I have the copyright on the term Google-gnosis and you owe me a bazillion dollars. But seriously do you blame these people? I have health insurance and I still do as much as possible not to go to the Dr. I feel I have a good PCP but she still doesn't listen to me as earnestly as I feel she should when I am describing my symptoms. Most doctors I know are wrote AMA zombies who fear alternatives to medication/surgery. I've stopped telling my PCP about the supplements I am taking because all she ever says is "You must be very careful" no matter what it is. Anyway, my back hurts. I'm gonna go see what style2469 has to say on the subject.
I work for an Energy company that is owned by an Electric Utility. I don't know how many times I have had the conversation with Corporate IM "I know that's how corporate does it but that process will not work for our group." I'm also "embedded" on the trade floor but my responsibilities are far reaching and there are times I need privacy. Fortunately for me I'm one of 4 people who have access to the Data Center so I set up a little desk in there where I can go and work when I need peace and quiet. As far as the open platform itself I don't like it personally. I like having a place to put my "stuff". I keep snacks and drinks you can't find in the vending machines as well as pictures and knick knacks that just make me feel more relaxed when they are around. In an open platform you might get a locker to keep your valuables but of what use is that to your overall zen?
IBM made SURE there was visible competition so as not to give the "appearance" of being a monopoly after the government dropped its case against them. Microsoft has consistently thumbed its nose at the government basically telling them to mind their own business.
Microsoft did not create the PC, IBM did. Had Compaq not reverse engineered the BIOS and created a viable clone market IBM would have been a PC monopoly along with Microsoft. In fact I suspect if it hadn't been for government scrutiny at the time IBM would have just bought Microsoft outright.
The difference I see between the antitrust case against IBM and the monopoly case against Microsoft is that the government actively pursued IBM in court relentlessly whereas in the Microsoft case they had the big trial and won a guilty verdict and then just slapped them on the hand and scolded them. It's "spare the rod spoil the child" on a corporate scale. IBM got spanked and was afraid to be "bad" again and Microsoft was scolded and has not changed much at all because of it.
You just don't realize the demographic they are targeting. Just take a look at their news line-up: Lauren Freeman, Daniella Guzmán, Rachel McNeill, Mariza Reyes, Dominique Sachse, Courtney Zavala, and my personal favorite Jennifer Reyna. I watch KHOU for my morning news but switch to channel 2 during commercials. I saw the report on the unmanned tests and given HPD's reputation of late I don't doubt for a minute they may have tried to cover up their tests. Heck HPD reported a guys death a suicide even though he was shot in the back of the head.
Asians eat carbs with almost every meal (rice, noodles). They are thinner than us. End of story.
EXTREMELY scientific....thank you
Excess calories make you fat. That's a law of physics
Wouldn't that be a law of biology or perhaps chemistry?
I think this chart might be useful-
The emphasis on performance and beauty in modern America has greatly increased American's stress levels overall. To cope with said increased stress please pick from the list below:
1) Exercise (You're joking right? that takes time, effort, and sweat) 2) Smoking (that's so twentieth century. Besides it causes lung cancer and stuff) 3) Drinking (I'm morally upstanding and do not imbibe! humph) 4) Socialize (What if other people think I'm weird or somthin?) 5) Eat (Everybody eats. Nobody will notice if I eat a little more than usual. I don't have to feel guilty.)
Every item in the above list requires a relatively substantial investment or has a stigma attached to it except eating. Obesity takes time but eating provides immediate comfort rewards without being conspicuous. I can speak from experience. I have been overweight most of my life and no one has ever questioned me about my eating habits but if I pick up a beer I get several astonished looks from people I know.
Thank you for posting something useful to this discussion./. has over (using Dr Evil voice) 5 MILLION patrons but all the most can do is complain about how wrong this is. I usually sit back and watch both sides dems/republicans liberal/right wing duke it out in hilariously stupid fashion but this time peoples lives and futures are being threatened because an industry has a huge lobbiest group and deep pockets. I will be contacting my congressman and voicing my concerns on this matter. Imagine if over 5 MILLION people did the same thing?
I live in Houston but my brother lives in Sante Fe, TX which is in Galveston county. I can attest to the type of tactics that are used by many on the school board as well as the local law enforcement. I do not know the parties in question but after reading the blog I can believe most of the accusations happening without much arm twisting. Is there proof? Probably but that proof is in the hands of the very people it would condemn. Is that a ShredCo truck i see rounding the corner? My brother spent 3 years defending himself against bogus charges and being picked up by GC sheriff deputies every other week because he made a snide remark to a neighbor who happened to know a GC sheriff. He eventually had to appeal to the state to step in because of the constant harassment. I don't know that he ever got that cleared up.
Failure is relative. To Microsoft, not making a profit off of a product is failure. In this regard, thus far, I'd say the parent post was correct. Let me put it another way AND start a flame war in the same sentence. The Amiga was a failure but don't tell anyone who loves their Amiga because to them it was a success. It's impossible to win a relative argument since all parties involved are both right AND wrong simultaneously depending on your vantage point.
Bill Gates turns up on your doorstep threatening your dog with a shotgun
Of course not. Bill can afford to pay people to do stuff like that. Fortunately my dog doesn't make the hardware decisions in our house.
YOU TOO? Wow, what a small world. Of course that narrows it down to 2 or 3 hundred possibilities. This has been my signature template for the last 10 years.
My Name Oil/Gas Co name Systems Administrator Voice (713) xxx-xxxx Fax (713) xxx-xxxx Cell (713) xxx-xxxx Cell (281) xxx-xxxx Cell (832) xxx-xxxx
Actually, as you go back you see the model was completely different. Think Little house on the prairie. A teacher taught a small community of children from 5 to ~16 years of age. The teacher would basically teach the older children more advanced topics and those teens would teach the next younger group slightly less advanced topics that they had learned from the last group of teens. The teaching "trickled" down to the youngest children. So not only did you learn the material you also got to learn how to teach the material. It also had the side effect of promoting communication and a sense of community.
I'm dusting off my collection of 40 MB MFM drives for anyone who wants to stockpile before the embargo. I even have the controller cards if you can find a motherboard with ISA slots.
1) People change their OS in a way not expected by Apple 2) Apple does not take these changes into account when writing update
Actually they PROBABLY did take these changes into account and wrote code SPECIFICALLY to disable the functionality. Steve Jobs alluded to this in his address prior to the release of the patch. Don't know if this is illegal in any way but definitely goes against the "Think Different" campaign. I guess when your partner is a company that prefers its customers continue to rent a rotary phone from them for use on their analog circuits there has to be a little give and take.
But what do I know? I'm still waiting for RIM to give me a Blackberry with 3G. Finally got the WiFi though!
I worked for a medical device manufacturer in the 90's and they had a small NOC of about 4 people (2 sysadmins and 2 techs). As fate would have it the 2 sysadmins both found alternate employment about the same time so they offered one of the techs a "promotion" to sysadmin. During the meeting to discuss the promotion the tech was given the terms of his role as the new sysadmin. He looked it over, started laughing and handed the proposal back to them. When they asked why he was laughing he replied "I make more than that now!". Techs were Salaried Non-Exempt and eligible for overtime whereas sysadmins were straight salary.
as long as you keep your people well fed and entertained, you can do whatever you damn well please.
That's funny.....The Roman Empire thought that was true but got a wake up call when it's citizen's still revolted because they were so bored. Watching Christians being fed to the lions no longer "entertained" them.
I wish I would have caught this thread much earlier but I'll add my $0.02 anyway. I think the reason so many "nerds" are Libertarians is because of their work ethic lends itself to that model quite nicely. The problem obviously is not all people have that work ethic so the minority ends up doing the majority of the "work". For years I have argued that Socialism is the perfect social model. It always starts a flame war of some kind until I qualify my statement thusly: As soon as we find a large enough group of perfect people we will be able to implement Socialism. Until then all social models will have the fatal flaw of the people who live in it. So to the idealist I say "I am with you!" but I'll be standing over here with the realists just in case:)
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I hope you aren't charging your client for the 40 days and 40 nights it took to do all this.
I have the copyright on the term Google-gnosis and you owe me a bazillion dollars. But seriously do you blame these people? I have health insurance and I still do as much as possible not to go to the Dr. I feel I have a good PCP but she still doesn't listen to me as earnestly as I feel she should when I am describing my symptoms. Most doctors I know are wrote AMA zombies who fear alternatives to medication/surgery. I've stopped telling my PCP about the supplements I am taking because all she ever says is "You must be very careful" no matter what it is. Anyway, my back hurts. I'm gonna go see what style2469 has to say on the subject.
I work for an Energy company that is owned by an Electric Utility. I don't know how many times I have had the conversation with Corporate IM "I know that's how corporate does it but that process will not work for our group." I'm also "embedded" on the trade floor but my responsibilities are far reaching and there are times I need privacy. Fortunately for me I'm one of 4 people who have access to the Data Center so I set up a little desk in there where I can go and work when I need peace and quiet. As far as the open platform itself I don't like it personally. I like having a place to put my "stuff". I keep snacks and drinks you can't find in the vending machines as well as pictures and knick knacks that just make me feel more relaxed when they are around. In an open platform you might get a locker to keep your valuables but of what use is that to your overall zen?
And what about the the people occupying those cubes in between you and the person you're talking to?
It's obvious you've never worked on a trade floor because that person in between you is most likely yelling at the guy on the other side of you.
Let's take a walk down memory lane shall we.
Just as we did not know there was competition for IBM until Microsoft's PC monopoly replaced IBM's mainframe monopoly.
"Fearing a breakup decree, IBM voluntarily "unbundled" its pricing of hardware, software and services. Still conscious of the antitrust specter, the company spun off a services division in the '80s called Integrated Solutions and Services Corp."
IBM made SURE there was visible competition so as not to give the "appearance" of being a monopoly after the government dropped its case against them. Microsoft has consistently thumbed its nose at the government basically telling them to mind their own business.
Microsoft did not create the PC, IBM did. Had Compaq not reverse engineered the BIOS and created a viable clone market IBM would have been a PC monopoly along with Microsoft. In fact I suspect if it hadn't been for government scrutiny at the time IBM would have just bought Microsoft outright.
The difference I see between the antitrust case against IBM and the monopoly case against Microsoft is that the government actively pursued IBM in court relentlessly whereas in the Microsoft case they had the big trial and won a guilty verdict and then just slapped them on the hand and scolded them. It's "spare the rod spoil the child" on a corporate scale. IBM got spanked and was afraid to be "bad" again and Microsoft was scolded and has not changed much at all because of it.
You just don't realize the demographic they are targeting. Just take a look at their news line-up: Lauren Freeman, Daniella Guzmán, Rachel McNeill, Mariza Reyes, Dominique Sachse, Courtney Zavala, and my personal favorite Jennifer Reyna. I watch KHOU for my morning news but switch to channel 2 during commercials. I saw the report on the unmanned tests and given HPD's reputation of late I don't doubt for a minute they may have tried to cover up their tests. Heck HPD reported a guys death a suicide even though he was shot in the back of the head.
Ok, here's your scientific study:
Asians eat carbs with almost every meal (rice, noodles). They are thinner than us. End of story.
EXTREMELY scientific....thank you
Excess calories make you fat. That's a law of physics
Wouldn't that be a law of biology or perhaps chemistry?
I think this chart might be useful-
The emphasis on performance and beauty in modern America has greatly increased American's stress levels overall. To cope with said increased stress please pick from the list below:
1) Exercise (You're joking right? that takes time, effort, and sweat)
2) Smoking (that's so twentieth century. Besides it causes lung cancer and stuff)
3) Drinking (I'm morally upstanding and do not imbibe! humph)
4) Socialize (What if other people think I'm weird or somthin?)
5) Eat (Everybody eats. Nobody will notice if I eat a little more than usual. I don't have to feel guilty.)
Every item in the above list requires a relatively substantial investment or has a stigma attached to it except eating. Obesity takes time but eating provides immediate comfort rewards without being conspicuous. I can speak from experience. I have been overweight most of my life and no one has ever questioned me about my eating habits but if I pick up a beer I get several astonished looks from people I know.
I knew they **aa were reading /. but I never thought they would admit it. Even as an AC.
Thank you for posting something useful to this discussion. /. has over (using Dr Evil voice) 5 MILLION patrons but all the most can do is complain about how wrong this is. I usually sit back and watch both sides dems/republicans liberal/right wing duke it out in hilariously stupid fashion but this time peoples lives and futures are being threatened because an industry has a huge lobbiest group and deep pockets. I will be contacting my congressman and voicing my concerns on this matter. Imagine if over 5 MILLION people did the same thing?
Clearly, no court in its right mind would enforce such an over-reaching and broad contract.
You're not from around here are you?
All they have to do is set up a shop in Texas. Non-compete clauses aren't worth the paper they're printed on here.
I live in Houston but my brother lives in Sante Fe, TX which is in Galveston county. I can attest to the type of tactics that are used by many on the school board as well as the local law enforcement. I do not know the parties in question but after reading the blog I can believe most of the accusations happening without much arm twisting. Is there proof? Probably but that proof is in the hands of the very people it would condemn. Is that a ShredCo truck i see rounding the corner? My brother spent 3 years defending himself against bogus charges and being picked up by GC sheriff deputies every other week because he made a snide remark to a neighbor who happened to know a GC sheriff. He eventually had to appeal to the state to step in because of the constant harassment. I don't know that he ever got that cleared up.
Failure is relative. To Microsoft, not making a profit off of a product is failure. In this regard, thus far, I'd say the parent post was correct. Let me put it another way AND start a flame war in the same sentence. The Amiga was a failure but don't tell anyone who loves their Amiga because to them it was a success. It's impossible to win a relative argument since all parties involved are both right AND wrong simultaneously depending on your vantage point.
Bill Gates turns up on your doorstep threatening your dog with a shotgun
Of course not. Bill can afford to pay people to do stuff like that. Fortunately my dog doesn't make the hardware decisions in our house.
K-Mart is still around?
Yes it is but they call it SEARS now. At least where I live.
liquid/natural gas firm downtown
YOU TOO?
Wow, what a small world.
Of course that narrows it down to 2 or 3 hundred possibilities.
This has been my signature template for the last 10 years.
My Name
Oil/Gas Co name
Systems Administrator
Voice (713) xxx-xxxx
Fax (713) xxx-xxxx
Cell (713) xxx-xxxx
Cell (281) xxx-xxxx
Cell (832) xxx-xxxx
So are you working at the CompUSA on Post Oak now or the Micro Center on San Felipe?
so, Comcast lose another ~$200/month. Hopefully part of a trend, because won't anyone think of the network ?
I think it is
IDIOCRACY
Actually, as you go back you see the model was completely different. Think Little house on the prairie. A teacher taught a small community of children from 5 to ~16 years of age. The teacher would basically teach the older children more advanced topics and those teens would teach the next younger group slightly less advanced topics that they had learned from the last group of teens. The teaching "trickled" down to the youngest children. So not only did you learn the material you also got to learn how to teach the material. It also had the side effect of promoting communication and a sense of community.
I'm dusting off my collection of 40 MB MFM drives for anyone who wants to stockpile before the embargo. I even have the controller cards if you can find a motherboard with ISA slots.
What part of what Apple did was illegal?
1) People change their OS in a way not expected by Apple
2) Apple does not take these changes into account when writing update
Actually they PROBABLY did take these changes into account and wrote code SPECIFICALLY to disable the functionality. Steve Jobs alluded to this in his address prior to the release of the patch. Don't know if this is illegal in any way but definitely goes against the "Think Different" campaign. I guess when your partner is a company that prefers its customers continue to rent a rotary phone from them for use on their analog circuits there has to be a little give and take.
But what do I know? I'm still waiting for RIM to give me a Blackberry with 3G. Finally got the WiFi though!
I worked for a medical device manufacturer in the 90's and they had a small NOC of about 4 people (2 sysadmins and 2 techs). As fate would have it the 2 sysadmins both found alternate employment about the same time so they offered one of the techs a "promotion" to sysadmin. During the meeting to discuss the promotion the tech was given the terms of his role as the new sysadmin. He looked it over, started laughing and handed the proposal back to them. When they asked why he was laughing he replied "I make more than that now!". Techs were Salaried Non-Exempt and eligible for overtime whereas sysadmins were straight salary.
as long as you keep your people well fed and entertained, you can do whatever you damn well please.
That's funny.....The Roman Empire thought that was true but got a wake up call when it's citizen's still revolted because they were so bored. Watching Christians being fed to the lions no longer "entertained" them.
I wish I would have caught this thread much earlier but I'll add my $0.02 anyway. I think the reason so many "nerds" are Libertarians is because of their work ethic lends itself to that model quite nicely. The problem obviously is not all people have that work ethic so the minority ends up doing the majority of the "work". For years I have argued that Socialism is the perfect social model. It always starts a flame war of some kind until I qualify my statement thusly: As soon as we find a large enough group of perfect people we will be able to implement Socialism. Until then all social models will have the fatal flaw of the people who live in it. So to the idealist I say "I am with you!" but I'll be standing over here with the realists just in case :)
jail time is appropriate for some economic crimes. Maybe not in this case, no, but your blanket statement just doesn't work in all blanket cases.
So am I to understand that you do not condone jail time for this guy but you aren't against inviting him to a Blanket Party?