Well, you had me going, even though I didn't give them anything but my name and state, so I spent about three minutes finding this
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If you follow the top link in the search results, you'll find yourself in a document that references (on the second page) the very website to which we were all directed originally.
Just so. The company is being very misleading about the vehicle's safety. They point out (correctly, I assume) that their passenger compartment survived virtually intact when they smashed the thing with a Mercedes sedan "twice as big" as their car. They don't say, however, how the passengers would have faired, and they don't say that U.S. roads are jammed full of vehicles that weigh over three times as much as this little doorstop.
Maybe their passenger compartment is tough, but unless people are willing to wear five-point harnesses and helmets, they're still going to get busted up or killed in a collision with an Expedition.
My wife and I got rid of a Mazda Protege after about two years, because we didn't like how badly overmatched we would likely be in a wreck--and it weighed a thousand pounds more than the SMART car.
You don't think it might have anything to do with the way the insurgents conduct themselves, do you? I'm guessing all the ambushes and booby-traps make the U.S. troops a little less inclined to extend the honors of war to their enemy. The Marines don't start dirty wars, but that doesn't mean they don't know how to fight one.
Good, 'cause that fucker and his asshole buddies were dangerous, and I would hate to think that I sent you to kill him and you pussied around and ended up dead yourself.
Um, Wyatt, you need more friends whose income exceeds their good sense. These things are so common, my local pawn shop tries to have one in stock all the time. I'll allow they're "special application" if you'll agree that blowing up old cars from 500 yards is special.
Do you think this is the same DoD that's been flying U2s and SR71s at 70,000ft and above, taking pictures at jet-speed (in the '71's case, damn near warp speed) since the early 1960's?
...but I've still gotta mention this one from Mountainsmith. I don't know if you can find it cheaper than is shown on the link or not, but it's worth the $80 bucks for its size and durability. It looks better in "person" than in the photos, too.
Re:OT, but here's why I'll stay with WinXP...
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I know I'm the last guy to the party on this one, but I just recently tried Cygwin, and it's too cool for school. One of the other windows open on this WinXP machine right now is running an X server, which is talking to an X client (via OpenSSH) that's running on the crappy old PII (450 mhz, some puny amount of RAM) that sits beside my desk. I can use my big monitor and my good keyboard, and sit in my comfortable chair, to play around on my for-practice OpenBSD server that would never, ever rate all this expensive hardware on its own. And I can alt-tab to Mozilla and waste time on Slashdot whenever I want to.
...since just this week I noticed the old Tandem servers sitting by the loading dock, shrink-wrapped and addressed to some recycling outfit in Chicago. "Hmmm," says I, "I wonder what they've replaced these with." And now I know. Dell/Microsoft.
The Tandems lived up to their hype, in terms of reliability. I never saw a VSCS failure in almost ten years of use--I barely remember how to use the backup system, VTABS. Maybe now I'll get some practice with it.
irritability: Well, the workplace is full of shit.
irritability: Well boo-fuckin-hoo.
irritability: Yeah? I want a convertible. So what?
LOL, this post is hilarious, especially coming from someone who chose to call themselves "cubicledrone."
Seriously, though, I agree with you completely. Maybe over time, humanity will adjust, but I'm old and cranky and tired. Four more years to retirement, and I can't wait.
it's not like i'm going to record everything off of xm
Exactly. In fact, the reason I got satellite radio was because the alternative was to buy an mp3 player, spend hours filling it up with music, and then hit Random Play. Hmmm...portable music box playing random tunes...that sounded a lot like a radio. I thought: I'll take less work and more variety over the slim advantage of being able to pick which 7000 (or whatever) songs are in my music box.
So, now I'm going to suddenly decide to start recording music? I don't think so.
Don't worry about us. Sorting out a mess like that is far beyond human capability. Twenty-five airplanes at a time is completely down the tubes if you're using voice communications (we still are). I have no idea how much more I could do with data-link, but clearly it wouldn't be enough to handle the volume of traffic we're talking about.
I'll be obsolete when they figure out how to make rush hour work with these things all over the place.
No, it is not just you, the search engine is terrible and always has been. I can't find stories that I know exist because I already read them. I've often had the same thought about the duplicate posts, too. Surely Taco and the others must make a stab at searching for a dupe story before they post, so you know they know the engine is a joke. They either don't know how to fix it, or are too lazy to do it.
Good question. Now just keep repeating it to yourself, while you silently mouth the phrase "range safety officer." When you feel the chill run down your spine, you'll know you got the right answer.
Our kids are going to live in an interesting world.
Well, I misunderstood you. You're talking about a code audit by the DOD (or their agent), and that's not addressed in the article. As you say, it's very unlikely that such a thing isn't being done, and I would expect the audited code to be more trustworthy than any closed-source software they might have purchased.
How about we just forget I even said anything, okay?
Perhaps this is an evolutionary progression from commodity closed source to an entirely open source software world. When one group has to rely on legislative action to maintain their economic model, that model has failed. A new model will eventually arise from this heap of smoldering dung we are currently being lowered into. Until that happens the only people making money from software will be lawyers and politicians.
I believe you speak truly. I am reminded of the hue and cry that went up in this country a couple decades ago over the loss of the family farm. Few people (and no politicians) had the guts to say "Hey, a lot of us would like jobs that let us be our own boss, work outside, not have to leave the spouse and kids to do your job, and maybe even have a nice property to leave your kids in your will," but the fact is there's not call for that in our economy any more. Simply put, the gig was too good (towards the end--before massive mechanization, it was back-breaking, dangerous, life-shortening, low-paying labor), and the economy rationalized it out. That sucks for them, but then again, there are a lot of cool things that people wish they could do for a living, but the competition is too fierce, and you end up with a hobby instead of a career. Would you like to do one of these for a living? play baseball, play chess, fly, race cars, act in a movie, play your guitar, etc, etc, ad nauseum. Well, so would about 3 billion other people.
I'm not saying programming for a living is going away. With the patent situation being what it is, it's possible that open source as a tool for business is what will go away. But if that happens, it still won't be possible to write your own killer app and get rich unless you're so good that you can write it without stepping on any of the patents held by the corporate giants of the world.
Many of the best programmers are so optimized by nature for programming that they would do it for free if they couldn't do it for money. That's a lot of competition for the ones trying to make a living at it.
Remember the old story they used to scare kids with about democracy going down the toilet as soon as the voters figured out they could vote themselves funds from the treasury? Well this INDUCE bullshit suddenly made me realize that we're not going to have time to wait for that shit. What's going to tear the whole thing down first is this: nobody ever un-restricts us.
First the Republicans (say) run the show for a while, and they decide to make it illegal to use recreational drugs. Then, after a few years, we get sick of the Republicans, and we vote the Democrats into office. And do they make it legal to smoke pot again? NO! They take our guns away. So out with the Democrats, and in with the Elephants again, and do they give me back my guns? Of course not--they're too busy taking away women's right to an abortion.
I'm sure you see where I'm going with this. The absolute worst time, of course, will be when we all feel like we're living in a very small box, but we hate each other's politics so much that we can't get together to get rid of the politicians that implemented it (that day's not so far off, if you ask me). Finally, we end up with a revolution, and we shoot the politicians, then we shoot each other over whose gonna be the new boss.
We do this to each other. I take your freedom, and you take mine.
You imply that this change is trivial, and one could certainly get that impression reading Redhat's explanation of the thing, but there are underlying issues that shareholders are right to be concerned about. The previous practice was to recognize an entire month's revenue in the first month of a subscription regardless of what day of the month the subscription actually began. That means they claimed a month of revenue for, on average, 15 days of subscription for the first month of each subscription, and "gave it back" at such time as the subscription expired.
Now I don't know how long the average subscription lasts, but if it's 24 months (to pull a number out of thin air), that would mean Redhat has been claiming revenues two years before they are actually earned. That's enough fudging to get people's attention.
I don't think it's fair to call shareholders "ignorant" for wanting out of a company that loses its CFO, issues quarterly earnings, then ends up restated those same earnings (as well as the preceding 3 years)--all inside one month. Furthermore, this page indicates that about 91% of Redhat's outstanding shares are held by corporate insiders or mutual funds. Does that make them financial geniuses? No, but "ignorant masses" seems a bit strong. Let's just say that if they sold because they thought this news would make the stock go down, they were right.
I'm sorry to see that I confused you with my example. Perhaps you missed the part about Dell being just one small piece of the Wintel business. The implication was that, as the single source for OS/X computers, Apple encompasses Dell's role as well as Microsoft and others, and needs to do better at ALL of these roles. Perhaps you would be more comfortable if we compared Apple's financial performance with that of Microsoft (another purveyor of operating systems--perhaps you've heard of them). Despite being a younger company than Apple, Microsoft has grown to a company with operating earnings for the last 12 months of just under $10 billion (a hair less than Apple's market cap), and about $50 billion in the bank.
Now I don't suggest that Apple commence to violating the law to achieve their growth. I'm simply saying that what they have been doing, by comparison to many other companies in the computer business (that's what a Mac is, right? a computer?) is not working very fucking well. In terms of profit (they are business, remember) they've been getting their ass handed to them, with regularity, for two decades now.
I don't know that anyone could change that at this late date, but it is incumbent upon them to try.
Slashdot Mirror
If you follow the top link in the search results, you'll find yourself in a document that references (on the second page) the very website to which we were all directed originally.
But thanks for the angst.
Maybe their passenger compartment is tough, but unless people are willing to wear five-point harnesses and helmets, they're still going to get busted up or killed in a collision with an Expedition.
My wife and I got rid of a Mazda Protege after about two years, because we didn't like how badly overmatched we would likely be in a wreck--and it weighed a thousand pounds more than the SMART car.
You don't think it might have anything to do with the way the insurgents conduct themselves, do you? I'm guessing all the ambushes and booby-traps make the U.S. troops a little less inclined to extend the honors of war to their enemy. The Marines don't start dirty wars, but that doesn't mean they don't know how to fight one.
I googled for "yellow lung granule" and maybe the third hit mentioned something called Actinomycosis.
He's pretty clear that that's what he has diagnosed for himself.
Good, 'cause that fucker and his asshole buddies were dangerous, and I would hate to think that I sent you to kill him and you pussied around and ended up dead yourself.
Um, Wyatt, you need more friends whose income exceeds their good sense. These things are so common, my local pawn shop tries to have one in stock all the time. I'll allow they're "special application" if you'll agree that blowing up old cars from 500 yards is special.
Do you think this is the same DoD that's been flying U2s and SR71s at 70,000ft and above, taking pictures at jet-speed (in the '71's case, damn near warp speed) since the early 1960's?
...but I've still gotta mention this one from Mountainsmith. I don't know if you can find it cheaper than is shown on the link or not, but it's worth the $80 bucks for its size and durability. It looks better in "person" than in the photos, too.
Thanks for the tip.
I know I'm the last guy to the party on this one, but I just recently tried Cygwin, and it's too cool for school. One of the other windows open on this WinXP machine right now is running an X server, which is talking to an X client (via OpenSSH) that's running on the crappy old PII (450 mhz, some puny amount of RAM) that sits beside my desk. I can use my big monitor and my good keyboard, and sit in my comfortable chair, to play around on my for-practice OpenBSD server that would never, ever rate all this expensive hardware on its own. And I can alt-tab to Mozilla and waste time on Slashdot whenever I want to.
Killer app.
The Tandems lived up to their hype, in terms of reliability. I never saw a VSCS failure in almost ten years of use--I barely remember how to use the backup system, VTABS. Maybe now I'll get some practice with it.
irritability: Well boo-fuckin-hoo.
irritability: Yeah? I want a convertible. So what?
LOL, this post is hilarious, especially coming from someone who chose to call themselves "cubicledrone."
Seriously, though, I agree with you completely. Maybe over time, humanity will adjust, but I'm old and cranky and tired. Four more years to retirement, and I can't wait.
Exactly. In fact, the reason I got satellite radio was because the alternative was to buy an mp3 player, spend hours filling it up with music, and then hit Random Play. Hmmm...portable music box playing random tunes...that sounded a lot like a radio. I thought: I'll take less work and more variety over the slim advantage of being able to pick which 7000 (or whatever) songs are in my music box.
So, now I'm going to suddenly decide to start recording music? I don't think so.
Don't worry about us. Sorting out a mess like that is far beyond human capability. Twenty-five airplanes at a time is completely down the tubes if you're using voice communications (we still are). I have no idea how much more I could do with data-link, but clearly it wouldn't be enough to handle the volume of traffic we're talking about.
I'll be obsolete when they figure out how to make rush hour work with these things all over the place.
Not to worry. We're gonna pull hydrogen out of vegetable oil, and we'll have more than enough go-juice.
No, it is not just you, the search engine is terrible and always has been. I can't find stories that I know exist because I already read them. I've often had the same thought about the duplicate posts, too. Surely Taco and the others must make a stab at searching for a dupe story before they post, so you know they know the engine is a joke. They either don't know how to fix it, or are too lazy to do it.
Our kids are going to live in an interesting world.
How about we just forget I even said anything, okay?
The article, apparently. This point is covered. Accept his argument or refute it, but don't just re-state the question.
I believe you speak truly. I am reminded of the hue and cry that went up in this country a couple decades ago over the loss of the family farm. Few people (and no politicians) had the guts to say "Hey, a lot of us would like jobs that let us be our own boss, work outside, not have to leave the spouse and kids to do your job, and maybe even have a nice property to leave your kids in your will," but the fact is there's not call for that in our economy any more. Simply put, the gig was too good (towards the end--before massive mechanization, it was back-breaking, dangerous, life-shortening, low-paying labor), and the economy rationalized it out. That sucks for them, but then again, there are a lot of cool things that people wish they could do for a living, but the competition is too fierce, and you end up with a hobby instead of a career. Would you like to do one of these for a living? play baseball, play chess, fly, race cars, act in a movie, play your guitar, etc, etc, ad nauseum. Well, so would about 3 billion other people.
I'm not saying programming for a living is going away. With the patent situation being what it is, it's possible that open source as a tool for business is what will go away. But if that happens, it still won't be possible to write your own killer app and get rich unless you're so good that you can write it without stepping on any of the patents held by the corporate giants of the world.
Many of the best programmers are so optimized by nature for programming that they would do it for free if they couldn't do it for money. That's a lot of competition for the ones trying to make a living at it.
First the Republicans (say) run the show for a while, and they decide to make it illegal to use recreational drugs. Then, after a few years, we get sick of the Republicans, and we vote the Democrats into office. And do they make it legal to smoke pot again? NO! They take our guns away. So out with the Democrats, and in with the Elephants again, and do they give me back my guns? Of course not--they're too busy taking away women's right to an abortion.
I'm sure you see where I'm going with this. The absolute worst time, of course, will be when we all feel like we're living in a very small box, but we hate each other's politics so much that we can't get together to get rid of the politicians that implemented it (that day's not so far off, if you ask me). Finally, we end up with a revolution, and we shoot the politicians, then we shoot each other over whose gonna be the new boss.
We do this to each other. I take your freedom, and you take mine.
I need another glass of wine.
Probably for the best, considering his sig.
Now I don't know how long the average subscription lasts, but if it's 24 months (to pull a number out of thin air), that would mean Redhat has been claiming revenues two years before they are actually earned. That's enough fudging to get people's attention.
I don't think it's fair to call shareholders "ignorant" for wanting out of a company that loses its CFO, issues quarterly earnings, then ends up restated those same earnings (as well as the preceding 3 years)--all inside one month. Furthermore, this page indicates that about 91% of Redhat's outstanding shares are held by corporate insiders or mutual funds. Does that make them financial geniuses? No, but "ignorant masses" seems a bit strong. Let's just say that if they sold because they thought this news would make the stock go down, they were right.
Uh, wouldn't the fact that they were twisting the competition's titty sort of be a bonus for Apple?
Now I don't suggest that Apple commence to violating the law to achieve their growth. I'm simply saying that what they have been doing, by comparison to many other companies in the computer business (that's what a Mac is, right? a computer?) is not working very fucking well. In terms of profit (they are business, remember) they've been getting their ass handed to them, with regularity, for two decades now.
I don't know that anyone could change that at this late date, but it is incumbent upon them to try.