I think that documentation of the document formats, etc. is the way to go. Actually forcing them to turn over the code to Office seems a bit too much of a trophy hunt for my tastes.
I don't know about the topo maps your relating to; but the NOAA puts out navigational charts for pilots with topographical data that are updated every 6 months.
I've even experienced the odd little thing of the runway at my local airport being renumbered because it's magnetic alignment shifted just enough.
Number one, don't be so condescending. He didn't get to choose the os that his company uses on the desktop; and when they started rolling desktops out, they probably didn't have any real choice either. We could say now that we could teach the secretary drone to use Linux; but that wouldn't have been true 4 years ago, much less 7,8,9.
It's easy to point your finger at somebody who's had the misfortune of being caught by one of these worms and say, "It's all because you're incompetent." But anybody with an ounce of experience and skill knows that any system is vulnerable and exploitable.
But that point aside, I concur that I get paid based on a 40 hour work week; and I don't get any comp time for the extra hours I put in. So I make my life easier by doing some personal work on my workstation from time to time. That being said, I don't know that this is better than doing my personal work at home, and only working 40 hour weeks. Perhaps we should get back to the more traditional work schedules.
Who knows, maybe working 40 hour work weeks would make us a bit more pleasant to be around.
Indeed, they should give you some training on free-fall, or emergency egress, etc. Does anybody remember what a dismal failure the Russian Space Shuttle (Buran) program was?
They eventually just gave up... and that was during the Cold War. I don't know that having one of the Buran designers on the team is that big of a plus for me.
While it may be useful and informative to point out Lucas' affinity for reading Campbell, I think it's rather absurd to have a discussion in which Star Wars and mythology are used in the same sentence.
It was a movie. It was a great movie. It was a movie. Get a life. And if you think Star Wars is culture, please remove yourself from the world, and stop using up perfectly good air.
Any serious student of mythology should be insulted by the direction of this conversation.
People truly underestimate the power of these storms. I have relatives from England, and they were asking me how many tornadoes I've seen, as I live in Kansas. When I replied "None, I hide in the basement when the sirens go," they looked at me like I was a scared child.
Two weeks later when the sirens went off, they wanted to go outside and look at it. We made them come into the basement with us and spend an entirely uneventful 30 minutes. Didn't hear anything, and obviously didn't see anything.
The next morning, when we flew over the damaged areas, they got a real education. Suddenly it was a lot less like the movies. You couldn't see them; but you knew there just had to be people dead in those buildings.
Hurricanes have longer sustained winds; but they don't match the tornado for windshear.
While the CTBT was never ratified by Congress, the nation is behaving as if it was. We are following the provisions of the treaty. It's a neat little trick of the way it works. Clinton signs the treaty, Congress refuses to ratify it. Everybody gets to say they did their part; but if we decide there's an overriding need to break the provisions of the treaty, we don't get all of that messiness you get when you've actually ratified it.
This is probably the best it could have worked out. Obviously, this computational testing program has the support of both parties. It's very difficult to actually push a single-party agenda that big, and sustain it unilaterally.
And if we need to, we just run a real test. Hell, France did it, and what lasting consequences have they endured? None. The only lasting consequences have been to the ecology.
I would also add that while I am no friend of MS, and think they should suffer badly for their transgressions, this whole "give us your code" thing going on in the settlement talks strikes me as trophy-hunting.
It somehow seems cheap and beneath us to be running around saying "You were a bad boy, now you need to give us all your code."
I guess that depends on which child. The child that would have been born naturally, or the child you hand-picked. Admittedly, things get kind of dicey here; but if you pick the genetically favorable one (favorable in your opinion, that is) over the others, how fair are you being to the one or more of the others that would have been chosen naturally? They are not the same child.
I hope you're not serious. To choose one egg over the others rather than letting nature (and I might add, natural selection) run its course just because you always wanted an athletic son is ridiculous. How egocentric is that? Wow.
I couldn't quite tell by the tone of your post if you were really serious, or just being sarcastic. I hope it was the latter.
I know I'm going to get horribly flamed for this but:
The department of labor is correct. They didn't penalize him for the 9k in tips. They busted him for not actively looking for a job, and while we don't know every minute of Todd's life, it sounds as if they may have been correct.
Unemployment is supposed to be a crutch, not a wheelchair. If it wasn't enough to pay the rent, and he couldn't find something that did, he should move into a smaller or cheaper apartment. If he has to take a less than desirable job while he looks for one more suiting his skills, then suck it up and do it. I had to. There is no constitutional right to an easy life.
Everybody around here is very conservative in their outlook on finanances until they get laid off. Then it's all about what they can get while they hang out waiting for their old job to come strolling by.
The trouble with the modern configuration, however, is that it's less efficient. In the canard configuration both surfaces are lifing up, while in the modern or conventional configuration, the horizontal stabilizer in back lifts down. That would have required the wright flyer to have more efficient wings, and perhaps even more thrust.
This is what we asked for. Anybody who bitched and whined about there not being enough security at the airlines is responsible for this.
It would be hypocritical to say "X-raying bags isn't good enough. We need to know about the people boarding the plane" in one breath, and then cry about this in the next.
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I'm thinking seven dwarves strolling across the screen singing "Lilo. Lilo. It's off to work I go..."
That's one of the tough concepts for new admins to understand. We're not only juicy targets because of our claims of security; but we're a lot more useful once we're owned.
Technically, I'm sure you're correct. By the time we are able to travel to other planets, they will probably not be a necessity; but what a bleak picture of life that presents.
I guess I have too much affection for sunrises, rivers, mountains, cool breezes, etc.
The big vendors (including IBM) never said that they wanted to replace their proprietary unix systems with linux. IBM said (in a very marketingish type of way) that if Linux could do all the things AIX did, they would consider it.
In addition, AIX never ran on the zseries computers. So it has nothing to do with a mainframe running linux. The two are separate issues.
This is good news for Linux; but its not accurate to say that it has anything to do with linux displacing AIX, or any other unix.
They did not replace a proprietary unix system. The zseries never ran AIX. Think S390 with a different name.
IBM did/does a wonderful job with AIX; but there are some areas where Linux might be better suited. I think there is plenty of room for both to coexist.
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I agree.
I think that documentation of the document formats, etc. is the way to go. Actually forcing them to turn over the code to Office seems a bit too much of a trophy hunt for my tastes.
So. What would that mean for the water in my toilet?
It should also be noted that the gps signal is fairly weak, and wouldn't be hard to interfere with.
All that fancy navigational equipment I have in my airplane doesn't come close to approaching the compass/stopwatch/map for reliability.
You are absolutely right.
I don't know about the topo maps your relating to; but the NOAA puts out navigational charts for pilots with topographical data that are updated every 6 months.
I've even experienced the odd little thing of the runway at my local airport being renumbered because it's magnetic alignment shifted just enough.
Number one, don't be so condescending. He didn't get to choose the os that his company uses on the desktop; and when they started rolling desktops out, they probably didn't have any real choice either. We could say now that we could teach the secretary drone to use Linux; but that wouldn't have been true 4 years ago, much less 7,8,9.
It's easy to point your finger at somebody who's had the misfortune of being caught by one of these worms and say, "It's all because you're incompetent." But anybody with an ounce of experience and skill knows that any system is vulnerable and exploitable.
But that point aside, I concur that I get paid based on a 40 hour work week; and I don't get any comp time for the extra hours I put in. So I make my life easier by doing some personal work on my workstation from time to time. That being said, I don't know that this is better than doing my personal work at home, and only working 40 hour weeks. Perhaps we should get back to the more traditional work schedules.
Who knows, maybe working 40 hour work weeks would make us a bit more pleasant to be around.
Indeed, they should give you some training on free-fall, or emergency egress, etc. Does anybody remember what a dismal failure the Russian Space Shuttle (Buran) program was?
They eventually just gave up... and that was during the Cold War. I don't know that having one of the Buran designers on the team is that big of a plus for me.
While it may be useful and informative to point out Lucas' affinity for reading Campbell, I think it's rather absurd to have a discussion in which Star Wars and mythology are used in the same sentence.
It was a movie. It was a great movie. It was a movie. Get a life. And if you think Star Wars is culture, please remove yourself from the world, and stop using up perfectly good air.
Any serious student of mythology should be insulted by the direction of this conversation.
Agreed.
People truly underestimate the power of these storms. I have relatives from England, and they were asking me how many tornadoes I've seen, as I live in Kansas. When I replied "None, I hide in the basement when the sirens go," they looked at me like I was a scared child.
Two weeks later when the sirens went off, they wanted to go outside and look at it. We made them come into the basement with us and spend an entirely uneventful 30 minutes. Didn't hear anything, and obviously didn't see anything.
The next morning, when we flew over the damaged areas, they got a real education. Suddenly it was a lot less like the movies. You couldn't see them; but you knew there just had to be people dead in those buildings.
Hurricanes have longer sustained winds; but they don't match the tornado for windshear.
While the CTBT was never ratified by Congress, the nation is behaving as if it was. We are following the provisions of the treaty. It's a neat little trick of the way it works. Clinton signs the treaty, Congress refuses to ratify it. Everybody gets to say they did their part; but if we decide there's an overriding need to break the provisions of the treaty, we don't get all of that messiness you get when you've actually ratified it.
This is probably the best it could have worked out. Obviously, this computational testing program has the support of both parties. It's very difficult to actually push a single-party agenda that big, and sustain it unilaterally.
And if we need to, we just run a real test. Hell, France did it, and what lasting consequences have they endured? None. The only lasting consequences have been to the ecology.
I would also add that while I am no friend of MS, and think they should suffer badly for their transgressions, this whole "give us your code" thing going on in the settlement talks strikes me as trophy-hunting.
It somehow seems cheap and beneath us to be running around saying "You were a bad boy, now you need to give us all your code."
How fair is that to the child?
I guess that depends on which child. The child that would have been born naturally, or the child you hand-picked. Admittedly, things get kind of dicey here; but if you pick the genetically favorable one (favorable in your opinion, that is) over the others, how fair are you being to the one or more of the others that would have been chosen naturally? They are not the same child.
I hope you're not serious. To choose one egg over the others rather than letting nature (and I might add, natural selection) run its course just because you always wanted an athletic son is ridiculous. How egocentric is that? Wow.
I couldn't quite tell by the tone of your post if you were really serious, or just being sarcastic. I hope it was the latter.
I know I'm going to get horribly flamed for this but:
The department of labor is correct. They didn't penalize him for the 9k in tips. They busted him for not actively looking for a job, and while we don't know every minute of Todd's life, it sounds as if they may have been correct.
Unemployment is supposed to be a crutch, not a wheelchair. If it wasn't enough to pay the rent, and he couldn't find something that did, he should move into a smaller or cheaper apartment. If he has to take a less than desirable job while he looks for one more suiting his skills, then suck it up and do it. I had to. There is no constitutional right to an easy life.
Everybody around here is very conservative in their outlook on finanances until they get laid off. Then it's all about what they can get while they hang out waiting for their old job to come strolling by.
The trouble with the modern configuration, however, is that it's less efficient. In the canard configuration both surfaces are lifing up, while in the modern or conventional configuration, the horizontal stabilizer in back lifts down. That would have required the wright flyer to have more efficient wings, and perhaps even more thrust.
This is obviously a mistake. Somebody just doesn't actually understand it. The cable is obviously legitimate and legal.
I doubt that this is any real personal attack from the DMCA nuts. It's a mistake of the bureaucracy that will linger and take forever to sort out.
We really should have given her first post.
... and we voted for our representatives who decided that NASA would be in charge of it.
Here here. I agree completely.
I think we get a little too anxious around here to start ranting about our rights and "the man."
You don't have a God-given right to fly on the ISS, and NASA runs the program.
This is what we asked for. Anybody who bitched and whined about there not being enough security at the airlines is responsible for this.
It would be hypocritical to say "X-raying bags isn't good enough. We need to know about the people boarding the plane" in one breath, and then cry about this in the next.
I'm thinking seven dwarves strolling across the screen singing "Lilo. Lilo. It's off to work I go..."
First it was the restaurant at the end of the universe, now it's the bar at the center of the galaxy.
Urban sprawl is getting ridiculous.
That's one of the tough concepts for new admins to understand. We're not only juicy targets because of our claims of security; but we're a lot more useful once we're owned.
What a drag!
Technically, I'm sure you're correct. By the time we are able to travel to other planets, they will probably not be a necessity; but what a bleak picture of life that presents.
I guess I have too much affection for sunrises, rivers, mountains, cool breezes, etc.
The big vendors (including IBM) never said that they wanted to replace their proprietary unix systems with linux. IBM said (in a very marketingish type of way) that if Linux could do all the things AIX did, they would consider it.
In addition, AIX never ran on the zseries computers. So it has nothing to do with a mainframe running linux. The two are separate issues.
This is good news for Linux; but its not accurate to say that it has anything to do with linux displacing AIX, or any other unix.
They did not replace a proprietary unix system. The zseries never ran AIX. Think S390 with a different name.
IBM did/does a wonderful job with AIX; but there are some areas where Linux might be better suited. I think there is plenty of room for both to coexist.