As for where it comes from, I remember when I got my first IT position. Working Tech Support for an ISP back in the late 90's. I was 17 years old, and I remember having a conversation with a few of the other guys regarding this exact subject. One of them went on to explain, how it is only natural that we would all gain a bit of arrogance. Think about it.... most of us are still in High School, yet we have everyone from House Wives to C.E.O's calling us to help with their computers. On top of that, for the previous decade before that we've had family members and friends calling us for help when their computers break, because we were that kid who is "good with computers". As a snot nosed 17 year old brat, this naturally induces a bit of arrogance.
As for how to get over it, mostly it will come with time. Most of us learn, eventually, that there is always someone out there smarter than us.
I use openvpn to allow me to to exactly what you're describing. My connection home network is NAT'd, but from work or anywhere else that I have my laptop, I can ssh directly to any machine on my home network. I only need to make my openvpn connection. It works really well. I'd be willing to bet you could get an openvpn client for your phone and make set it to always connect. Then you'd be able to get to your phone from anywhere also.
I would very much agree with this. A balanced approach is needed.
The company I work for is always looking for that magic bullet. Some 3rd party software that will solve all of our problems. I keep trying to explain that what we need is good flexible software that will solve some/most of our problems. If we choose the right software, we can then write our own code to pick up the slack of the 3rd party software. Hopefully we can also write some code to integrate software A with software B.
But no matter how hard we search, no company has written software that will solve all of our problems.
I started composting a few years ago at home, and was blown away at how fast it actually happens. If your starting a "fresh batch", it can take about a month before it starts to really look look like soil, but after that, anything you add is unidentifiable within a few days to 2 weeks depending on what it is.
I'm sure times vary, but still, I was expecting it to take months for an old apple to break down. By the end of the year, my 3 member family has a 55 gallon trash can filled with usable compost.
I think the idea is that if you extrapolate the "closed system" idea out to it's logical conclusion, you come to the idea that the Universe itself is a closed system. Thus the idea that that the Big Bang sent matter shooting off into the far reaches of space only to later form itself into galaxies, stars, and planets goes against the second law. Taking this all the way down in the opposite direction to amino acids and proteins aligning themselves in just the right way to form life and then evolving, or getting better, also goes against the second law.
I recently got my licenses as well. 2 weeks ago today to be exact. What drew me to it was exactly what others are saying.... the ability to get on the air for relatively little money and talk with others around the world. Not that I've gotten that far yet.
Also working with packet radio, satellites, talking with the IIS... these things really sparked my geek interest like nothing has in a long while. I find it funny that a technology that my grandfather could have been into is still intriguing today.
I've always set the delimiter as this: If they have to reach out and make physical contact then the need either immediate suspicion, or a warrant. By physical contact I mean coming into my house, patting me down or even shooting little microwaves or whatever the TSA scanners do so that they can see under my clothes.
I've had this discussion several times with people at work and this always seems to be the conclusion I come to. Follow me around, listen with parabolic microphones from a distance, even have bomb sniffing dogs sniff the air as I walk by. These are all what I would call passive forms of surveillance. Anything requiring that a person or machine make physical contact with me falls under the right of being secure in my persons, houses, papers, etc. and should require a warrant.
This does not mean that as long as they are not making physical contact that they don't necessarily need a warrant. Only that if they are going to, then they must have one.
Its been a while since I've needed to diagnose a problem with those beeps, but last time I did I'm pretty sure that each and every one of them had a very specific meaning.
I tend to agree. There only a few instances where a GUI needs to be used. My personal belief is that if you can't affectively use a command line, then you are not really a good Admin, regardless of your OS of choice. I've see some pretty cool things done recently on a windows command line that I had no idea could be done.
The options this article talks about aren't missing. You can still do all of these things, it just requires that you actually understand Apache, Postgres, etc. If you don't understand them past what the GUI shows you, then you probably shouldn't be the one responsible for them.
I'm always a bit confused by #4. We've got a pretty good sized object (the moon) in our "region". Would that mean Earth has not cleared its region of planetesimals? Lots of other planets have this same issue. Some of which have much larger moons that Earth does? Serious question here? What am I missing?
That's exactly right. The very nature of IT means that we're exposed to tons of products. Every time someone insists on particular application for a project, we get exposed to it. This gives us great insight into what does and does not work. Simply inviting some folks from IT during your planning meetings for a new project would end about 90% of these problems.
Aren't there cops dedicated to the investigation of accident scenes. My understanding is that they can already look at a scene and tell who hit who, from what angle, and how fast they were all going based on skid marks, car damage, lay out of wreckage, etc. All this info can be gathered using this evidence and some basic math. What else will a black box tell them that they can't already deduce from the scene?
Your experiment definitely showed adaptation in animals. But you started with mice, and ended up with mice. Just mice with shorter or longer tails. Obviously adaptation happens. But evolution, really, is the transformation of one animal into a completely different animal.
I'd like to see an experiment where you start with a mouse and end up with a dog. Or some other animal.
I'm not sure I'm getting the view out and data out thing. I guess I understand the idea, but if I'm seeing different output then what the next command in the pipe chain is seeing, then how do I know that its receiving the right data in the right format?
The answer to both of your questions... from the Government's perspective is that they shouldn't do anything. Before there was welfare and social security, and subsidized housing people got along some how. They lived with family members until they could get on their feet, went down to their local church or community soup kitchen for assistance. They didn't ask the government for handouts because they were not in the business for giving handouts.
Perhaps with your grandma, health insurance question, I'd say that the government should pass laws that make it, at least harder if not impossible for insurance companies to drop the elderly once they reach that age. But in my mind, this would be "promoting" not "providing" for the general welfare. Now, if grandma didn't have insurance in the first place, that might be a different story.
The problem as I see it is that the US government, democrats and republicans managed to mix up a single word in the first chapter of the constitution. They are here to "promote the general Welfare". Some where along the line they decided to "provide for the general Welfare" rather then promote it.
Medicare and Social security and most of the other social programs come from the wrong idea that the the government should be providing for my welfare. This simply is not the case. The government should be passing laws that make it easier for me to provide for my own welfare.
If the government didn't spend so much time and money attempting to provide for me with these types of programs, perhaps the we wouldn't be in the financial situation that we're in.
These are all fair and probably correct statements. True that nobody reports on the the guy who discovered a previously unknown settlement from 9K years ago when the last discovery was from 10k. And no... I'm obviously not in the field. The only bases I have for my comments are my observations of the new stories that I see combined with my observations of human behavior through out the years.
Wow!! Mental note to walk on egg shells when ever Daniel Dvorkin is around.
I'm just saying that I find it odd that every single discovery, and not just in the realm of archaelogy, seems to push the dates and times and distances out further and further then the last discovery. I'll admit to having a fair amount of cynicism. I'm not saying that they're being dishonest, I just find it odd is all.
Of course it is 2,500 years earlier. Grants to come to archaeologist who discover the same thing that someone else discovered 5 years ago. I'm sure the next site will show evidence of people being around 20,000 years ago.
Job 36:27-28 27 “He draws up the drops of water,
which distill as rain to the streams[a]; 28 the clouds pour down their moisture
and abundant showers fall on mankind.
I think the problem is that the people want this data spelled in in one large section. Like we can turn to the book of Hydorphonics chapter 7 version 2. There is tons of scientifically valid info in the Bible. You just have to read it and find those little nuggets of scientific truth. And most of this info was in the bible long before any of it was discovered by scientists.
Not sure why your narrowing the entire Bible down to just the new testament. But here are a few from the old testament. These seem to paint a pretty accurate picture of the water cycle as we know it. It's interesting that these so called "fables" got the water cycle as accurate as they did.
Amos 9:6 "he builds his lofty palace[a] in the heavens and sets its foundation[b] on the earth; he calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land— the LORD is his name.
Ecclesiastes 1:7 - All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.
Ecclesiastes 11:3 - If clouds are full of water, they pour rain on the earth.
Job 26:8 - He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
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Surounding the large rock in the upper left of the picture looks like mud to me. Specifically just to the right of the shadow.
Take a look at the high resolution image. Kind of looks like this to me:
http://godschildrenblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/img_2063.jpg
As for where it comes from, I remember when I got my first IT position. Working Tech Support for an ISP back in the late 90's. I was 17 years old, and I remember having a conversation with a few of the other guys regarding this exact subject. One of them went on to explain, how it is only natural that we would all gain a bit of arrogance. Think about it.... most of us are still in High School, yet we have everyone from House Wives to C.E.O's calling us to help with their computers. On top of that, for the previous decade before that we've had family members and friends calling us for help when their computers break, because we were that kid who is "good with computers". As a snot nosed 17 year old brat, this naturally induces a bit of arrogance.
As for how to get over it, mostly it will come with time. Most of us learn, eventually, that there is always someone out there smarter than us.
I use openvpn to allow me to to exactly what you're describing. My connection home network is NAT'd, but from work or anywhere else that I have my laptop, I can ssh directly to any machine on my home network. I only need to make my openvpn connection. It works really well. I'd be willing to bet you could get an openvpn client for your phone and make set it to always connect. Then you'd be able to get to your phone from anywhere also.
I would very much agree with this. A balanced approach is needed.
The company I work for is always looking for that magic bullet. Some 3rd party software that will solve all of our problems. I keep trying to explain that what we need is good flexible software that will solve some/most of our problems. If we choose the right software, we can then write our own code to pick up the slack of the 3rd party software. Hopefully we can also write some code to integrate software A with software B.
But no matter how hard we search, no company has written software that will solve all of our problems.
I started composting a few years ago at home, and was blown away at how fast it actually happens. If your starting a "fresh batch", it can take about a month before it starts to really look look like soil, but after that, anything you add is unidentifiable within a few days to 2 weeks depending on what it is.
I'm sure times vary, but still, I was expecting it to take months for an old apple to break down. By the end of the year, my 3 member family has a 55 gallon trash can filled with usable compost.
I think the idea is that if you extrapolate the "closed system" idea out to it's logical conclusion, you come to the idea that the Universe itself is a closed system. Thus the idea that that the Big Bang sent matter shooting off into the far reaches of space only to later form itself into galaxies, stars, and planets goes against the second law. Taking this all the way down in the opposite direction to amino acids and proteins aligning themselves in just the right way to form life and then evolving, or getting better, also goes against the second law.
I recently got my licenses as well. 2 weeks ago today to be exact. What drew me to it was exactly what others are saying.... the ability to get on the air for relatively little money and talk with others around the world. Not that I've gotten that far yet.
Also working with packet radio, satellites, talking with the IIS... these things really sparked my geek interest like nothing has in a long while. I find it funny that a technology that my grandfather could have been into is still intriguing today.
We don't hate them as long as they are on the tables and phones for which they were clearly designed.
Try and put them on my desktop and the, yes, we hate them.
I've always set the delimiter as this: If they have to reach out and make physical contact then the need either immediate suspicion, or a warrant. By physical contact I mean coming into my house, patting me down or even shooting little microwaves or whatever the TSA scanners do so that they can see under my clothes.
I've had this discussion several times with people at work and this always seems to be the conclusion I come to. Follow me around, listen with parabolic microphones from a distance, even have bomb sniffing dogs sniff the air as I walk by. These are all what I would call passive forms of surveillance. Anything requiring that a person or machine make physical contact with me falls under the right of being secure in my persons, houses, papers, etc. and should require a warrant.
This does not mean that as long as they are not making physical contact that they don't necessarily need a warrant. Only that if they are going to, then they must have one.
Its been a while since I've needed to diagnose a problem with those beeps, but last time I did I'm pretty sure that each and every one of them had a very specific meaning.
The article first states that it's backer than coal, then goes onto say that it has a faint red glow. Which is it?
I tend to agree. There only a few instances where a GUI needs to be used. My personal belief is that if you can't affectively use a command line, then you are not really a good Admin, regardless of your OS of choice. I've see some pretty cool things done recently on a windows command line that I had no idea could be done.
The options this article talks about aren't missing. You can still do all of these things, it just requires that you actually understand Apache, Postgres, etc. If you don't understand them past what the GUI shows you, then you probably shouldn't be the one responsible for them.
I'm always a bit confused by #4. We've got a pretty good sized object (the moon) in our "region". Would that mean Earth has not cleared its region of planetesimals? Lots of other planets have this same issue. Some of which have much larger moons that Earth does?
Serious question here? What am I missing?
That's exactly right. The very nature of IT means that we're exposed to tons of products. Every time someone insists on particular application for a project, we get exposed to it. This gives us great insight into what does and does not work. Simply inviting some folks from IT during your planning meetings for a new project would end about 90% of these problems.
Aren't there cops dedicated to the investigation of accident scenes. My understanding is that they can already look at a scene and tell who hit who, from what angle, and how fast they were all going based on skid marks, car damage, lay out of wreckage, etc. All this info can be gathered using this evidence and some basic math. What else will a black box tell them that they can't already deduce from the scene?
Your experiment definitely showed adaptation in animals. But you started with mice, and ended up with mice. Just mice with shorter or longer tails. Obviously adaptation happens. But evolution, really, is the transformation of one animal into a completely different animal.
I'd like to see an experiment where you start with a mouse and end up with a dog. Or some other animal.
I'm not sure I'm getting the view out and data out thing. I guess I understand the idea, but if I'm seeing different output then what the next command in the pipe chain is seeing, then how do I know that its receiving the right data in the right format?
The answer to both of your questions... from the Government's perspective is that they shouldn't do anything. Before there was welfare and social security, and subsidized housing people got along some how. They lived with family members until they could get on their feet, went down to their local church or community soup kitchen for assistance. They didn't ask the government for handouts because they were not in the business for giving handouts.
Perhaps with your grandma, health insurance question, I'd say that the government should pass laws that make it, at least harder if not impossible for insurance companies to drop the elderly once they reach that age. But in my mind, this would be "promoting" not "providing" for the general welfare. Now, if grandma didn't have insurance in the first place, that might be a different story.
The problem as I see it is that the US government, democrats and republicans managed to mix up a single word in the first chapter of the constitution. They are here to "promote the general Welfare". Some where along the line they decided to "provide for the general Welfare" rather then promote it.
Medicare and Social security and most of the other social programs come from the wrong idea that the the government should be providing for my welfare. This simply is not the case. The government should be passing laws that make it easier for me to provide for my own welfare.
If the government didn't spend so much time and money attempting to provide for me with these types of programs, perhaps the we wouldn't be in the financial situation that we're in.
See.... observations on human behavior.
In the name of open and honest discussion I just admitted that my view might need some adjustment. Not sure how the makes me a "faggot".
These are all fair and probably correct statements. True that nobody reports on the the guy who discovered a previously unknown settlement from 9K years ago when the last discovery was from 10k. And no... I'm obviously not in the field. The only bases I have for my comments are my observations of the new stories that I see combined with my observations of human behavior through out the years.
Wow!! Mental note to walk on egg shells when ever Daniel Dvorkin is around.
I'm just saying that I find it odd that every single discovery, and not just in the realm of archaelogy, seems to push the dates and times and distances out further and further then the last discovery. I'll admit to having a fair amount of cynicism. I'm not saying that they're being dishonest, I just find it odd is all.
Of course it is 2,500 years earlier. Grants to come to archaeologist who discover the same thing that someone else discovered 5 years ago. I'm sure the next site will show evidence of people being around 20,000 years ago.
An even better one.
Job 36:27-28
27 “He draws up the drops of water,
which distill as rain to the streams[a];
28 the clouds pour down their moisture
and abundant showers fall on mankind.
I think the problem is that the people want this data spelled in in one large section. Like we can turn to the book of Hydorphonics chapter 7 version 2. There is tons of scientifically valid info in the Bible. You just have to read it and find those little nuggets of scientific truth. And most of this info was in the bible long before any of it was discovered by scientists.
Not sure why your narrowing the entire Bible down to just the new testament. But here are a few from the old testament. These seem to paint a pretty accurate picture of the water cycle as we know it. It's interesting that these so called "fables" got the water cycle as accurate as they did.
Amos 9:6 "he builds his lofty palace[a] in the heavens and sets its foundation[b] on the earth; he calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land— the LORD is his name.
Ecclesiastes 1:7 - All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.
Ecclesiastes 11:3 - If clouds are full of water, they pour rain on the earth.
Job 26:8 - He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.