This means programmers are aware of lack of sun? Or is it the compounding effects of eating too much of that retched chocolate and other things found around the office during holidays? I know my stomach is doing somersaults right now and a package filled with more treats is winging its way to my from my family.
Deck us all with Boston Charlie.. Walla Walla was and Kalamazoo.
In every case where ___________ has been stretching the envelope, there have been accidents and fatalities. The __________ is a classic case of this. Many of the renown WWII _________ had A versions that were anything but safe to ________.
The venerated ______ wasn't much to write home about either when it was first released. The engineers will learn and get experience. It will come at a horrible price. But if you wanted to live a safe life, you shouldn't be in the military in the first place.
Stripped out the context because, upon reflection you can fill in the blanks with just about any military hardware. It's not so much pushing the envelope (as a broad term) as increasing the complexity. Ian Malcolm was the voice (largely cut from the gee-whizzy movie) in Jurassic Park explaining how increased complexity leads to increased probability of flaws, to the point where flaws are inevitable and, as any pilot/driver/footsoldier learns, you find a way to work around it.
"Lieutenant, why is there a bottle cap wedged between the RADAR console and starboard ailertuder?" "I could go through all the explanation as to what diagnostics found or 7 hours techs tried to resolve it, swapping in and out all the hardware and wiring harnesses, only to find jamming a bottle cap in there makes it all work."
This is largely how every television set made during the 1960's came to have a playing card jammed behind a the channel changing knob.
Heli w both video and still camera for ~$99 - didn't note what it's performance range was, though.
Hmm - hover around the apartments on the corner and watch babes!
Yeah, or get one of the little jobbies and put a Hero cam on it and you've got live short of family members who are taking a shower, but not smart enough to lock the door.
I wanna X15 ana Sputnik ana Apollo ana GI Joe ana Six Finger ana Sniper Action Set ana Vogon Constructor Fleet ana International Spy Ring ana Election ana...
Tell me, what really isn't something suitable for Christmas? With kids growing up with Online Games and The Internet the parental filter of old (sugar coating everything) isn't going to work anymore. Kids will (and likely are and have been for some time) exposed to realities of the world. Al Jazeera was showing the heads blown off children, thanks the Shock and Awe. What could be more shocking? Duggar's last attempt? Cue: Brave New World.
The idea seemed doomed from the start, based more out of nostagia than actual practicality.
You'd one one of the team would have said 'Hey guys, when you think about it, this just doesn't add up!'
Not to overlook how the surviving shuttles have all been promised out to various cities. The competition was very keen with Cape Canaveral retaining one, while Los Angeles and Smithsonian in northern Virginia have the others.
This smells like the sort of move a company makes when it is run by bean-counters...
Just so you know, warranty decisions are always made by "bean counters" (accountants) and actuaries. Doesn't matter what company it is, they're the ones that have to assess the impact it would have on the company, and what the company can reasonably take on. Engineers and similar would at most provide information to help them make that decision.
As a Certified Management Accountant once told me - Accountants are there to advise, not run a company. The decision to go with the accountant's advice is, as stated above, a decision to not stand out as a company under the banner of "Quality"
Raid10 is in my future. When the drive prices return to "normal" that is.
anyhow, this isn't really news is it? except that they're bothering with this in china(to have a meat supply track where the meat isn't binned to a single big bin at some point in the process).
Consider this country had the Milk scandal and you can imagine how necessary something like this tracking can be. However... if the Beijing government really doesn't know how so many hackers can be attacking USA sites and servers and they're handling these land grabs very poorly, the grip of the Central Government could certainly be called into question (I really don't think it's as strong as many believe.) Where there's corruption there's going to be will and means to game this system - "Recognise this pig? It's amazingly like the past 100 other pigs, with a little photoshopping" sorta thing.
Then there's sausage.. the great mystery is what goes in and how hard that could be to track.
Interesting idea and the fact they are even looking in this direction suggests there something going on, which is well known at high levels and you're not hearing much about.
"For its part, Seagate is saying it cut back its warranties to be more closely aligned with other drive manufacturers."
Right, because differentiating yourself as a premium provider with a better than industry norm warranty wouldn't work. They would rather be "the same" as everyone else. Funny how I always hear car manufacturers claiming their "drive train" warranty is longer than the other guy. I guess that won't work in the drive market though. Not being sarcastic here - I'm sure these folks understand their market better than a random AC, so it must make sense.
This smells like the sort of move a company makes when it is run by bean-counters, rather than a leader with vision, seizing the high ground and pointing a finger back at spineless competition, while laughing out loud - "See, they are rubbish and we are the best!"
Next: Enter the marketing wizards to put some sort of bombasitic and completely unfathomable positive spin on this - "Really, it's good for the market! Honest!"
Am I imaginging things, or is somebody there trying to drive some agenda? (No, I didn't read either FA - I refuse to visit their website.)
Two kinds of shops - a) those who want absolute control over all IT objects and b) those where results are valued more highly. Where I work there's discouragement from bringing your own devices or software to the party, but often that's the only way you get it done - and done timely.
I needed to have a web app up and running last spring - if I waited It would have been this Fall. I used what open source tools I could to get up and running - nothing beautiful, but highly effective. All done against the grain of things.. so guess what, it caught the attention of leadership and I was lauded for such a great advancement in service.
Or not. Despite the fact that Congress was supposed to be out of session until the end of January, the Judiciary Committee has just announced plans to come back to continue the markup this coming Wednesday. This is rather unusual and totally unnecessary. But it shows just how desperate Hollywood is to pass this bill as quickly as possible, before the momentum of opposition builds up even further.
Thanks to the old Hollywood westerns I had a mental picture of a stagecoach driver, whipping several representatives in harness and crying, "Yah! Git a move on! Giddap! Yah!" as the coach is pulled rapidly along a dusty trail, past sagebrush and cacti.
I'm sure it takes less whipping and more money, the the effect is the same.
A young buy wins a tour through the most magnificent cheese factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual cheese maker. A magical journey through a cheese factory on moon.
Sounds like a good plot. Maybe throw in a Great Space Elevator and some Moon-pah little people and you might be on to something
I don't think they are as willfully stupid as people make them out to be, but tend to let lobbyists and industry representatives do a lot of their thinking for them - in all areas, we're just focused on SOPA and Protect-IP because they are closer to our hearts.
(Yes, I know there's other "be nice to people" in there too, but it's kind of hard to take them seriously when you have all that other stuff in there).
Too easily confused: The human influence upon religion. Like money, faith can be used for evil purposes. Why look at the glass always half empty and full of arsenic?
And worst of all, no lazer-breathing super monsters.
About 20 years ago I was in Baltimore, MD, for a family member's memorial service. A walk-through photo exhibit of immediate and after effects of Chernobyl were on display - radiation illness, mutated offspring - human and animal. Nothing can remove that scar from my mine. I try to laugh about things like this, but it's really very difficult. I hope this is the last ever nuclear emergency in the world, but I doubt it will be.
When I was a wee lad we have to burn ourselves with Thing-makers, pinch fingers in gears of Erector sets and poison ourselves with Chemistry sets. Kids today have it much harder.
Slashdot Mirror
You guys have kids?
Revoke their geek cred, unless they're schooling their kids in the finer points of science and technology.
This means programmers are aware of lack of sun? Or is it the compounding effects of eating too much of that retched chocolate and other things found around the office during holidays? I know my stomach is doing somersaults right now and a package filled with more treats is winging its way to my from my family.
Deck us all with Boston Charlie .. Walla Walla was and Kalamazoo.
In every case where ___________ has been stretching the envelope, there have been accidents and fatalities. The __________ is a classic case of this. Many of the renown WWII _________ had A versions that were anything but safe to ________.
The venerated ______ wasn't much to write home about either when it was first released. The engineers will learn and get experience. It will come at a horrible price. But if you wanted to live a safe life, you shouldn't be in the military in the first place.
Stripped out the context because, upon reflection you can fill in the blanks with just about any military hardware. It's not so much pushing the envelope (as a broad term) as increasing the complexity. Ian Malcolm was the voice (largely cut from the gee-whizzy movie) in Jurassic Park explaining how increased complexity leads to increased probability of flaws, to the point where flaws are inevitable and, as any pilot/driver/footsoldier learns, you find a way to work around it.
"Lieutenant, why is there a bottle cap wedged between the RADAR console and starboard ailertuder?" "I could go through all the explanation as to what diagnostics found or 7 hours techs tried to resolve it, swapping in and out all the hardware and wiring harnesses, only to find jamming a bottle cap in there makes it all work."
This is largely how every television set made during the 1960's came to have a playing card jammed behind a the channel changing knob.
Heli w both video and still camera for ~$99 - didn't note what it's performance range was, though.
Hmm - hover around the apartments on the corner and watch babes!
Yeah, or get one of the little jobbies and put a Hero cam on it and you've got live short of family members who are taking a shower, but not smart enough to lock the door.
I wanna X15 ana Sputnik ana Apollo ana GI Joe ana Six Finger ana Sniper Action Set ana Vogon Constructor Fleet ana International Spy Ring ana Election ana ...
Tell me, what really isn't something suitable for Christmas? With kids growing up with Online Games and The Internet the parental filter of old (sugar coating everything) isn't going to work anymore. Kids will (and likely are and have been for some time) exposed to realities of the world. Al Jazeera was showing the heads blown off children, thanks the Shock and Awe. What could be more shocking? Duggar's last attempt? Cue: Brave New World.
The idea seemed doomed from the start, based more out of nostagia than actual practicality.
You'd one one of the team would have said 'Hey guys, when you think about it, this just doesn't add up!'
Not to overlook how the surviving shuttles have all been promised out to various cities. The competition was very keen with Cape Canaveral retaining one, while Los Angeles and Smithsonian in northern Virginia have the others.
This smells like the sort of move a company makes when it is run by bean-counters...
Just so you know, warranty decisions are always made by "bean counters" (accountants) and actuaries. Doesn't matter what company it is, they're the ones that have to assess the impact it would have on the company, and what the company can reasonably take on. Engineers and similar would at most provide information to help them make that decision.
As a Certified Management Accountant once told me - Accountants are there to advise, not run a company. The decision to go with the accountant's advice is, as stated above, a decision to not stand out as a company under the banner of "Quality"
Raid10 is in my future. When the drive prices return to "normal" that is.
then no way in hell they'd implement a picture.
anyhow, this isn't really news is it? except that they're bothering with this in china(to have a meat supply track where the meat isn't binned to a single big bin at some point in the process).
Consider this country had the Milk scandal and you can imagine how necessary something like this tracking can be. However... if the Beijing government really doesn't know how so many hackers can be attacking USA sites and servers and they're handling these land grabs very poorly, the grip of the Central Government could certainly be called into question (I really don't think it's as strong as many believe.) Where there's corruption there's going to be will and means to game this system - "Recognise this pig? It's amazingly like the past 100 other pigs, with a little photoshopping" sorta thing.
Then there's sausage .. the great mystery is what goes in and how hard that could be to track.
Interesting idea and the fact they are even looking in this direction suggests there something going on, which is well known at high levels and you're not hearing much about.
Too bad, I really liked the guy. He had a certain style, charisma.
True. Without him Team America World Police would have been shallow and unfunny.
"For its part, Seagate is saying it cut back its warranties to be more closely aligned with other drive manufacturers."
Right, because differentiating yourself as a premium provider with a better than industry norm warranty wouldn't work. They would rather be "the same" as everyone else. Funny how I always hear car manufacturers claiming their "drive train" warranty is longer than the other guy. I guess that won't work in the drive market though. Not being sarcastic here - I'm sure these folks understand their market better than a random AC, so it must make sense.
This smells like the sort of move a company makes when it is run by bean-counters, rather than a leader with vision, seizing the high ground and pointing a finger back at spineless competition, while laughing out loud - "See, they are rubbish and we are the best!"
Next: Enter the marketing wizards to put some sort of bombasitic and completely unfathomable positive spin on this - "Really, it's good for the market! Honest!"
Sorry, the moment you took delivery the warranty expired. All due to flooding in Thailand factory.
How we doing on warranties and longevity of SSD?
What's with the Infoworld spam about this subject?
Today, report that businesses are encouraging users to bring their own devices.
Posted yesterday, how to get around businesses preventing bringing your own device: http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/18/2154224/how-to-thwart-the-high-priests-in-it
Am I imaginging things, or is somebody there trying to drive some agenda? (No, I didn't read either FA - I refuse to visit their website.)
Two kinds of shops - a) those who want absolute control over all IT objects and b) those where results are valued more highly. Where I work there's discouragement from bringing your own devices or software to the party, but often that's the only way you get it done - and done timely.
I needed to have a web app up and running last spring - if I waited It would have been this Fall. I used what open source tools I could to get up and running - nothing beautiful, but highly effective. All done against the grain of things .. so guess what, it caught the attention of leadership and I was lauded for such a great advancement in service.
It could drive one to madness.
You bring it yourself. Yeah. Brought in my own software so I could get things done. It's not just smartphones, people.
These are all too common - reasons to hate FB. Honestly, what's the company going to do next, name Zuckeberg "Dear Leader"?
I swear they're doing all the PR damage to themselves they can.
Or not. Despite the fact that Congress was supposed to be out of session until the end of January, the Judiciary Committee has just announced plans to come back to continue the markup this coming Wednesday. This is rather unusual and totally unnecessary. But it shows just how desperate Hollywood is to pass this bill as quickly as possible, before the momentum of opposition builds up even further.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111216/11102617108/sopa-markup-runs-out-time-likely-delayed-until-2012.shtml
Thanks to the old Hollywood westerns I had a mental picture of a stagecoach driver, whipping several representatives in harness and crying, "Yah! Git a move on! Giddap! Yah!" as the coach is pulled rapidly along a dusty trail, past sagebrush and cacti.
I'm sure it takes less whipping and more money, the the effect is the same.
A young buy wins a tour through the most magnificent cheese factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual cheese maker. A magical journey through a cheese factory on moon.
Sounds like a good plot. Maybe throw in a Great Space Elevator and some Moon-pah little people and you might be on to something
The opposite of Progress is Congress.
I don't think they are as willfully stupid as people make them out to be, but tend to let lobbyists and industry representatives do a lot of their thinking for them - in all areas, we're just focused on SOPA and Protect-IP because they are closer to our hearts.
A judge who understood technology enough to make the right decision.
Now, how do we get more judges like this?
Being a good judge means being able to see through the truth behind the veil, no matter if it's corporate BS or technology.
Given those choices, it's a heck of a lot easier to just run for office ourselves.
Are we qualified? This is like the old engineering question, just because we can, should we?
At what point will we become the enemy?
Will we recognise it or will we go about judging everyone like some rampant modern day J. Edgar Hoover?
Rape, slavery, torture, genocide.
"be nice to people", the christian way.
(Yes, I know there's other "be nice to people" in there too, but it's kind of hard to take them seriously when you have all that other stuff in there).
Too easily confused: The human influence upon religion. Like money, faith can be used for evil purposes. Why look at the glass always half empty and full of arsenic?
And worst of all, no lazer-breathing super monsters.
About 20 years ago I was in Baltimore, MD, for a family member's memorial service. A walk-through photo exhibit of immediate and after effects of Chernobyl were on display - radiation illness, mutated offspring - human and animal. Nothing can remove that scar from my mine. I try to laugh about things like this, but it's really very difficult. I hope this is the last ever nuclear emergency in the world, but I doubt it will be.
Sky did not fall, Japan is not irradiated wasteland, Fallout is still just a game.
Yeah. Oh, and mind the sushi, it's got three eyes.
What sort of psychology are they playing at here?
When I was a wee lad we have to burn ourselves with Thing-makers, pinch fingers in gears of Erector sets and poison ourselves with Chemistry sets. Kids today have it much harder.
GPU ALU have a limited set of operations. Their calculation probably uses operations outside of that set.
That's OK, because with the volume of dollars now on the move it's no longer GAAP, but quantum.
for all you people who don't really think in seconds when seconds is > 60.
Put that sucker in the Crimson Assurance and it would go like the Space Shuttle!
right through the main feature and a dozen other screens in the cineplex as well!