How very true. I work in education (tertiary), and I just read an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education saying how good schools increase their selectivity rates by taking lots of applications from what the author called "Bright Well-Rounded Kids"--and rejecting them, while accepting students who are "more interestingly lopsided." Apparently we interestingly lopsided folks have more potential to go on and do important research later on. Just a thought for all of the college/university (where I'm from, there is a difference) -bound/.ers.
Yes, exactly. "'You're going back to the 9-5, shirt-and-tie, cubicle-dwelling lifestyle. And we're going to double your pay." Hmmm...I don't think so.
And I only make 30K a year doing my research & information-gathering/synthesis/output gig, but on the other hand, I can work from home if and when I want, wear whatever I want, have a brutal commute of three city blocks, and spend time at the office coaxing my station's ancient PC and/or reading/.. Some things in life are more important than money.
Oddly enough, I can't figure out how the Japanese euphoniously pronounce "Linux"... I mean, rii-nu-(small tsu)ku-su?! Arg. Hagire yoi jya nai desu yo! Dame da ne...
...because Winston Smith's already been taken...probably before Corley was ever Emmanuel.
See either your old Dead Kennedys album covers, or http://www.winstonsmith.com .
AND...if you'd actually read the book beyond the first chapter, you'd know that Goldstein is the amicus hostis of the 1984 world. Does he even exist? I'm not even sure Eric Blair knew.
Eric Corley is also an amicus hostis and I think he's even admitted it. Either way, it's a slippery political position, and sure to get you spat on from several directions. Lots of people love him, lots of people hate him, and even more people pay close attention to what he does. I think that was always the point.
Winston Smith (as even the real Winston will tell you if you ask) is just a dupe of the State. I don't think Corley wants to be there.
Yuck, I followed the link, silly me. I think I need a shower. Too bad I'm at work.
Ai! Dame desu yo!
Interrobang 1/2, waiting for a kettle of hot water
A censor is "one who seeks to supervise the manners or morals of others." An intelligent, techno-savvy censor (or team of censors) is a force to be reckoned with.
Just a thought.
Here's a REALLY nerdy comment for you:
The "man" in "woman," as in "human" and "manual" derives from the Latin manus for "hand." I may be female, but I DO have hands... Words referring specifically to "male" virtues of old usually have a "vir" root to them, like virile, virtue, and virgin.
Fergodssakes, PLEASE stop massacring the language(s) until you know what the fx you're talking about.
"No there certainly is no analogy between security tools like SAINT that can be misused and guns..."
Too bad you meant this bit ironically, because I agree with it literally. The day I see a widely-available computer prog (security or otherwise) made with the express purpose of killing people (and/or things), the way guns are, I'm going to move to Burkina Faso and live in a cave.
One suspects that the Great Unwashed's general lack of knowledge about computers will eventually and ineluctably lead to... ...bad legislation.
("Ignorance," Uncle Harlan says, "Ain't in no wise bliss.")
IF censorware were some kind of reliable filter, it might be ok in very specific contexts, but...
You know the rest.
The ideas this book covers are taught in every CS program at every university in the world.
Okay, great. I'm glad to hear it. But until someone in a university admissions department realizes that a) I don't learn math well by conventional teaching and b) it's my responsibility whether I pass or fail on the calculus involved, I'm never going to do CS at any university in the world...and I can't be the only one. Since I happen to be interested in the subject matter anyway, maybe the book actually is useful. Think I'll buy it.
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Ooops. Well, I was working on the best info I had. Thanks.:)
Your Turkish friend probably isn't still immune -- but I'd say that doctor was less of a kook than the locals thought...
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Ooops. Well, I was working on the best info I had. Thanks.:)
Your Turkish friend probably isn't still immune -- but I'd say that doctor was less of a kook than the locals thought...
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No. Chicken pox is caused by varicella zoster. Cowpox is caused by variola minor, and smallpox is caused by variola major. Therefore immunity to chicken pox has no effect on smallpox. (Not the same critter at all.) Immunity to cowpox doesn't even always guarantee immunity to smallpox -- or even that you would survive smallpox if you got it; it just raises the odds.
In case any of you were wondering, the last smallpox vaccinations were given in 1973 (now you know what that strange circular scar on your upper arm is), and the last major epidemic of smallpox happened in 1972. Bad news, though, those of you last vaccinated in 1973 or earlier are no longer immune, unless you're naturally immune, which happens, just not often.
However, it's known that at least four litres of biowarfare grade smallpox exist, and that (according to an article from The New Yorker on the subject from 1999), "even one case of smallpox would constitute a global emergency," Various health organizations worldwide plan to begin vaccinating again by as early as 2002.
Unfortunately, so many of the people who get hung up on things like TQM don't really know what the hell they're talking about. You and I and you over there all know these guys/girls -- they have H/MBAs and shiny dispositions, they talk like their own damned marketing brochures, and it's mostly because they don't really have a clue what any of that buzzwordiness really means. In a way, the "management religion" is a little Scientological. Thought beyond the party line, they're told, leads to cognitive dissonance and death.
Incidentally, TQM and its clone-siblings has drawn a lot of well-deserved criticism from various sectors (not least in Brown and Duguid's _Social Life Of Information_...if you read only one book this year, read that one!). Based on my own personal observances (and nasty crawling feelings encountered when faced with Motivator posters & shiny, brainless Stepford marketroids), a lot of these theories (as with theories in many other "soft" -- and "hard" fields) are just a set of normalizing behaviour ("Well, if *I* do it, it *must* be normal!") and quite a lot of transferrence ("I am assertive -- you are brusque, and he's a pushy sonofabitch.").
NOT that I'm saying that policies, procedures and documentation (above all, documentation! It's just my job!) aren't important. But policies, procedures and documentation should be developed from what works for your company (more along the lines of the "best practices" or "knowledge collation" schools of thought), rather than by some imported consultant and/or the CEO's collection of Yuppie-fluppie self-help books for the corporatively inclined.
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How very true. I work in education (tertiary), and I just read an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education saying how good schools increase their selectivity rates by taking lots of applications from what the author called "Bright Well-Rounded Kids"--and rejecting them, while accepting students who are "more interestingly lopsided." Apparently we interestingly lopsided folks have more potential to go on and do important research later on. Just a thought for all of the college/university (where I'm from, there is a difference) -bound /.ers.
Yes, exactly. "'You're going back to the 9-5, shirt-and-tie, cubicle-dwelling lifestyle. And we're going to double your pay." Hmmm...I don't think so.
/.. Some things in life are more important than money.
And I only make 30K a year doing my research & information-gathering/synthesis/output gig, but on the other hand, I can work from home if and when I want, wear whatever I want, have a brutal commute of three city blocks, and spend time at the office coaxing my station's ancient PC and/or reading
Interrobang
Hmmm...maybe it's a girl thing...
Oddly enough, I can't figure out how the Japanese euphoniously pronounce "Linux"... I mean, rii-nu-(small tsu)ku-su?! Arg. Hagire yoi jya nai desu yo! Dame da ne...
grumble mutter I need katakana & kanji
1.4 Stock Days in the world is 1.4 too many, exchange rate notwithstanding.
Canadians--Find out about and protest against GATS! If you don't you're UnCanadian!
...because Winston Smith's already been taken...probably before Corley was ever Emmanuel. See either your old Dead Kennedys album covers, or http://www.winstonsmith.com .
AND...if you'd actually read the book beyond the first chapter, you'd know that Goldstein is the amicus hostis of the 1984 world. Does he even exist? I'm not even sure Eric Blair knew.
Eric Corley is also an amicus hostis and I think he's even admitted it. Either way, it's a slippery political position, and sure to get you spat on from several directions. Lots of people love him, lots of people hate him, and even more people pay close attention to what he does. I think that was always the point.
Winston Smith (as even the real Winston will tell you if you ask) is just a dupe of the State. I don't think Corley wants to be there.
Yuck, I followed the link, silly me. I think I need a shower. Too bad I'm at work. Ai! Dame desu yo! Interrobang 1/2, waiting for a kettle of hot water
A censor is "one who seeks to supervise the manners or morals of others." An intelligent, techno-savvy censor (or team of censors) is a force to be reckoned with. Just a thought.
Does this mean that "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (being a dramatical musical work) is out?
Here's a REALLY nerdy comment for you: The "man" in "woman," as in "human" and "manual" derives from the Latin manus for "hand." I may be female, but I DO have hands... Words referring specifically to "male" virtues of old usually have a "vir" root to them, like virile, virtue, and virgin. Fergodssakes, PLEASE stop massacring the language(s) until you know what the fx you're talking about.
"No there certainly is no analogy between security tools like SAINT that can be misused and guns..." Too bad you meant this bit ironically, because I agree with it literally. The day I see a widely-available computer prog (security or otherwise) made with the express purpose of killing people (and/or things), the way guns are, I'm going to move to Burkina Faso and live in a cave.
Oddly enough, brazil, so did I. I used my Amiga 500 from 1988 until 1998. I even went online with it for the very first time--at a whole 1200 baud!
One suspects that the Great Unwashed's general lack of knowledge about computers will eventually and ineluctably lead to...
...bad legislation.
("Ignorance," Uncle Harlan says, "Ain't in no wise bliss.")
IF censorware were some kind of reliable filter, it might be ok in very specific contexts, but...
You know the rest.
The ideas this book covers are taught in every CS program at every university in the world.
Okay, great. I'm glad to hear it. But until someone in a university admissions department realizes that a) I don't learn math well by conventional teaching and b) it's my responsibility whether I pass or fail on the calculus involved, I'm never going to do CS at any university in the world...and I can't be the only one. Since I happen to be interested in the subject matter anyway, maybe the book actually is useful. Think I'll buy it.
Interrobang
Ooops. Well, I was working on the best info I had. Thanks. :)
Your Turkish friend probably isn't still immune -- but I'd say that doctor was less of a kook than the locals thought...
Ooops. Well, I was working on the best info I had. Thanks. :)
Your Turkish friend probably isn't still immune -- but I'd say that doctor was less of a kook than the locals thought...
No. Chicken pox is caused by varicella zoster. Cowpox is caused by variola minor, and smallpox is caused by variola major. Therefore immunity to chicken pox has no effect on smallpox. (Not the same critter at all.) Immunity to cowpox doesn't even always guarantee immunity to smallpox -- or even that you would survive smallpox if you got it; it just raises the odds.
In case any of you were wondering, the last smallpox vaccinations were given in 1973 (now you know what that strange circular scar on your upper arm is), and the last major epidemic of smallpox happened in 1972. Bad news, though, those of you last vaccinated in 1973 or earlier are no longer immune, unless you're naturally immune, which happens, just not often.
However, it's known that at least four litres of biowarfare grade smallpox exist, and that (according to an article from The New Yorker on the subject from 1999), "even one case of smallpox would constitute a global emergency," Various health organizations worldwide plan to begin vaccinating again by as early as 2002.
Interrobang, in line for that already
Unfortunately, so many of the people who get hung up on things like TQM don't really know what the hell they're talking about. You and I and you over there all know these guys/girls -- they have H/MBAs and shiny dispositions, they talk like their own damned marketing brochures, and it's mostly because they don't really have a clue what any of that buzzwordiness really means. In a way, the "management religion" is a little Scientological. Thought beyond the party line, they're told, leads to cognitive dissonance and death.
Incidentally, TQM and its clone-siblings has drawn a lot of well-deserved criticism from various sectors (not least in Brown and Duguid's _Social Life Of Information_...if you read only one book this year, read that one!). Based on my own personal observances (and nasty crawling feelings encountered when faced with Motivator posters & shiny, brainless Stepford marketroids), a lot of these theories (as with theories in many other "soft" -- and "hard" fields) are just a set of normalizing behaviour ("Well, if *I* do it, it *must* be normal!") and quite a lot of transferrence ("I am assertive -- you are brusque, and he's a pushy sonofabitch.").
NOT that I'm saying that policies, procedures and documentation (above all, documentation! It's just my job!) aren't important. But policies, procedures and documentation should be developed from what works for your company (more along the lines of the "best practices" or "knowledge collation" schools of thought), rather than by some imported consultant and/or the CEO's collection of Yuppie-fluppie self-help books for the corporatively inclined.