Why shouldn't I solve this three hat problem? That a tough one, but I'll take a shot.
Say I'm minding my own business and somebody puts this three hat problem on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it, maybe I solve it. I'm really happy with myself, because I did my job well.
But maybe the solution to the three hat problem was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or in the Middle East and once they have that location they bomb the village where the rebel army is hiding. Fifteen hundred people that I never met, never had no problem with, just got killed.
Now the politicians are saying "Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area," because they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there getting shot just like it wasn't them when their number got called because they were pulling a tour in the National Guard.
It'll be some kid from Southie over there taking shrapnel in the ass. He comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from, and the guy that put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, because he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks.
Meanwhile he realizes that the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies use the little skirmish to scare up oil prices. It's a cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon.
They're taking their sweet time bringing the oil back, of course, and maybe they took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fucking play slalom with the icebergs. It ain't too long until he hits one, spills the oil, and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic.
So now my buddy's out of work, he can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the fucking job interviews which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is giving him chronic hemorrhoids. Meanwhile, he's starving because any time he tries to get a bite to eat the only Blue Plate Special they're serving is North Atlantic Scrod with Quaker State.
So what did I think? I'm holding out for something better.
I figure, fuck it. While I'm at it, I might as well just shoot my buddy in the ass, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard. I could be elected President.
--From "Good Will Hunting" (Matt Damon's character speaking to an three hat problem poser, in a heavy Boston accent)
You must be my damm neighbor. The neighbors to my appartment dwelling would never be there when the census people came by to check. So they would knock on my door and ask be to *guess* their age, race, what their line of work is, etc. And they came by twice to ask me the same questions.
One of the departments in our college have been building a microsatellite for a few years now. They hope to send it up in the next year or so as a secondary payload. They also have a link to many other colleges with their own microsatellites. Check it all out at SJSU Spartnik
How true. People bitch about Red Hat all the time but Red Hat always releases any product they make or acquire as open source. They don't do halfway free installers and localization or other such gimicks like some other companies.
The next version of PostgreSQL (in beta testing right now) is supposed to support outer joins, larger row size (8-32K limit currently) and write ahead logging among other improvements.
I'm mainly a KDE user but use Gnome apps sometimes. One thing that really annoys me about Gnome is how they clutter a lot of hidden directories in your home directory. Contrast this with KDE which has a.kde directory and a.kderc file. I don't see why a better hierarchy can't be setup in Gnome also so my home directory stays pretty clean. The reason it is annoying is that if my enable "view hidden files" in the home directory, the config files for a bazillion gnome apps make it hard to browse through.
In the past there used to be a long kernel wishlist for thing people wanted in the linux kernel. I don't want anything in particular but always like to look at what neat things people want, will be implementing, etc. Can anyone find such a list for 2.5 anywhere?(only for 2.1)
What did Larry Ellison do, have I missed something?"
For one thing, Oracle charges for their software based on the total Mhz of your processors. For example, if you had a database server with 2 500 Mhz processors, you would be charged 2*500*C (where C is some $/Mhz value.)
The military can turn on the GPS scrambling at a moments notice if it finds a missile on flight. More interestingly, what if they delibretly introduce errors to the signals such the they control the trajectory of the missile!
Next thing you know, someone will get a bright idea to put these patented dinosaurs on a tropical island and form a tourist park. But I bet they will be ill equipped to handle these animals which will go on a rampage and destroy the park.
It would make a great plot for a movie don't you think? Nah...
If they start metering internet access, next thing you know, they will start adding this, that and another tax to it and *everybody* will start paying more!
It doesn't take a genius to know that nearly every implementation of VRML was damm slow even with a simple one object view. Something like 1 frame per second was not out of the ordinary.
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He must pay property taxes by the acre.
Why shouldn't I solve this three hat problem? That a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm minding my own business and somebody puts this three hat problem on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it, maybe I solve it. I'm really happy with myself, because I did my job well. But maybe the solution to the three hat problem was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or in the Middle East and once they have that location they bomb the village where the rebel army is hiding. Fifteen hundred people that I never met, never had no problem with, just got killed. Now the politicians are saying "Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area," because they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there getting shot just like it wasn't them when their number got called because they were pulling a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie over there taking shrapnel in the ass. He comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from, and the guy that put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, because he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes that the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies use the little skirmish to scare up oil prices. It's a cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're taking their sweet time bringing the oil back, of course, and maybe they took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fucking play slalom with the icebergs. It ain't too long until he hits one, spills the oil, and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work, he can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the fucking job interviews which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is giving him chronic hemorrhoids. Meanwhile, he's starving because any time he tries to get a bite to eat the only Blue Plate Special they're serving is North Atlantic Scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holding out for something better. I figure, fuck it. While I'm at it, I might as well just shoot my buddy in the ass, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard. I could be elected President. --From "Good Will Hunting" (Matt Damon's character speaking to an three hat problem poser, in a heavy Boston accent)
How could you?! :-)
They also didn't want General failure reading their drives.
Is that you Bowie?
No more 'punch-kick-turn' final fight clones?!
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/03/06/162228_F.sht ml
Nah, it will be called 'Shake you bonobo'
If micropayments come up, I would start the Napster sharing model on said contents.
You must be my damm neighbor. The neighbors to my appartment dwelling would never be there when the census people came by to check. So they would knock on my door and ask be to *guess* their age, race, what their line of work is, etc. And they came by twice to ask me the same questions.
One of the departments in our college have been building a microsatellite for a few years now. They hope to send it up in the next year or so as a secondary payload. They also have a link to many other colleges with their own microsatellites. Check it all out at SJSU Spartnik
Crack proof means one can't hide a stash of cocaine inside the computer right?
How true. People bitch about Red Hat all the time but Red Hat always releases any product they make or acquire as open source. They don't do halfway free installers and localization or other such gimicks like some other companies.
The next version of PostgreSQL (in beta testing right now) is supposed to support outer joins, larger row size (8-32K limit currently) and write ahead logging among other improvements.
I'm mainly a KDE user but use Gnome apps sometimes. One thing that really annoys me about Gnome is how they clutter a lot of hidden directories in your home directory. Contrast this with KDE which has a .kde directory and a .kderc file. I don't see why a better hierarchy can't be setup in Gnome also so my home directory stays pretty clean. The reason it is annoying is that if my enable "view hidden files" in the home directory, the config files for a bazillion gnome apps make it hard to browse through.
I'm will to write the html content in Microsoft Frontpage!
In the past there used to be a long kernel wishlist for thing people wanted in the linux kernel. I don't want anything in particular but always like to look at what neat things people want, will be implementing, etc. Can anyone find such a list for 2.5 anywhere?(only for 2.1)
"Larry Ellison would be proud.
What did Larry Ellison do, have I missed something?"
For one thing, Oracle charges for their software based on the total Mhz of your processors. For example, if you had a database server with 2 500 Mhz processors, you would be charged 2*500*C (where C is some $/Mhz value.)
The military can turn on the GPS scrambling at a moments notice if it finds a missile on flight. More interestingly, what if they delibretly introduce errors to the signals such the they control the trajectory of the missile!
It's top secret so no links are possible!
Next thing you know, someone will get a bright idea to put these patented dinosaurs on a tropical island and form a tourist park. But I bet they will be ill equipped to handle these animals which will go on a rampage and destroy the park.
It would make a great plot for a movie don't you think? Nah...
If they start metering internet access, next thing you know, they will start adding this, that and another tax to it and *everybody* will start paying more!
When will Linux be ported to it?!
Cancel your subscription and sell your TIVO.
It doesn't take a genius to know that nearly every implementation of VRML was damm slow even with a simple one object view. Something like 1 frame per second was not out of the ordinary.