe all those houses up from the banks. It might even be the U.S. government. And you know, they overpay for EVERYTHING, so if you buy some now, you will see an immediate appreciation. Anyway, these are not bad times if you are smart and not stupid and buy into their stupid panic stories. If you are seriously worried about feeding your family you shouldn't have GAMBLED IT AWAY on stocks.
The stupid stuff that happened in the 60's and 70's != 9/11 pal. TOTALLY different in every way. To combine the two is like saying that McCain's torture has something to do with his erratic behavior, or the fact that he's a child molester. Ok, bad example.
The FOUNDERS of this country were terrorists in the eyes of King George. But what they did was fight to create a better situation for themselves. You saw that again in the 60's and 70's with civil rights and the youth movement. Yes, the Weather Underground were a bunch of idiots but it's important to note that the changes some of their peers helped bring about have made this country a massively better place for everyone. And anyway, the real fear is religious fanatics with a nuclear weapon, not some dumb kids with pipe bombs.
And you sir are a fool to think that it has anything to do with "WAR". It's just that war epitomizes the separation of class. In the 70's there were drastic (though not as drastic as today) gaps between rich and poor. A horrible economy, an unending war, caused by foolish leadership, taken advantage of by the rich while the poor starve and are jobless, well, what's worse than that?
What this is doing is placing still more power, surveilence power (control), into the hands of a few people in the government. The same people who have pretty much given the government to corporations they formerly ran, and now are giving 700B to the same people. It's in the largest worldwide corporations' interest to A. have control of a government B. Erase worldwide borders caused by multiple currencies/legal systems/etc. "War" rarely physically involves the rich, unless it's a passtime they get off on. It's about money. Now what we have are the makings for a massive shift in government, from multiple countries to one world government. It is 100% enevitable. The people who control the wealth of the world talk to one another, you know. And it sure would be simpler for them if they didn't have to mess with different legal systems..
WWII was between capitalism (The allies), corporatism or fascism (the axis), and communism (the Soviets/China). We the U.S. were actually on the fence and were supporting both the forces of corporatism and capitalism. See also The New Deal. The problem is that the American constitution has separated public and private as much as it does church and state. In the end, money won. The plans showed that if we joined with England, Germany could be beaten. Frankly, there were just more English decended families in power in congress at the time. Obviously in Germany corporatism was over-stateist and led by a madman, which led to extremes that made the choice a no-brainer. The important thing to note is that it was not the economic policy of Hitler but rather other more personal reasons that caused us to ally with the Allies. Likewise, Japan bombed us because they were invading China and the Phillipines, whom we had relations with/had a territory. So, it was a no-brainer.
But NOW, we have an entirely different power structure. There are many "free market" scholars who have long admired the structure of corporatism. So, you see some of these people's last gasp in the political arena as trying to make this leap. And so, just as Bush Cheney has broken the barriers of Church and State, they have also broken the barriers of public and private. And in many ways they have flat out BROKEN the LAW (and the constitution). They declared early that the president decides the law, so they made up their own book. And with Globalism, what will be the enevitable structure of this one world government? Not capitalism, that's for growth. Not communism, that's for stagnation. No, a perfectly controlled business environment, neo-corporatism, with some facets of democracy.
So now the competing philosophies in the high end of world leadership are differing only by what to do with US, the worker bees. I think corporatism could wo
I'm switching to PGSQL also. I knew when Sun bought them it was the beginning of the end. The community is just not there any more. I would like to see MySql survive, but they are so far behind when it comes to SP programming and such. Postgres was designed to be programmed, whereas MySql was designed to be small and fast for little websites. I have multiple Mysql boxes with 5GB+ innodb tables and while it works, it does not make me comfortable..... I have a few pgsql out there but there's a lot of migration that's needed first.
Nothing in the post indicated an American, except maybe heck. Then it's signed off, cheers, which is more English. Faces and licenses are blurred at times over here as well. Biased much?
Using "cheers" just means you're drunk. So, while that's a good way to identify an Englishmen, there are a growing number of Americans who are drunk. Heck, however, is definitely American. A "brit" would use the term "Bloody 'Ell". So, I agree with you, but on opposite reasoning.
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I would like to see some good version control. If you look at the congressional record, it's full of crap like "Strike out the sixth sentence of chapter 12, paragraph 348, replacing with: 'b. except where already addressed under USC 90.01.23'"
WTF? I would like something like Trac where you can click on ANY statement in the US Code and see instantly:
What changes have been made, over time
Who sponsored the changes
Who voted for, against, present
Links to related code, as needed
Public opinion related to the law
Press releases by public offices/personel about the law
All with a nice Google timeline kindof interface.
Microsoft is a successful PUBLISHING company. It's not a tragedy, it is the goal of any corporation to get enough market share to be the leader. There had to be some standard OS, they happened to be it at the time when it all started taking off, and they continued to improve their products enough that the public wanted them. In the later years (>1995), when Bill was arguably less in control than the board, is when they began the more deceptive business practices. Bill the man wants now to make a difference in the world with the Gates Foundation. Especially education, and Bill comes from a different mindset than the last generation of rich billionaires like the Carnegies and Rockefellers. Both of them came from industrial backgrounds, and their main goal was to reform education to improve the workforce. Bill wants to improve computer literacy, communications, both in the US and the world. I've been reading some of his more recent commentary about education and it's actually pretty fascinating. Not that I'm a fan of MSFT but I think Bill's a decent guy and he deserves a fair shake now that he's giving a lot of the money back.
Google releases a Beta phone on a carrier network, so they had to bait the carrier a little bit.. Once Google or a subsidiary gets the spectrum they are trying to get, this thing will be so open you'll not believe it. And Google's business is search, so you'd better believe they are going to dominate mobile search also. The ads thing is secondary, just an evolution. The marketplace demands ads on everything, and when they are ready to move into mobile, Google will already be there with a solid database of mobile searches, mobile pages and they'll be in the phone too.
Yeah, I was going to say... A "good" offer is when you get enough dough to pay the bills. Don't worry about the market, worry about yourself. If, in a year, you feel like you're not making enough, ask for a raise or find another job. The money is all back up at the experience level now. Interns don't make crap because they don't have experience. You might be the smartest man/woman around, but if you've never experienced a long call with the IRS or getting sued, you're pretty useless. Most people making over 100K have, is all I'm saying. Make mistakes, focus on learning and not money. The money will just come.
It's called a "religibusiness". There are thousands of these out there. The biggest ones have many millions of customers (700 club, anyone). It doesn't have to be about Jesus or whatever, it's about momentum. The same could be said for the latest pop music phenomenon.
Guess what, those people ARE seeing red and white cars and hearing people snickering. But it's by the same tendency that you'll notice all the orange things around you, now that I've mentioned it. You have a sub-conscious mind that does a pretty good job of filtering things and finding important patterns in other things. Sometimes people's minds start focusing too much on patterns that aren't meaningful and attach meaning to them. Sometimes, like in the case of the orange stuff, we filter and tag other, important things as not meaningful (like having a home, or bathing). It's not surprising that multiple people notice the same patterns--in fact, merely talking about it reinforces the plastic links between neurons and makes it more likely they will notice the pattern from then on. This isn't meaningful, but it is interesting. I think it is wise to focus on the positive aspects of the community, that people are communicating with others, sharing meaning where there is none, not unlike christianity. In fact, I'm certain bands of people like this are what caused the mass migrations of the early humans. Religion is all about patterns that reoccur. The Bible is successful because it documents so many common ones that it's likely every human on earth will experience at least one of them in his lifetime. Likewise our consumer culture has created new patterns. Look in your cupboard and see the patterns created by the uniform container sizes, even more striking in the grocery store of course. And standard lengths of everything from lumber to keyboards affect us every day. Next, take a walk in the woods, arguably where we last evolved as humans. Notice that the patterns are quite different, every thing is unique, yet the pattern of the whole exists in each cell of the tree. That is because time is at work, and therefore the consistency of the pattern is affected more. Solar energy is slowly harnessed to move individual molucules in hopefully the right direction--by the time they get there it might be the wrong spot. The cans in the cupboard are the exact opposite. Massive energy is spent to immedately seal the can, encapsulate the contents, literally encapsulate time. And the patterns they make speak that to many. Unless we somehow evolve (or our creations somehow evolve to be more flexible), this type of overwhelming feeling, this panic many are experiencing, will continue to be more and more common.
If your documents are that sensitive, why aren't you using DRM? But true, threats, especially a message displayed at every login stating the policy, go a long way to keeping people on their toes. Periodically audit the machines remotely to see if there are any copied files, also.
Yes, they use a java app which utilizes the SSL capabilties in the browser to create a tunnel. Usuallly they do like a lightweight remote desktop type thing, or you can spawn something that redirects IP. Lastly, they usally have a link to install a package for a standard IPSEC VPN client. Cisco offers this in their ASA (formerly PIX) firewalls, Sonicwall does also. It's helpful for users logging in from a non-company computer as there's not much config/support required. Obviously your LAN needs to be secure also, in case they log in at an airport kiosk and forget to log out or something. With RADIUS and some auditing, you're almost as safe as in the office.
Amazing Toys is a site I stumbled upon a long time ago that has a lot of cool stuff. Gigantic bubbles, water balloon slingshots, etc. Good service also.
More like:
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10 POKE 54296,15:POKE 54296,0
15 Y=Y+1
20 IF Y=10000 GOTO 40
30 GOTO 10
40 SYS 64738
It's called an SSD (solid state disk) and sleep mode. Why even reboot? Unless there's a hardware addition that requires a power down, there's no reason to "reboot". Booting, by it's very nature, is simply the initialization of all the hardware in the system. In VISTA, even, most of this is done upon driver loading and in userland. If you have a ton of kernal initialization, it's going to be slow. And linux comes with a LOT of stuff in the kernel. You need to recompile your kernel with only the hardware support you need, and then push as much to userland as possible. Then you're down to BIOS (which is basically just a memory test these days, with USB keys and userland disk drivers) (and stupid power management), and your bootloader and the time it takes to read your kernel binary(s) from disk (usually a few MB, so not long). It's pretty easy to get any mainsteam linux distro to a single user prompt in a few seconds. X, and your window manager, and all the shared libraries they need to operate is going to take a while. But on an SSD you can have that basically as a disk-stored RAM image, and it takes a few miliseconds to transfer that into RAM for use. With some intelligence you could whittle that down to the bare necessities for widgets and stuff and get that up very quickly also.
Microsoft is talking about scanning hardware, setting up a HAL and stuff, and all the other crap it does to just kindof work when you turn it on. Their shared libraries have never been that fast or optimized. Because THEY compile the binaries, they have to do it in such a way that either is very unoptimized or has some sort of runtime check to determine which binary to load based on the hardware. That can take a long time, with the millions of hardware configurations out there. What Linux COULD do is make a way to compile at install time everything. Gentoo kindof does this, but you'd need it to automatically optimize out everything you don't have. Microsoft should do the same, but it would require including the source ;)
Okay, boss, this LTX-71 concealable mike is part of the same system that NASA used when they faked the Apollo Moon landings. They had the astronauts broadcast around the world from a sound stage at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernadino, California. So it worked for them, shouldn't give us too many problems.
It's because of developers. See, all this stuff is developer stuff. Because MSFT just wants to sell the OS (that being the stack of typical OS stuff, plus enterprise SSO/Management like AD, Sharepoint, IE, and MS Office). Yes, they offer a huge range of other products, but they make money on selling copy after copy of Windows, not selling a few copies of Great Plains, or CRM or whatever. So, the more reasons they give you to run windows on your server, desktop, whatever the more money they make. Right now, that means developers, since they can't buy any more software companies without the DoJ breathing down their neck.
Don't forget WINS server!
But yes, I was going to bring up LDAP, DNS and Kerberos, since that's what AD is, with some minor incompatibilities. All of which have been around for >30 years..
That's the SOFTCORE Reactor you're thinking of. And it's the only computer cooled with 100% grits.
Yeah, Important point about XHTML is that it's XML. So it's extensible. Basically, you should have your controller output in your XML format (your middleware format or whatever), and reformat it with XSL to whatever presentation format X the user is using. XHTML is a standard for the structure of the data, but the way it actually renders is up to the browser. So even if you are 100% compliant, there might be some order of operations thing in a specific browser that kills you.
In this case standards ARE the problem. XHTML is a data formatting standard and not actually a display/design standard (although it tries to be). Therefore yes, your page presentation is being accurately transmitted to the browser, and the browser is doing everything it's supposed to but it still doesn't work.
From a design perspective, XHTML sucks, because you cannot get very creative with your design because you don't know what might be on the other end. It is, on the other hand, very easy to make a form that functions in every web browser...
The ideal solution is to avoid the design entirely and have a single framework for UI design in the browser. Of course you'll find that Microsoft uses Active X, whereas everyone else uses Java applets.
Thus Javascript has filled the hole, and the major Javascript frameworks are filling the smaller browser design holes with transparent workarounds. It just shows that even if Microsoft tries to go monolithic, the market demands openness and standards. So, since designers couldn't rely on HTML they went behind MSFT's back to JS which still conforms to standards on all platforms.
Which reminds me, MS has adopted jQuery as it's official framework for JS. What do you know.
This is quite refreshing for me. Usually NASA has something entirely different waving the wind.....
Correction, you can also boot using Floppy, CD, or USB boot image.
The Linux Terminal Server Project is actually pretty good. And useful for a variety of things beyond just saving dough on the desktop end. Remote access is one that comes to mind. Sure, you could have a bunch of X terms, but this will work with ANY box with a PXE (hell even Netboot) NIC. You don't need virtualization or any of that garbage. UNIX was designed as a "multi-luser" operating system ;), back when mainframes were last in vogue. Xwindows is really quite good over a slow network and has been for DECADES.
Now, I want to stress that I am a proponent of terminals in only certain areas. A public library computer bank. A factory environment, where you want your server safe and securely away from sparks and heat. A customer service environment where the employee is only doing one or two things. My business ops people would have real computers for the reasons you mentioned. I want them to be accounting and developing even if the server is down.
It really irks me that people keep mentioning the same facts over and over again. Everyone knows how FRB works. Everyone knows they printed money. Everyone who is going to know knows. So why are you wasting brain power trying to educate people when you could be coming up with solutions.
I saw I story today about Iceland. You may or may not know that Iceland is a sort of banking haven for Europe. Anyway, they bought up a lot of these bad securities based on loans that may or may not currently be bad. Anyway, the story mentioned that the depositors from England and Germany and Europe are coming and wanting their money from the Icelandic banks and they don't have any. And it ended with "poor Iceland, what will they do now that their economy has collapsed"?
It's this type of stupid story that the media JUST LOVE to splatter about. They don't understand that they are CAUSING the mess. Guess what? NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN ICELAND. The farmer still grows his stuff. The geothermal energy is still coming from the ground. The snow is still white and cold. Nothing is different except the assumed value of a few sheets of paper.
Likewise, in America and world-wide, nothing REAL has changed. Yes, there are shysters who make money off confidence, and they are suffering right now. Oh, who's this guy Henry Paulson? The FORMER CEO of Goldman Sachs you idiots! But in reality, we are all still going to work, still producing the little amount of stuff we produce in this country. But we produce everything we need to exist, food, housing, medicine. So, again, I ask, what's the problem? If I'm hungry, can I get food? Yes. If I need a place to stay, is there one? Yes. If I'm sick is there a hospital mandated by law to provide care for me? Yes. So, what's the problem?
Buy local and DO NOT buy gold, since you can't buy food with gold. You can, in very bad times, buy gold with food :) So yes, if they weren't already speculated to record highs by people who saw this whole thing coming 18 months ago, buy commodities. Hell, REAL ESTATE is a great investment right now. If you have cash.. Some lucky asshole is going to swipe all those houses up from the banks. It might even be the U.S. government. And you know, they overpay for EVERYTHING, so if you buy some now, you will see an immediate appreciation. Anyway, these are not bad times if you are smart and not stupid and buy into their stupid panic stories. If you are seriously worried about feeding your family you shouldn't have GAMBLED IT AWAY on stocks.
Man if they can do 41cm for $200M, imagine what the expensive ones can do.
The stupid stuff that happened in the 60's and 70's != 9/11 pal. TOTALLY different in every way. To combine the two is like saying that McCain's torture has something to do with his erratic behavior, or the fact that he's a child molester. Ok, bad example.
The FOUNDERS of this country were terrorists in the eyes of King George. But what they did was fight to create a better situation for themselves. You saw that again in the 60's and 70's with civil rights and the youth movement. Yes, the Weather Underground were a bunch of idiots but it's important to note that the changes some of their peers helped bring about have made this country a massively better place for everyone. And anyway, the real fear is religious fanatics with a nuclear weapon, not some dumb kids with pipe bombs.
And you sir are a fool to think that it has anything to do with "WAR". It's just that war epitomizes the separation of class. In the 70's there were drastic (though not as drastic as today) gaps between rich and poor. A horrible economy, an unending war, caused by foolish leadership, taken advantage of by the rich while the poor starve and are jobless, well, what's worse than that?
What this is doing is placing still more power, surveilence power (control), into the hands of a few people in the government. The same people who have pretty much given the government to corporations they formerly ran, and now are giving 700B to the same people. It's in the largest worldwide corporations' interest to A. have control of a government B. Erase worldwide borders caused by multiple currencies/legal systems/etc. "War" rarely physically involves the rich, unless it's a passtime they get off on. It's about money. Now what we have are the makings for a massive shift in government, from multiple countries to one world government. It is 100% enevitable. The people who control the wealth of the world talk to one another, you know. And it sure would be simpler for them if they didn't have to mess with different legal systems..
WWII was between capitalism (The allies), corporatism or fascism (the axis), and communism (the Soviets/China). We the U.S. were actually on the fence and were supporting both the forces of corporatism and capitalism. See also The New Deal. The problem is that the American constitution has separated public and private as much as it does church and state. In the end, money won. The plans showed that if we joined with England, Germany could be beaten. Frankly, there were just more English decended families in power in congress at the time. Obviously in Germany corporatism was over-stateist and led by a madman, which led to extremes that made the choice a no-brainer. The important thing to note is that it was not the economic policy of Hitler but rather other more personal reasons that caused us to ally with the Allies. Likewise, Japan bombed us because they were invading China and the Phillipines, whom we had relations with/had a territory. So, it was a no-brainer.
But NOW, we have an entirely different power structure. There are many "free market" scholars who have long admired the structure of corporatism. So, you see some of these people's last gasp in the political arena as trying to make this leap. And so, just as Bush Cheney has broken the barriers of Church and State, they have also broken the barriers of public and private. And in many ways they have flat out BROKEN the LAW (and the constitution). They declared early that the president decides the law, so they made up their own book. And with Globalism, what will be the enevitable structure of this one world government? Not capitalism, that's for growth. Not communism, that's for stagnation. No, a perfectly controlled business environment, neo-corporatism, with some facets of democracy.
So now the competing philosophies in the high end of world leadership are differing only by what to do with US, the worker bees. I think corporatism could wo
I'm switching to PGSQL also. I knew when Sun bought them it was the beginning of the end. The community is just not there any more. I would like to see MySql survive, but they are so far behind when it comes to SP programming and such. Postgres was designed to be programmed, whereas MySql was designed to be small and fast for little websites. I have multiple Mysql boxes with 5GB+ innodb tables and while it works, it does not make me comfortable..... I have a few pgsql out there but there's a lot of migration that's needed first.
You might think that if you don't know that England and London aren't synonyms.
Though perhaps I was mistaken in thinking that are only 50 states, and Yorkshire isn't among them.
See, you're English and Drunk. QED ;)
Nothing in the post indicated an American, except maybe heck. Then it's signed off, cheers, which is more English. Faces and licenses are blurred at times over here as well. Biased much?
Using "cheers" just means you're drunk. So, while that's a good way to identify an Englishmen, there are a growing number of Americans who are drunk. Heck, however, is definitely American. A "brit" would use the term "Bloody 'Ell". So, I agree with you, but on opposite reasoning.