I discovered Slashdot in 1999 I believe it was. I had some coworkers at IBM build a linux cluster out of 14 or so machines we had at a show somewhere and the link to it got posted here. He sent out an internal email letting some of us interested in Linux at the time about it and that's how I found the site.
Can't find the original article though, not sure if it was 1998 or 1999 when I joined, or if it was later than that.
Clearly, you've never been under an HMO. Nurse Practitioners and physician assistants are primarily used now by GPs. My last GP told me as his hospital owned office was forced to close that there was 'no money in being a general practitioner' and out of every 100 graduates, 98% were not doing GP.
They all want to specialize in surgery, or other things that make big bucks.
Oh I do. My son has the Thomas the Tank engine trains, carries them around all day in his Backpack. My daughter so far hasn't been a big fan of any of the 'older kid' sets and still plays with my son making giant towers of bricks.
Actually, the appropriate term is LEGO and my son is 4 and daughter is 6 and they're not touching my collection for a few more years. the last time I let me daughter play with my LEGO sets she lost the face plate on one of my astronauts and those things are expensive to replace (Astronaut Series from mid 90s, not late 90s);)
Reason I ask is the same building where Lenovo computers are 'made' (IE Physically Assembled) is also the same building Apple, Dell, HP, Acer, and many others are made. The company is contracted out to make just about everyones laptop.
China has taken over the manufacturing of *so* many products that we use day to day in the United States (and every other country) that it would be downright impossible to function by 'boycotting' anything Made in China.
I started to look into it after the tenth toy of my kids was recalled. My son's wooden trains, my daughters dolls. Fun stuff. Not that my kids chew on them or anything but still, figured I'd send em in.
So I started wondering what I could get as far as a toy without Made in China on it.
in Short, you can't easily. A specialty store sometimes you can find things made in maybe Europe somewhere, but US made things are hard to find and anything non-chinese is pretty hard as well. Forget about shopping at Wal-Mart. That's the retail arm of China now.
In this current global environment it's impossible for a company to be cost competitive because as a consumer we've been trained to throw out everything and focus on price. If this toothpaste is $0.50 cheaper than that toothpaste, I'm gonna buy it. Never mind that one keeps a family in the US employed and has strict laws about what can go in it vs. the other guy putting antifreeze in his mixture in china.
What's a person to do? It can be done, but it's not something that is easy.
Point #2 is my reason for not playing male characters. I don't role play or anything, I just make a female character so I don't have to listen to a guy grunt and moan all day long. It wasn't until recently that I was surprised by the number of people who immediately assume your character female = you are = I should start cybering you. Kinda quit playing most MMORPGs after that.
First thing I thought of when I saw the title of the article. How do you 'beat' us when we did it almost 40 years ago? Now, I'd like the competition because maybe it'd wake up a few people but to be honest we need to spend some money in a few other places and fix a few other things over here before we hire a bunch of H1B folks to get us back to the moon.
Sounds like the great log of china not a firewall. They can get there, he reviews it, and brings it to their attention.
So far my kids are 4 and 6. I just use Mac OS X parental controls and they can only visit the sites I book mark for them in Safari. They can't get to getfirefox.com to download it, so problem solved for that.
As my daughter (the oldest) gets older i'll loosen it up a bit for her as they each will have an account on the machine. I'll log IM chats and use it to gauge what's going on but I'm not going to search it obsessively.
I look at it this way, I'm a guy, I've used porn, I found it without access to the internet in the early 80s. All it takes is one older brother, one parent, one shoplifting experience and that magazine will be passed around the school until some moron either drops it while walking down the hallway in front of a teacher or is a freak and reports you too a teacher. My wife and I are not afraid of porn. As long as the US Government doesn't go insane in the next ten years it's going to be something both of my children will find out about it, right about the 11 - 13 range if history holds true. Admonishing them for that lovely hormonal surge that is going to happen whether I like it or not and their exploration of it isn't helpful and creates the puritanical environment we enjoy today here in the states. I still fight my upbringing of being ashamed of the human body and somehow just the site of it is 'evil'. Little thing called intent that needs to be adjusted more than just existing.
That being said, there are several tools available to baby sit your kids computer expierence, pick one and recommend it. I thought there was a windows package that would do similar features that Mac OS X does with the parental controls on IE 7 but i can't find it now that I'm looking for it again.
There wasn't a 16GB Model at the $599 price point.
I was annoyed, but not 'urge to kill rising' simpsons style or anything. Just seemed cheap that I've barely gotten my second bill for it and yet somehow they can drop the price $200 for no reason other than because it makes sense.
I'm no stranger to buying tech, I paid $499 I think it was for the Treo 300 when it came out day one. It didn't get a discount until probably six or so months later. But 10 weeks? Bit much but meh.
I'm all for making the playing field even and all, but federal/state oversight of the operating system is a bad idea. Is it just MS you want to oversite, or is it the computer OS so you can start regulating what people use, or charging taxes because regulation doesn't come free.
Just seems like a big Pandora's box of things would be opened up.
Feel free to go to NBC.com and find the 'contact us' and under 'other' send them that sentiment, list the shows too. That's what I did.
I can't believe they don't want my money, but I will make a point of not watching NBC, just ask Fox. I've not watched a show on that network (Including Family Guy/Simpsons) since they cancelled Firefly.
It'll probably tick my wife off to not get to watch ER, but I'll stick too it. Not like we need to sit in front of the TV.
If this also means USA and Sci-Fi, season 4 of BSG won't be seen, no Stargate Atlantis, no Psych or Burn Notice, 4400...
if it wasn't for the 'pot smoking hippies' connotation that Libertarian carries i would think that party of any of them has a chance to break into the big two.
I've been voting in the local/state level for any person brave enough to run under that tag. Federally it's a wasted vote.
I still think IRV voting would be the best option, that way you could rank the candidates in order instead of all or nothing.
Yeah that's another frustration of mine. Both states I've lived in were 'guaranteed' to be red since I'm in a bible belt state of North Carolina so the democratic candidates didn't even bother with it I get to see Edwards until he gets shut down if I'm lucky. ran into him at the Airport here in RDU, the security guys were talking to him asking if his name being on the terrorist watch list was resolved. This was pre-election season just after '04 elections, like jan or feb 2005. Never mind that the counties I lived in were predominantly democratic voters.
Well maybe we can round robin the other small states then? Like Kansas which is what I was referring too, or Nebraska, or North/South Dakota. I'm in North Carolina now but the last time the primary came through I was in Kansas and at that point Kerry was already decided on.
That's where my complaint comes in. It's us other peon states that don't matter. Short of Edwards I don't have a chance of being able to see/hear a candidate speak other than filtered through a news organization because my state isn't worth visiting because we're just to toe the line the rest of the states do.
Glad I could amuse you, knew I should have googled it but that was the first word that came to mind after looking at some of the congressional district lines on a map. The last one I looked at was when Texas had all the democrats leave Austin in protest of redistricting. I should have said 'ink blots' instead probably.
He's just one disaster in a string of disasters. It's not going to get any better either because basically what people have elected into office is a huge disaster.
Until there are term limits on every office, real congressional districts instead of roarshark tests, and a voting populace with a brain you're not going to see much different.
We've done too good of a job polarizing the two parties. everything they do is boiled down to one issue for that voting block and that is what makes the call. If you're against abortion, you'll vote republican no matter what because the Denmocrats want to open Joe's Abortion Clinic - you rape em we scrape em - on every corner.
If you're gay, well, you're fucked because neither party will support you 100%. However the democrats will at least wave your direction when you walk by but then turn around and tell the other folks you're just being nice to them because you feel sorry for them.
If you like guns, you'll vote republican because no matter what they say the Democrats will take away your gun the first chance they get, don't know how to hunt, or many other problems.
It doesn't matter that the candidate is a closeted gay, child molester, or anything else long as he votes for / against whatever one issue you let decide.
And I don't think this is a new phenomenon, they've just gotten better at it. No one wants to compromise anymore. It's my way or the highway seems to be the prevailing wind. You see that attitude everywhere from open source vs. closed source to civil unions vs. marriages. We wouldn't know what to do with someone who actually tried to work for a solution instead of standing up top going my way or the highway. The one campaign statement that to this day that infuriates me to know end is that over and over Bush said he was a uniter, not a divider. Post 9/11 he is the perfect example of a divisive president. The entire world was ready to invade Afghanistan and destroy anything that looked at you crosseyed after 9/11 and then next thing you know forget Afghanistan and the real issue, let's go to Iraq.
I'm not saying Saddam Hussein was some feel good hippie that just got in the way, he killed a good chunk of people and is up there with some of the bigger bad guys in the past. However the path we took really screwed us, but we can't bail out now or our leaving will kill more people than Saddam did in the first place. It's a culture battle at this point and we're too stupid to realize that. Democracy isn't for everyone, and you can't force it on them any more than you can anything else.
I've gotten to the point where I don't know what we can do. the Democratic party currently isn't offering anything worth looking at as far as the 'front runner' is. By the time my state's primary comes around the decision will already be made for me as to who the candidate is because of our fucked up system of nomination. I truly believe that the primary should be one day, nationwide, in February before the election. It's an IRV ballot where you rank your choices, winner take all. the fact that I believe it is after 'super tuesday' nothing can change the outcome.
It's not like IA, NH, and SC are really representative of the US Population either. Iowa gives whitebread a new meaning, as does NH. SC starts to represent the mix of ethnicity that makes this nation so great, but the real melting pot states aren't until later and receive less focus than any other state.
I guess maybe I thought more of the 'kids these days' going into school would be pretty easy to NOT believe that you could floor a police cruiser, hit a toll booth, and manage to land the car on a helicopter.
I guess for decades now I've always felt a movie was entertainment, not 'how things work' otherwise I'm pissed and I want my lightsaber and personal shield.
We didn't specifically call out the cost of the systems, but we listed the exact hardware used for each test with part numbers. We used it because SpecJBB2005 is CPU centric and doesn't rely on I/O as much as say TPC-C would where you can just attach 2400 hard drives to it to drive the number up.
Believe it or not, when my team is tasked with coming up with studies like this, we try to be as fair as possible and don't try to stack the deck. We know the people evaluating purchasing our stuff aren't that stupid, and get really ticked off when you think they are and try to pass by some silly stacked against the other guy benchmark.
We just wanted to show two features we have on our box that are hard to explain to the 'people that control the money' when they buy stuff versus the people that actually use the hardware and understand how they could apply either a 3-cpu configuration or how all 8 slots of memory run at 667MHz. That's what we tried to do with a third party.
The third part paper company actually purchased both servers from resellers, not from us. They just give us a bill for the hardware that we'll pay. It's the best way we can figure out at the moment to try and remain 'impartial', as 'impartial' as you can be by asking a company to run a benchmark we're fairly certain we'd win.
Again as a disclaimer I do work at IBM, but I'm not speaking for them, just what I know goes through my own head when we're working on coming up with studies like this.
A friend of mine kept his BBS saved on a disk, every once in a while he runs some TCP/IP to Serial thing that lets me telnet into his WWIV based system. I think Win 2k3 broke the last one he had so I've not used it in a while. Was quite the retro trip especially since I had unread email from 1993.
For the record, I used OS/2 before I worked for IBM, and not after I worked for IBM. I got a Win95 machine. Though at the time we still had end users on OS/2. I think it got pushed out when they started Y2K-ing things as a desktop OS. I was a heavy 1.3/2.x user, even ran a BBS on it in the early 90s, Maximus was the name if I remembered right.
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Hah! Never noticed that. How did you figure out the year from that? I had found my first comment but couldn't figure out what year it was.
I discovered Slashdot in 1999 I believe it was. I had some coworkers at IBM build a linux cluster out of 14 or so machines we had at a show somewhere and the link to it got posted here. He sent out an internal email letting some of us interested in Linux at the time about it and that's how I found the site.
Can't find the original article though, not sure if it was 1998 or 1999 when I joined, or if it was later than that.
Clearly, you've never been under an HMO. Nurse Practitioners and physician assistants are primarily used now by GPs. My last GP told me as his hospital owned office was forced to close that there was 'no money in being a general practitioner' and out of every 100 graduates, 98% were not doing GP.
They all want to specialize in surgery, or other things that make big bucks.
Oh I do. My son has the Thomas the Tank engine trains, carries them around all day in his Backpack. My daughter so far hasn't been a big fan of any of the 'older kid' sets and still plays with my son making giant towers of bricks.
They're made in china as well, at least the fedex tracking for them comes from Shanghai area.
how is that any better?
Strange, the 10,000 some employees here in research triangle park, nc would probably disagree with you about their nationality.
Actually, the appropriate term is LEGO and my son is 4 and daughter is 6 and they're not touching my collection for a few more years. the last time I let me daughter play with my LEGO sets she lost the face plate on one of my astronauts and those things are expensive to replace (Astronaut Series from mid 90s, not late 90s) ;)
How do you define 'make'?
Reason I ask is the same building where Lenovo computers are 'made' (IE Physically Assembled) is also the same building Apple, Dell, HP, Acer, and many others are made. The company is contracted out to make just about everyones laptop.
China has taken over the manufacturing of *so* many products that we use day to day in the United States (and every other country) that it would be downright impossible to function by 'boycotting' anything Made in China.
I started to look into it after the tenth toy of my kids was recalled. My son's wooden trains, my daughters dolls. Fun stuff. Not that my kids chew on them or anything but still, figured I'd send em in.
So I started wondering what I could get as far as a toy without Made in China on it.
in Short, you can't easily. A specialty store sometimes you can find things made in maybe Europe somewhere, but US made things are hard to find and anything non-chinese is pretty hard as well. Forget about shopping at Wal-Mart. That's the retail arm of China now.
In this current global environment it's impossible for a company to be cost competitive because as a consumer we've been trained to throw out everything and focus on price. If this toothpaste is $0.50 cheaper than that toothpaste, I'm gonna buy it. Never mind that one keeps a family in the US employed and has strict laws about what can go in it vs. the other guy putting antifreeze in his mixture in china.
What's a person to do? It can be done, but it's not something that is easy.
Point #2 is my reason for not playing male characters. I don't role play or anything, I just make a female character so I don't have to listen to a guy grunt and moan all day long. It wasn't until recently that I was surprised by the number of people who immediately assume your character female = you are = I should start cybering you. Kinda quit playing most MMORPGs after that.
First thing I thought of when I saw the title of the article. How do you 'beat' us when we did it almost 40 years ago? Now, I'd like the competition because maybe it'd wake up a few people but to be honest we need to spend some money in a few other places and fix a few other things over here before we hire a bunch of H1B folks to get us back to the moon.
Sounds like the great log of china not a firewall. They can get there, he reviews it, and brings it to their attention.
So far my kids are 4 and 6. I just use Mac OS X parental controls and they can only visit the sites I book mark for them in Safari. They can't get to getfirefox.com to download it, so problem solved for that.
As my daughter (the oldest) gets older i'll loosen it up a bit for her as they each will have an account on the machine. I'll log IM chats and use it to gauge what's going on but I'm not going to search it obsessively.
I look at it this way, I'm a guy, I've used porn, I found it without access to the internet in the early 80s. All it takes is one older brother, one parent, one shoplifting experience and that magazine will be passed around the school until some moron either drops it while walking down the hallway in front of a teacher or is a freak and reports you too a teacher. My wife and I are not afraid of porn. As long as the US Government doesn't go insane in the next ten years it's going to be something both of my children will find out about it, right about the 11 - 13 range if history holds true. Admonishing them for that lovely hormonal surge that is going to happen whether I like it or not and their exploration of it isn't helpful and creates the puritanical environment we enjoy today here in the states. I still fight my upbringing of being ashamed of the human body and somehow just the site of it is 'evil'. Little thing called intent that needs to be adjusted more than just existing.
That being said, there are several tools available to baby sit your kids computer expierence, pick one and recommend it. I thought there was a windows package that would do similar features that Mac OS X does with the parental controls on IE 7 but i can't find it now that I'm looking for it again.
Thought I was on Digg for a minute, I got pretty confused.
There wasn't a 16GB Model at the $599 price point.
I was annoyed, but not 'urge to kill rising' simpsons style or anything. Just seemed cheap that I've barely gotten my second bill for it and yet somehow they can drop the price $200 for no reason other than because it makes sense.
I'm no stranger to buying tech, I paid $499 I think it was for the Treo 300 when it came out day one. It didn't get a discount until probably six or so months later. But 10 weeks? Bit much but meh.
I'm all for making the playing field even and all, but federal/state oversight of the operating system is a bad idea. Is it just MS you want to oversite, or is it the computer OS so you can start regulating what people use, or charging taxes because regulation doesn't come free.
Just seems like a big Pandora's box of things would be opened up.
Feel free to go to NBC.com and find the 'contact us' and under 'other' send them that sentiment, list the shows too. That's what I did.
I can't believe they don't want my money, but I will make a point of not watching NBC, just ask Fox. I've not watched a show on that network (Including Family Guy/Simpsons) since they cancelled Firefly.
It'll probably tick my wife off to not get to watch ER, but I'll stick too it. Not like we need to sit in front of the TV.
If this also means USA and Sci-Fi, season 4 of BSG won't be seen, no Stargate Atlantis, no Psych or Burn Notice, 4400...
wow I'll have a lot of free time.
if it wasn't for the 'pot smoking hippies' connotation that Libertarian carries i would think that party of any of them has a chance to break into the big two.
I've been voting in the local/state level for any person brave enough to run under that tag. Federally it's a wasted vote.
I still think IRV voting would be the best option, that way you could rank the candidates in order instead of all or nothing.
Yeah that's another frustration of mine. Both states I've lived in were 'guaranteed' to be red since I'm in a bible belt state of North Carolina so the democratic candidates didn't even bother with it I get to see Edwards until he gets shut down if I'm lucky. ran into him at the Airport here in RDU, the security guys were talking to him asking if his name being on the terrorist watch list was resolved. This was pre-election season just after '04 elections, like jan or feb 2005. Never mind that the counties I lived in were predominantly democratic voters.
Well maybe we can round robin the other small states then? Like Kansas which is what I was referring too, or Nebraska, or North/South Dakota. I'm in North Carolina now but the last time the primary came through I was in Kansas and at that point Kerry was already decided on.
That's where my complaint comes in. It's us other peon states that don't matter. Short of Edwards I don't have a chance of being able to see/hear a candidate speak other than filtered through a news organization because my state isn't worth visiting because we're just to toe the line the rest of the states do.
Glad I could amuse you, knew I should have googled it but that was the first word that came to mind after looking at some of the congressional district lines on a map. The last one I looked at was when Texas had all the democrats leave Austin in protest of redistricting. I should have said 'ink blots' instead probably.
He's just one disaster in a string of disasters. It's not going to get any better either because basically what people have elected into office is a huge disaster.
Until there are term limits on every office, real congressional districts instead of roarshark tests, and a voting populace with a brain you're not going to see much different.
We've done too good of a job polarizing the two parties. everything they do is boiled down to one issue for that voting block and that is what makes the call. If you're against abortion, you'll vote republican no matter what because the Denmocrats want to open Joe's Abortion Clinic - you rape em we scrape em - on every corner.
If you're gay, well, you're fucked because neither party will support you 100%. However the democrats will at least wave your direction when you walk by but then turn around and tell the other folks you're just being nice to them because you feel sorry for them.
If you like guns, you'll vote republican because no matter what they say the Democrats will take away your gun the first chance they get, don't know how to hunt, or many other problems.
It doesn't matter that the candidate is a closeted gay, child molester, or anything else long as he votes for / against whatever one issue you let decide.
And I don't think this is a new phenomenon, they've just gotten better at it. No one wants to compromise anymore. It's my way or the highway seems to be the prevailing wind. You see that attitude everywhere from open source vs. closed source to civil unions vs. marriages. We wouldn't know what to do with someone who actually tried to work for a solution instead of standing up top going my way or the highway. The one campaign statement that to this day that infuriates me to know end is that over and over Bush said he was a uniter, not a divider. Post 9/11 he is the perfect example of a divisive president. The entire world was ready to invade Afghanistan and destroy anything that looked at you crosseyed after 9/11 and then next thing you know forget Afghanistan and the real issue, let's go to Iraq.
I'm not saying Saddam Hussein was some feel good hippie that just got in the way, he killed a good chunk of people and is up there with some of the bigger bad guys in the past. However the path we took really screwed us, but we can't bail out now or our leaving will kill more people than Saddam did in the first place. It's a culture battle at this point and we're too stupid to realize that. Democracy isn't for everyone, and you can't force it on them any more than you can anything else.
I've gotten to the point where I don't know what we can do. the Democratic party currently isn't offering anything worth looking at as far as the 'front runner' is. By the time my state's primary comes around the decision will already be made for me as to who the candidate is because of our fucked up system of nomination. I truly believe that the primary should be one day, nationwide, in February before the election. It's an IRV ballot where you rank your choices, winner take all. the fact that I believe it is after 'super tuesday' nothing can change the outcome.
It's not like IA, NH, and SC are really representative of the US Population either. Iowa gives whitebread a new meaning, as does NH. SC starts to represent the mix of ethnicity that makes this nation so great, but the real melting pot states aren't until later and receive less focus than any other state.
My $0.02 of ranting.
I guess maybe I thought more of the 'kids these days' going into school would be pretty easy to NOT believe that you could floor a police cruiser, hit a toll booth, and manage to land the car on a helicopter.
I guess for decades now I've always felt a movie was entertainment, not 'how things work' otherwise I'm pissed and I want my lightsaber and personal shield.
Good point, my intent was to point out that the 3-cpu idea wasn't nutty, it actually had some merit.
We didn't specifically call out the cost of the systems, but we listed the exact hardware used for each test with part numbers. We used it because SpecJBB2005 is CPU centric and doesn't rely on I/O as much as say TPC-C would where you can just attach 2400 hard drives to it to drive the number up.
Believe it or not, when my team is tasked with coming up with studies like this, we try to be as fair as possible and don't try to stack the deck. We know the people evaluating purchasing our stuff aren't that stupid, and get really ticked off when you think they are and try to pass by some silly stacked against the other guy benchmark.
We just wanted to show two features we have on our box that are hard to explain to the 'people that control the money' when they buy stuff versus the people that actually use the hardware and understand how they could apply either a 3-cpu configuration or how all 8 slots of memory run at 667MHz. That's what we tried to do with a third party.
The third part paper company actually purchased both servers from resellers, not from us. They just give us a bill for the hardware that we'll pay. It's the best way we can figure out at the moment to try and remain 'impartial', as 'impartial' as you can be by asking a company to run a benchmark we're fairly certain we'd win.
Again as a disclaimer I do work at IBM, but I'm not speaking for them, just what I know goes through my own head when we're working on coming up with studies like this.
A friend of mine kept his BBS saved on a disk, every once in a while he runs some TCP/IP to Serial thing that lets me telnet into his WWIV based system. I think Win 2k3 broke the last one he had so I've not used it in a while. Was quite the retro trip especially since I had unread email from 1993.
For the record, I used OS/2 before I worked for IBM, and not after I worked for IBM. I got a Win95 machine. Though at the time we still had end users on OS/2. I think it got pushed out when they started Y2K-ing things as a desktop OS. I was a heavy 1.3/2.x user, even ran a BBS on it in the early 90s, Maximus was the name if I remembered right.