"the only reason it may be a one-time thing is because people are being vigilant in their defenses and security regarding this".
I'm not so sure about how much faith I have in air security. How about the 727 that's currently missing in Africa? Here's an airliner that was converted to a fuel tanker that two guys just climbed aboard and flew off in. The story is that it was "most likely" stolen to be used for smuggling. For some reason that doesn't make me feel safe.
Back in college we used to eat Spam and Government cheese with Frenches yellow mustard on Wonder bread... But then we also made a regular habit of drinking ourselves into oblivion so I'm not sure how good of an example this is... Haven't touched any of the above ingredients since, although I actually liked the cheese.
Been there, done that. I don't know about the local LP in your area but I gave up on mine this year after five years. I've tried to be active in the group and belonged to the mailing lists so that I could help out. I got tired of receiving e-mails at 2 in the afternoon saying that the group was getting together at 5:00pm on the other side of the county to hand out phamplets at the store or whatever. I gave up after the last election which was one with some important tax-payer issues and they didn't have yard signs available until two days before the election and no canvasing in the area, even with a candidate running specifically on the tax issue. I'll still vote LP when they've got a good candidate running but the local chapter needs to get their act together.
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Thanks for the info. Just might have to pick that issue up.
And here I am trying to figure out what the effect would be. Codeine puts me to sleep, while coffee keeps me awake. I don't think it would be a net 0 equation... It would be interesting to see which has a stronger effect.
I saw the title for this review and was happy. Just this morning I was talking to my director about clustering, something I've wanted to toy with for some time so I was hoping for a good review. As has been pointed out, good books on clustering are hard, if not impossible to find. Oh well, back to the howto's for me.
On the funny side, my director started the conversation with "have you ever heard of a Beowulf Cluster"? He didn't understand why I couldn't stop laughing. I obviously spend waaaaaay to much time on/. . Anyway, he apparently read something in Scientific American recently about clustering and wanted to apply it to an auditing project that we're working on. Not a cluster but some of the underlying theory gave him an idea of dealing with all of the varibles we have.
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No joke. I was in a resturant last night that had a mock Periodic Table of the Elements with veggies replacing the element names. I could only get to xenon, even with having the symbols in front of me. Back in the day I could recite with entire table, including atomic weights and the like without even seeing the table. Of course high school chemistry *was* almost 20 years ago... It makes you wonder how much more we would know if we could keep learning at the rate we did back then. Ah, the old days of reading an Astrophysics text just because I wanted to.:)
I did try DOSEmu. We had e-mails passing back and forth for a couple of weeks with the vendor but couldn't get it to work. On the plus side, I met some new friends when I posted the question on the Lindows user board. Apparently others are also having trouble.
My boss still uses qbasic to write quick database queries. It's weird because he loves to play with new technology. I've got him toying with the idea of using Linux and he's always wanting to know what the latest and greatest hardware out there is. QBasic seems to be his only blindspot that way. He insists that before he switches to Linux I have to install a DOS emulator and prove that all of his old programs will work:) I didn't have much luck getting an emulator to work on the POS Lindows box he bought for himself and don't really want anything that reminds me of DOS 6.2 on my Mandrake box...
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I brings new meaning to the Perdue slogan "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken" doesn't it? I always though that guy was a little creepy.
As an example of "guilty until proven innocent", back when the RIAA first started going after Napster the company hosting my website got scared, went through their servers, and killed every website that had any mp3's on it with zero warning. Now, my site was for my band and had mp3's on it for songs that my band had written and hold the copyrights for. My site was thrown in the bit-bucket along with every other site. The thing that peeves me is that it took minutes to kill the site and three weeks to get it running again. Obviously I've moved to a different host.
I'm glad that Verizon held out as long as they could. I get the feeling that if the RIAA had approached my old webhost that they would have turned over all the names with no questions asked.
I think you have your numbers confused. The M16 was in use early in Vietnam, the M16A1 was fielded during Vietnam, and the M16A2 was being fielded in the late '80's. When I went through Army Basic Training in 1987 my Drill Sergeant showed us an M16A2 and told us it would be years before we fired one (we were all Army Reservists). He was right, I was issued an M16A1 until I got out in 1995.
If you only cold call businesses that leave a card then I'm ok with it. My beef is companies that use the "shotgun effect". I'm in a weird position at work. I'm IT, so I get all of the IT/Telecomm sales calls forwarded to me. I'm also closest to the front door so I get to deal with every salesman that walks in off the street trying to sell us something (small office, no receptionist). I'm amazed at the things people are trying to sell me. Do companies really buy T-1 connectivity or $50,000 printers from someone that just walked in off the street? Luckily we have a "no business with cold callers" policy so I just take their business card and send it to file 13 once they leave.
At least in the old days of AT&T if something broke you knew it was AT&T's problem. In my office I have to deal with four different companies. One company installed the internal system, SBC owns the lines, our "value added reseller" uses SBC's lines, plus we have another company for data and long distance. A few months ago our VAR decided to take us off of SBC's switch at the CO and put us on their own. Of course they sent out a letter saying that this would cause a 20 minute outtage but we should not notice a difference other than that. The problem was that their hardware couldn't handle the distance to the CO and kak'd most of our phone service. Of course everyone blamed everyone else and it took three months to get it fixed. What should have been an issue of "ok, VAR, you broke it, just put everything back to the way it was" ended up having me get all of the company's involved in fixing their part and basically setting up our billing and route programming from scratch.
How about parking it in international waters and declaring yourself an independent country? Hey, if Sealand can do it with an old WWII era platform why not? Now if I can just win the lottery this weekend...
I agree with what you say about compile times in school forcing programmers to check their code. Back in the dark ages when I was a junior in high school I was taking a COBOL class. The mainframe that compiled the programs was located down in the state capitol. We would work on five programs at a time. Each night the compiling was done as a batch job, meaning for each of your five programs you got *one* compile per 24 hour period. We made damn sure that every compile was critical. Now, over the summer before my senior year they installed a new system that linked to the local community college where you could compile to your heart's content all day long. There was a definate difference between the troubleshooting philosophies of the two classes. The class that I was in would still go over programs with a fine-tooth comb before compiling while the younger class would compile after every change just to see what would happen. Of course, now that I'm in the real world with deadlines...
In my area the court documents aren't just "stuck in a filing cabinet in city hall". Most of the local papers in the towns I have lived in have a little "police blotter" section in the paper. In there they publish the names and addresses of people that have had run-ins with the law over the past week. My current local paper posts blotters for the entire county so I can read who got picked up for a drunk and disorderly a couple of towns over and who was picked up on an assault charge in my hometown. Keep in mind that this information is published long before a person ever goes to trial, so much for "innocent until proven guilty".
What I can't figure out is why *anyone* would use their home address for the publicly listed address for a business. You can get a P.O. Box for what, $20 a month?
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Do you know what 2/3's of a pun is? P.U. (rimshot)
Seriously, this hit about 40 miles south of me. If a piece had to land on a car why couldn't it have hit my neighbor's kid's car? I swear, those bass cannons he uses drive me nuts, and I play bass for a metal band. Go figure.
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"the only reason it may be a one-time thing is because people are being vigilant in their defenses and security regarding this".
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I'm not so sure about how much faith I have in air security. How about the 727 that's currently missing in Africa? Here's an airliner that was converted to a fuel tanker that two guys just climbed aboard and flew off in. The story is that it was "most likely" stolen to be used for smuggling. For some reason that doesn't make me feel safe.
http://taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003
Back in college we used to eat Spam and Government cheese with Frenches yellow mustard on Wonder bread... But then we also made a regular habit of drinking ourselves into oblivion so I'm not sure how good of an example this is... Haven't touched any of the above ingredients since, although I actually liked the cheese.
When I was doing IT in the Army Reserve all the computers in the division were Dell desktops/laptops running Win98/2K and Office 97/2K.
God help me, I even had to teach classes in MS Office. I feel so dirty...
Been there, done that. I don't know about the local LP in your area but I gave up on mine this year after five years. I've tried to be active in the group and belonged to the mailing lists so that I could help out. I got tired of receiving e-mails at 2 in the afternoon saying that the group was getting together at 5:00pm on the other side of the county to hand out phamplets at the store or whatever. I gave up after the last election which was one with some important tax-payer issues and they didn't have yard signs available until two days before the election and no canvasing in the area, even with a candidate running specifically on the tax issue. I'll still vote LP when they've got a good candidate running but the local chapter needs to get their act together.
Thanks for the info. Just might have to pick that issue up.
And here I am trying to figure out what the effect would be. Codeine puts me to sleep, while coffee keeps me awake. I don't think it would be a net 0 equation... It would be interesting to see which has a stronger effect.
I saw the title for this review and was happy. Just this morning I was talking to my director about clustering, something I've wanted to toy with for some time so I was hoping for a good review. As has been pointed out, good books on clustering are hard, if not impossible to find. Oh well, back to the howto's for me.
/. . Anyway, he apparently read something in Scientific American recently about clustering and wanted to apply it to an auditing project that we're working on. Not a cluster but some of the underlying theory gave him an idea of dealing with all of the varibles we have.
On the funny side, my director started the conversation with "have you ever heard of a Beowulf Cluster"? He didn't understand why I couldn't stop laughing. I obviously spend waaaaaay to much time on
No joke. I was in a resturant last night that had a mock Periodic Table of the Elements with veggies replacing the element names. I could only get to xenon, even with having the symbols in front of me. Back in the day I could recite with entire table, including atomic weights and the like without even seeing the table. Of course high school chemistry *was* almost 20 years ago... It makes you wonder how much more we would know if we could keep learning at the rate we did back then. Ah, the old days of reading an Astrophysics text just because I wanted to. :)
I did try DOSEmu. We had e-mails passing back and forth for a couple of weeks with the vendor but couldn't get it to work. On the plus side, I met some new friends when I posted the question on the Lindows user board. Apparently others are also having trouble.
My boss still uses qbasic to write quick database queries. It's weird because he loves to play with new technology. I've got him toying with the idea of using Linux and he's always wanting to know what the latest and greatest hardware out there is. QBasic seems to be his only blindspot that way. He insists that before he switches to Linux I have to install a DOS emulator and prove that all of his old programs will work :) I didn't have much luck getting an emulator to work on the POS Lindows box he bought for himself and don't really want anything that reminds me of DOS 6.2 on my Mandrake box...
I brings new meaning to the Perdue slogan "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken" doesn't it? I always though that guy was a little creepy.
As an example of "guilty until proven innocent", back when the RIAA first started going after Napster the company hosting my website got scared, went through their servers, and killed every website that had any mp3's on it with zero warning. Now, my site was for my band and had mp3's on it for songs that my band had written and hold the copyrights for. My site was thrown in the bit-bucket along with every other site. The thing that peeves me is that it took minutes to kill the site and three weeks to get it running again. Obviously I've moved to a different host.
I'm glad that Verizon held out as long as they could. I get the feeling that if the RIAA had approached my old webhost that they would have turned over all the names with no questions asked.
I think you have your numbers confused. The M16 was in use early in Vietnam, the M16A1 was fielded during Vietnam, and the M16A2 was being fielded in the late '80's. When I went through Army Basic Training in 1987 my Drill Sergeant showed us an M16A2 and told us it would be years before we fired one (we were all Army Reservists). He was right, I was issued an M16A1 until I got out in 1995.
If you only cold call businesses that leave a card then I'm ok with it. My beef is companies that use the "shotgun effect". I'm in a weird position at work. I'm IT, so I get all of the IT/Telecomm sales calls forwarded to me. I'm also closest to the front door so I get to deal with every salesman that walks in off the street trying to sell us something (small office, no receptionist). I'm amazed at the things people are trying to sell me. Do companies really buy T-1 connectivity or $50,000 printers from someone that just walked in off the street? Luckily we have a "no business with cold callers" policy so I just take their business card and send it to file 13 once they leave.
At least in the old days of AT&T if something broke you knew it was AT&T's problem. In my office I have to deal with four different companies. One company installed the internal system, SBC owns the lines, our "value added reseller" uses SBC's lines, plus we have another company for data and long distance. A few months ago our VAR decided to take us off of SBC's switch at the CO and put us on their own. Of course they sent out a letter saying that this would cause a 20 minute outtage but we should not notice a difference other than that. The problem was that their hardware couldn't handle the distance to the CO and kak'd most of our phone service. Of course everyone blamed everyone else and it took three months to get it fixed. What should have been an issue of "ok, VAR, you broke it, just put everything back to the way it was" ended up having me get all of the company's involved in fixing their part and basically setting up our billing and route programming from scratch.
How about parking it in international waters and declaring yourself an independent country? Hey, if Sealand can do it with an old WWII era platform why not? Now if I can just win the lottery this weekend...
I agree with what you say about compile times in school forcing programmers to check their code. Back in the dark ages when I was a junior in high school I was taking a COBOL class. The mainframe that compiled the programs was located down in the state capitol. We would work on five programs at a time. Each night the compiling was done as a batch job, meaning for each of your five programs you got *one* compile per 24 hour period. We made damn sure that every compile was critical. Now, over the summer before my senior year they installed a new system that linked to the local community college where you could compile to your heart's content all day long. There was a definate difference between the troubleshooting philosophies of the two classes. The class that I was in would still go over programs with a fine-tooth comb before compiling while the younger class would compile after every change just to see what would happen. Of course, now that I'm in the real world with deadlines...
Mom? Is that you? ;)
Funny, I thought the most common criticism for Battlefield Earth was that it was just plain horrible.
Like putting a border with the names of your dogs around a Beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans in a wading pool of hot grits?
Hey, someone had to say it and I had a bad enough day at work to justify it.
I was thinking of "It's a small world after all" myself.
In my area the court documents aren't just "stuck in a filing cabinet in city hall". Most of the local papers in the towns I have lived in have a little "police blotter" section in the paper. In there they publish the names and addresses of people that have had run-ins with the law over the past week. My current local paper posts blotters for the entire county so I can read who got picked up for a drunk and disorderly a couple of towns over and who was picked up on an assault charge in my hometown. Keep in mind that this information is published long before a person ever goes to trial, so much for "innocent until proven guilty".
What I can't figure out is why *anyone* would use their home address for the publicly listed address for a business. You can get a P.O. Box for what, $20 a month?
Do you know what 2/3's of a pun is? P.U. (rimshot)
Seriously, this hit about 40 miles south of me. If a piece had to land on a car why couldn't it have hit my neighbor's kid's car? I swear, those bass cannons he uses drive me nuts, and I play bass for a metal band. Go figure.
Thanks for the info, I'll check it out over the weekend. Cheers.