And nobody modded up a "Bastard Operator From Hell" joke?
This is supposed to be news for nerds. Come on. What next? Will we start ignoring naked petrified Natalee Portman?
On to serious matters. This report is really just fudging numbers. Government and financial workers gain more weight at the current job because, surprise. They have been there longer.
IT geeks count the time we stay at a job we like in months. Government and financial workers typically start a job straight out of collage and stay there ontil middle age turns them into blimps.
So basicaly it's "Did you gain more than 10 lbs between age 21 and age 42?" vs "have you gained more than 10 lbs so far this year?"
iMac vs Sunfire V240. Not a fair (or reasonable) comparison.
No. What you have is two different creations of man.
In the 1st creation "God made man, male and female created he them".
In the 2nd creation God created Adam from the "dust of the earth" and "breathed into him the breath of life.
This all seems a little odd ontil you get a little deeper into Genesis. Adams Eldest son (Cain) runs away from home and finds himself a wife in the distant land he runs to.
Now it is conceivable that she was his sister but it's a little odd for the baby sister to leave home unprovoked before the eldest brother. Frankly, that would only happen if Adam was an incestuous pedophile.
Far more likely, Cains wife was part of that 1st group of humans created on the 6th day.
Sure there are a bunch of internal inconsistencies in the Bible. This isn't one of them.
There are two main theories groups that attempt to explain the creation of the Universe and the origin of life and humanity.
Group 1. Big Bang & Evolution. Essentially this version says, it all just happened, mostly by accident but with the amount of time and mass involved it was inevitable.
Group 2. Created by God (or gods). Essentially this version says it all originated from the imagination of a being with virtually unlimited intelligence and power.
You know what I find cool? That under both scenarios it's almost inevitable that we will encounter other intelligent life, somewhere out there.
Why? Because accidents tend to repeat when the conditions allowing them are also repeated. Sul isn't that uncommon a sun type so why shouldn't other Yellow dwarfs have wet rocky planets? And why shouldn't some of those mud-balls have critters on them ? Even intelligent critters?
As for the creation version. That makes it even more likely that the universe would be swarming with intelligent life. Religious people believe the Earth is teeming with life because God enjoys playing with DNA. So why wouldn't he just go wild when working with whole galaxies rather than just a single planet?
1. The data center and everything in it belongs to a single company. So the security measures are chosen by the guys who own the hardware.
2. The inside guard. Just like the janitor, is actually qualified as a low level technician. So he knows enough to only shoot a server when he has no choice.
3. We would prefer to destroy a few servers than to have the wrong data fall into the wrong hands. After all the Data centers are rigged as a 3 way all active redundant hive. With ample backups. We can shut down an entire center without affecting service. This has happened. During a Hurricane we lost all 3 independent links to one center. By independent I mean Microwave, aerial fiber and underground fiber. (Murphy's law can be a bitch)
4. Jamaica isn't even part of the union (yet?). We have different rules and legal principles. Not making a value judgment. Just acknowledging the vast difference.
5. True. A thief could be in and out in 4 minutes. We have worked that fast on a few relocation runs, but I'm not ghoulish enough to want a glimpse of the 1st guy to try.
My favorite file-system reportedly performed faster on certain workloads if it was compressed. However the primary maintainer will be incarcerated for a very long time.
Dose EXT4 (or EXT3 for that matter) support running as a compressed file-system? If so, what is the speed like?
Especially on that workload most likely to benefit substantially from running as a compressed file system. Mid to High Traffic Email server.
I run parts of 3 separate data centers for my employer. We have several layers of security, Firewalls, Electronic doors, etc...
But the most important security system we have are the armed guys inside the data center and in the parking lot in constant CB contact with each other and their headquarters with it's armed response teem (Think SG1 going offworld. Heavy on the muscles, body armor and ammunition, light on the PhDs.) less than 4 minutes away.
Nope. merely seeding life isn't enough. Notice how limited the sexual compatibility is between different species on Earth.
To get sexual compatibility across seperatly evolving species requires extensive enginearing or a level of coincidence that's just too improbable to happen within a galaxy.
Now weather the ones in charge of creating life and arangeing evolution is an alien species is God or an alien species, doesn't matter much. It would still be creation. Not random evolution.
His reasoning, that the Galaxy would already be colonized by an intelligent specie if it is commonplace for a specie to evolve beyond our current state and this all happens randomly.
However their is another view. What if life simply dose not arise randomly and evolution must also be directed? And what if the director of that evolution and the initiator of the commencement of life did this at around the same time across our Galaxy?
In that case we would end up with a "Star Trek future". I.e. We would head out into the cosmos and stumble across many species slightly ahead or a little behind us in development. If some of those spices are sexually compatible, that would comprehensively prove the "Creation Theory"
There was life on Mars and there will be again. It's just a little dormant right now.
As for the doom foretold by finding any or by the success of SETI? Come on. The aliens are already here.
The problem is that they have surrounded Earth with the cosmic equivalent of yellow tape. Hence the strange activities of those aliens which have been spotted.
Some of them are CSI detectives trying to figure out what's wrong with the lifeforms on this planet. The rest are teenagers sneaking across the line on a dare to make a little mischief and run like hell.
Want to guess which of them mutilates cattle and draws crop circles?
A botnet cleansing worm would IMHO be a good thing and not in the least morally ambiguous.
Imagine a similar situation among humans. A Virus breaks out which ravages whole populations. You find a cure which can be distributed by spiking the watter supply or by pumping it into the air.
I can tell you, the CDC (No. Not the "Cult of the Dead Cow". The other CDC) would only hesitate long enough to verify the safety of the cure before dispatching it.
Or lets come to a more reasonable and commonplace situation. A man infected with Rabies is not allowed to chose weather he will be treated. His infection impairs his judgment and makes him a danger to other people, therefore he is a hazard to be cured against his will.
Doesn't the same apply to a botnet member oblivious to it's own condition spewing it's infection, Spam and lord knows what else onto other computers?
That's so cool. Gillette is selling a cheese grater for facial use?
Worse yet they have Tiger Woods selling it.
I say worse because I am willing to bet good money that he either uses an electric shear or a has his face waxed.
Most black guys have difficulty shaving with a razor. Mostly because out beards grow curly from the root. This causes razor bumps unless we either save some stubble (my solution) or uproot the hair with wax.
Remember when All razors had a single blade? Then double blade razors were all the rage. These days, Triple and quad blade razors are around. Soon we will have 5 blades but I would call that a cheese grater.
Same thing with CPUs and now GPUs. Problem is, at what point dose it become a pissing contest rather than a way to provide more performance for an application that needs it.
And speaking of those demanding applications. Am I the only one who notice that some of the latest video games running on the best available hardware provide no improvement in appearance or game-play over older games of a similar type running on older hardware?
It's bad enough that I am tempted to think the programmers are just adding fat to make sure the game demands a more expensive video card.
You were not there man. You just didn't see it like I did.
Ohh... the horror of it all. He didn't just kill them He was like a Rever from Firefly/Serenity. He Rasped, Killed and Ate them. In no particular order. The people and dogs really had it bad, but the Goldfish... I'm... sorry. I'm crying again just remembering what he did to that poor goldfish.
I have to stop here. My therepist has been on speed dial since the post video game masacre of last week and now his phone is just ringing. Is he in the bathroom? has he left it at home? Need that paper bag now...
We actually tried Daylight Savings Time in Jamaica for about a year. It was an absolute and monumental disaster. You see around here the days are very close to the same length as the nights. Even in mid Winter. Too bad we never got around to keelhauling the politician who came up with that plan.
Remembering this did clue me in as to why DST would increase energy usage even in temperate zones:
People get up in time to make it to work, school or wherever else they are compelled to go each day. How early they rise is a function of the length of the commute and the scheduled arrival time.
This means that making that arrival time an hour earlier results in everyone getting up an hour earlier. unless the original wakeup time was more than 1 hour after sunrise, that means using electricity which might otherwise be saved.
Worse yet, the energy you wasted in the morning is not saved in the evening. People go to work and school on someone else's schedule. They go home and go to bed on thier own. Regardless of when you wake up an evening out will start AFTER sunset. TV watching, Internet abuse etc... fit within that self assigned schedule.
In all fairness, I think that's pretty common. It's becoming an old joke that the fastest way to get promoted is to get a job at another company -- and then have your old company hire you back at a higher salary. Yet it's not really joke: It happens over and over again.
It's called climbing the corporate staircase. Similar to climbing the corporate ladder but much easier. I have managed a significant salary increase each time I change jobs.
So much so that I now make significantly more than equally skilled persons I left behind at previous employers. I also make more than most of my current co-workers, even some who are more competent than me.
Don't get me wrong. I'm pretty darned good. However a superstar who isn't willing to change jobs will make less than pretty darned good who is.
Yep. Unfortunately your boss is one of those idiots that pays attention to what other people wear. And since impressing the boss is the only way to get promoted people with your attitude will never be management.
We have a hard enough time competing already. Once Americans can go to Cuba legally, How will we Manage?
Perhaps we can convince them to replace him with someone America doesn't like any better? With his experience in international finance and Aviation, Bin-Laden would be a perfect replacement.
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Which is why I prefer there to "The Peoples Republic of California" where Naked Petrified Natalee Portman had me arrested.
I didn't touch her. My hands were occupied (My shirt in the left and my pants in the right)
And nobody modded up a "Bastard Operator From Hell" joke?
This is supposed to be news for nerds. Come on. What next? Will we start ignoring naked petrified Natalee Portman?
On to serious matters. This report is really just fudging numbers. Government and financial workers gain more weight at the current job because, surprise. They have been there longer.
IT geeks count the time we stay at a job we like in months. Government and financial workers typically start a job straight out of collage and stay there ontil middle age turns them into blimps.
So basicaly it's "Did you gain more than 10 lbs between age 21 and age 42?" vs "have you gained more than 10 lbs so far this year?"
iMac vs Sunfire V240. Not a fair (or reasonable) comparison.
No. What you have is two different creations of man.
In the 1st creation "God made man, male and female created he them".
In the 2nd creation God created Adam from the "dust of the earth" and "breathed into him the breath of life.
This all seems a little odd ontil you get a little deeper into Genesis. Adams Eldest son (Cain) runs away from home and finds himself a wife in the distant land he runs to.
Now it is conceivable that she was his sister but it's a little odd for the baby sister to leave home unprovoked before the eldest brother. Frankly, that would only happen if Adam was an incestuous pedophile.
Far more likely, Cains wife was part of that 1st group of humans created on the 6th day.
Sure there are a bunch of internal inconsistencies in the Bible. This isn't one of them.
There is a little more to it than that.
1. Go throgh Genesis chapter 1 and write down all the different categories of life forms listed there in the order created.
2. Go throgh a textbook on evolution with the list you wrote in step one and you will discover something very odd. Same order.
Not only that but the order is counter intuitive. Specifically, everyone assumed Mammals came before birds ontil the fossil record showed otherwise.
There are two main theories groups that attempt to explain the creation of the Universe and the origin of life and humanity.
Group 1. Big Bang & Evolution. Essentially this version says, it all just happened, mostly by accident but with the amount of time and mass involved it was inevitable.
Group 2. Created by God (or gods). Essentially this version says it all originated from the imagination of a being with virtually unlimited intelligence and power.
You know what I find cool? That under both scenarios it's almost inevitable that we will encounter other intelligent life, somewhere out there.
Why? Because accidents tend to repeat when the conditions allowing them are also repeated. Sul isn't that uncommon a sun type so why shouldn't other Yellow dwarfs have wet rocky planets? And why shouldn't some of those mud-balls have critters on them ? Even intelligent critters?
As for the creation version. That makes it even more likely that the universe would be swarming with intelligent life. Religious people believe the Earth is teeming with life because God enjoys playing with DNA. So why wouldn't he just go wild when working with whole galaxies rather than just a single planet?
If you have to ask then you are bisexual.
Back down? off what?
1. The data center and everything in it belongs to a single company. So the security measures are chosen by the guys who own the hardware.
2. The inside guard. Just like the janitor, is actually qualified as a low level technician. So he knows enough to only shoot a server when he has no choice.
3. We would prefer to destroy a few servers than to have the wrong data fall into the wrong hands. After all the Data centers are rigged as a 3 way all active redundant hive. With ample backups. We can shut down an entire center without affecting service. This has happened. During a Hurricane we lost all 3 independent links to one center. By independent I mean Microwave, aerial fiber and underground fiber. (Murphy's law can be a bitch)
4. Jamaica isn't even part of the union (yet?). We have different rules and legal principles. Not making a value judgment. Just acknowledging the vast difference.
5. True. A thief could be in and out in 4 minutes. We have worked that fast on a few relocation runs, but I'm not ghoulish enough to want a glimpse of the 1st guy to try.
My favorite file-system reportedly performed faster on certain workloads if it was compressed. However the primary maintainer will be incarcerated for a very long time.
Dose EXT4 (or EXT3 for that matter) support running as a compressed file-system? If so, what is the speed like?
Especially on that workload most likely to benefit substantially from running as a compressed file system. Mid to High Traffic Email server.
I run parts of 3 separate data centers for my employer. We have several layers of security, Firewalls, Electronic doors, etc...
But the most important security system we have are the armed guys inside the data center and in the parking lot in constant CB contact with each other and their headquarters with it's armed response teem (Think SG1 going offworld. Heavy on the muscles, body armor and ammunition, light on the PhDs.) less than 4 minutes away.
Nope. merely seeding life isn't enough. Notice how limited the sexual compatibility is between different species on Earth.
To get sexual compatibility across seperatly evolving species requires extensive enginearing or a level of coincidence that's just too improbable to happen within a galaxy.
Now weather the ones in charge of creating life and arangeing evolution is an alien species is God or an alien species, doesn't matter much. It would still be creation. Not random evolution.
His reasoning, that the Galaxy would already be colonized by an intelligent specie if it is commonplace for a specie to evolve beyond our current state and this all happens randomly.
However their is another view. What if life simply dose not arise randomly and evolution must also be directed? And what if the director of that evolution and the initiator of the commencement of life did this at around the same time across our Galaxy?
In that case we would end up with a "Star Trek future". I.e. We would head out into the cosmos and stumble across many species slightly ahead or a little behind us in development. If some of those spices are sexually compatible, that would comprehensively prove the "Creation Theory"
There was life on Mars and there will be again. It's just a little dormant right now.
As for the doom foretold by finding any or by the success of SETI? Come on. The aliens are already here.
The problem is that they have surrounded Earth with the cosmic equivalent of yellow tape. Hence the strange activities of those aliens which have been spotted.
Some of them are CSI detectives trying to figure out what's wrong with the lifeforms on this planet. The rest are teenagers sneaking across the line on a dare to make a little mischief and run like hell.
Want to guess which of them mutilates cattle and draws crop circles?
> Note that this doesn't mean you should go around shooting people you think might have rabies...
Come on. Can't I have any fun?
A botnet cleansing worm would IMHO be a good thing and not in the least morally ambiguous.
Imagine a similar situation among humans. A Virus breaks out which ravages whole populations. You find a cure which can be distributed by spiking the watter supply or by pumping it into the air.
I can tell you, the CDC (No. Not the "Cult of the Dead Cow". The other CDC) would only hesitate long enough to verify the safety of the cure before dispatching it.
Or lets come to a more reasonable and commonplace situation. A man infected with Rabies is not allowed to chose weather he will be treated. His infection impairs his judgment and makes him a danger to other people, therefore he is a hazard to be cured against his will.
Doesn't the same apply to a botnet member oblivious to it's own condition spewing it's infection, Spam and lord knows what else onto other computers?
Kevin.
That's so cool. Gillette is selling a cheese grater for facial use?
Worse yet they have Tiger Woods selling it.
I say worse because I am willing to bet good money that he either uses an electric shear or a has his face waxed.
Most black guys have difficulty shaving with a razor. Mostly because out beards grow curly from the root. This causes razor bumps unless we either save some stubble (my solution) or uproot the hair with wax.
Remember when All razors had a single blade? Then double blade razors were all the rage. These days, Triple and quad blade razors are around. Soon we will have 5 blades but I would call that a cheese grater.
Same thing with CPUs and now GPUs. Problem is, at what point dose it become a pissing contest rather than a way to provide more performance for an application that needs it.
And speaking of those demanding applications. Am I the only one who notice that some of the latest video games running on the best available hardware provide no improvement in appearance or game-play over older games of a similar type running on older hardware?
It's bad enough that I am tempted to think the programmers are just adding fat to make sure the game demands a more expensive video card.
Kevin.
ROTFLOL!!!
You were not there man. You just didn't see it like I did.
Ohh... the horror of it all. He didn't just kill them He was like a Rever from Firefly/Serenity. He Rasped, Killed and Ate them. In no particular order. The people and dogs really had it bad, but the Goldfish... I'm... sorry. I'm crying again just remembering what he did to that poor goldfish.
I have to stop here. My therepist has been on speed dial since the post video game masacre of last week and now his phone is just ringing. Is he in the bathroom? has he left it at home? Need that paper bag now...
Where is my PAPER BAG ????
We actually tried Daylight Savings Time in Jamaica for about a year. It was an absolute and monumental disaster. You see around here the days are very close to the same length as the nights. Even in mid Winter. Too bad we never got around to keelhauling the politician who came up with that plan.
Remembering this did clue me in as to why DST would increase energy usage even in temperate zones:
People get up in time to make it to work, school or wherever else they are compelled to go each day. How early they rise is a function of the length of the commute and the scheduled arrival time.
This means that making that arrival time an hour earlier results in everyone getting up an hour earlier. unless the original wakeup time was more than 1 hour after sunrise, that means using electricity which might otherwise be saved.
Worse yet, the energy you wasted in the morning is not saved in the evening. People go to work and school on someone else's schedule. They go home and go to bed on thier own. Regardless of when you wake up an evening out will start AFTER sunset. TV watching, Internet abuse etc... fit within that self assigned schedule.
It's called climbing the corporate staircase. Similar to climbing the corporate ladder but much easier. I have managed a significant salary increase each time I change jobs.
So much so that I now make significantly more than equally skilled persons I left behind at previous employers. I also make more than most of my current co-workers, even some who are more competent than me.
Don't get me wrong. I'm pretty darned good. However a superstar who isn't willing to change jobs will make less than pretty darned good who is.
"Impress" dose not equal "Suck up to".
You have impressed your bosses by getting things done and disagreeing with them when they need to be corrected.
Do you also walk into the office dressed like a bum? I.e. Wearing brightly decorated T-shirt, Fadded jeans, slippers. "Odd" haircut. etc...
In short, do your cloths attract much attention
PS: "Nice tie" or "love your cologne" doesn't count as much attention.
Yep. Unfortunately your boss is one of those idiots that pays attention to what other people wear. And since impressing the boss is the only way to get promoted people with your attitude will never be management.
We have a hard enough time competing already. Once Americans can go to Cuba legally, How will we Manage?
Perhaps we can convince them to replace him with someone America doesn't like any better? With his experience in international finance and Aviation, Bin-Laden would be a perfect replacement.
Or we could just build a Smelascope to check the scents of space safely.
At least that's what they did on Futurama.