yet every assumption is not a hypothesis...or at least a scientific hypothesis. Not saying you fall into this category but many people use the word incorrectly, without the ability to test the hypothesis. If it can't be tested and proven false, it's pseudoscience. But yeah, the AC's post seems to be from the mid 1920's and ignoring all progress after that.
Even Darwin himself made note of potential objections to his theory, as his original "Origin of the Species" was published before the Burgess Shale discovery, and he stated that "as of yet" the fossil record didn't back up his hypothesis. Yet we've found many (well, a few lol) pre-Cambrian fossils now...but many Creationist still will adamantly scream and yell that Darwin himself "said the theory was wrong" because 1. they don't understand the times it was published and 2) refuse to recognize anything that changes their internal world view.
the last thing is the big issue, tech support from vendors. That is a major influence on your management too...they know they have to maintain their SLAs!
like the people in various UK goverment offices have any idea what "vendor lock-in" even is...some of them have been using Office since it first came out, no one outside of us techies cares about "proprietary" vs. open-source. Often, a corp will go with the proprietary software because there is a vendor they can engage in a 24/7 SLA. Linux has Redhat under Novell, I don't know of any other company that can provide 24/7 under 30 minute support. This isn't some private company that can call up their local tech shop...they have to have SLA's with certified vendors, lists of phone numbers, etc.
I do ITSM for AA, if it can't be nailed down in a run book then it's just not done.
a real heroin addict can "never" get enough heroin either, but then they die from it. Unfortunately, I don't think Zucky will die from too much money, at least until the Revolution and his head rolls into the guillotine basket.
Take a look at this, and it's back from 2011. Boeing is calling a 6 person X-37C, yet I believe that the Air Force probably already has a flight-capable (and probably tested) one or two man "modual" that can put in the experiment bay. After watching Astrospies on PBS, someday we will probably find a couple of space suits stuffed in a dark closet somewhere in 30 years, with an X-37 mission flag, Air Force officers involved in "training"...there's no way the AF will give up US-based manned space travel, even if just for intelligence and access to the ISS.
Another interesting fact about John Adams, a quote from the Treaty of Tripoli he signed: "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion". Very few people know of this, personally I feel that this should be part of ever American History class in the US.
every day we inch closer and closer to a Shadowrun-style world with megacorp armies enforcing their law on their own territories...the only thing we're missing is the Great Awakening...
an even better work around is just a pump BB gun and popping cameras..."Night of the BB"...if enough people did this in a short time period a ratioan PD might realize how pissed people are, but in reality they would say it's a "wide-spread terrorist plot" and outlaw BB guns too...
I just picked up a Kensington Scrolling Wheel Trackball, but that Logitech looks way sweeter! Costs 2x, yet I also bet your Logitech will last at least 2x longer than mine...
They can't "take over as top ape" unless they somehow differentiate into a separate (ie, non-crossbreed-able) species. Until then, we're all the "same ape" even though we may look different, genetically we're all still the same (or close enough). The various differences we see now are mostly epigenetic, not genetic. Every single human has the genetics to be a range of shades, but only certain shades are expressed epigenetically depending on the environment. And per most genetic studies done this century, our evolution is speeding up, not slowing down...but this is due to the massive amount of people on Earth - which, as you pointed out, is a totally different yet much more pressing issue!
Evolution doesn't really occur in a "couple of generations" either. Certain genes get suppressed by enough generations over time and those suppressions become genetic (as opposed to epigenetic) and then the underlying DNA is altered to save energy in copying during procreation. When we see genetic divergence in species, it comes from after a period of epigenetic alteration (during which time there is only one species, even if they appear differently) before the change gets "locked in". Even then, often the "pre-divergence" genetic code is still there somewhere, shuffled off into that area we like to call "junk DNA" for future recall in case of environmental changes.
Check this out, it's actually pretty amazing. Watch this BBC documentary too...fascinating to see how the two-tiered system works!
"Had" being the point there, as in "not currently". I still think it's a horrible idea, the roadsigns are all in English, even though they are iconographic enough for most people to comprehend hopefully...but many of them say things like "Caution - Road Construction Ahead" in just text, if your driving on US roads your really need to be able to quickly understand such signs as you might have 15-30 seconds to read them and claiming to a patrol officer "I can't read English" isn't going to get anyone out of the 2x ticket. And currently, there are no states in the Continental US that have any other official language other than American English, no matter what your DMV might print out. Only two Continental State have "officially recognized" secondary languages, Louisiana and New Mexico, French and Spanish respectively.
true, I should have said that SpaceX is building rockets without having specific contracts lined up already like Boeing et al had with the Saturn 5. And I think SpaceX's main innovation is the assembly-line style system their working on, as opposed to the almost one-off system that is usually used. I've seen pics of their assembly area, there were at least six Dragon capsules being built simultaneously.
true, but very few match the benefits and vacation I currently get...plus I just sit in a NOC all night and only do "work" a couple of times a month...and my job exists because they want to be ITIL certified so they HAVE to have an ITSM team 24/7.
and I would even "encrypt" the text inside it too first, so even if they did manage to get into it it wouldn't make any sense. Even just using http://encryption.online-toolz... you could "encrypt" the text, then convert that to hex, then convert that to binary, and send that as the message. The sysadmin may eventually figure it all out, but probably not...
thus why at any job if a manager asks me to do anything gray like this I request some documentation from them telling me to do whatever, so if / when it blows up I at least have something to point to...but in this situation, it all depends on the TOS that you have to agree to so you can set up an email there. If the TOS said somewhere they can search your inbox, and you agree, then what?
I'm sure that buried in MS's TOS for hotmail it specifically says (in complex legalese no normal human can comprehend) that they can do whatever they want with their own service.
the BEST emergency maintenance was when I was dying some clothes red in my sink...apparently there was a leak into the apartment below...the maintenance guy said it really freaked the people downstairs out, looked like blood or something leaking from the walls! It had been leaking for awhile, but they hadn't really noticed until their ceiling started bleeding.
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yet every assumption is not a hypothesis...or at least a scientific hypothesis. Not saying you fall into this category but many people use the word incorrectly, without the ability to test the hypothesis. If it can't be tested and proven false, it's pseudoscience. But yeah, the AC's post seems to be from the mid 1920's and ignoring all progress after that.
Even Darwin himself made note of potential objections to his theory, as his original "Origin of the Species" was published before the Burgess Shale discovery, and he stated that "as of yet" the fossil record didn't back up his hypothesis. Yet we've found many (well, a few lol) pre-Cambrian fossils now...but many Creationist still will adamantly scream and yell that Darwin himself "said the theory was wrong" because 1. they don't understand the times it was published and 2) refuse to recognize anything that changes their internal world view.
the last thing is the big issue, tech support from vendors. That is a major influence on your management too...they know they have to maintain their SLAs!
like the people in various UK goverment offices have any idea what "vendor lock-in" even is...some of them have been using Office since it first came out, no one outside of us techies cares about "proprietary" vs. open-source. Often, a corp will go with the proprietary software because there is a vendor they can engage in a 24/7 SLA. Linux has Redhat under Novell, I don't know of any other company that can provide 24/7 under 30 minute support. This isn't some private company that can call up their local tech shop...they have to have SLA's with certified vendors, lists of phone numbers, etc.
I do ITSM for AA, if it can't be nailed down in a run book then it's just not done.
so Skynet can easily re-purpose them to make weapons to destroy us, why else?
SUS server that it gets updates from?
a real heroin addict can "never" get enough heroin either, but then they die from it. Unfortunately, I don't think Zucky will die from too much money, at least until the Revolution and his head rolls into the guillotine basket.
Take a look at this, and it's back from 2011. Boeing is calling a 6 person X-37C, yet I believe that the Air Force probably already has a flight-capable (and probably tested) one or two man "modual" that can put in the experiment bay. After watching Astrospies on PBS, someday we will probably find a couple of space suits stuffed in a dark closet somewhere in 30 years, with an X-37 mission flag, Air Force officers involved in "training"...there's no way the AF will give up US-based manned space travel, even if just for intelligence and access to the ISS.
I would hope that FTL ships would go out and find the sleeper ships, instead of just waiting for them.
Richard Branson, is that you?
Once the full implementation of LTE is finished, all cellphone's that use this tech will be VOIP right from the towers.
Another interesting fact about John Adams, a quote from the Treaty of Tripoli he signed: "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion". Very few people know of this, personally I feel that this should be part of ever American History class in the US.
every day we inch closer and closer to a Shadowrun-style world with megacorp armies enforcing their law on their own territories...the only thing we're missing is the Great Awakening...
an even better work around is just a pump BB gun and popping cameras..."Night of the BB"...if enough people did this in a short time period a ratioan PD might realize how pissed people are, but in reality they would say it's a "wide-spread terrorist plot" and outlaw BB guns too...
I just picked up a Kensington Scrolling Wheel Trackball, but that Logitech looks way sweeter! Costs 2x, yet I also bet your Logitech will last at least 2x longer than mine...
They can't "take over as top ape" unless they somehow differentiate into a separate (ie, non-crossbreed-able) species. Until then, we're all the "same ape" even though we may look different, genetically we're all still the same (or close enough). The various differences we see now are mostly epigenetic, not genetic. Every single human has the genetics to be a range of shades, but only certain shades are expressed epigenetically depending on the environment. And per most genetic studies done this century, our evolution is speeding up, not slowing down...but this is due to the massive amount of people on Earth - which, as you pointed out, is a totally different yet much more pressing issue!
Evolution doesn't really occur in a "couple of generations" either. Certain genes get suppressed by enough generations over time and those suppressions become genetic (as opposed to epigenetic) and then the underlying DNA is altered to save energy in copying during procreation. When we see genetic divergence in species, it comes from after a period of epigenetic alteration (during which time there is only one species, even if they appear differently) before the change gets "locked in". Even then, often the "pre-divergence" genetic code is still there somewhere, shuffled off into that area we like to call "junk DNA" for future recall in case of environmental changes.
Check this out, it's actually pretty amazing. Watch this BBC documentary too...fascinating to see how the two-tiered system works!
"Had" being the point there, as in "not currently". I still think it's a horrible idea, the roadsigns are all in English, even though they are iconographic enough for most people to comprehend hopefully...but many of them say things like "Caution - Road Construction Ahead" in just text, if your driving on US roads your really need to be able to quickly understand such signs as you might have 15-30 seconds to read them and claiming to a patrol officer "I can't read English" isn't going to get anyone out of the 2x ticket. And currently, there are no states in the Continental US that have any other official language other than American English, no matter what your DMV might print out. Only two Continental State have "officially recognized" secondary languages, Louisiana and New Mexico, French and Spanish respectively.
true, I should have said that SpaceX is building rockets without having specific contracts lined up already like Boeing et al had with the Saturn 5. And I think SpaceX's main innovation is the assembly-line style system their working on, as opposed to the almost one-off system that is usually used. I've seen pics of their assembly area, there were at least six Dragon capsules being built simultaneously.
true, but very few match the benefits and vacation I currently get...plus I just sit in a NOC all night and only do "work" a couple of times a month...and my job exists because they want to be ITIL certified so they HAVE to have an ITSM team 24/7.
what if my parrot calls him a fuckstick? "rawk, fuckstick! fuckstick! rawk! rawk!"
I thought that too, until someone I know had MS show up at there door with an empty baby carriage...
or just do it the old fashion way, mail it via USPS. Then there is no electronic record to read from. Sometimes the simplest solution is the best.
and I would even "encrypt" the text inside it too first, so even if they did manage to get into it it wouldn't make any sense. Even just using http://encryption.online-toolz... you could "encrypt" the text, then convert that to hex, then convert that to binary, and send that as the message. The sysadmin may eventually figure it all out, but probably not...
thus why at any job if a manager asks me to do anything gray like this I request some documentation from them telling me to do whatever, so if / when it blows up I at least have something to point to...but in this situation, it all depends on the TOS that you have to agree to so you can set up an email there. If the TOS said somewhere they can search your inbox, and you agree, then what?
I'm sure that buried in MS's TOS for hotmail it specifically says (in complex legalese no normal human can comprehend) that they can do whatever they want with their own service.
the BEST emergency maintenance was when I was dying some clothes red in my sink...apparently there was a leak into the apartment below...the maintenance guy said it really freaked the people downstairs out, looked like blood or something leaking from the walls! It had been leaking for awhile, but they hadn't really noticed until their ceiling started bleeding.