Consider that the cost of the 9/11 operation was about a half a million dollars over five years. In response, we've spent about 150 billion dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan in just two years.
We are outspending the enemy 300,000 to 1. This takes pyrrhic victory to a whole new level!
I did a little more research and I can't find a reference to dropping concrete more recent that 1999, in reference to the No-Fly Zones (AKA the Protection Zone For Al-Qaeda Terrorists In Northern Iraq).
Anyway, not saying that we are or are not dropping concrete these days, but I would be a little surprised if we prefaced the invasion and occupation with anything less than the most lethal air power. If you know otherwise, though, by all means school me.
I don't see how you can say roadside IEDs are designed to inflict as much collateral damage as possible. Haji calls the cell phone when the hummer goes by. It's a military target. Car bombs, on the other hand, are the preferred weapon of the terrorist.
This new technology will finally enable us to torture prisoners and obliterate weddings much more efficiently!
Why is that Americans gawk at the horror of your average roadside IED, but think a 2000 pound bomb dropped in a residential neighborhood won't produce collateral damage?
I don't care how many frickin' lasers are guiding it, when 2000 pounds of explosives go off, it's going to look a lot like Oklahoma City.
Spending more than $100 extra to be "future proof" doesn't make sense to me because by the time I want to upgrade my cpu, a new motherboard with all the bells and whistles that weren't available 3 years ago can be had for a pittance.
Absolutely correct. About three years ago, I bought the first nForce motherboard on the market, the MSI K7N420 Pro. I paid $189.
Two years later, I got the Abit NF7-S Rev 2.0 for $89 on sale. For a hundred bucks LESS, I got USB 2.0, IEEE-1394, SATA, a way more overclockable BIOS, and the same great SoundStorm with Dolby Surround. (Though, to be fair, I gave up two things the MSI board had: on-board GeForce2 video and a game port).
The disposable economy has caught up with future-proofing. It's not a good investment any longer.
As a salaried employee, there is no clock. Just get your job done, regardless of how long it takes.
Now, if this supervisor job only takes four hours a week, that's not his fault, is it? Perhaps by his apparent ineptitude he's worked this sysadmin into such a lather that the rest of the office has doubled in productivity and no longer has slashdot.org as their homepage.
"Software QA involves the entire software development PROCESS - monitoring and improving the process, making sure that any agreed-upon standards and procedures are followed, and ensuring that problems are found and dealt with. It is oriented to 'prevention'"
That's not QA, that's project management. Or process management. Or lifecycle management. What's it got to do with quality? At what point are you validating the deliverable goods and the consumer experience? Answer: Never.
Software QA is middle-management bullshit. Convince me I'm wrong.
I don't believe QA can really apply to software. Now, if you want to redefine the term QA to mean something other than making sure a five pound bag of chicken wings weighs five pounds, and is full of chicken wings, fine. But please tell me where you work so I don't ever accidentally get a job there.
I don't understand how QA could happen in software. QA is a manufacturing spot-check to make sure you're not turning out duds. How does that translate to software? Is click-testing a website in a bunch of different browsers QA? Please explain.
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320x240 just doesn't cut it. That was nice in 2000. There are competing products on the market with literally four times the pixels.
One feature I am happy to see is being able to change from portrait to landscape on the fly.
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AOL lawyers will be in court Monday seeking an injunction against the RIAA. A company spokesman said "Mass-mailing the same useless CD over and over again is but one of many valuable innovations in AOL's patent portfolio. We find it ironic that the RIAA, purported champion of Intellectual Property rights, has adopted our highly successful business model without ever paying us one cent in licensing fees or royalties."
I believe the new term in XP is "System Notification Area." I get the feeling they call it that in an attempt to dissuade every program you install from feeling obliged to put their icons down there. Also, that auto-hide feature seems to be trying to achieve the same goal.
Wait, I better say "yes, I know I can turn auto hide off" before the Microsoft AC Astroturf Patrol comes back and tells me that when my XP box fails, it's 100% my fault and has nothing to do with the fact that Microsoft employees are trolling Slashdot rather than building a better OS.
I didn't know that Newegg was a crap vendor, that AMD made crap processors, and that Abit made crap motherboards, and that Kingston made crap RAM, and that Seagate made crap hard drives, and ATI made crap video cards. Thanks for setting me straight.
How can I blame the OS? Because I can run Windows 2000 on the box just fine. XP has constant crashes in Explorer.exe.
Obvioulsy, it must be user error. Microsoft never puts out bad software. The media-rich "features" in XP such as integration of a/v playback into the shell couldn't possibly be buggy.
Neither could the DRM code.
It's Microsoft. It's the best. I'm a noob. I get it now.
What datacenter were you in that's full of boxes running a desktop OS? Better yet, what company was that? I want to make sure I don't accidentally get a tech support job with them.
I was too hard on poor XP. I should have been more specific. The only new machine I've seen it run smoothly on is that Dell Dimension 8100. It works wonderfully well on older hardware. Like gramma's PII-350. In that case, it's a big step up from 98 or anything else for that matter. XP on old HW = good. XP on bleeding edge HW = lots of problems. My home system with the racing stripes and aftermarket video card cooler is an nForce2 platform, btw. And as I mentioned, 2000 is rock solid, XP just isn't.
I hear you about the successor to the successor of 2000. Seeing as MS will be supporting 2000 until 2007, I *think* they might have something out before PSS won't take my calls.
Or maybe the users just haven't ever mentioned it to you. Check those hundreds of event logs and get back to me. I am pretty sure it's there.
Within this thread, somebody has had the same experience as me.
I shouldn't have to "look for the cause." It should just work. When explorer.exe starts flaking out on a re-imaged Dell, a work machine that doesn't have anything "funny" on it, that's not my doing.
So you're saying overclocking is OS-dependent? I'm rock solid in Win 2000. Not so and never have been in XP. This is with the same BIOS settings across the board.
XP is just flaky. The only machine I've seen it run smoothly on, and even then it still had problems, was a fancy-pants Dell at some office job. On my home computer, which is all overclocked and has neon and stuff, XP is a nightmare.
Explorer.exe simply crashes, repeatedly and often, for no good reason. Less so on the Dell, but even there it did it.
I am sticking with 2000 until whatever's past XP comes out. XP has just been too much of a headache.
I should also add that the only unsolvable customer problems I've seen at work were both on XP machines, and couldn't be reproduced on XP boxes in our office.
The thing that scares me the most is I'm thinking of buying a laptop, and they all come with XP now. Anybody know of a new laptop that will work with 2000? I ca live without tech support from the vendor (like when Dell won't support the computer because it's not the OS it shipped with) but some of the device drivers out there seem to somehow be XP-only, which feels like an artifical restriction.
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Right, we've created our own asymmetric threat.
Consider that the cost of the 9/11 operation was about a half a million dollars over five years. In response, we've spent about 150 billion dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan in just two years.
We are outspending the enemy 300,000 to 1. This takes pyrrhic victory to a whole new level!
I did a little more research and I can't find a reference to dropping concrete more recent that 1999, in reference to the No-Fly Zones (AKA the Protection Zone For Al-Qaeda Terrorists In Northern Iraq).
Anyway, not saying that we are or are not dropping concrete these days, but I would be a little surprised if we prefaced the invasion and occupation with anything less than the most lethal air power. If you know otherwise, though, by all means school me.
I don't see how you can say roadside IEDs are designed to inflict as much collateral damage as possible. Haji calls the cell phone when the hummer goes by. It's a military target. Car bombs, on the other hand, are the preferred weapon of the terrorist.
We drop concrete on people?
I suppose cluster bombs are full of candy too.
This new technology will finally enable us to torture prisoners and obliterate weddings much more efficiently!
Why is that Americans gawk at the horror of your average roadside IED, but think a 2000 pound bomb dropped in a residential neighborhood won't produce collateral damage?
I don't care how many frickin' lasers are guiding it, when 2000 pounds of explosives go off, it's going to look a lot like Oklahoma City.
and a new "stored procedures" feature
I guess the should have heeded the cabin crew's warning: Procedures stored in the overhead compartments may have shifted during flight.
Interesting. You imply cyberatheletes aren't real atheletes, yet in your .sig you think that third party Presidential candidates are real candidates.
Spending more than $100 extra to be "future proof" doesn't make sense to me because by the time I want to upgrade my cpu, a new motherboard with all the bells and whistles that weren't available 3 years ago can be had for a pittance.
Absolutely correct. About three years ago, I bought the first nForce motherboard on the market, the MSI K7N420 Pro. I paid $189.
Two years later, I got the Abit NF7-S Rev 2.0 for $89 on sale. For a hundred bucks LESS, I got USB 2.0, IEEE-1394, SATA, a way more overclockable BIOS, and the same great SoundStorm with Dolby Surround. (Though, to be fair, I gave up two things the MSI board had: on-board GeForce2 video and a game port).
The disposable economy has caught up with future-proofing. It's not a good investment any longer.
As a salaried employee, there is no clock. Just get your job done, regardless of how long it takes.
Now, if this supervisor job only takes four hours a week, that's not his fault, is it? Perhaps by his apparent ineptitude he's worked this sysadmin into such a lather that the rest of the office has doubled in productivity and no longer has slashdot.org as their homepage.
Could we just hang all three from the nearby tree? Let's do it Alabama style!
He should have spent 70% of his time playing solitaire, and 20% of his time checking the stock market, and this would never have happened.
It's Alabama, for chrissakes. Be happy your boss can work a mouse.
google is your friend, try 'software qa'.
Okay, I did that and here's what I got:
"Software QA involves the entire software development PROCESS - monitoring and improving the process, making sure that any agreed-upon standards and procedures are followed, and ensuring that problems are found and dealt with. It is oriented to 'prevention'"
That's not QA, that's project management. Or process management. Or lifecycle management. What's it got to do with quality? At what point are you validating the deliverable goods and the consumer experience? Answer: Never.
Software QA is middle-management bullshit. Convince me I'm wrong.
I don't believe QA can really apply to software. Now, if you want to redefine the term QA to mean something other than making sure a five pound bag of chicken wings weighs five pounds, and is full of chicken wings, fine. But please tell me where you work so I don't ever accidentally get a job there.
I don't understand how QA could happen in software. QA is a manufacturing spot-check to make sure you're not turning out duds. How does that translate to software? Is click-testing a website in a bunch of different browsers QA? Please explain.
320x240 just doesn't cut it. That was nice in 2000. There are competing products on the market with literally four times the pixels.
One feature I am happy to see is being able to change from portrait to landscape on the fly.
Flood of comments from AC Microsoft astroturfers in 5... 4... 3...
AOL lawyers will be in court Monday seeking an injunction against the RIAA. A company spokesman said "Mass-mailing the same useless CD over and over again is but one of many valuable innovations in AOL's patent portfolio. We find it ironic that the RIAA, purported champion of Intellectual Property rights, has adopted our highly successful business model without ever paying us one cent in licensing fees or royalties."
I believe the new term in XP is "System Notification Area." I get the feeling they call it that in an attempt to dissuade every program you install from feeling obliged to put their icons down there. Also, that auto-hide feature seems to be trying to achieve the same goal.
Wait, I better say "yes, I know I can turn auto hide off" before the Microsoft AC Astroturf Patrol comes back and tells me that when my XP box fails, it's 100% my fault and has nothing to do with the fact that Microsoft employees are trolling Slashdot rather than building a better OS.
I didn't know that Newegg was a crap vendor, that AMD made crap processors, and that Abit made crap motherboards, and that Kingston made crap RAM, and that Seagate made crap hard drives, and ATI made crap video cards. Thanks for setting me straight.
Bleeding edge hardware == problems.
But bleeding edge OS == smooth sailing?
You're going to tell me that XP SP1 is *more* reliable than 2000 SP4?
How can I blame the OS? Because I can run Windows 2000 on the box just fine. XP has constant crashes in Explorer.exe.
Obvioulsy, it must be user error. Microsoft never puts out bad software. The media-rich "features" in XP such as integration of a/v playback into the shell couldn't possibly be buggy.
Neither could the DRM code.
It's Microsoft. It's the best. I'm a noob. I get it now.
And yet, the exact same computer, with the exact same BIOS settings, is perfectly stable running Windows 2000.
Yeah, it must be me. No, wait, I bet my racing stripes are not on the XP HAL.
What datacenter were you in that's full of boxes running a desktop OS? Better yet, what company was that? I want to make sure I don't accidentally get a tech support job with them.
I was too hard on poor XP. I should have been more specific. The only new machine I've seen it run smoothly on is that Dell Dimension 8100. It works wonderfully well on older hardware. Like gramma's PII-350. In that case, it's a big step up from 98 or anything else for that matter. XP on old HW = good. XP on bleeding edge HW = lots of problems. My home system with the racing stripes and aftermarket video card cooler is an nForce2 platform, btw. And as I mentioned, 2000 is rock solid, XP just isn't.
I hear you about the successor to the successor of 2000. Seeing as MS will be supporting 2000 until 2007, I *think* they might have something out before PSS won't take my calls.
LOL Joe, you sound just like me at work. Ad-Aware is tech support's new "killer app."
Here's a tip: By definition, if it's overclocked, it's not running in spec.
You've never seen Explorer.exe crash on XP?
Or maybe the users just haven't ever mentioned it to you. Check those hundreds of event logs and get back to me. I am pretty sure it's there.
Within this thread, somebody has had the same experience as me.
I shouldn't have to "look for the cause." It should just work. When explorer.exe starts flaking out on a re-imaged Dell, a work machine that doesn't have anything "funny" on it, that's not my doing.
So you're saying overclocking is OS-dependent? I'm rock solid in Win 2000. Not so and never have been in XP. This is with the same BIOS settings across the board.
XP is just flaky. The only machine I've seen it run smoothly on, and even then it still had problems, was a fancy-pants Dell at some office job. On my home computer, which is all overclocked and has neon and stuff, XP is a nightmare.
Explorer.exe simply crashes, repeatedly and often, for no good reason. Less so on the Dell, but even there it did it.
I am sticking with 2000 until whatever's past XP comes out. XP has just been too much of a headache.
I should also add that the only unsolvable customer problems I've seen at work were both on XP machines, and couldn't be reproduced on XP boxes in our office.
The thing that scares me the most is I'm thinking of buying a laptop, and they all come with XP now. Anybody know of a new laptop that will work with 2000? I ca live without tech support from the vendor (like when Dell won't support the computer because it's not the OS it shipped with) but some of the device drivers out there seem to somehow be XP-only, which feels like an artifical restriction.