The reason why the unemployment rate isn't way above what it is, is that people are being shat out the other side of the jobless market, namely, they're either giving up, going back to school, taking a lower paying.
OK, lower paying jobs are still jobs.:) Going back to school means you are still unemployeed. Anyway you read the numbers, we are at roughly 95% employment which is fantastic. That is healthy healthy healthy!!
The main problem with a service based economy, is that it relies on having a very strong consumer class. There are some very serious negative trends against this. Mainly, insane amounts of consumer debt, and growing worry about the economy, growing numbers of unemployed or people employed below their burn rate...
Service based economies have their strength in that they don't rely on a class of folks to consume. Everyone in this country makes demands on service jobs. If you buy Donkin' Doughnuts, use a mechanic, call a plumber, go to a deli or diner and so on. The pay isn't fantastic and you are right that this sector can take its hits along with every other sector, but in a specialized economy like America's, we are dependant on these folks. NY City could not run without folks who do the office cleaning, drive taxies, move packages, and sell prepared food.
So, the only negative trends are those that we've seen in the depression from when the tech bubble burst and then 9/11 happened. The economy as a whole groaned and more folks made their own lunch for work or changed their own oil in their cars, and even then, life gets so busy in economic centers that you still end up in a deli for lunch now and again. If we are to believe John Kerry, well, we are all doomed! If you are listening to him, plug your ears when he gets on the economy because he's not making any sense yet. I want to scream, "Nonononono, it doesn't work that way!!!" Living near NY, most of my friends are staunch Democrats and they are in agreement that the economy is doing OK. Our country needs to grow a bit more, move the interest rates up a tiny bit, then start beating down this rediculous deficite we accumulated.
Incidentally, while a deficit was really unavoidable, it's so much larger than it has to be. To give Kerry a fair shake, he's right, the deficit is big, but not a problem for now. I can't emphasize enough that we are growing even with the wacky oil prices. Also, our economy is changing slowly.
As for social reprisal, man, I hope not.:-o Not for a while, I would think. Even then, the social conciessness has to pick its scape goat and that could be anything. The populace could blame Peanut Butter for their ills and so long as it has a good slogan, a good portion of folks will start lobbying for a ban on it.:)
The company that outsources becomes a lot more competative because they have a larger margin. This enables prices to fall. You're correct that in today's economy, most markets would not see a decreas in price. However, consider most of the foriegn made products in Wallmart. How many could we afford if they were made domistically? The scary answer is, not many! That is the counter to your argument; That market has gone lower and will probably stay low.
Another facinating counter argument is if we outsource the vending of our medicine to Canada. They buy it in bulk at 1/2 the price. If the buyers' market leaves the US and we import exported drug from Canada, the domestic companies will either sell domestically at a reasonable rate or jack up the cost to Canada. Facinating, no??
Outsourcing also pays for research and development, advertisement, and a host of other things that make the company more competative. Now, the US, which has lost a very very small percentage of jobs to outsourcing needs to compete in the global economy. One of the big reasons for having Capitalism run the American economy is because that's the natural order of things.:\ Command economies fail time and again, as we've seen throughout histry.
Now, for those who are skimming by and are worried about losing their job (as I acctually am) consider that our unemployment rate is the same as it was when the US had that economic BOOM under President Clinton. The Tech Sectors are predicted to start hiring as a result of the already observed increased spending on Tech!! Folks, we are in great shape! BUT, our economy is becoming more of a service oriented economy. Outsourcing the Colocation is a terrible idea of a domestic company, so those who service those computers are going to be in high demand for a long time to come. If you are a developer, I hate to say it, but you may be looking at a career shift some time soon. Don't lament, give up, and blame the government, but get yourself into a corner with a good book on your second interest. Security? Network Management? Tech Repairs? Project Management? How do you outsource this to India??? The economic infrastructure isn't there yet.
Finally, for the distant future, also consider as a nation's economy grows it will demand a higher wage and tax companies more and then they will leave that country and seek services elseware. Maybe back at home. Just like in the 90s when our car market was at war with the Japanese! People then said to calm down and that it was a natural trend and they were right.
So, the bottom line is, we're doing OK in the US. You might have to change your career, and that's a little scary, but you can do it. If you're 50 or 20 you're the most adaptive critter on this planet, so buck up and fight!:)
Lol, there is nothing wrong with emotional arguments. My accusation is that this got play because of the emotional potential it has. I am far more critical of the folks who pass on the argument than those make it. (Read what I wrote) I also am indeed a hypocrite from time to time, thought, but I don't think so here. I appreciate that you thought to keep me honest.:)
Regarding the links to Iraq; There was a lot of emotion for sure. Why the administration resumed the war with Iraq and why the US public so condoned it are indeed different. There is some interesting information that is, IIRC, circumstatial, but is implying a more complete picture that there was a link and what that link really consisted of. Facinating stuff, though a quick Google didn't turn it up. My apologies for that.
He really did not fly with his unit, although he has publicly claimed that he did.
Interesting stuff. While a far cry from desertion, it's an interesting inconsistency. Thanks for the substantive reply.
I consider this a serious charge.
Well, AWOL is a very serious charge. If we rather claim the President was knowingly lying about what he did while serving, we have to prove something about the thoughts of GW at the time that he said it. In the end, that particular charge remains a judgement call for the voters. I'm very inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt (perhaps, obviously).
Regarding Hannity, most folks I've heard, when speaking extemperaneously, draw some erroneous conclusions or claim something totally fictitious. I can't recall the specific incidents but I do rememeber thinking "you made that up" while listening to Hannity, Franken, O'Reilly and others or "you really can't draw that conclusion for sure." If you have something valid I'de be interested. All I ever see in the form of "he lies" is hyperbole, out-of-context quotes, pedantic word critique, over criticism of a joke, or harping on a factual error that the host was conviced of.
Incidentally, this is why most hosts (even Laura Ingraham) don't typically attack and knock down arguments without having a positive counter argument. You can't say, "X didn't happen" unless you also say, "Y did happen to preclude X." Well... you can, but the credibility of the argument wanes.
(Or at least everyone but Bush doesn't. For some reason no one cares that he deserted. You or I would go to jail.)
Could you post a link to the facts that prove this? It was debunked weeks ago... unless you are a mouthpiece of Kerry, who voted for the war and then refused to fund it putting himself under condemnation of his own previous statements.
Common... lets get our facts down. Dispite the pittiful content of Air America there are a few (though not many) liberal talk show hosts who deal with reality. If you are in the NYC area there are some very good ones on late in the evening on 770am.
Bush is far from perfect, but can we at least criticize things he really did?? Can we also criticize things that we can positivly an alternative action to?? No, no, can't do that. We might learn somethin' and I just wanna drink my nice partisan koolaide under the careful dispensation of Mr. Franken or Mr. Savage. Don't want to listen to John Bachelor or Sean Hannity, two rather able broadcasters on opposite sides. Might learn something about my own beliefs.
Sheesh...
Btw, I do largly agree with your post above, but the cheap shot at Bush is totally out of place. If you're aware of politics today, you probably are aware that I [intentionally] did not make the obvious reciprocal argument. Gotta keep "you guys" on yer toes... and I don't think it should be a major issue. That's me, though.
Well, he played the liberal media bias well! He got a wide read thread on Slashdot so all the liberals can rally around it and cry "Oh, imoral! Oh, Veitnam!"
As far as protests go, this one is loud and emotional, and that's all protests need to be and typically are. The invalid and unsubstantiated claims to the "morality" of the war just add to the inconsistancies of his view of "Free, but not that free... just kinda free... for stuff I support." He says he doesn't think Linux should be used to kill people which does fly in the face of the GPL (as others have pointed out).
More interestingly, if he can claim the war is immoral, that means he has some absolute authority for morality. I'm too busy to provoke someone who supports him on this board to tell me what that definition of morality is and how they can support it.:D The only answer you will ever get, when you press issues and facts, is black helicopter conspiracy theories about how the president "knew about 9/11," "betrayed this country, he played on our fears," "was AWOL during his service," "snipes Iraqi civilians," "this is George Bush's Veitnam," and on and on and on it goes.
For those in a media vacuum, all of the above accusations came from elected "leaders" of our coutry. Guess how many of them are soundly based in reasion, thought, and reality?
None! (It must be a vast conspiracy...)
But they are so emotionally charged and so outrageous that they get air time (like this story) and folks in the intellectual elitest society of higher situational ethics and the vacuuous contradictory enlightenment of postmodern cotton candy thinking swallow these statements as gospel and run around repeating them until the mildly thoughtful person almost buys into them. And we wonder why the electoral college is still in place...
For the political scientist in all of us, this is the funniest/strangest election year in quiet a while.
Sometimes ideal environments offer higher throughput and stress on a system. Consider a webapplication on a busy network with one interface. Very typical and much lower stress than you might expect. Consider the stress-volume environement: You could have 3 nicks on a quiet switched segemnt and HAMMER the server.
Obviously, you want to profile your testing environment while testing to find a bottle neck and work it into your analysis. During one testing experience we found that the IDE drive started working very very hard and limited our throughput!
OK, I skimmed the topics and didn't see anything that really targetted this idea, so here it is...
First, go to the school with a nicely written letter explaining the vulnerabilities, the impact and why it must be fixed. Tell them that you intend to publish your findings after a month or so or later if the school needs that time to fix the problem. The idea it to fix a date so that that school fixes the problem.
Again, our goal is to fix the problem. Not arm the baddies.
If you fear that you will be sued for some odd reason (and unfortunately, our governing officials in the US do not understand security very well) grass roots is powerful. Word of mouth is devistating. The down side is that this method will almost surely alert the wrong folks to the problems before they are fixed. If it makes you feel any better, the problems you are describiing are so trivial that I'll wager that they are already being exploited.
On a final note, you as a technical person able to help others have, in my book, an obligation to try and help fix this. I think you already understand this (hense your post to/.) so bravo to you! Fight the good fight.
I have a hunch this might be excessive leak of potential without a load on the battery. If you have any unused AA batteries from the early 80s, they are probably dead now by normal, natural leakage inside the battery.
I'm not quite sure what they have your respect for. They follow their faith as they believe it is layed out for them. I could very well be missing what your getting at with this one, though.
I understand Christianity very very well... have had long in depth conversations with college educated Born Again Christians
You may have had some great philisophical discussions, but claims like the majority are within the fold of Christianity make me wonder regardless of depth, how accurate those conversations you had before were. The Bible isn't something you can just grab and apply your own interpretation too. There are things that denominations disagree about, but largly there is a concensus between folks who bother to apply a fair hermeneutic to their exegesis. If you stop following the rules, that's where lots of amazing and wacky doctrine starts popping up.
Your unquestioning faith in the intangible is what frightens me.
Ok, that's just silly. Firstly, the Bible never talks about a blind faith. John Calvin, regardless of the many opinions for and against the man, wrote chapters on this in his Institutes of the Christian Religion refuting the notion that people should just believe with no reason. It makes for a humerous Chrstian charicature where evangelicals go running around yelling "believe believe." I know a few that acctually fit this description and I do what I can to correct them.
Secondly, is faith in the intangible unreasonable? Hardly, because you and I both have quite a few instances of faith in the intangible. For exmple, the quality of chair to support your wait is an intangible quality. You can't touch the chair's strength, but that doesn't make it any less real.
If I can be really frank, it sounds like you were taught via the "just believe this" method for a while. Then when you got old enough to start asking why you got fed, "just believe this." If that's the case, it explains the misuderstandings your exhibiting and reactionary comments. Quite seriously, you may want to snag yourself a Bible and read it outside of the structure you were shoved in to. Reason out for yourself why it is wrong or right. It's not like this is a niche religion that is going to go away. Lots of folks are running aound with it in their heads and hearts and even more are running around with something in their hearts that they are calling Christianity. The latter folks are those who would give you another wave of crusades and they must be held accountable to their own book or be shown to be no Christians at all. I also highly reccommend finding a friend you trust who has some solid theology. Make them agree to talk w/ you without evangelizing you. I have a lot of friends I have this relationship with. They've heard the Gospel, they know my thoughts and opinions and we disagree. The ball is totally in their court, as it is in yours.
I hope you find the truth. As I said in my original post, faith in God is something that is quite real and quite founded in evidence in my experience. If you find this to be true or not is dependant on you seeking out your reasons why. Go find em, they are out there. It's been fun chatting.:)
What I said was "frightening"? I'm not sure you have any clue what Christianity claims or what I might possibly believe as a Christian. I also disagree that most of America is in the fold of Christianity and that my previous two posts were "rants."
Regarding the Jewish faith, (as you've brought it up) it is from the very start, a non prostletizing religion. They were the chosen people of God from the start and were never told to go tell folks that Yhwh would save them. Quite a few Rabbis today will claim that everyone will be saved or that you are saved by the faith you profess in the God of your choice along with the works you do in keeping with that faith.
A cursory knowledge of Christianity can clue you into the world view it posits; All people are naturally rebellious toward God and justly deserve an eternity in Hell. God offers undeserving sinners salvation from those sins by faith (and faith alone) in the sacrifice of His son, Jesus. What you call a "rant" is the manifestation of my conviction that you need to hear this offer as much as I did so that you can reject or accept it.
I have met countless collegues in the IT world that have been indoctrinated with the most odd stereo types with nominal understanding of their subject matter. There is obviously a horrid lack of understanding on this and I would rather take your written abuses to my view and possibly open up an intelligent, rational, mature dialogue on these things in the hopes that someone would be saved than be a sheeple in the masses.
My friend, chill out.:) I'm sharing my personal experiences. If you think the Christian God can't or won't help you for whatever reason, that's your choice.
Not to start a debate -- well, maybe I am, but your last sentence can easily be said about folks in popular culture's graces too! Don't just reiterating a mantra-like line from the cannonical highschool book of Why Chuch is Whack but tell me that you disagree and then go your way. If you really want to learn via a good chat/debate, offer up some substance and we'll go at it. Otherwise, as said, chill out.
I work for a company that gives you 1 day notice of your termination. They don't think to retain your documentation or even curtiously let you know that you might like to go look for a job. It's sad that it is a small company and you would think that folks would know each other better than to just axe someone and shoo them out of the office so quickly.
But, managerial delites aside, I keep a journal of what bothers me and why. I date it and it comes in very handy for talking with coworkers and expressing exactly why I'm distracted. It helps me vent and there are two folk I trust enough to vent with at coffee shops.
Things have gotten particularly bad recently and so I'm writing a letter of resignation (with footnotes) explaining why I have chosen to move on. I don't know if I'll hand it in or not, but it's confirming that what I believe is well founded and I have a right to feel nervous. It's not a bad thing, but a natural thing.
Finally, many bosses are very very ignorant of what their actions can do to moral. If you have a feeling-human for your boss, still (and saddly that can be a rarity) talk it over.
Something I have that gets me through the day, though, which you may or may not have, is hope in Christ. (How's that for a seeming non-sequitor?):) Seriously, if your primary purpose on Earth is to tell folks, "Hey, all that guilt you carry around can be gone via Jesus" then doing your Perl code or C driver gets pretty easy. Even dieing isn't as scary as it used to be. The catch is that you have to realize that you have to be saved from your sin before it makes any sense to go looking to Christ as your savior. If you aren't looking to be saved from your own sin, then you're just playing church.
RSS is a simple simple thing, much like XML is a simple simple thing.
If you check out the spec for it, you'll notice that there is room for lots of handy info. This in it self may not convice you, as you said, how does this beat going to the site and looking for yourself?
There are two primary benefits: 1. Your site can be syndicated or you can sydicate other sites easily! I can put Slashdot headlines in a box on my site for my users to click on! Neat stuff!! Making machines able to homogeneously deal with this data is a big plus.
That brings me to RSS agregators. Unlike a PHP script which will simply snag and update a display on your home page (as suggested above) you can have a window on your desktop with a list of sites in it. Click on the site and you get the headlines without the overhead of graphics, silly scripts, and graphics. It is a matter of taste, but I absolutly love this technology! I have a bunch of blogs and news sites that I try to stay on top of and it's very annoying to open up 20 tabs in FireFox when I can use the FireFox RSS plug in to brows them in a side bar as a list. I ussually have 20 tabs open anyway and this is a great way for me to get my news.
Also, as the article mentions, how can you spam me via this unless the company directly injects the advertisement as one of their headlines? Email is push method while this is a pull method. Pull methods mean that the client can stop pulling, so if spam shows up in my slashdot.rdf, I 'll stop using it.
Granted, Gaim's interface for Jabber has a few issues. If you know how to massage your way past them it's a great solution.
We are a small, company, btw. Scalling for a huge corperation might take a lil planning, but is very doable. We can message out to the jabber.org server and accept messages back in from it. Really excellent stuff, and all over SSL.
LOL!! Whoops, I mixed up.NET and C#. Sorry about that. Yes, I am a Java programmer more so than a C# programmer. No, I do not have no experience with.NET.
I will say that I'm a little annoyed that you chose to fly off the handle like you did. So, rather than get into a shouting match with you, here is a
paper
for you and the folks here to check out on the JVM and CLR. Note that they are both largly stack machines but the CLR from MS made some design improvements. Please also note (if you are familiar with large scale NUMA-type number chuggers) that neither machine language is built very well to JIT down to that architechuture. If you aren't familiar with Non-Uniform Memory Access machines, google around. They are very cool and you don't have to know alot about them to realize the a stack machine isn't the best model for tight-looped matrix math.
Again, I hope this is helpful and please chill for a few minutes before you blast me.:-P
So, one of the ideas behind C# was to make an intermediate laguage (MS-Java-byte-code, if you will) which could be quickly compiled for the CPU in question. Stick a system call envrionment and garbage collector around it and you have [roughly] what C# is. One of the nice things about Java was that it was for no specific machine... it was very very simple at the instruction level, but making native code from that can be a pain.
Now, from the looks of the posted article some folks now want an intermediate laguage that can represent concepts like instruction vectorization and maybe SMP (hypter threading) and perhaps some other more complicated constructs that Java's machine code just doesn't talk about.
The end result is that you would have very fast machine code for the number-crunching loops in the code and portability. The compile time would be fairly quick and the optimization for the local CPU would be "smart" and fast if you marked up what where vectorizable instructions.
Why C# falls short, I can't say. I've only looked at the Java machine, never at how C# represets a program.
I never expected to get any positive feed back on that comment on/., but I think I have been doing my reading and I certainly think that the sentiments of Americans are not represented by their government and that the ACLU has historically allied with courts who percieve themselves as legislatures to force the will of a few bitter folks on the whole of society.
I certinaly will agree that the US is a fantastically successful experiment and I dearly love it here. I was not refering to a poor racial minority, though, in my comment. I am troubled that the ACLU and many other SIGs raise up ideological and philisophical minorities over the majority. I probably should have mentioned that since I'm not arguing a context where that is assumed.
Hope this clears things up.
I also wish you knew a little more about me before you made your emotive last few comments.;-)
I'm glad a large organization like the ACLU reacted like that!
Unfortunately I still disagree how they constantly persecute mainstream religions and expressions there of as well as minimize the majority to accomodate the minority. Their track record has really turned me off to them to the point where I consider them one of our problems on The Hill.:-\
I think I threw in more than two cents worth on this one.:-)
Be careful to not overanalyze that "illegal-votine" quote. It appears where a sig normally does (sans the '--'). It could just be cynacism... after all, if I took the quotes at the bottom of the/. main page this seriously I would probably stop reading the page! Good journalism is in part good history and anthropology.
I can certainly understand keeping away from doing a Java-web-developement course when you really want to do a Java course.:-)
I would encourage you to consider using applets because they let you get a pretty graphic in 10 lines of code (which is encourageing to even grad students) and you can have them write a JDBC based client. The benefits of this progject are that it's real-world, it forces them to take the relational tables and populate logical objects, and they will lear a little about Java's dynamic loading capabilities.
Some caveats: Sockets can only talk from the client's computer to the webserver they got the Java applet from. Some one will make this mistake.:-) The teacher must REALLY be on the ball to cover that much material and not overload the learners. I've seen projects like this turn into disasters where students are left without any help by a professor who doesn't consider the "horizon streching" that's going one.
Hope this is helpful. It is a large undertaking and it must be taylored for the caliber students you have. Then again, it's so enterprise-focused that they can't complain that your course is "just a theory course.";-)
I've found that touch typing has helped me a great great deal but perhaps best of all is that the key bindings for vi and evilwm make perfect sense now.;-)
... this reads like a troll, but...
Eliminating warnings is often good, but sometimes will convolute code or make it less efficient. A good example is the seemingly endless type-casting circus my code ends up hosting.
Regarding cooperations, it is a rare company that has effective coding standards that help and don't hurt productivity. Warning-free code should be a nice-to-have but never required. Otherwise you lose cycles to silly things when your next quarter is around the corner.
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OK, lower paying jobs are still jobs. :) Going back to school means you are still unemployeed. Anyway you read the numbers, we are at roughly 95% employment which is fantastic. That is healthy healthy healthy!!
The main problem with a service based economy, is that it relies on having a very strong consumer class. There are some very serious negative trends against this. Mainly, insane amounts of consumer debt, and growing worry about the economy, growing numbers of unemployed or people employed below their burn rate...
Service based economies have their strength in that they don't rely on a class of folks to consume. Everyone in this country makes demands on service jobs. If you buy Donkin' Doughnuts, use a mechanic, call a plumber, go to a deli or diner and so on. The pay isn't fantastic and you are right that this sector can take its hits along with every other sector, but in a specialized economy like America's, we are dependant on these folks. NY City could not run without folks who do the office cleaning, drive taxies, move packages, and sell prepared food.
So, the only negative trends are those that we've seen in the depression from when the tech bubble burst and then 9/11 happened. The economy as a whole groaned and more folks made their own lunch for work or changed their own oil in their cars, and even then, life gets so busy in economic centers that you still end up in a deli for lunch now and again. If we are to believe John Kerry, well, we are all doomed! If you are listening to him, plug your ears when he gets on the economy because he's not making any sense yet. I want to scream, "Nonononono, it doesn't work that way!!!" Living near NY, most of my friends are staunch Democrats and they are in agreement that the economy is doing OK. Our country needs to grow a bit more, move the interest rates up a tiny bit, then start beating down this rediculous deficite we accumulated.
Incidentally, while a deficit was really unavoidable, it's so much larger than it has to be. To give Kerry a fair shake, he's right, the deficit is big, but not a problem for now. I can't emphasize enough that we are growing even with the wacky oil prices. Also, our economy is changing slowly.
As for social reprisal, man, I hope not. :-o Not for a while, I would think. Even then, the social conciessness has to pick its scape goat and that could be anything. The populace could blame Peanut Butter for their ills and so long as it has a good slogan, a good portion of folks will start lobbying for a ban on it. :)
Consumers do benefit from outsourcing.
The company that outsources becomes a lot more competative because they have a larger margin. This enables prices to fall. You're correct that in today's economy, most markets would not see a decreas in price. However, consider most of the foriegn made products in Wallmart. How many could we afford if they were made domistically? The scary answer is, not many! That is the counter to your argument; That market has gone lower and will probably stay low.
Another facinating counter argument is if we outsource the vending of our medicine to Canada. They buy it in bulk at 1/2 the price. If the buyers' market leaves the US and we import exported drug from Canada, the domestic companies will either sell domestically at a reasonable rate or jack up the cost to Canada. Facinating, no??
Outsourcing also pays for research and development, advertisement, and a host of other things that make the company more competative. Now, the US, which has lost a very very small percentage of jobs to outsourcing needs to compete in the global economy. One of the big reasons for having Capitalism run the American economy is because that's the natural order of things. :\ Command economies fail time and again, as we've seen throughout histry.
Now, for those who are skimming by and are worried about losing their job (as I acctually am) consider that our unemployment rate is the same as it was when the US had that economic BOOM under President Clinton. The Tech Sectors are predicted to start hiring as a result of the already observed increased spending on Tech!! Folks, we are in great shape! BUT, our economy is becoming more of a service oriented economy. Outsourcing the Colocation is a terrible idea of a domestic company, so those who service those computers are going to be in high demand for a long time to come. If you are a developer, I hate to say it, but you may be looking at a career shift some time soon. Don't lament, give up, and blame the government, but get yourself into a corner with a good book on your second interest. Security? Network Management? Tech Repairs? Project Management? How do you outsource this to India??? The economic infrastructure isn't there yet.
Finally, for the distant future, also consider as a nation's economy grows it will demand a higher wage and tax companies more and then they will leave that country and seek services elseware. Maybe back at home. Just like in the 90s when our car market was at war with the Japanese! People then said to calm down and that it was a natural trend and they were right.
So, the bottom line is, we're doing OK in the US. You might have to change your career, and that's a little scary, but you can do it. If you're 50 or 20 you're the most adaptive critter on this planet, so buck up and fight! :)
Lol, there is nothing wrong with emotional arguments. My accusation is that this got play because of the emotional potential it has. I am far more critical of the folks who pass on the argument than those make it. (Read what I wrote) I also am indeed a hypocrite from time to time, thought, but I don't think so here. I appreciate that you thought to keep me honest. :)
Regarding the links to Iraq; There was a lot of emotion for sure. Why the administration resumed the war with Iraq and why the US public so condoned it are indeed different. There is some interesting information that is, IIRC, circumstatial, but is implying a more complete picture that there was a link and what that link really consisted of. Facinating stuff, though a quick Google didn't turn it up. My apologies for that.
Interesting stuff. While a far cry from desertion, it's an interesting inconsistency. Thanks for the substantive reply. I consider this a serious charge.
Well, AWOL is a very serious charge. If we rather claim the President was knowingly lying about what he did while serving, we have to prove something about the thoughts of GW at the time that he said it. In the end, that particular charge remains a judgement call for the voters. I'm very inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt (perhaps, obviously).
Regarding Hannity, most folks I've heard, when speaking extemperaneously, draw some erroneous conclusions or claim something totally fictitious. I can't recall the specific incidents but I do rememeber thinking "you made that up" while listening to Hannity, Franken, O'Reilly and others or "you really can't draw that conclusion for sure." If you have something valid I'de be interested. All I ever see in the form of "he lies" is hyperbole, out-of-context quotes, pedantic word critique, over criticism of a joke, or harping on a factual error that the host was conviced of.
Incidentally, this is why most hosts (even Laura Ingraham) don't typically attack and knock down arguments without having a positive counter argument. You can't say, "X didn't happen" unless you also say, "Y did happen to preclude X." Well... you can, but the credibility of the argument wanes.
(Or at least everyone but Bush doesn't. For some reason no one cares that he deserted. You or I would go to jail.)
Could you post a link to the facts that prove this? It was debunked weeks ago... unless you are a mouthpiece of Kerry, who voted for the war and then refused to fund it putting himself under condemnation of his own previous statements.
Common... lets get our facts down. Dispite the pittiful content of Air America there are a few (though not many) liberal talk show hosts who deal with reality. If you are in the NYC area there are some very good ones on late in the evening on 770am.
Bush is far from perfect, but can we at least criticize things he really did?? Can we also criticize things that we can positivly an alternative action to?? No, no, can't do that. We might learn somethin' and I just wanna drink my nice partisan koolaide under the careful dispensation of Mr. Franken or Mr. Savage. Don't want to listen to John Bachelor or Sean Hannity, two rather able broadcasters on opposite sides. Might learn something about my own beliefs.
Sheesh...
Btw, I do largly agree with your post above, but the cheap shot at Bush is totally out of place. If you're aware of politics today, you probably are aware that I [intentionally] did not make the obvious reciprocal argument. Gotta keep "you guys" on yer toes... and I don't think it should be a major issue. That's me, though.
Well, he played the liberal media bias well! He got a wide read thread on Slashdot so all the liberals can rally around it and cry "Oh, imoral! Oh, Veitnam!"
As far as protests go, this one is loud and emotional, and that's all protests need to be and typically are. The invalid and unsubstantiated claims to the "morality" of the war just add to the inconsistancies of his view of "Free, but not that free... just kinda free... for stuff I support." He says he doesn't think Linux should be used to kill people which does fly in the face of the GPL (as others have pointed out).
More interestingly, if he can claim the war is immoral, that means he has some absolute authority for morality. I'm too busy to provoke someone who supports him on this board to tell me what that definition of morality is and how they can support it. :D The only answer you will ever get, when you press issues and facts, is black helicopter conspiracy theories about how the president "knew about 9/11," "betrayed this country, he played on our fears," "was AWOL during his service," "snipes Iraqi civilians," "this is George Bush's Veitnam," and on and on and on it goes.
For those in a media vacuum, all of the above accusations came from elected "leaders" of our coutry. Guess how many of them are soundly based in reasion, thought, and reality?
None! (It must be a vast conspiracy...)
But they are so emotionally charged and so outrageous that they get air time (like this story) and folks in the intellectual elitest society of higher situational ethics and the vacuuous contradictory enlightenment of postmodern cotton candy thinking swallow these statements as gospel and run around repeating them until the mildly thoughtful person almost buys into them. And we wonder why the electoral college is still in place...
For the political scientist in all of us, this is the funniest/strangest election year in quiet a while.
That will teach me to proof read my posts more closely.
Sometimes ideal environments offer higher throughput and stress on a system. Consider a webapplication on a busy network with one interface. Very typical and much lower stress than you might expect. Consider the stress-volume environement: You could have 3 nicks on a quiet switched segemnt and HAMMER the server.
Obviously, you want to profile your testing environment while testing to find a bottle neck and work it into your analysis. During one testing experience we found that the IDE drive started working very very hard and limited our throughput!
Just some thoughts. Home you find it interesting.
OK, I skimmed the topics and didn't see anything that really targetted this idea, so here it is...
First, go to the school with a nicely written letter explaining the vulnerabilities, the impact and why it must be fixed. Tell them that you intend to publish your findings after a month or so or later if the school needs that time to fix the problem. The idea it to fix a date so that that school fixes the problem.
Again, our goal is to fix the problem. Not arm the baddies.
If you fear that you will be sued for some odd reason (and unfortunately, our governing officials in the US do not understand security very well) grass roots is powerful. Word of mouth is devistating. The down side is that this method will almost surely alert the wrong folks to the problems before they are fixed. If it makes you feel any better, the problems you are describiing are so trivial that I'll wager that they are already being exploited.
On a final note, you as a technical person able to help others have, in my book, an obligation to try and help fix this. I think you already understand this (hense your post to /.) so bravo to you! Fight the good fight.
I have a hunch this might be excessive leak of potential without a load on the battery. If you have any unused AA batteries from the early 80s, they are probably dead now by normal, natural leakage inside the battery.
- How many recharges can this take?
- Will a deep discharge break it?
- How much power is leaked across it when on the shelf? How much trickle charge do I need to float it at for an emergency supply?
- What exactly does it do when I short it? I doubt this is answered anywhere, but I'm tossing it in incase someone who's really up on this reads past.
Thanks!!!That was my point about the Jewish faith.
I'm not quite sure what they have your respect for. They follow their faith as they believe it is layed out for them. I could very well be missing what your getting at with this one, though.
I understand Christianity very very well... have had long in depth conversations with college educated Born Again Christians
You may have had some great philisophical discussions, but claims like the majority are within the fold of Christianity make me wonder regardless of depth, how accurate those conversations you had before were. The Bible isn't something you can just grab and apply your own interpretation too. There are things that denominations disagree about, but largly there is a concensus between folks who bother to apply a fair hermeneutic to their exegesis. If you stop following the rules, that's where lots of amazing and wacky doctrine starts popping up.
Your unquestioning faith in the intangible is what frightens me.
Ok, that's just silly. Firstly, the Bible never talks about a blind faith. John Calvin, regardless of the many opinions for and against the man, wrote chapters on this in his Institutes of the Christian Religion refuting the notion that people should just believe with no reason. It makes for a humerous Chrstian charicature where evangelicals go running around yelling "believe believe." I know a few that acctually fit this description and I do what I can to correct them.
Secondly, is faith in the intangible unreasonable? Hardly, because you and I both have quite a few instances of faith in the intangible. For exmple, the quality of chair to support your wait is an intangible quality. You can't touch the chair's strength, but that doesn't make it any less real.
If I can be really frank, it sounds like you were taught via the "just believe this" method for a while. Then when you got old enough to start asking why you got fed, "just believe this." If that's the case, it explains the misuderstandings your exhibiting and reactionary comments. Quite seriously, you may want to snag yourself a Bible and read it outside of the structure you were shoved in to. Reason out for yourself why it is wrong or right. It's not like this is a niche religion that is going to go away. Lots of folks are running aound with it in their heads and hearts and even more are running around with something in their hearts that they are calling Christianity. The latter folks are those who would give you another wave of crusades and they must be held accountable to their own book or be shown to be no Christians at all. I also highly reccommend finding a friend you trust who has some solid theology. Make them agree to talk w/ you without evangelizing you. I have a lot of friends I have this relationship with. They've heard the Gospel, they know my thoughts and opinions and we disagree. The ball is totally in their court, as it is in yours.
I hope you find the truth. As I said in my original post, faith in God is something that is quite real and quite founded in evidence in my experience. If you find this to be true or not is dependant on you seeking out your reasons why. Go find em, they are out there. It's been fun chatting. :)
What I said was "frightening"? I'm not sure you have any clue what Christianity claims or what I might possibly believe as a Christian. I also disagree that most of America is in the fold of Christianity and that my previous two posts were "rants."
Regarding the Jewish faith, (as you've brought it up) it is from the very start, a non prostletizing religion. They were the chosen people of God from the start and were never told to go tell folks that Yhwh would save them. Quite a few Rabbis today will claim that everyone will be saved or that you are saved by the faith you profess in the God of your choice along with the works you do in keeping with that faith.
A cursory knowledge of Christianity can clue you into the world view it posits; All people are naturally rebellious toward God and justly deserve an eternity in Hell. God offers undeserving sinners salvation from those sins by faith (and faith alone) in the sacrifice of His son, Jesus. What you call a "rant" is the manifestation of my conviction that you need to hear this offer as much as I did so that you can reject or accept it.
I have met countless collegues in the IT world that have been indoctrinated with the most odd stereo types with nominal understanding of their subject matter. There is obviously a horrid lack of understanding on this and I would rather take your written abuses to my view and possibly open up an intelligent, rational, mature dialogue on these things in the hopes that someone would be saved than be a sheeple in the masses.
My friend, chill out. :) I'm sharing my personal experiences. If you think the Christian God can't or won't help you for whatever reason, that's your choice.
Not to start a debate -- well, maybe I am, but your last sentence can easily be said about folks in popular culture's graces too! Don't just reiterating a mantra-like line from the cannonical highschool book of Why Chuch is Whack but tell me that you disagree and then go your way. If you really want to learn via a good chat/debate, offer up some substance and we'll go at it. Otherwise, as said, chill out.
I work for a company that gives you 1 day notice of your termination. They don't think to retain your documentation or even curtiously let you know that you might like to go look for a job. It's sad that it is a small company and you would think that folks would know each other better than to just axe someone and shoo them out of the office so quickly.
But, managerial delites aside, I keep a journal of what bothers me and why. I date it and it comes in very handy for talking with coworkers and expressing exactly why I'm distracted. It helps me vent and there are two folk I trust enough to vent with at coffee shops.
Things have gotten particularly bad recently and so I'm writing a letter of resignation (with footnotes) explaining why I have chosen to move on. I don't know if I'll hand it in or not, but it's confirming that what I believe is well founded and I have a right to feel nervous. It's not a bad thing, but a natural thing.
Finally, many bosses are very very ignorant of what their actions can do to moral. If you have a feeling-human for your boss, still (and saddly that can be a rarity) talk it over.
Something I have that gets me through the day, though, which you may or may not have, is hope in Christ. (How's that for a seeming non-sequitor?) :) Seriously, if your primary purpose on Earth is to tell folks, "Hey, all that guilt you carry around can be gone via Jesus" then doing your Perl code or C driver gets pretty easy. Even dieing isn't as scary as it used to be. The catch is that you have to realize that you have to be saved from your sin before it makes any sense to go looking to Christ as your savior. If you aren't looking to be saved from your own sin, then you're just playing church.
Hope this is helpful!
RSS is a simple simple thing, much like XML is a simple simple thing.
If you check out the spec for it, you'll notice that there is room for lots of handy info. This in it self may not convice you, as you said, how does this beat going to the site and looking for yourself?
There are two primary benefits: 1. Your site can be syndicated or you can sydicate other sites easily! I can put Slashdot headlines in a box on my site for my users to click on! Neat stuff!! Making machines able to homogeneously deal with this data is a big plus.
That brings me to RSS agregators. Unlike a PHP script which will simply snag and update a display on your home page (as suggested above) you can have a window on your desktop with a list of sites in it. Click on the site and you get the headlines without the overhead of graphics, silly scripts, and graphics. It is a matter of taste, but I absolutly love this technology! I have a bunch of blogs and news sites that I try to stay on top of and it's very annoying to open up 20 tabs in FireFox when I can use the FireFox RSS plug in to brows them in a side bar as a list. I ussually have 20 tabs open anyway and this is a great way for me to get my news.
Also, as the article mentions, how can you spam me via this unless the company directly injects the advertisement as one of their headlines? Email is push method while this is a pull method. Pull methods mean that the client can stop pulling, so if spam shows up in my slashdot.rdf, I 'll stop using it.
Hope this is helpful!
We do!!! :-D
Granted, Gaim's interface for Jabber has a few issues. If you know how to massage your way past them it's a great solution.
We are a small, company, btw. Scalling for a huge corperation might take a lil planning, but is very doable. We can message out to the jabber.org server and accept messages back in from it. Really excellent stuff, and all over SSL.
I will say that I'm a little annoyed that you chose to fly off the handle like you did. So, rather than get into a shouting match with you, here is a paper for you and the folks here to check out on the JVM and CLR. Note that they are both largly stack machines but the CLR from MS made some design improvements. Please also note (if you are familiar with large scale NUMA-type number chuggers) that neither machine language is built very well to JIT down to that architechuture. If you aren't familiar with Non-Uniform Memory Access machines, google around. They are very cool and you don't have to know alot about them to realize the a stack machine isn't the best model for tight-looped matrix math.
Again, I hope this is helpful and please chill for a few minutes before you blast me. :-P
So, one of the ideas behind C# was to make an intermediate laguage (MS-Java-byte-code, if you will) which could be quickly compiled for the CPU in question. Stick a system call envrionment and garbage collector around it and you have [roughly] what C# is. One of the nice things about Java was that it was for no specific machine... it was very very simple at the instruction level, but making native code from that can be a pain.
Now, from the looks of the posted article some folks now want an intermediate laguage that can represent concepts like instruction vectorization and maybe SMP (hypter threading) and perhaps some other more complicated constructs that Java's machine code just doesn't talk about.
The end result is that you would have very fast machine code for the number-crunching loops in the code and portability. The compile time would be fairly quick and the optimization for the local CPU would be "smart" and fast if you marked up what where vectorizable instructions.
Why C# falls short, I can't say. I've only looked at the Java machine, never at how C# represets a program.
Hope this is helpful!
I never expected to get any positive feed back on that comment on /., but I think I have been doing my reading and I certainly think that the sentiments of Americans are not represented by their government and that the ACLU has historically allied with courts who percieve themselves as legislatures to force the will of a few bitter folks on the whole of society.
I certinaly will agree that the US is a fantastically successful experiment and I dearly love it here. I was not refering to a poor racial minority, though, in my comment. I am troubled that the ACLU and many other SIGs raise up ideological and philisophical minorities over the majority. I probably should have mentioned that since I'm not arguing a context where that is assumed.
Hope this clears things up.
I also wish you knew a little more about me before you made your emotive last few comments. ;-)
I'm glad a large organization like the ACLU reacted like that!
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Unfortunately I still disagree how they constantly persecute mainstream religions and expressions there of as well as minimize the majority to accomodate the minority. Their track record has really turned me off to them to the point where I consider them one of our problems on The Hill.
I think I threw in more than two cents worth on this one.
Be careful to not overanalyze that "illegal-votine" quote. It appears where a sig normally does (sans the '--'). It could just be cynacism... after all, if I took the quotes at the bottom of the /. main page this seriously I would probably stop reading the page! Good journalism is in part good history and anthropology.
I can certainly understand keeping away from doing a Java-web-developement course when you really want to do a Java course. :-)
I would encourage you to consider using applets because they let you get a pretty graphic in 10 lines of code (which is encourageing to even grad students) and you can have them write a JDBC based client. The benefits of this progject are that it's real-world, it forces them to take the relational tables and populate logical objects, and they will lear a little about Java's dynamic loading capabilities.
Some caveats: Sockets can only talk from the client's computer to the webserver they got the Java applet from. Some one will make this mistake. :-) The teacher must REALLY be on the ball to cover that much material and not overload the learners. I've seen projects like this turn into disasters where students are left without any help by a professor who doesn't consider the "horizon streching" that's going one.
Hope this is helpful. It is a large undertaking and it must be taylored for the caliber students you have. Then again, it's so enterprise-focused that they can't complain that your course is "just a theory course." ;-)
I've found that touch typing has helped me a great great deal but perhaps best of all is that the key bindings for vi and evilwm make perfect sense now. ;-)
:-)
Just be sure not to give up!!!
... this reads like a troll, but... Eliminating warnings is often good, but sometimes will convolute code or make it less efficient. A good example is the seemingly endless type-casting circus my code ends up hosting. Regarding cooperations, it is a rare company that has effective coding standards that help and don't hurt productivity. Warning-free code should be a nice-to-have but never required. Otherwise you lose cycles to silly things when your next quarter is around the corner.