OK, My geek quotient is so low, it's ridiculous. Can someone point me to an English explanation of what IPv6 is? I looked on Sixx.org and googled for FAQs and got language like this:
"Where do I get my own 6bone handle?"
I looked whatis.com and got a semi-English explanation.
So now I understand that IPv6 lengthens IPs from 32 to 128 bits and packets can be prioritized. Is that the heart of the matter?
There are two types of credit checks. The first type doesn't affect your credit. Credit Card companies use these for pre-approval offers. They will make an inquiry and it will appear on your credit report.
A credit check for the purpose of borrowing does affect your credit. Lawrence Lindsey, the President's former chief economic advisor got into a huge public brouhaha with Toys 'R Us over its credit rating practices. He was a Governer of the Federal Reserve Board at the time he was denied a Toys 'R Us credit card because he was shopping for a home loan at the time - he had too many checks on his credit report.
Now, I don't know which kind an employer does. I suspect the first (non-harmful) one because it doesn't involve an actual credit app.
Our credit reporting system is crap. Creditors have too much power. They can make you pay things you don't owe simply because it's cheaper than fighting them. My wife and I are this close (holding finger and thumb close together) to countersuing a doctor that has mistreated us, doesn't return calls, and won't even prosecute the lawsuit he filed against us. The $8,000 bill he says we owe was taken off of our report, but he can put it back on whenever he wants. Ack.
The problem with kishotenketsu isn't that it's so different from western thought. The problem is that most Japanese people don't learn it or any form of composition. Their education system is geared toward the 20th century. It produces excellent factory workers and "sarariman" but not great independent thinkers. It produces folks that know a lot, but don't necessarily know how to apply it in new ways.
I would not be surprised to see this turn around in the very near future. It seems to me that Monbusho (the Ministry of Ed.) has seen the light and we may see some reforms come.
In my experience, it takes them a long time to make a decision to change, but once the decisions have been made, they can move VERY fast. If they reform, the US had better get on the ball, or we'll be left in the dust.
Finally, I have enormous respect for Japan. I think everyone who could possibly afford the trip should visit at least once. Japan is beautiful, complex, banal, overwhelming, frustrating, and fun all at the same time. It's a fabulous place.
A good travel agent can sometimes get you a fabulous package deal. My wife and I went to Cancun. Our travel agent put us in a very nice condo with a kitchen. There were several restaurants on-site and a grocery store. The flight was one of those charter airlines.
The point: for this I would go with an agent who has experience booking honeymoons. He/she may have a great place or a great package deal.
No, an ad hominem argument would be: "You are a jerk." (Which I'm sure you're not)
It was pretty funny that you made the hammer/nail point, then proposed a relational DB as the only solution, then your signature declared that you are a DBA. Worth a giggle.
I believe the only universal blood plasma is AB. I used to do apheresis periodically because I have AB+ blood. Then I went to a third-world country, and they don't want me any more.
Ok, just for the sake of argument, I'll pose some questions. (Do us all a favor and rub some brain cells together before you type away.) I'd encourage everyone to answer these questions:
Is it your contention that Saddam Hussein is more trustworthy or credible than Mr. Powell, Ms. Rice, President Bush, Tony Blair, the PMs of Italy, Portugal, etc.. and the President of the Czech Republic? (who was a dissident in the Soviet days, btw)
What would it take for you to support a invasion of Iraq?
Is war ever justifiable?
Is there anything worth putting American (or any) troops in harm's way?
Do you ever blame anything on any other country? Or is everything somehow America's fault?
I have a PBG4 500 with 512MB of RAM and it runs OS X beautifully for everything I need. The only thing that kills me is WORD. Hmm.. Everything else is fine.
I love this PB w/ OS X. It's an absolute dream compared to my ThinkPad running XP. The XP machine has innumerable problems.
I have to second "A Fire Upon the Deep" and its prequel "A Deepness in the Sky." Also read "The Witling" if it's in print, and anything else you can find of his.
Absolutely fantabulous swashbucklingly wonderful stuff. Vinge's imagination is unparalleled.
Yes, and.. one point I haven't seen made yet: The government can't vaccinate your children without your permission. They can kick them out of school, isolate them and make your life pretty miserable, but they can't invade their bodies without due process of law, which is missing in this equation.
And now DUCK, because here comes the straw man: I think the main reason for the knee-jerk criticism from the likes of Schultz is that they work largely in a theoretical rose-colored world of security, where all problems are solved after a cup of coffee and a bit of pontification
While it's valid to argue that Shultz is responding knee-jerkedly (somebody have a better adverb?) It's not valid to attack him by virtue of the fact that he's an academic and to denigrate him with the cheap-shot coffee comment.
Academics study things like unintended consequences, the big picture, etc.. These are things most geeks can't be bothered to consider. While stupid academics tend to rise to the top in the media, very few are actually addle-headed theoretical bloviators. These smart people can contribute a lot to our discussions.
As for the actual argument about killing others' rogue processes, I don't have anything original to say, but in the "real world" it would be called vigilantism and trespassing.
orders of magnitude better than their previous effort.
Allow me to be a bit pedantic, well, very pedantic, and quote Inigo Montoya: "You keep using that word. I doan think it means what you think it means."
If something is "orders of magnitude" better it has to be at least 100 times better.
Yes, XP is MUCH better than 9x, and ME, but only slightly better than 2000, IMO. Not even approaching one order of magnitude better.
But this is not the first time that Apple have had an unsuccessful product on their hands - the iCube went the same way. I mean, to me it was an excellent product, but I think it was just too expensive.
It's just the "G4 Cube" not "iCube" and it was unsuccessful. The iMac, by comparison, has been a smashing success. I have one on my desk and I absolutely love it.
I don't know why they made the "cube" mistake. Somtimes at Apple, it seems that pretty wins out over "functional." Mostly their hardware, though, is pretty AND functional.
First, I don't think the state of public education has declined as much as you think. The fact is, a higher percentage of the population is going to school. The increase is almost exclusively the urban and rural poor. The urban poor are disadvantaged, underserved, and the schools are run by teachers' unions that won't allow for improvement or the firing of bad teachers. Urban schools are also underfunded.
Rural schools are in bad shape as well, mostly because they are underfunded.
Wealthy schools, suburban, urban and rural, seem to be holding their own standards-wise. We can stack them up against most countries and compare decently. Having said that, there has been a decline, even in these schools.
So basically, my contention is, 1. It's not as bad as you think. 2. It's mostly not new teaching methodology to blame. (note, mostly not)
You mention 1965. What's happened since 1965 besides new teaching methods?
1. The destruction of the nuclear family. How many kids these days grow up in a broken home? At least half, last I looked. Divorce has a measurable, horrific effect on children. Grades dropping are just one effect. Don't believe me? Read The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce by Judith Wallerstein. 2. The two-income family. Even if the home is not broken, both parents are so tuckered out by the time they get home from work they don't have time or the inclination to help Johnny figure out why apostrophes shouldn't be used for pluralization (my personal pet peeve) This is a generalization of course. Many dual-income families are functional, but most are too-rushed, over scheduled, and overcommitted. 3. Finally, poor teaching or poor methods. Some tried-and-true methods have been thrown out for the purpose of political-correctness. When we teach gender equity and political correctness in math class, we are headed down the wrong trail.
I think we can essentially agree, believe it or not, that core knowledge is vitally important, that we should stick with tried-and-true principles, and only use new methods that have been proved effective in research.
I know very little about the whole-language/phonics debate. I do know that whole language works for some and phonics works for others. I don't know why we have to be so dogmatic about it. Go with what works.
While many of the problems with education like with the educaiton establishment, particularly the politically-correct, unaccountable teachers' unions, more problems come out of our society's difficulties. We can't expect the education establishment to hold together our kids if their families are dysfunctional.
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You can get a new password if you want. Just go apply for it and cough up the fee. ($50? $70?) Don't know.
Mine is looking pretty shabby. I need to get a new one before it falls apart in some out-of-the-way place.
Mod parent down! He obviously knows what he's talking about. We can't have that on Slashdot!
I object to this gratuitous fact-slinging and liberal dose of reason!
OK, My geek quotient is so low, it's ridiculous. Can someone point me to an English explanation of what IPv6 is? I looked on Sixx.org and googled for FAQs and got language like this:
"Where do I get my own 6bone handle?"
I looked whatis.com and got a semi-English explanation.
So now I understand that IPv6 lengthens IPs from 32 to 128 bits and packets can be prioritized. Is that the heart of the matter?
Anybody have a good FAQ?
Do I need a 6bone handle?
Is that some kind of raunchy joke?
Yeah, I don't want a .name TLD either, but it's not because I like being anonymous.
.NAME is the end of the address. People wouldn't get it.
It's just because I think it's a dumb idea.
Spelling out my e-mail address is tedious enough as it is. I can't imagine explaining that
Hmm.. Not sure.
First, IANARC (Roman Catholic) and I'm not sure this priest is a Roman Catholic. (My German is practically non-existent)
Anyway, Catholics are imbibers. They are typically not contaminated by American Calvinistic teotalitarianism. (This is equally true for Lutherans)
The key is moderation, which can be a huge problem for many people, priests or not.
There are two types of credit checks. The first type doesn't affect your credit. Credit Card companies use these for pre-approval offers. They will make an inquiry and it will appear on your credit report.
A credit check for the purpose of borrowing does affect your credit. Lawrence Lindsey, the President's former chief economic advisor got into a huge public brouhaha with Toys 'R Us over its credit rating practices. He was a Governer of the Federal Reserve Board at the time he was denied a Toys 'R Us credit card because he was shopping for a home loan at the time - he had too many checks on his credit report.
Now, I don't know which kind an employer does. I suspect the first (non-harmful) one because it doesn't involve an actual credit app.
Our credit reporting system is crap. Creditors have too much power. They can make you pay things you don't owe simply because it's cheaper than fighting them. My wife and I are this close (holding finger and thumb close together) to countersuing a doctor that has mistreated us, doesn't return calls, and won't even prosecute the lawsuit he filed against us. The $8,000 bill he says we owe was taken off of our report, but he can put it back on whenever he wants. Ack.
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No, the SUV drivers in the 'burbs typically support their schools. It's the urban schools that are so underfunded.
Suburbanites know that taxes are bad but ignorance is worse.
OS X does not support it either, if I remember correctly, but see the post above about Firewire target disk mode.
It makes for some fabulous literature.
The problem with kishotenketsu isn't that it's so different from western thought. The problem is that most Japanese people don't learn it or any form of composition. Their education system is geared toward the 20th century. It produces excellent factory workers and "sarariman" but not great independent thinkers. It produces folks that know a lot, but don't necessarily know how to apply it in new ways.
I would not be surprised to see this turn around in the very near future. It seems to me that Monbusho (the Ministry of Ed.) has seen the light and we may see some reforms come.
In my experience, it takes them a long time to make a decision to change, but once the decisions have been made, they can move VERY fast. If they reform, the US had better get on the ball, or we'll be left in the dust.
Finally, I have enormous respect for Japan. I think everyone who could possibly afford the trip should visit at least once. Japan is beautiful, complex, banal, overwhelming, frustrating, and fun all at the same time. It's a fabulous place.
A good travel agent can sometimes get you a fabulous package deal. My wife and I went to Cancun. Our travel agent put us in a very nice condo with a kitchen. There were several restaurants on-site and a grocery store. The flight was one of those charter airlines.
The point: for this I would go with an agent who has experience booking honeymoons. He/she may have a great place or a great package deal.
I've been very happy with Hotwire with hotels, rental cars, and flights. We've gotten some fabulous deals.
You are doubleplus funny.
I used to feel stupid for skipping most of the LONG poetry in LOTR. Now I feel smarter for it.
I assume when someone uses the wrong word on Slashdot that he/she did it accidentally, so I read "suppository" as "repository."
Darn unwashed masses cost me a second of fleeting amusement.
Or maybe I just missed it.
That is an ad hominem argument.
No, an ad hominem argument would be:
"You are a jerk." (Which I'm sure you're not)
It was pretty funny that you made the hammer/nail point, then proposed a relational DB as the only solution, then your signature declared that you are a DBA. Worth a giggle.
I believe the only universal blood plasma is AB. I used to do apheresis periodically because I have AB+ blood. Then I went to a third-world country, and they don't want me any more.
Ok, just for the sake of argument, I'll pose some questions. (Do us all a favor and rub some brain cells together before you type away.) I'd encourage everyone to answer these questions:
Is it your contention that Saddam Hussein is more trustworthy or credible than Mr. Powell, Ms. Rice, President Bush, Tony Blair, the PMs of Italy, Portugal, etc.. and the President of the Czech Republic? (who was a dissident in the Soviet days, btw)
What would it take for you to support a invasion of Iraq?
Is war ever justifiable?
Is there anything worth putting American (or any) troops in harm's way?
Do you ever blame anything on any other country? Or is everything somehow America's fault?
Apple is a hardware company that makes software to run on that expensive hardware.
What's this "laggy" people are bandying about?
I have a PBG4 500 with 512MB of RAM and it runs OS X beautifully for everything I need. The only thing that kills me is WORD. Hmm.. Everything else is fine.
I love this PB w/ OS X. It's an absolute dream compared to my ThinkPad running XP. The XP machine has innumerable problems.
I have to second "A Fire Upon the Deep" and its prequel "A Deepness in the Sky." Also read "The Witling" if it's in print, and anything else you can find of his.
Absolutely fantabulous swashbucklingly wonderful stuff. Vinge's imagination is unparalleled.
Yes, and.. one point I haven't seen made yet: The government can't vaccinate your children without your permission. They can kick them out of school, isolate them and make your life pretty miserable, but they can't invade their bodies without due process of law, which is missing in this equation.
And now DUCK, because here comes the straw man:
I think the main reason for the knee-jerk criticism from the likes of Schultz is that they work largely in a theoretical rose-colored world of security, where all problems are solved after a cup of coffee and a bit of pontification
While it's valid to argue that Shultz is responding knee-jerkedly (somebody have a better adverb?) It's not valid to attack him by virtue of the fact that he's an academic and to denigrate him with the cheap-shot coffee comment.
Academics study things like unintended consequences, the big picture, etc.. These are things most geeks can't be bothered to consider. While stupid academics tend to rise to the top in the media, very few are actually addle-headed theoretical bloviators. These smart people can contribute a lot to our discussions.
As for the actual argument about killing others' rogue processes, I don't have anything original to say, but in the "real world" it would be called vigilantism and trespassing.
everybody buys sight unseen.
You obviously don't know the "bible belt." Most people don't wait. In fact, most people don't even wait to be engaged.
orders of magnitude better than their previous effort.
Allow me to be a bit pedantic, well, very pedantic, and quote Inigo Montoya: "You keep using that word. I doan think it means what you think it means."
If something is "orders of magnitude" better it has to be at least 100 times better.
Yes, XP is MUCH better than 9x, and ME, but only slightly better than 2000, IMO. Not even approaching one order of magnitude better.
</high horse>
But this is not the first time that Apple have had an unsuccessful product on their hands - the iCube went the same way. I mean, to me it was an excellent product, but I think it was just too expensive.
It's just the "G4 Cube" not "iCube" and it was unsuccessful. The iMac, by comparison, has been a smashing success. I have one on my desk and I absolutely love it.
I don't know why they made the "cube" mistake. Somtimes at Apple, it seems that pretty wins out over "functional." Mostly their hardware, though, is pretty AND functional.
First, I don't think the state of public education has declined as much as you think. The fact is, a higher percentage of the population is going to school. The increase is almost exclusively the urban and rural poor. The urban poor are disadvantaged, underserved, and the schools are run by teachers' unions that won't allow for improvement or the firing of bad teachers. Urban schools are also underfunded.
Rural schools are in bad shape as well, mostly because they are underfunded.
Wealthy schools, suburban, urban and rural, seem to be holding their own standards-wise. We can stack them up against most countries and compare decently. Having said that, there has been a decline, even in these schools.
So basically, my contention is, 1. It's not as bad as you think. 2. It's mostly not new teaching methodology to blame. (note, mostly not)
You mention 1965. What's happened since 1965 besides new teaching methods?
1. The destruction of the nuclear family. How many kids these days grow up in a broken home? At least half, last I looked. Divorce has a measurable, horrific effect on children. Grades dropping are just one effect. Don't believe me? Read The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce by Judith Wallerstein.
2. The two-income family. Even if the home is not broken, both parents are so tuckered out by the time they get home from work they don't have time or the inclination to help Johnny figure out why apostrophes shouldn't be used for pluralization (my personal pet peeve) This is a generalization of course. Many dual-income families are functional, but most are too-rushed, over scheduled, and overcommitted.
3. Finally, poor teaching or poor methods. Some tried-and-true methods have been thrown out for the purpose of political-correctness. When we teach gender equity and political correctness in math class, we are headed down the wrong trail.
I think we can essentially agree, believe it or not, that core knowledge is vitally important, that we should stick with tried-and-true principles, and only use new methods that have been proved effective in research.
I know very little about the whole-language/phonics debate. I do know that whole language works for some and phonics works for others. I don't know why we have to be so dogmatic about it. Go with what works.
While many of the problems with education like with the educaiton establishment, particularly the politically-correct, unaccountable teachers' unions, more problems come out of our society's difficulties. We can't expect the education establishment to hold together our kids if their families are dysfunctional.
Whew..