So a few people are getting a mild illness from mosquitoes. Let's spray the entire city with carcinogenic pesticides! See? Now EVERYONE is affected by West Nile!
It's a pretty safe bet that no chemical will ever eliminate the mosquito. As long as there is water on which to lay eggs, and animals with blood for them to eat, there will be mosquitoes. Spraying for them, even if the poisons weren't doing more damage, is at very best an exercise in ignorance-fueled futility.
Oh, that DDT was great stuff, it killed the little buggers, right? Except it destroyed the amphibians and bats that ate the mosquito, too. So the first few years when the spraying stops, there's nothing to keep the mosquito in check. Same thing goes for every insect pest. The chemical "answer" kills the predators too, but the pests bounce back faster.
I'm not a rabid environmentalist. It's a shame that a few old folks with weak immune systems die from West Nile. But that is not a good reason to wage chemical warfare on the public.
Don't conflate artistic talent with intellect. Some of the talent is great. Kevin Spacey, for example. I went an entire movie without realizing that a character was Spacey.
But have you ever heard some of those people try to talk about serious subjects? Alec Baldwin or Whoopi Goldberg on politics, for example. Sure, some are good at what they do, as you'll find in any trade, and yes, they're entitled to their own opinions. It's the whole celebrity culture built up around Hollywood that irritates me. Awards shows. TV channels with 24/7 coverage of who's shagging who. One can simply ignore it on a personal level, as I do, but co-workers, friends... it's a cancer on society.
We're given Stallone and Elway and Obama and Kardashians for heroes, instead of Tesla and Semmelweis and Shockley and Torvalds. Entertainment is a part of a society, to be sure, but a wise people do not run their country on the whim of the court jester.
Oh, actors. Tell me again why we're supposed to care about them? As I understand it, these are low-to-midgrade morons who pretend to be something they're not and get paid metric fucktons of money for it? At least that one Charlie Sheen guy has the decency to act like his job is bullshit.
I believe India is spending too much money. For the paltry sum of $50 million, I'll launch an unmanned probe in the general direction of Mars. That's half price!
As a pilot and a driver... I wouldn't want anyone in my airspace who couldn't get through the process of earning a pilot certificate. That's not snobbery; something like 85% of people who start learning to fly never earn one, and it's not a large population segment who even try. And even some of those elite few are pretty awful pilots.
I mean, shit, half the people on the roads (generous estimate) can't fucking drive a car with an automatic, traction control, and GPS. I shudder to think what happens if they let my girlfriend fly her Ford Sky-Taurus in IFR and icing conditions.
This will probably get modded down by dim-witted Flight Sim gamers. Yeah, you. Until your mom's basement can replicate severe turbulence on an ILS approach in actual IMC, and the actual fiery death that could occur if you fuck it up, STFU.
I currently use the Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboards and could never go back to non-ergo, but unfortunately have never seen any ergonomic mechanical ones.
The only Microsoft product I like... though that's because Logitech quit making that split ergo style. I have one of the MS ergo keyboards that's several years old, and just bought another one recently. Seems like the new one is even mushier. I'd sure like to see one with mechanical switches.
I don't care for the layouts of the ones linked by the other replies to this parent.
1) They landed it in a crater, far away from the water. Just stupid. They should be exploring where it's wet, even though it's frozen. Someone should move it.:-P
2) There is zero excuse in this day and age why all the telemetry from Curiosity is not broadcast on the internet 24/7. The cameras, at the very least, should be live streamed. Unless NASA has something to hide.
...there's a fatal misunderstanding in this concept. I see a lot of posters saying "no no no, he just wants to backup his Linux ISOs and movies!" and fine, in that case, yes, a tape backup would be great. But to do any kind of regular access of that medium would just be tragic. See my filesystem explanation below to learn why.
Yes, a tragedy indeed. However, if he were to download his ISOs and movies to disk, and back them up to tape only when they're complete, it could work.
But why would anyone want to keep old Linux distros? What's the point? Newer distros keep up with fixing security holes. My shop has only had problems with the few servers that have old "stable" distros. That would be like running Win 7 but keeping your old MS-DOS floppies.
You don't necessarily have to go "cloud" to go cloud.
The company I work for has rack space in several colo centers. Some customers just want space for their own servers, which we're happy to rent them. You could buy your own RAID storage server, and buddy up to a local IT company for a bit of rack space. Saves a lot of trouble over swapping & carrying drives around. You wouldn't need high-reliability stuff like redundant power supplies or blade processing -- it's just storage.
Heck, you could go super cheap, and get one of those rack-mounted lock boxes and just lock your drives in it, inside a locked cage, inside the data center. Climate controlled, fire safe storage. Bonus to that over the bank safe deposit is 24-hour access.
I know it's off-site, which isn't what you were looking for, but just throwing that out there. That's what I'd do... I'm not impressed with virtualized cloud stuff. And I work with it!
The majority support some provisions, not all of them. It's not just a matter of marketing and branding.
It is absolutely a matter of marketing and branding. If you ask the poll question, "Would you support more health care for less money for more people?" you're going to get positive response -- even though in this case the question has zero relevancy to the reality of ACA.
If on the other hand, we ask the question "Do you support being forced to buy insurance you don't want or need, at a price many people can't afford, from large corporations, and if you refuse, be penalized with higher taxes?" we'd get the opposite response.
Given that the polishing of turds appears to work well for a majority of the public, I'll go way out on a limb here and suggest that Microsoft will probably come up with a way to polish this one. Technically competent and computer literate people are not the majority, or we'd all be out of work.
Soviet Russia's KGB in its wildest wet dreams never imagined the level of Big Brother surveillance that the US government/corporate partnership could put into place here with modern technology. By contrast, the Soviet citizen of 1980 had far more privacy and anonymity.
Don't ever, for the love of all that is holy, go down this (Gnome3) road.
Some of us have zero interest in smartphones, tablets, name your gadget. We just want a desktop machine to do what a desktop should do. No touchscreen bullshit, no iNonsense, no hipster-douche-fag "apps" for buying Starbucks, nada. We are the people who use computers to do real work, type 60+ WPM on a REAL keyboard, and think that people should learn to use their computers instead of dumbing them down to the lowest common denominator. If someone can't learn to use menus, they can learn "fries with that, sir?"
Ex-Gnome users are flocking to you now. Don't fuck it up.
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So a few people are getting a mild illness from mosquitoes. Let's spray the entire city with carcinogenic pesticides! See? Now EVERYONE is affected by West Nile!
It's a pretty safe bet that no chemical will ever eliminate the mosquito. As long as there is water on which to lay eggs, and animals with blood for them to eat, there will be mosquitoes. Spraying for them, even if the poisons weren't doing more damage, is at very best an exercise in ignorance-fueled futility.
Oh, that DDT was great stuff, it killed the little buggers, right? Except it destroyed the amphibians and bats that ate the mosquito, too. So the first few years when the spraying stops, there's nothing to keep the mosquito in check. Same thing goes for every insect pest. The chemical "answer" kills the predators too, but the pests bounce back faster.
I'm not a rabid environmentalist. It's a shame that a few old folks with weak immune systems die from West Nile. But that is not a good reason to wage chemical warfare on the public.
Or bought enough fake Twitter followers.
Don't conflate artistic talent with intellect. Some of the talent is great. Kevin Spacey, for example. I went an entire movie without realizing that a character was Spacey.
But have you ever heard some of those people try to talk about serious subjects? Alec Baldwin or Whoopi Goldberg on politics, for example. Sure, some are good at what they do, as you'll find in any trade, and yes, they're entitled to their own opinions. It's the whole celebrity culture built up around Hollywood that irritates me. Awards shows. TV channels with 24/7 coverage of who's shagging who. One can simply ignore it on a personal level, as I do, but co-workers, friends... it's a cancer on society.
We're given Stallone and Elway and Obama and Kardashians for heroes, instead of Tesla and Semmelweis and Shockley and Torvalds. Entertainment is a part of a society, to be sure, but a wise people do not run their country on the whim of the court jester.
None conned so easily as the con man, they say.
Oh, actors. Tell me again why we're supposed to care about them? As I understand it, these are low-to-midgrade morons who pretend to be something they're not and get paid metric fucktons of money for it? At least that one Charlie Sheen guy has the decency to act like his job is bullshit.
No call center jokes yet? I'm disappointed.
I believe India is spending too much money. For the paltry sum of $50 million, I'll launch an unmanned probe in the general direction of Mars. That's half price!
As a pilot and a driver... I wouldn't want anyone in my airspace who couldn't get through the process of earning a pilot certificate. That's not snobbery; something like 85% of people who start learning to fly never earn one, and it's not a large population segment who even try. And even some of those elite few are pretty awful pilots.
I mean, shit, half the people on the roads (generous estimate) can't fucking drive a car with an automatic, traction control, and GPS. I shudder to think what happens if they let my girlfriend fly her Ford Sky-Taurus in IFR and icing conditions.
This will probably get modded down by dim-witted Flight Sim gamers. Yeah, you. Until your mom's basement can replicate severe turbulence on an ILS approach in actual IMC, and the actual fiery death that could occur if you fuck it up, STFU.
Actually whole thing kinda reminds me of the time I saw that xkcd comic and then typed "import antigravity" into my Python shell.
Who's Ashton whatsiswhoever?
I currently use the Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboards and could never go back to non-ergo, but unfortunately have never seen any ergonomic mechanical ones.
The only Microsoft product I like... though that's because Logitech quit making that split ergo style. I have one of the MS ergo keyboards that's several years old, and just bought another one recently. Seems like the new one is even mushier. I'd sure like to see one with mechanical switches. I don't care for the layouts of the ones linked by the other replies to this parent.
-- for two reasons:
1) They landed it in a crater, far away from the water. Just stupid. They should be exploring where it's wet, even though it's frozen. Someone should move it. :-P
2) There is zero excuse in this day and age why all the telemetry from Curiosity is not broadcast on the internet 24/7. The cameras, at the very least, should be live streamed. Unless NASA has something to hide.
...there's a fatal misunderstanding in this concept. I see a lot of posters saying "no no no, he just wants to backup his Linux ISOs and movies!" and fine, in that case, yes, a tape backup would be great. But to do any kind of regular access of that medium would just be tragic. See my filesystem explanation below to learn why.
Yes, a tragedy indeed. However, if he were to download his ISOs and movies to disk, and back them up to tape only when they're complete, it could work.
But why would anyone want to keep old Linux distros? What's the point? Newer distros keep up with fixing security holes. My shop has only had problems with the few servers that have old "stable" distros. That would be like running Win 7 but keeping your old MS-DOS floppies.
You don't necessarily have to go "cloud" to go cloud.
The company I work for has rack space in several colo centers. Some customers just want space for their own servers, which we're happy to rent them. You could buy your own RAID storage server, and buddy up to a local IT company for a bit of rack space. Saves a lot of trouble over swapping & carrying drives around. You wouldn't need high-reliability stuff like redundant power supplies or blade processing -- it's just storage.
Heck, you could go super cheap, and get one of those rack-mounted lock boxes and just lock your drives in it, inside a locked cage, inside the data center. Climate controlled, fire safe storage. Bonus to that over the bank safe deposit is 24-hour access.
I know it's off-site, which isn't what you were looking for, but just throwing that out there. That's what I'd do... I'm not impressed with virtualized cloud stuff. And I work with it!
The majority support some provisions, not all of them. It's not just a matter of marketing and branding.
It is absolutely a matter of marketing and branding. If you ask the poll question, "Would you support more health care for less money for more people?" you're going to get positive response -- even though in this case the question has zero relevancy to the reality of ACA. If on the other hand, we ask the question "Do you support being forced to buy insurance you don't want or need, at a price many people can't afford, from large corporations, and if you refuse, be penalized with higher taxes?" we'd get the opposite response. Given that the polishing of turds appears to work well for a majority of the public, I'll go way out on a limb here and suggest that Microsoft will probably come up with a way to polish this one. Technically competent and computer literate people are not the majority, or we'd all be out of work.
Soviet Russia's KGB in its wildest wet dreams never imagined the level of Big Brother surveillance that the US government/corporate partnership could put into place here with modern technology. By contrast, the Soviet citizen of 1980 had far more privacy and anonymity.
Don't ever, for the love of all that is holy, go down this (Gnome3) road. Some of us have zero interest in smartphones, tablets, name your gadget. We just want a desktop machine to do what a desktop should do. No touchscreen bullshit, no iNonsense, no hipster-douche-fag "apps" for buying Starbucks, nada. We are the people who use computers to do real work, type 60+ WPM on a REAL keyboard, and think that people should learn to use their computers instead of dumbing them down to the lowest common denominator. If someone can't learn to use menus, they can learn "fries with that, sir?" Ex-Gnome users are flocking to you now. Don't fuck it up.