I have eight (8) fracked gas wells less than 300ft from my house. I get nose bleeds all the time. I’m going to sue the hell out of the bastards!!! (nevermind my nose bleeds are due to allergies did I say that outloud???)
I don’t know how many of y’all have been to Texas but the wind is blowing constantly. Any emissions from these wells are well down the highway seconds after being released. The thought that they will linger enough to cause these health issues is ridiculous. More likely they are being affected by the dust kicked up by all the water trucks that come in and out taking away the water overflow from these wells. Instead of sueing the well owners in a 2-mile radius they need to go after the well owners 20-miles upwind...
Oracle should accept some losses and quietly make an amiable-as-possible exit. Why air dirty laundry about clients? Even if the State is partly to blame, being a loud asshole makes you less likely to get future gov't contracts.
You have no idea the level of arrogance that exists at Oracle...
1. Guy flies radio-controlled model plane.
2. ?
3. Guy is in court.
What happened a step 2?
From TFA:...Pirker operated the aircraft within about 50 feet of numerous individuals, about 20 feet of a crowded street, and within approximately 100 feet of an active heliport at UVA, the FAA alleged. One person had to take "evasive measures" to avoid being struck by the aircraft, the agency said...
My guess is one of the "numerous individuals" whined to the Police/F.A.A.
I've witnessed an execution in the State of Ohio. At the Lucasville facility, there is a gallery of seats where the victims and inmates families and journalists sit/stand. There is a large window into the execution room that all the seats face. They pull the curtains after administering the drug and don't pull them back until the inmate is pronounced dead. Either they changed the procedure or these journalists are only reporting what those inside the room saw...
It's fine if you disagree, but be so kind as to point me to an OS supporting roughly the same amount of hardware.
Strangely enough, I found out that my scanner wasn't supported anymore after I got a new machine with W8 on it. It worked just perfectly under XP, but under W8 the only choice is to throw it away (again: throw away a fully functional piece of hardware) and buy a newer one.
I think I'll try booting into a USB linux installation whenever I want to scan something.
Or you could install XP in a VirtualBox instance and not have to reboot when you want to scan something...
If you look at the Dec 2013 data Vista has 3.61% share and WinDoze 8.1 has 3.60%. What's more amazing is that Vista's share went up between Nov 2013 and Dec 2013. Gotta love it!!!
I guess I am saying that this timeline is "the original". If you buy in to my theory then no one can travel back and insert themselves into a timeline. One will fork immediately. I'm 54yo so no one has travelled back during my lifetime. Overlapping my life are my parents and their parents and so on. So for all of mandkind this timeline is "the original". The only way it is not is if someone travelled back in time before mandkind and altered time's course. I'm not going there...
I'm pretty much convinced that if one travels back in time, you would be by default in a different time continuum. Your mere presence in a past time would alter it such it will be forked from our own time line. So our "internet" will be oblivious to said time travelers. You would have to figure out a way to search all time lines "internets" to find such evidence. Good luck with that...
I'm still confused why everyone insists on dumping the menus and buttons on the TOP of the browser window. Web site design, for various reasons, tends to follow a fairly vertical layout: You scroll up and down to get at more content, with little to no side-to-side scrolling. Our screens, on the other hand, tend toward horizontal layouts, with aspect ratios getting increasingly wide.
It makes no sense for us to put menu bars at the top when we could put them at the right hand side, and the content in a narrower, taller window. We'd see more relevant content on our web pages, it keeps the tabs closer to the scroll bar, and minimize/maximize/close buttons are close by as well. Vertical pixels are valuable. Horizontal ones are cheap. Make the buttons and tabs use cheap pixels, please.
Unless your coding a browser where you want a consistent UI on a mobile device as well where horizontal pixels are far more precious...
I've always wondered why Oracle has two presidents as well. Having worked for the Big-O I can atest that it is two companies in one. Sales is just an enabler for the real money maker: support and services. So even though Oracle has two presidents (Mark Hurd - sales, Safra Catz - services), there's only one big dog on the porch and believe me it's Safra...
I've had the misfortune of needing to use an Oracle system with a web interface to deal with a large client for construction management & billing. If that experience is any indication of how Oracle will fix the problem, the Feds would be better off keeping the very crappy existing system. (seriously)
You were lucky you only had to work with their product.
I had the misfortune of being at Sun Microsystems when the mindless Oracle borg took over.
I bailed out within two years.
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I have eight (8) fracked gas wells less than 300ft from my house. I get nose bleeds all the time. I’m going to sue the hell out of the bastards!!! (nevermind my nose bleeds are due to allergies did I say that outloud???)
I don’t know how many of y’all have been to Texas but the wind is blowing constantly. Any emissions from these wells are well down the highway seconds after being released. The thought that they will linger enough to cause these health issues is ridiculous. More likely they are being affected by the dust kicked up by all the water trucks that come in and out taking away the water overflow from these wells. Instead of sueing the well owners in a 2-mile radius they need to go after the well owners 20-miles upwind...
The award will not survive appeal.
It's a required personality trait to work there...
Oracle should accept some losses and quietly make an amiable-as-possible exit. Why air dirty laundry about clients? Even if the State is partly to blame, being a loud asshole makes you less likely to get future gov't contracts.
You have no idea the level of arrogance that exists at Oracle...
Like the car Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawk) drove in Daybreakers!
For those that are metric-challenged: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
1. Guy flies radio-controlled model plane. 2. ? 3. Guy is in court.
What happened a step 2?
From TFA: ...Pirker operated the aircraft within about 50 feet of numerous individuals, about 20 feet of a crowded street, and within approximately 100 feet of an active heliport at UVA, the FAA alleged. One person had to take "evasive measures" to avoid being struck by the aircraft, the agency said...
My guess is one of the "numerous individuals" whined to the Police/F.A.A.
I play CSR Racing and CM Drag Racing on a daily basis.
I've witnessed an execution in the State of Ohio. At the Lucasville facility, there is a gallery of seats where the victims and inmates families and journalists sit/stand. There is a large window into the execution room that all the seats face. They pull the curtains after administering the drug and don't pull them back until the inmate is pronounced dead. Either they changed the procedure or these journalists are only reporting what those inside the room saw...
Dental insurance on the rise for those without smart toothbrushes. Or those unwilling to upload their data to the insurance companies...
It's fine if you disagree, but be so kind as to point me to an OS supporting roughly the same amount of hardware.
Strangely enough, I found out that my scanner wasn't supported anymore after I got a new machine with W8 on it. It worked just perfectly under XP, but under W8 the only choice is to throw it away (again: throw away a fully functional piece of hardware) and buy a newer one.
I think I'll try booting into a USB linux installation whenever I want to scan something.
Or you could install XP in a VirtualBox instance and not have to reboot when you want to scan something...
If you look at the Dec 2013 data Vista has 3.61% share and WinDoze 8.1 has 3.60%. What's more amazing is that Vista's share went up between Nov 2013 and Dec 2013. Gotta love it!!!
I guess I am saying that this timeline is "the original". If you buy in to my theory then no one can travel back and insert themselves into a timeline. One will fork immediately. I'm 54yo so no one has travelled back during my lifetime. Overlapping my life are my parents and their parents and so on. So for all of mandkind this timeline is "the original". The only way it is not is if someone travelled back in time before mandkind and altered time's course. I'm not going there...
Wouldn't that be "1.21 jiggawatts"?
I'm pretty much convinced that if one travels back in time, you would be by default in a different time continuum. Your mere presence in a past time would alter it such it will be forked from our own time line. So our "internet" will be oblivious to said time travelers. You would have to figure out a way to search all time lines "internets" to find such evidence. Good luck with that...
I'm still confused why everyone insists on dumping the menus and buttons on the TOP of the browser window. Web site design, for various reasons, tends to follow a fairly vertical layout: You scroll up and down to get at more content, with little to no side-to-side scrolling. Our screens, on the other hand, tend toward horizontal layouts, with aspect ratios getting increasingly wide.
It makes no sense for us to put menu bars at the top when we could put them at the right hand side, and the content in a narrower, taller window. We'd see more relevant content on our web pages, it keeps the tabs closer to the scroll bar, and minimize/maximize/close buttons are close by as well. Vertical pixels are valuable. Horizontal ones are cheap. Make the buttons and tabs use cheap pixels, please.
Unless your coding a browser where you want a consistent UI on a mobile device as well where horizontal pixels are far more precious...
How far has this thing managed to go now? Couple miles?
Tires are stupid anyway. Hey, news flash, PhD eggheads... try these things called "tracks". I'm pretty sure they'll work on Mars...
There would probably be a weight issue with tracks...
I guess ease-of-use trumps security...
....It's CDDL licensed, as Solaris was, and the model is "managed community", the way Solaris was ....
I can tell you that Oracle absolutely hates CDDL licensing. It was Mission #1 to abolish all CDDL licensing after absorbing Sun.
More importantly, Oracle is a serial killer. Anyone called Agent Jarreau?
If so, can I have her number? You know, in case I need to find the team?
It might help if you could spell her name correctly. Agent Jareau maybe???
Me thinks your definition of "successful" is a stretch...
I've always wondered why Oracle has two presidents as well. Having worked for the Big-O I can atest that it is two companies in one. Sales is just an enabler for the real money maker: support and services. So even though Oracle has two presidents (Mark Hurd - sales, Safra Catz - services), there's only one big dog on the porch and believe me it's Safra...
http://www.propublica.org/article/heres-why-healthcaregov-broke-down
http://www.propublica.org/article/heres-why-healthcaregov-broke-down
Looks like Oracle might be part of the blame for the websites troubles...
I've had the misfortune of needing to use an Oracle system with a web interface to deal with a large client for construction management & billing. If that experience is any indication of how Oracle will fix the problem, the Feds would be better off keeping the very crappy existing system. (seriously)
You were lucky you only had to work with their product. I had the misfortune of being at Sun Microsystems when the mindless Oracle borg took over. I bailed out within two years.
Ditto.
Wasn't this the guy who said he had internet controllable lights but in fact it was just randomly flashing lights?
[John]
Yes. http://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/03/controllable-christmas-lights/