Its always amusing to see 'professions' such as sociology or psychology and science mentioned in the same sentence.
Science requires objective, quantitative, repeatable process that yields predictable and measurable and quantifiable results. In spite of the 'ology' suffix these are scientific fields more like phrenoology or climatology than like biology or geology.
I have 7 systems. 3 are linux, 3 are macs and 1 is an old w2k box I turn on occasionally.
There is no pirated software on any of them.
This is pretty clearly the BSA (a M$ flunky) positioning itself to be given even more power by the government.
Its a shame (but typical) that in wanting to kill off 1 particular piece of equipment that they don't like (the non MS OS SideKick) that MicroSoft gets to give a whole swath of tech like cloud computing a bad name.
OTOH, maybe this will serve as a heads up to most people that cloud computing is years away from really dependable viability.
I guess that won't be an option for space dwellers getting their supplies this way. There will probably be a lot of powdered or hard boiled eggs for their breakfasts.
If you don't need to interoperate with M$ boxes and you use Macs, hfs+ is the ideal solution. (Of course not having to interoperate with M$ boxes is pretty close to ideal too.)
You could buy a used (aka EBAY, craigs list, apple.com) macbook (which would blow the doors off of the mini) to replace your 5-7 year old powerbook for about $700. It would (or at least should) include the latest iLife bits. You'd be way ahead.
Linux is a helluvalot better than OSX for stuff like databases and web servers, but there is no way that video or audio applications (or most any desktop app) are anywhere close. I used linux exclusively on my notebooks from 98-06 and I can tell you about 1000s of hours wasted (although I enjoyed it) getting everything to run. With OSX everything just runs. Plus, using the media apps is a breeze.
I've always maintained that the IQ of a group of boys is calculated by taking the lowest IQ in the group and dividing it by the number of boys in the group.
When my son was growing up, he and his friends demonstrated this over and over.
My parents maintain that when I was growing up that my friends and I did too. (They are still a little pissed about me and my friends building and testing a very, very small thermite bomb in the basement.)
A true Conservative government would actually pursue less government interference in personal affairs. Conservatives want to conserve things (liberty, the environment, stability, etc..) Unfortunately, most governments are not particularly bound to their political ideology. Instead, they are focused on staying in power and building their bureaucracy. That doesn't happen by keeping the government's nose out of peoples day to day lives. The government has to always grow.
We haven't had a conservative government here in the US since the 50's. After that, JFK was a fiscal conservative, but everyone after him has been pretty much a disaster as far as conservatism goes. While we've seen a lot of our rights disappear (the right to travel freely within the country, the unlimited right of a person over 65 to go to the Dr of their choice, the right to deal privately in cash, etc..), I don't think it is as quite as intrusive (yet) as what you face in the U.K. though.
Watch Thursdays at 8 for the wacky antics and hijinks of a hilarious team of orbiting garbage collectors as they circle the planet collecting debris and aiming it at ex-Spouses, in-laws etc... back on Earth.
They can't accurately model what our weather will look like in a year. They ignore the impact that variable solar output has on our environment. They say that Antarctica is getting warmer when in fact most of it is getting colder
Global warming theory exists to facilitate a political and economic agenda. Ridiculous concepts like carbon credit trading are designed to move money around the globe, not to improve the environment.
If we really cared about our energy situation and our environment and we wanted cleaner air to breathe and better water to drink we'd launch a Kennedyesque "Man-on-the-Moon" effort directed towards those goals. Unfortunately, doing that would not accomplish the political and economic goals of those behind global warming.
You can accurately divide the proponents of Man-made global warming into two groups: fools and liars.
We've already seen Nancy Pelosi demonstrate grace, statesmanship and a sense of bipartisan fair play during the credit crisis legislation. She was following the trail followed by the Republicans before here and the Democrats before them.
He pretty clearly demonstrated how not to end a depression (government jobs and handouts) and how to end one (find a way into a war you have no vested interest in by pissing off one of the combatants enough.)
If John McCain should have won the election, John McCain would have won the election.
Based on that logic, Bush should have won the last 2 elections.
My question would be, why didn't 95% of whites vote for Obama?
Anti-black racism in the white American community is ugly.
In a racially divided election (as this apparently was shaped into) for any candidate to draw 95% of a specific race indicates that the voters from that demographic are clearly racists.
It is true that Wall Street punishes management for focusing on anything but the upcoming results. At the same time, the SEC and Sarbannes-Oxley punish management for focusing on anything except the prior quarter.
Put those two together and a business is screwed for investing in its future.
If you're doing drugs, you're doing drugs. How is testing your keyboard more intrusive than peeing in a bottle while someone watches you. Only caveat is who was using your keyboard..As long as they follow up suspicious findings with a real drug test, WTF?
45 Reactors with 45 custom designs, 45 huge cost overruns and no synergy in problem resolution and control systems would be ignorant.
We should manufacture them instead of building them. Make them all alike. Cut the time to production and realize synergies both in creation and in fixing any problems that arise.
Looking at the Clintons' record on H1B visas and Hillary's deep connections with companies like India's Tata (remember this http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-22654114_ITM) its no surprise that IT professionals are rejecting her. She's all for sending our jobs overseas.
Max Burns was the congresscritter from south georgia for a term or two. Before that he was a professor of information systems at Ga Southern University. He definitely was a coder too.
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Its always amusing to see 'professions' such as sociology or psychology and science mentioned in the same sentence. Science requires objective, quantitative, repeatable process that yields predictable and measurable and quantifiable results. In spite of the 'ology' suffix these are scientific fields more like phrenoology or climatology than like biology or geology.
I have 7 systems. 3 are linux, 3 are macs and 1 is an old w2k box I turn on occasionally. There is no pirated software on any of them. This is pretty clearly the BSA (a M$ flunky) positioning itself to be given even more power by the government.
Its a shame (but typical) that in wanting to kill off 1 particular piece of equipment that they don't like (the non MS OS SideKick) that MicroSoft gets to give a whole swath of tech like cloud computing a bad name. OTOH, maybe this will serve as a heads up to most people that cloud computing is years away from really dependable viability.
I guess that won't be an option for space dwellers getting their supplies this way. There will probably be a lot of powdered or hard boiled eggs for their breakfasts.
If you don't need to interoperate with M$ boxes and you use Macs, hfs+ is the ideal solution. (Of course not having to interoperate with M$ boxes is pretty close to ideal too.)
You could buy a used (aka EBAY, craigs list, apple.com) macbook (which would blow the doors off of the mini) to replace your 5-7 year old powerbook for about $700. It would (or at least should) include the latest iLife bits. You'd be way ahead. Linux is a helluvalot better than OSX for stuff like databases and web servers, but there is no way that video or audio applications (or most any desktop app) are anywhere close. I used linux exclusively on my notebooks from 98-06 and I can tell you about 1000s of hours wasted (although I enjoyed it) getting everything to run. With OSX everything just runs. Plus, using the media apps is a breeze.
I've always maintained that the IQ of a group of boys is calculated by taking the lowest IQ in the group and dividing it by the number of boys in the group. When my son was growing up, he and his friends demonstrated this over and over. My parents maintain that when I was growing up that my friends and I did too. (They are still a little pissed about me and my friends building and testing a very, very small thermite bomb in the basement.)
A true Conservative government would actually pursue less government interference in personal affairs. Conservatives want to conserve things (liberty, the environment, stability, etc..) Unfortunately, most governments are not particularly bound to their political ideology. Instead, they are focused on staying in power and building their bureaucracy. That doesn't happen by keeping the government's nose out of peoples day to day lives. The government has to always grow. We haven't had a conservative government here in the US since the 50's. After that, JFK was a fiscal conservative, but everyone after him has been pretty much a disaster as far as conservatism goes. While we've seen a lot of our rights disappear (the right to travel freely within the country, the unlimited right of a person over 65 to go to the Dr of their choice, the right to deal privately in cash, etc..), I don't think it is as quite as intrusive (yet) as what you face in the U.K. though.
They tend to design things to outlast the competition.
I don't know about that. 3 totally different forms of government in one century. They weren't designed to last.
It would be a lot more interesting to know what happened before the Big Bang.
Watch Thursdays at 8 for the wacky antics and hijinks of a hilarious team of orbiting garbage collectors as they circle the planet collecting debris and aiming it at ex-Spouses, in-laws etc... back on Earth.
They can't accurately model what our weather will look like in a year. They ignore the impact that variable solar output has on our environment. They say that Antarctica is getting warmer when in fact most of it is getting colder
Global warming theory exists to facilitate a political and economic agenda. Ridiculous concepts like carbon credit trading are designed to move money around the globe, not to improve the environment.
If we really cared about our energy situation and our environment and we wanted cleaner air to breathe and better water to drink we'd launch a Kennedyesque "Man-on-the-Moon" effort directed towards those goals. Unfortunately, doing that would not accomplish the political and economic goals of those behind global warming.
You can accurately divide the proponents of Man-made global warming into two groups: fools and liars.
Damn, I missed it.
I wish there had been some mention of it in the media lately so I would have know it was about to happen.
We've already seen Nancy Pelosi demonstrate grace, statesmanship and a sense of bipartisan fair play during the credit crisis legislation. She was following the trail followed by the Republicans before here and the Democrats before them.
Term limits would solve a lot of this
He pretty clearly demonstrated how not to end a depression (government jobs and handouts) and how to end one (find a way into a war you have no vested interest in by pissing off one of the combatants enough.)
John McCain should have won the election.
If John McCain should have won the election, John McCain would have won the election.
Based on that logic, Bush should have won the last 2 elections.
My question would be, why didn't 95% of whites vote for Obama?
Anti-black racism in the white American community is ugly.
In a racially divided election (as this apparently was shaped into) for any candidate to draw 95% of a specific race indicates that the voters from that demographic are clearly racists.
Its pretty scary to think that these two candidates are the best we can do.
Obama should be able to finally ravage what little bit of the Constitution that previous Administrations haven't been able to get at.
We will finally be able to finish the transformation from "A government of enumerated powers" to "Citizens with enumerated rights".
Don't worry. There won't be many rights, so it shouldn't be too confusing.
In Ga. I vote on Diebold with no paper trail so I reasonably sure that my vote is meaningless.
I went through the motions (last week actually) before it occurred to me that I should always do absentee ballots (which are on paper.)
Its not just the 'next quarter'.
It is true that Wall Street punishes management for focusing on anything but the upcoming results. At the same time, the SEC and Sarbannes-Oxley punish management for focusing on anything except the prior quarter.
Put those two together and a business is screwed for investing in its future.
If you're doing drugs, you're doing drugs. How is testing your keyboard more intrusive than peeing in a bottle while someone watches you. Only caveat is who was using your keyboard..As long as they follow up suspicious findings with a real drug test, WTF?
45 Reactors with 45 custom designs, 45 huge cost overruns and no synergy in problem resolution and control systems would be ignorant.
We should manufacture them instead of building them. Make them all alike. Cut the time to production and realize synergies both in creation and in fixing any problems that arise.
This galaxy is between 90 and 102 million light years away.
That means they watched in 'real time' something that happened about 100 million years ago?
NOAA is the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. Weather service, National Hurricane Center, etc.. are part of NOAA.
Either their activities are not very clandestine or they are really, really good at hiding them, Dirk Pitt notwithstanding.
Looking at the Clintons' record on H1B visas and Hillary's deep connections with companies like India's Tata (remember this http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-22654114_ITM) its no surprise that IT professionals are rejecting her. She's all for sending our jobs overseas.
Max Burns was the congresscritter from south georgia for a term or two. Before that he was a professor of information systems at Ga Southern University. He definitely was a coder too.