It depends on how much farming you plan on doing. The Aerogarden line has some relatively inexpensive stuff, as long as you don't plan on growing too much, too big, or too many.
I noticed the local hardware store has been stocking up on grow-light assemblies and similar stuff lately.
Atlas Shrugged fails on 2 important deviations from observable reality.
1. The idea that only Conservative types are creative (if anything, it would appear that creative types are overwhelmingly inclined to be Liberal).
2. The idea that John Galt's "30 minute speech" could have actually been delivered in 30 minutes.
Come on, already, I've been reading for like 800 pages. If I haven't got the point by now, do you really think a Castro-length polemic is going to get it through?
Actually, a good idea. Can't some judge just rule that they don't have enough to pay the legal expenses and order the company forfeited to IBM lock, stock, and barrel?
IBM can start by firing the SCO people and handing them lead parachutes instead of the usual golden ones. Along with termination terms that forbid ever getting involved with any Unix-like product ever again.
Then it can grind up the rest of the company into a fine power and distribute it over Chernobyl.
And just for good measure, destroy all records that SCO ever had back to the Beginning of Time.
Heck, ravening corporate behemoths need to be good for something, anyway.
To the contrary. I run into it often. Not with names, but with people being sloppy about actual nulls versus entering "null" as a filler in a spreadsheet or something.
Actually, to me a null in a database means that something's missing. I find using it to simply mean "blank value" as sloppy.
In related news, I once had a data download blow because someone was named Nuñez. The original mainframe system had fixed-length fields (as mainframe data often does). However, the original green-screen monitors had been replaced with Windows terminal emulators and someone had entered the actual n-tilde character that would have been impossible on the IBM 3270 US keyboard. So now we have a code that maps from ñ to n~ as it's converted from EBCDIC to ASCII, expanding the length of the field and thereby annoying the receiving software fatally. Had to add extra cleanup logic.
Chtluhu alone knows what that customer's statements looked like. IBM mainframe printers weren't exactly stocked with extra characters either before laser printing took over.
And here I thought I could make a career being a software engineer.
You haven't been reading the ads lately, then. The vast majority of positions advertised heavily emphasize HTML, CSS and JavaScript or similar front-end stuff. Back-end? Not so much. Not good for those of us who are wizards with algorithms and lousy graphics artists. But as long as you do it pretty and do it fast, and do it cheap, that's all that counts, right?
'Cause with any luck you'll have executed your exit strategy before the security exploits get announced on the news.
RHEL licensing fees are precisely why my organization is migrating to Windows. A Windows SA Site license makes it cheaper to run Windows Servers than RHEL.
Depends on the number of servers. If you've got lots of Windows servers, then you'll be spending the money on extra system administrators.
Some computers came with a BASIC Interpreter (not compiler) in ROM. That didn't include the earliest machines such as the Altair and IMSAI, just stuff like the Apple and TRS-80 machines. More advanced machines typically did not. You usually had to buy programming toolkits.
Actually, a ROM-based interpreter is more liability than an asset once you get into multi-tasking systems. It would be foolish to put a Windows-dependent ROM on a machine that might get Linux installed, and the ROM would operate independently of the OS at its peril.
Why do people persist in being so smugly ignorant?
You "own" your land until:
A. You fail to pay your property taxes and the government sells it to someone else for back taxes. B. Donald Trump decides it's sitting on part of his next development and he pays, er persuades, the local government to seize it by eminent domain C. Your wildest Libertarian child-dream comes true and the goddam gubbmint is disbanded, leaving Attila the Hun free rein to come swarming in with his hordes and take it - and your family - and you - by force and if you're lucky and you survive, maybe they'll let you work their land as a slave. Unless, of course, you can afford your own private army.
And for the pedantic, yes, I know that Libertarianism isn't "no government at all", but the "All Taxes are Theft" basement-dwellers, usurp the word "Libertarian" to mean "I want to mooch off public benefits and not have to pay for it". Rather like welfare queens, in fact.
Germany needed a savior too, and it got one. At the risk of false Godwin accusations, it was Adolf Hitler.
I don't think Trump himself is extraordinarily evil (being a businessman, a certain amount of evil is necessary and he has more than enough of that). I cannot say as much, however, for many of those he attracts to his flag, and he hasn't been very diligent in chastising them. I worry that he'd prove the old adage about power corrupting.
What we really need more than a charismatic savior is for the various factions of what we've already got to stop waging war on each other and try to work for the common good, even where it may not perfectly align with their ideologies or party power schemes.
In the first case, you're simply reiterating what I already said.
In the second, you seem to be justify low wages and bad working conditions because it makes them competitive with a place that provides low wages and bad working conditions. It's called Bangladesh.
No, When India gained independence, 2 provinces split off because they were Muslim-majority and didn't want to be under the control of the Hindu majority.
West Pakistan became simply Pakistan. East Pakistan became Bangladesh. It is a Muslim country, and it's one of the most corrupt nations in the world, but that's not because it's a muslim nation. It's because the wage scales and living conditions are at the level that the West is still trying to force its own workers to. It's a true capitalist's paradise, with minimal regulation which can be greased aside if you have enough capital and everyone is constantly looking for new and creative ways to be "entrepreneurial" without much respect for whether they're doing in in a legal manner or not.
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How can you have a "micro-garden" in a country where they can have words like that?
It depends on how much farming you plan on doing. The Aerogarden line has some relatively inexpensive stuff, as long as you don't plan on growing too much, too big, or too many.
I noticed the local hardware store has been stocking up on grow-light assemblies and similar stuff lately.
Atlas Shrugged fails on 2 important deviations from observable reality.
1. The idea that only Conservative types are creative (if anything, it would appear that creative types are overwhelmingly inclined to be Liberal).
2. The idea that John Galt's "30 minute speech" could have actually been delivered in 30 minutes.
Come on, already, I've been reading for like 800 pages. If I haven't got the point by now, do you really think a Castro-length polemic is going to get it through?
Wealth, as we have seen so thoroughly demonstrated over the past 30 years, does not trickle down.
But fortunately, most technology does.
For which we should be most grateful.
But can you build a flying car?
You have been assimilated. Resistance is futile.
Actually, a good idea. Can't some judge just rule that they don't have enough to pay the legal expenses and order the company forfeited to IBM lock, stock, and barrel?
IBM can start by firing the SCO people and handing them lead parachutes instead of the usual golden ones. Along with termination terms that forbid ever getting involved with any Unix-like product ever again.
Then it can grind up the rest of the company into a fine power and distribute it over Chernobyl.
And just for good measure, destroy all records that SCO ever had back to the Beginning of Time.
Heck, ravening corporate behemoths need to be good for something, anyway.
Shareholders:
https://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh...
To the contrary. I run into it often. Not with names, but with people being sloppy about actual nulls versus entering "null" as a filler in a spreadsheet or something.
Actually, to me a null in a database means that something's missing. I find using it to simply mean "blank value" as sloppy.
In related news, I once had a data download blow because someone was named Nuñez. The original mainframe system had fixed-length fields (as mainframe data often does). However, the original green-screen monitors had been replaced with Windows terminal emulators and someone had entered the actual n-tilde character that would have been impossible on the IBM 3270 US keyboard. So now we have a code that maps from ñ to n~ as it's converted from EBCDIC to ASCII, expanding the length of the field and thereby annoying the receiving software fatally. Had to add extra cleanup logic.
Chtluhu alone knows what that customer's statements looked like. IBM mainframe printers weren't exactly stocked with extra characters either before laser printing took over.
Who says anyone cares about talented? Cheap is what counts.
As for cheap talent being rare, ask the folks at Disney. Among other places.
One major contributor to the shrinkage was the BBC, who yanked a lot of stuff recently. Forget Dr. Who. He's gone, both old and new.
Never had to wind a watch up once a day, did you?
All women are crazy. The key is to find nice-crazy and avoid the vicious-crazy.
They probably say the same thing about men, but that's their problem.
And here I thought I could make a career being a software engineer.
You haven't been reading the ads lately, then. The vast majority of positions advertised heavily emphasize HTML, CSS and JavaScript or similar front-end stuff. Back-end? Not so much. Not good for those of us who are wizards with algorithms and lousy graphics artists. But as long as you do it pretty and do it fast, and do it cheap, that's all that counts, right?
'Cause with any luck you'll have executed your exit strategy before the security exploits get announced on the news.
Drop support for what?
RHEL licensing fees are precisely why my organization is migrating to Windows.
A Windows SA Site license makes it cheaper to run Windows Servers than RHEL.
Depends on the number of servers. If you've got lots of Windows servers, then you'll be spending the money on extra system administrators.
Some computers came with a BASIC Interpreter (not compiler) in ROM. That didn't include the earliest machines such as the Altair and IMSAI, just stuff like the Apple and TRS-80 machines. More advanced machines typically did not. You usually had to buy programming toolkits.
Actually, a ROM-based interpreter is more liability than an asset once you get into multi-tasking systems. It would be foolish to put a Windows-dependent ROM on a machine that might get Linux installed, and the ROM would operate independently of the OS at its peril.
Why do people persist in being so smugly ignorant?
You "own" your land until:
A. You fail to pay your property taxes and the government sells it to someone else for back taxes.
B. Donald Trump decides it's sitting on part of his next development and he pays, er persuades, the local government to seize it by eminent domain
C. Your wildest Libertarian child-dream comes true and the goddam gubbmint is disbanded, leaving Attila the Hun free rein to come swarming in with his hordes and take it - and your family - and you - by force and if you're lucky and you survive, maybe they'll let you work their land as a slave. Unless, of course, you can afford your own private army.
And for the pedantic, yes, I know that Libertarianism isn't "no government at all", but the "All Taxes are Theft" basement-dwellers, usurp the word "Libertarian" to mean "I want to mooch off public benefits and not have to pay for it". Rather like welfare queens, in fact.
They are going to base it on systemd, aren't they? Since throwing away past mistakes is a central criteria?
Germany needed a savior too, and it got one. At the risk of false Godwin accusations, it was Adolf Hitler.
I don't think Trump himself is extraordinarily evil (being a businessman, a certain amount of evil is necessary and he has more than enough of that). I cannot say as much, however, for many of those he attracts to his flag, and he hasn't been very diligent in chastising them. I worry that he'd prove the old adage about power corrupting.
What we really need more than a charismatic savior is for the various factions of what we've already got to stop waging war on each other and try to work for the common good, even where it may not perfectly align with their ideologies or party power schemes.
Idiot yourself.
In the first case, you're simply reiterating what I already said.
In the second, you seem to be justify low wages and bad working conditions because it makes them competitive with a place that provides low wages and bad working conditions. It's called Bangladesh.
No, When India gained independence, 2 provinces split off because they were Muslim-majority and didn't want to be under the control of the Hindu majority.
West Pakistan became simply Pakistan. East Pakistan became Bangladesh. It is a Muslim country, and it's one of the most corrupt nations in the world, but that's not because it's a muslim nation. It's because the wage scales and living conditions are at the level that the West is still trying to force its own workers to. It's a true capitalist's paradise, with minimal regulation which can be greased aside if you have enough capital and everyone is constantly looking for new and creative ways to be "entrepreneurial" without much respect for whether they're doing in in a legal manner or not.
You don't own enough yet, then and you haven't owned it long enough.
I expect my investments to provide me a steady income, not get temporary jumps out of "downsizing their way to greatness".
Does it really matter if his burgers are 50 cents cheaper if Suzie doesn't have a job?
Well, knowing chemistry or physics already practically makes you a terrorist, so why not?
What time does Americal Idol come on again?