Exactly! We just need to proactively monetize the synergistic potential of this new paradigm of cloud computing and meta-programming by thinking outside the box and leverage these tools to enable a better strategic fit in our forward-thinking, customercentric enterprise.;-)
Forget funny, mod parent as Insightful, that one was Brilliant!
I may have to quote you on that!
I may even have to drop it in the "suggestion box", that should be worth at least a couple of points on my Balance Score Card.
They are bankrupt because they are run with MBA's who have been taught that if you have the opportunity to make a lot of money short term, at the cost of nearly bankrupting (or actually bankrupting) the company later, you always take that opportunity. By the time the negative consequences come around, you will have already retired, and somebody else will take the blame for the company going under.
Corporate management of many industries in the United States is generally borderline criminal. (With a fair amount indisputably criminal).
Its is criminal fraud.
The HMFICs claim that they deserve those obscene salaries, because they're visionaries, leaders, and that kind of talent is so rare that is deserves the high salary. While in reality, their only real talent is selling the BS their own personal worth.
Unix and Linux are different, but it's not enough to mindjob you. Logs are in/var/adm instead of/var/log. ps has different flags. Old unix systems don't have commands like "less" (though, at least with old Solaris, they do have "more". Go figure.) Everything is still piled in/etc. All the userspace stuff is still in/usr/local/. Unless you're using MPE/iX, you're probably going to be okay.
I've had plenty of bad forum experiences though. Sometimes even educated users need help, and the Unix learning curve is such that you can use it for years and still not know some things.
Still, I've had crap experiences on Windows forums as well, and Mac forums are of little practical use.
Unix and Linux are just hard. You have to dig in, and work at it. You gotta ditch the GUI, because the GUI isn't reliable (especially in Linux) for managing and configuring daemons (I don't think it's that reliable in Windows either (Fuck you IIS 7), but there isn't a good alternative.)
The only way to do it is to sit and play with it. I've never had a really really good unix course; they're all so short, it's just a bare taste.
I've found that Linux is actually easier than windows. The logs in Linux can be more informative than the windows alerts./etc can be manipulated with your choice of text editors, and there is pretty good separation of application files. There are built in utilities that can tell you which application has a file open; not just the drive in use message.
Windows has the registry, a monolithic single point of failure and corruption.
As a non Linux guy, I've been interested in installing Linux several times but the community has turned me off. If you go on a forum or something similar and suggest a feature you're often told that you're doing it wrong. That's probably true, but it's poor attitude for growing a client base.
Me: I'd like mirrors on my car to assist in backing up.
Linux community: The best way to back up is to turn around and look out your rear window.
While technically correct, how many people back up using their mirrors?
Perhaps you're taking the wrong attitude. You want the mirrors because they would help you with backing up. That's not going to be very helpful, because you, as somebody who they know jack about, are creating work for them. Everybody knows how people like others to create additional work.
Try volunteering to help out. Start working for them, not delegating to them. Then when they understand that you're putting an effort to contribute to the project even though you're not coding, you can explain to them how you were trying to perform the task of backing up and that while you know you can just look over your shoulder to perform this task, having a set a mirrors would make for a better user experience.
Fortunately Intelligent Design has been ruled by a Federal Judge to be religion, and not science.
HARRISBURG, Pa. - In one of the biggest courtroom clashes between faith and evolution since the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, a federal judge barred a Pennsylvania public school district Tuesday from teaching âoeintelligent designâ in biology class, saying the concept is creationism in disguise.
So they can demand that students study "strengths and weaknesses" of a theory; but ID is still out because its theology, not science.
I like to run a 64-bit version of Python and make a really big list. Or, you can run Java programs (for a while) with GC disabled.
But Windows will still push the Java app out to the swap file, and load all the Microsoft apps installed on your system into memory, just in case you want them.
Students need to actually learn the theories before questioning them.
Not understanding a theory before questioning it and creating your own only makes you a crank. Especially if you don't have reproducible experimental evidence to back yourself up.
What you're missing is its randomly throwing around highly ordered bits of energy on earth, its the probably of it happening across the entire size of the universe.
In addition, the ordered quanta of low entropy light have little chance of affecting something the size of your room; something made up of cells that operating at the molecular level which is subject to direct effects of quantum mechanics on the other hand, have effects that build up over time.
Of course this is certainly lost on someone who expect to see quantum effects visible on a rock.
> the cameras were an invasion of privacy and their constituents thought they had been unfairly ticketed
1/ don't speed and there's no picture taken so no invasion of your privacy
2/ unfairly ticketed ? if there's a picture as proof I'd say it's fair you get a ticket..
404, that pretty much sums up your understanding of Evolution.
And take that super wrecking yard of yours with sufficient number of random parts scattered, spend a few million years slapping random parts together until they fit, and sure you'll come with whatever car you want.
What you freaks fail to realize is the evolution has this source of very low entropy pumping energy into the system; the sun. That drives the dynamic system with the right parts to build up complexity over time billions of years.
All human creations originate in human minds. So what is so unusual in claiming that natural creations originated in a mind; the supreme mind of God? I see no problem with believing that God made the first living cell and every other living creature and now our scientists get to figure out HOW it all works and use that knowledge for human betterment.
I think the blue spahagetti monster created all life. Its just a provable as your God it. And I know it, because it was written in my alphabet soup.
Also, the fact that you supreme deity, has to take a direct hand in creation of beings, instead of creating system where Evolution just works proves that you deity is not all powerful.
Futhermore even assuming that your diety did take a direct hand it things, it could not be used for the betterment of mankind, because it would not be reproducible by human effort. Instead it is simple an act of faith. So forget the biochemistry, just sit around an pray for something to happen.
Here's a way to prove your creationism exists:
infect yourself with HIV
Take a syringe with saline.
Get all your friends to pray for it to become a cure.
When you believe the cure in inside it, inject yourself with it.
If your Creationism, is correct, and can be put in to practice, you will be cured.
A lot of times when you see something like that, it is a cop out. But not in this case.
The story - in its entirety - was about something divine moving mankind/cylonkind like pawns. People have destinies in this show, real ones. All throughout.
So it's not like they just slapped a Deity into the ending to tie things up. Nothing else at that point would have sufficed.
It was a cop out from the beginning.
There is not good reason for a deity who can bring back the dead, and create vipers out of thin air. To have not provided guidance to both sides so as to have avoided killing 20 billion people.
I consider the whole cylons/mankind as divine pawns the worst aspect of the story.
"Only 15% actually know how much of the planet is covered in water"
So there's a bit of idiocy with the person who wrote this. In reality, as you put it, 15% got the correct answer--15% did not necessarily "actually know how much of the planet is covered in water." That would imply that no one guessed. A little hypocrisy in the summary, perhaps? In the article, they put it correctly: "Only 15% of respondents answered this question with the exactly correct answer of 70%."EDITORS, DO YOUR JOBS. If there is a fallacy in the summary, either correct it, or DO NOT POST THE STORY.
Which is wrong, the correct answer is 71% (70.9% is equal to 71% to 2 significant digits.) It would be nice if the people writing the articles on science literacy bothered to get their facts right.
Speed is everything, which is why I don't use it. Maybe if it didn't take more than 2 seconds to open a new tab (CTRL+T), I would be able to give IE7 some credit.
Guess how long it takes on Firefox? Instant! No "Connecting..." or locking up!
Maybe for you.
As for me, I want a browser that is secure and renders correctly. You know, bug free.
Then I want speed.
As far as I'm concerned, IE will never meet the security requirement because it supports ActiveX.
Fuck that, any european barista knows their shit way better than any of us non euros could wish for. Turkish coffee is easily the worlds best though, preferably right next to Cuban cigars.
The European espresso is only better if you like it bitter, or like to add entire packet of sugar to one shot.
And and another poster pointed out, Cuban cigars are garbage.
Give me a CAO Maduro any day over a real Cohiba [SP].
I totally agree with you. I just finished watching Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed last night. As an atheist, I was embarrassed after watching the final interview with him.
He came off as pompous and ignorant.
Don't be, it was just the editors working a little of their movie magic.
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The power company already deals with load.
The power company is aggrieved because one of their revenue streams is decreasing because of the CF.
Exactly! We just need to proactively monetize the synergistic potential of this new paradigm of cloud computing and meta-programming by thinking outside the box and leverage these tools to enable a better strategic fit in our forward-thinking, customercentric enterprise. ;-)
Forget funny, mod parent as Insightful, that one was Brilliant!
I may have to quote you on that!
I may even have to drop it in the "suggestion box", that should be worth at least a couple of points on my Balance Score Card.
Its just more propaganda from Ruppert Murdock.
They are bankrupt because they are run with MBA's who have been taught that if you have the opportunity to make a lot of money short term, at the cost of nearly bankrupting (or actually bankrupting) the company later, you always take that opportunity. By the time the negative consequences come around, you will have already retired, and somebody else will take the blame for the company going under.
Corporate management of many industries in the United States is generally borderline criminal. (With a fair amount indisputably criminal).
Its is criminal fraud.
The HMFICs claim that they deserve those obscene salaries, because they're visionaries, leaders, and that kind of talent is so rare that is deserves the high salary. While in reality, their only real talent is selling the BS their own personal worth.
And they're just as comprehensible as sendmail.cf.
You mean sendmail.mc. You're not supposed to edit sendmail.cf directly. It says that mright at the top.
Although personally I find sendmail.mc to be SIGNIFICANTLY LESS COMPREHENSIBLE than the gibberish in sendmail.cf.
My point exactly.
And they're just as comprehensible as sendmail.cf.
Depends on whether we can engineer ourselves to live 50 years in a tiny spacecraft with a bunch of strangers.
On a tiny spacecraft they wont be strangers for long.
Unix and Linux are different, but it's not enough to mindjob you. Logs are in /var/adm instead of /var/log. ps has different flags. Old unix systems don't have commands like "less" (though, at least with old Solaris, they do have "more". Go figure.) Everything is still piled in /etc. All the userspace stuff is still in /usr/local/. Unless you're using MPE/iX, you're probably going to be okay.
I've had plenty of bad forum experiences though. Sometimes even educated users need help, and the Unix learning curve is such that you can use it for years and still not know some things.
Still, I've had crap experiences on Windows forums as well, and Mac forums are of little practical use.
Unix and Linux are just hard. You have to dig in, and work at it. You gotta ditch the GUI, because the GUI isn't reliable (especially in Linux) for managing and configuring daemons (I don't think it's that reliable in Windows either (Fuck you IIS 7), but there isn't a good alternative.)
The only way to do it is to sit and play with it. I've never had a really really good unix course; they're all so short, it's just a bare taste.
I've found that Linux is actually easier than windows. The logs in Linux can be more informative than the windows alerts. /etc can be manipulated with your choice of text editors, and there is pretty good separation of application files. There are built in utilities that can tell you which application has a file open; not just the drive in use message.
Windows has the registry, a monolithic single point of failure and corruption.
As a non Linux guy, I've been interested in installing Linux several times but the community has turned me off. If you go on a forum or something similar and suggest a feature you're often told that you're doing it wrong. That's probably true, but it's poor attitude for growing a client base. Me: I'd like mirrors on my car to assist in backing up. Linux community: The best way to back up is to turn around and look out your rear window. While technically correct, how many people back up using their mirrors?
Perhaps you're taking the wrong attitude. You want the mirrors because they would help you with backing up. That's not going to be very helpful, because you, as somebody who they know jack about, are creating work for them. Everybody knows how people like others to create additional work.
Try volunteering to help out. Start working for them, not delegating to them. Then when they understand that you're putting an effort to contribute to the project even though you're not coding, you can explain to them how you were trying to perform the task of backing up and that while you know you can just look over your shoulder to perform this task, having a set a mirrors would make for a better user experience.
HARRISBURG, Pa. - In one of the biggest courtroom clashes between faith and evolution since the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, a federal judge barred a Pennsylvania public school district Tuesday from teaching âoeintelligent designâ in biology class, saying the concept is creationism in disguise.
So they can demand that students study "strengths and weaknesses" of a theory; but ID is still out because its theology, not science.
I like to run a 64-bit version of Python and make a really big list. Or, you can run Java programs (for a while) with GC disabled.
But Windows will still push the Java app out to the swap file, and load all the Microsoft apps installed on your system into memory, just in case you want them.
But, will they sell me an application that can use that much RAM? I'm fresh out.
No point having that much gas if I've no car to put it in...
Some of was want more RAM than we will ever use. If I'm using all the available RAM on my system, then I don't have enough.
Students need to actually learn the theories before questioning them.
Not understanding a theory before questioning it and creating your own only makes you a crank. Especially if you don't have reproducible experimental evidence to back yourself up.
I believe you're looking for the term "adequate" not "RIGHT".
What you're missing is its randomly throwing around highly ordered bits of energy on earth, its the probably of it happening across the entire size of the universe.
In addition, the ordered quanta of low entropy light have little chance of affecting something the size of your room; something made up of cells that operating at the molecular level which is subject to direct effects of quantum mechanics on the other hand, have effects that build up over time.
Of course this is certainly lost on someone who expect to see quantum effects visible on a rock.
> the cameras were an invasion of privacy and their constituents thought they had been unfairly ticketed
1/ don't speed and there's no picture taken so no invasion of your privacy 2/ unfairly ticketed ? if there's a picture as proof I'd say it's fair you get a ticket..
Unless the yellow is 3 seconds long.
404, that pretty much sums up your understanding of Evolution.
And take that super wrecking yard of yours with sufficient number of random parts scattered, spend a few million years slapping random parts together until they fit, and sure you'll come with whatever car you want.
What you freaks fail to realize is the evolution has this source of very low entropy pumping energy into the system; the sun. That drives the dynamic system with the right parts to build up complexity over time billions of years.
All human creations originate in human minds. So what is so unusual in claiming that natural creations originated in a mind; the supreme mind of God? I see no problem with believing that God made the first living cell and every other living creature and now our scientists get to figure out HOW it all works and use that knowledge for human betterment.
I think the blue spahagetti monster created all life. Its just a provable as your God it. And I know it, because it was written in my alphabet soup.
Also, the fact that you supreme deity, has to take a direct hand in creation of beings, instead of creating system where Evolution just works proves that you deity is not all powerful.
Futhermore even assuming that your diety did take a direct hand it things, it could not be used for the betterment of mankind, because it would not be reproducible by human effort. Instead it is simple an act of faith. So forget the biochemistry, just sit around an pray for something to happen.
Here's a way to prove your creationism exists:
The god explanation is such a cop out.
A lot of times when you see something like that, it is a cop out. But not in this case.
The story - in its entirety - was about something divine moving mankind/cylonkind like pawns. People have destinies in this show, real ones. All throughout.
So it's not like they just slapped a Deity into the ending to tie things up. Nothing else at that point would have sufficed.
It was a cop out from the beginning.
There is not good reason for a deity who can bring back the dead, and create vipers out of thin air. To have not provided guidance to both sides so as to have avoided killing 20 billion people.
I consider the whole cylons/mankind as divine pawns the worst aspect of the story.
And what is said in the summary:
"Only 15% actually know how much of the planet is covered in water"
So there's a bit of idiocy with the person who wrote this. In reality, as you put it, 15% got the correct answer--15% did not necessarily "actually know how much of the planet is covered in water." That would imply that no one guessed. A little hypocrisy in the summary, perhaps? In the article, they put it correctly: "Only 15% of respondents answered this question with the exactly correct answer of 70%." EDITORS, DO YOUR JOBS. If there is a fallacy in the summary, either correct it, or DO NOT POST THE STORY.
Which is wrong, the correct answer is 71% (70.9% is equal to 71% to 2 significant digits.) It would be nice if the people writing the articles on science literacy bothered to get their facts right.
Why would someone develop for WinCE? Not to troll, it just seems like a dead platform.
No GPL restrictions?
Speed is everything, which is why I don't use it. Maybe if it didn't take more than 2 seconds to open a new tab (CTRL+T), I would be able to give IE7 some credit.
Guess how long it takes on Firefox? Instant! No "Connecting..." or locking up!
Maybe for you.
As for me, I want a browser that is secure and renders correctly. You know, bug free.
Then I want speed.
As far as I'm concerned, IE will never meet the security requirement because it supports ActiveX.
Fuck that, any european barista knows their shit way better than any of us non euros could wish for. Turkish coffee is easily the worlds best though, preferably right next to Cuban cigars.
The European espresso is only better if you like it bitter, or like to add entire packet of sugar to one shot.
And and another poster pointed out, Cuban cigars are garbage.
Give me a CAO Maduro any day over a real Cohiba [SP].
Richard Dawkins does "demonstrate an intolerance for cultural diversity and diversity of thinking". I see him as the atheist's Rush Limbaugh.
In tolerance of ignorance is not the same as "demonstrate an intolerance for cultural diversity and diversity of thinking"
I totally agree with you. I just finished watching Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed last night. As an atheist, I was embarrassed after watching the final interview with him. He came off as pompous and ignorant.
Don't be, it was just the editors working a little of their movie magic.