While I wouldn't say "I built this house out of Lego", I would say "Hey! Look at this Lego house I built!"
In fact, now that I think about it, I probably would say "I built this house out of lego (lowercase l)" because thats what it is. I have a box of lego, not a box of legos. I give the gift of lego to my nephew, not legos. When I need to clean up, I don't clean up my legos, but my lego.
Meh.. I guess I'm prissy and affected, have been since I was a wee boy, calling it lego. Poor me.
as a WoW player of a number of years with a number of toons I've raided high levels with, I'd really love to disagree with you.
Sadly, I cannot.
Having said that, knowing that it's the most annoying repetitive game imaginable at times, I still can't stop playing. It's just fun, even while doing that boring stuff.
Mind you, it could be because I watch movies while I play, saying something about the difficulty of the game, or maybe more about my level of ADD, but I still enjoy it.
assuming that He is connecting to a BES, and not using the BIS service, His traffic is encrypted by a key held by the BES in question and cannot be intercepted.
I am going to assume that the President isn't using a hotmail (etc) account, so is probably using a BES.
Just because the server resides in another country doesn't mean the data is more or less exposed. The data would pass through a number of intermediate networks before reaching Canada, which could also be intercepted. Simply crossing a border doesn't inherently make things worse. In fact, it may make things better. I believe that we (I am also Canadian) have better privacy laws than the US does...
It doesn't, strictly, cost them. However, they do need to buy more and more hardware to manage the bandwidth, and aren't able to oversell their network as much. This costs them money, both potentially earned money, and money to upgrade their hardware.
That doesn't make right their shaping, but I do see, having worked at an ISP, that it does cost money to provide service, in one way or another. When you're talking multi-gig speeds, you're not talking cheap hardware anymore. Go price out a 6500 with 10 gig conections (backbone/carrier class) and see what it costs to provide a big fat pipe in the backbone to move all that traffic coming in.
I was very suprised the other day... I was using a system I don't get onto very much, to scp some files around. out of habit, I was trying to get a file, doing
and when the government does that, to save costs, how many people are going to scream and yell and jump up and down about the lost jobs?
I'd almost consider government "web-surfing" jobs to be welfare. Paying someone to sit there and do nothing. If you put those people out of a job, there will be screaming and yelling (and lost elections), and then, those people will go where? Welfare rolls?
From what I've seen, it's next to impossible to ever reduce the public service, because of the screams from the general public.
I always believed that people who say: "I don't see how this relates to me", usually have a singular lack of imagination.
I don't think this sweeping generalization is fair. I took calculus twice in high school, trying to understand and pass it, but ultimately, I said "I just don't see how this relates to me" and dumped it. I am a sysadmin by living, and as anyone who knows me will attest, I have a very active imagination.
I think it's a wise person who can look at something, see if there is value, and dedicate time to it. Similarly, it's a wise person who realizes that something isn't going to be useful in their life, and decides instead to focus on something that will benefit them.
I don't remember the last time I went "oh man, I wish I knew calculus to make this dns change" or "geeez, I sure wish calculus could help me roll out these 500 servers".
Painting people as lacking imagination because they've decided not to learn something, suggesting that they aren't curious about life, isn't fair.
don't belittle yourself or other people with general statements.
This was discussed on Quirks and Quarks, a fantastic science news show on the CBC, a few weeks back (link to the show here, available as an mp3, or ogg).
It was a really interesting segment, have a listen. The show is also available as a weekly podcast, and I can't reccomend it enough.
I won't pick points, but I don't think it's fair to roll 50% of the population into one bucket and assume things about them, right or wrong.
I'm sure you've never, in your entire life, done anything unreasonable, like wanting something because it looked cool, or sounded cool, or because you wanted to be the first kid on the block to have it, or because all of your friends had one.
"The right to free speech" in reality translates to "The right to conventional, relatively non-controversial speech in a setting that will not upset anyone or be particularly noticed by anyone who might be offended or threatened by said speech." The second you attempt to break out of any one of those tight boundaries, you WILL find yourself in jail/kicked out of school/fired/persecuted or in some way silenced or punished.
I think that we need to look at the right to free speech in the context it was originally added in, and is still relevant in other places in the world. The fact of the matter is, you are free to say whatever you want, but not without consequences. When "the right to free speech" was made a Big Thing, and again, in other places in the world, you could be deprived of life/liberty for saying anything remotely against the $LEADER (Monarch, Church, Dictator, Baron).
While I do think that this, and many other judgements go against the spirit of the "free speech", I think that we need to be careful to avoid hyperbole about just how much it's curtailed. You don't have roving squads of government sponsored thugs taking/torturing/killing people for speaking out. You don't have to watch every word you say to your friends/neighbours, you don't have to be careful about what you write.
So, while we have free speech, that doesn't mean "speech with no consequences". In this case, specifically, the student was probably a little out of line, but is allowed to be. However, there were consequences, and none of them involved an overly harsh punishment (oohh, suspended!).
Don't take this as me saying it's ok for this to happen, but simply as me saying "lets put things in the right light". Lets avoid the OH MY GOD THE WORLD IS ENDING hyperbole that is so popular on these threads, and speak reasonably, because honestly, things could be a lot worse.
They did the same thing here in Ontario - Highway 407 was built with public money. Then the conservative government came into power leased it for 99 years to a foreign company (407 ETR). I'm sure after 99 years is up, if we're even using roads then, the government will have to pick up the cost of it, as well.
Something as public as a road (or water, hydro, etc) shouldn't be privatized - it just leads to gouging as there can't be competition in these spaces.
Does this mean that the multitude of videos posted by/for/about the US military, considered by some parts of the world to be terrorists, will be taken down?
Why is it ok to show propaganda for the US military but not another military force? One could argue that the US military has killed far more people than "the terrorists" have.
Thats no to say that I support "the terrorists", but lets be realistic.
One has to wonder why 64 seconds, not 63 or 65. I'm sure there were tests, papers, use cases, working groups etc to determine that 64 was the ideal timing.
If I have something I need to sign (for HR, or whatever). They email me the form. I then need to print the form out, sign it and fax it back. In some cases they are in the same building, but I'm not allowed to walk over to them, or interoffice mail them, to deliver the actual signed form.
I think in large part it's just because they have an established standard, which they use to deal with all our remote offices and such, and they don't want to deviate by having people walk in to the department. But it's pretty silly to have to fax someone when you could be at their desk in 30 seconds.
Sometimes people get so used to a process that they can't see that it's not the most efficient process anymore. This is how it's always been, so this is how it will be. Amen.
I'd put the comfy chair/desk up one notch, but otherwise, bang on.
I see too many places where they give people crappy chairs, and spend tonnes of money on other things. Frankly, if I'm going to spend 8+ hours a day parked in a chair, it'd better be comfy. I'd rather have a smaller desk and a nicer chair, than going home with a sore back, sore neck, sore wrists (poor posture in a bad chair)...
People at my office think I'm odd because I have my desk setup backwards - it's a big U, in one corner is a keyboard tray and cable run for a computer to sit. in the other corner. nothing, which is where I have my computer. Why? Because keyboard trays are a) horrible but b) so poorly designed that it's a normal occurance, in my office at least, to hear *thud* *profanity* many times a day as people bash their knees on the stupid keyboard tray arms. That's poor planning and implementation of a workstation.
A comfortable, functional work space is the key to working well. I think for too long comfort was forgotten, because management occasionally forgets that their resources are people, and need to be comfortable in order to work well. A day at the office shouldn't be painful.
It's amazing how, even as a wee child, we learn to account for gravity in everything we do. (I know that it's an obvious statement, but ponder it). We learn to throw in arcs, we learn how things bounce, based on their elasticity or density, we learn how to throw higher/lighter, lower/harder to do different arcs, we learn how to throw things that are light vs heavy...
then, to have to relearn that in space. It would be an interesting study in learning and adapting to see how people learn this, then, when they return back to Gravity, how they re-adjust.
of all the comments here, this is the one I agree with most. The technical skills you learn at $POST_SECONDARY_INSTITUTION can be replicated in the workforce. It's the soft skills you learn, the people you meet, the experiences you have.. those are the things that can't be replaced in a job. And those are the things that make you who you are. The odds are good that you'll have a lot more "so on friday at midnight we got in the car and drove to...." or "I was so drunk that one time..." or "it's not you, it's me" stories to share at a school that is less focused (ie: tech school). And, while those things aren't the reason you should pick a school, solely, the fact of the matter is that your time after highschool and before work is as much about learning marketable skills as transitioning into adulthood, and having a good time doing it, learning more about yourself and the world while you go.
As someone who went to a technical school, I'd much rather have spent 4 years living in res (definately do this), learning about things that really interested me, then learned my actual technical skills in the workforce. Because, frankly, your first job is most likely to be entry level (helpdesk or the software engineering equiv) and you'll learn more there than what you learned in college/university anyways.
Best of luck whichever route you go - just consider, and remember, your personal growth is as important than what you learn.
beside ye olde solar power plant, or nearby, a hydrogen generation plant. When the power isn't being used, it can be used to create hydrogen from a local source of water. The hydrogen can then be shipped to other places, or even used later in the day to create power when the sun is out.
I seem to recall a similar idea with hydro power.. maybe at Niagara falls. When demand is low, they pump water up to a large lake, so that later they have all that potential energy they can draw upon if necessary. I could have the details wrong.
Or perhaps industry would spring up around these places, which would mean the power wouldn't have to be shipped as far. I know the major internet players are currently building new DCs close to power, even if they're out of the way of the normal big cities, this could be another facility to offer cheap power. Combine it with the previous idea (hydrogen power plant) and you'd, potentially, have a very self reliant power center.
Another point I'd add to your note is that the smaller, poorer nations shouldn't just "allow the rich nations to come in and setup the plants". They should be working to develop these resources (perhaps with public/private financing) for themselves, so that the poorer nations actually get something out of it, instead of seeing all the money/jobs going to a rich nation (read: the US). Having just finished reading a book about the role of Americans in oil/resource development in South America, I'd like to see small nations develop their own natural resources, and actually benefit from them. In this case, having a clear sky and lots of sunlight is a national resource that some other countries don't have.
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While I wouldn't say "I built this house out of Lego", I would say "Hey! Look at this Lego house I built!"
In fact, now that I think about it, I probably would say "I built this house out of lego (lowercase l)" because thats what it is. I have a box of lego, not a box of legos. I give the gift of lego to my nephew, not legos. When I need to clean up, I don't clean up my legos, but my lego.
Meh .. I guess I'm prissy and affected, have been since I was a wee boy, calling it lego. Poor me.
wow. who pissed on your cornflakes?
You've generalized the entirety of NASA into "The level of unprofessionalism beggars belief."
I've said it before on Slashdot, and I'll say it again. All general statements are wrong.
Get back to shaking that cane and popping them balloons, we're going to have fun without you. nyah nyah nyah.
as a WoW player of a number of years with a number of toons I've raided high levels with, I'd really love to disagree with you.
Sadly, I cannot.
Having said that, knowing that it's the most annoying repetitive game imaginable at times, I still can't stop playing. It's just fun, even while doing that boring stuff.
Mind you, it could be because I watch movies while I play, saying something about the difficulty of the game, or maybe more about my level of ADD, but I still enjoy it.
*sigh* I am weak.
assuming that He is connecting to a BES, and not using the BIS service, His traffic is encrypted by a key held by the BES in question and cannot be intercepted.
I am going to assume that the President isn't using a hotmail (etc) account, so is probably using a BES.
Just because the server resides in another country doesn't mean the data is more or less exposed. The data would pass through a number of intermediate networks before reaching Canada, which could also be intercepted. Simply crossing a border doesn't inherently make things worse. In fact, it may make things better. I believe that we (I am also Canadian) have better privacy laws than the US does...
$0.02.
I guess it could be argued that, if you can deter an invading country with a shotgun, their heart really isn't in it.
It doesn't, strictly, cost them. However, they do need to buy more and more hardware to manage the bandwidth, and aren't able to oversell their network as much. This costs them money, both potentially earned money, and money to upgrade their hardware.
That doesn't make right their shaping, but I do see, having worked at an ISP, that it does cost money to provide service, in one way or another. When you're talking multi-gig speeds, you're not talking cheap hardware anymore. Go price out a 6500 with 10 gig conections (backbone/carrier class) and see what it costs to provide a big fat pipe in the backbone to move all that traffic coming in.
this works, but wasn't removed on my blackberry, just in outlook.
just a heads up if you're wanting to be sneaky.
I was very suprised the other day ... I was using a system I don't get onto very much, to scp some files around. out of habit, I was trying to get a file, doing
and out of habit I hit tab .. and it completed the filename for me.
The box has ssh keys shared, so I assume that was the channel for this, but was amazed at how it completed a filename on another system.
nifty.
and when the government does that, to save costs, how many people are going to scream and yell and jump up and down about the lost jobs?
I'd almost consider government "web-surfing" jobs to be welfare. Paying someone to sit there and do nothing. If you put those people out of a job, there will be screaming and yelling (and lost elections), and then, those people will go where? Welfare rolls?
From what I've seen, it's next to impossible to ever reduce the public service, because of the screams from the general public.
I always believed that people who say: "I don't see how this relates to me", usually have a singular lack of imagination.
I don't think this sweeping generalization is fair. I took calculus twice in high school, trying to understand and pass it, but ultimately, I said "I just don't see how this relates to me" and dumped it. I am a sysadmin by living, and as anyone who knows me will attest, I have a very active imagination.
I think it's a wise person who can look at something, see if there is value, and dedicate time to it. Similarly, it's a wise person who realizes that something isn't going to be useful in their life, and decides instead to focus on something that will benefit them.
I don't remember the last time I went "oh man, I wish I knew calculus to make this dns change" or "geeez, I sure wish calculus could help me roll out these 500 servers".
Painting people as lacking imagination because they've decided not to learn something, suggesting that they aren't curious about life, isn't fair.
don't belittle yourself or other people with general statements.
This was discussed on Quirks and Quarks, a fantastic science news show on the CBC, a few weeks back (link to the show here, available as an mp3, or ogg).
It was a really interesting segment, have a listen. The show is also available as a weekly podcast, and I can't reccomend it enough.
Hurrah for public radio!
I won't pick points, but I don't think it's fair to roll 50% of the population into one bucket and assume things about them, right or wrong.
I'm sure you've never, in your entire life, done anything unreasonable, like wanting something because it looked cool, or sounded cool, or because you wanted to be the first kid on the block to have it, or because all of your friends had one.
All general statements are false.
"The right to free speech" in reality translates to "The right to conventional, relatively non-controversial speech in a setting that will not upset anyone or be particularly noticed by anyone who might be offended or threatened by said speech." The second you attempt to break out of any one of those tight boundaries, you WILL find yourself in jail/kicked out of school/fired/persecuted or in some way silenced or punished.
I think that we need to look at the right to free speech in the context it was originally added in, and is still relevant in other places in the world. The fact of the matter is, you are free to say whatever you want, but not without consequences. When "the right to free speech" was made a Big Thing, and again, in other places in the world, you could be deprived of life/liberty for saying anything remotely against the $LEADER (Monarch, Church, Dictator, Baron).
While I do think that this, and many other judgements go against the spirit of the "free speech", I think that we need to be careful to avoid hyperbole about just how much it's curtailed. You don't have roving squads of government sponsored thugs taking/torturing/killing people for speaking out. You don't have to watch every word you say to your friends/neighbours, you don't have to be careful about what you write.
So, while we have free speech, that doesn't mean "speech with no consequences". In this case, specifically, the student was probably a little out of line, but is allowed to be. However, there were consequences, and none of them involved an overly harsh punishment (oohh, suspended!).
Don't take this as me saying it's ok for this to happen, but simply as me saying "lets put things in the right light". Lets avoid the OH MY GOD THE WORLD IS ENDING hyperbole that is so popular on these threads, and speak reasonably, because honestly, things could be a lot worse.
They did the same thing here in Ontario - Highway 407 was built with public money. Then the conservative government came into power leased it for 99 years to a foreign company (407 ETR). I'm sure after 99 years is up, if we're even using roads then, the government will have to pick up the cost of it, as well.
Something as public as a road (or water, hydro, etc) shouldn't be privatized - it just leads to gouging as there can't be competition in these spaces.
Short term gain for long term pain.
Does this mean that the multitude of videos posted by/for/about the US military, considered by some parts of the world to be terrorists, will be taken down?
Why is it ok to show propaganda for the US military but not another military force? One could argue that the US military has killed far more people than "the terrorists" have.
Thats no to say that I support "the terrorists", but lets be realistic.
It must be beeping as well .. very important
don't forget the evil Dr. Claw, and his exploding bomb-chair!
I agree with the voice comment - every time I hear it it just doesn't sound right. He's trying too hard.
One has to wonder why 64 seconds, not 63 or 65. I'm sure there were tests, papers, use cases, working groups etc to determine that 64 was the ideal timing.
One of those things we'll never know
The war on science where all science that don't fit a fundamentalist view is smeared, seems to be a quite new tactic, invented in the USA.
Ask Galileo how he feels about science being smeared for not fitting a fundamentalist view.
I'm sorry, but The Church fighting Science isn't a new thing, it's very, very, VERY old.
I work for a high tech, email centric company.
If I have something I need to sign (for HR, or whatever). They email me the form. I then need to print the form out, sign it and fax it back. In some cases they are in the same building, but I'm not allowed to walk over to them, or interoffice mail them, to deliver the actual signed form.
I think in large part it's just because they have an established standard, which they use to deal with all our remote offices and such, and they don't want to deviate by having people walk in to the department. But it's pretty silly to have to fax someone when you could be at their desk in 30 seconds.
Sometimes people get so used to a process that they can't see that it's not the most efficient process anymore. This is how it's always been, so this is how it will be. Amen.
I'd put the comfy chair/desk up one notch, but otherwise, bang on.
I see too many places where they give people crappy chairs, and spend tonnes of money on other things. Frankly, if I'm going to spend 8+ hours a day parked in a chair, it'd better be comfy. I'd rather have a smaller desk and a nicer chair, than going home with a sore back, sore neck, sore wrists (poor posture in a bad chair)...
People at my office think I'm odd because I have my desk setup backwards - it's a big U, in one corner is a keyboard tray and cable run for a computer to sit. in the other corner. nothing, which is where I have my computer. Why? Because keyboard trays are a) horrible but b) so poorly designed that it's a normal occurance, in my office at least, to hear *thud* *profanity* many times a day as people bash their knees on the stupid keyboard tray arms. That's poor planning and implementation of a workstation.
A comfortable, functional work space is the key to working well. I think for too long comfort was forgotten, because management occasionally forgets that their resources are people, and need to be comfortable in order to work well. A day at the office shouldn't be painful.
It's amazing how, even as a wee child, we learn to account for gravity in everything we do. (I know that it's an obvious statement, but ponder it). We learn to throw in arcs, we learn how things bounce, based on their elasticity or density, we learn how to throw higher/lighter, lower/harder to do different arcs, we learn how to throw things that are light vs heavy ...
then, to have to relearn that in space. It would be an interesting study in learning and adapting to see how people learn this, then, when they return back to Gravity, how they re-adjust.
of all the comments here, this is the one I agree with most. The technical skills you learn at $POST_SECONDARY_INSTITUTION can be replicated in the workforce. It's the soft skills you learn, the people you meet, the experiences you have .. those are the things that can't be replaced in a job. And those are the things that make you who you are. The odds are good that you'll have a lot more "so on friday at midnight we got in the car and drove to ...." or "I was so drunk that one time..." or "it's not you, it's me" stories to share at a school that is less focused (ie: tech school). And, while those things aren't the reason you should pick a school, solely, the fact of the matter is that your time after highschool and before work is as much about learning marketable skills as transitioning into adulthood, and having a good time doing it, learning more about yourself and the world while you go.
As someone who went to a technical school, I'd much rather have spent 4 years living in res (definately do this), learning about things that really interested me, then learned my actual technical skills in the workforce. Because, frankly, your first job is most likely to be entry level (helpdesk or the software engineering equiv) and you'll learn more there than what you learned in college/university anyways.
Best of luck whichever route you go - just consider, and remember, your personal growth is as important than what you learn.
$0.02 CDN.
beside ye olde solar power plant, or nearby, a hydrogen generation plant. When the power isn't being used, it can be used to create hydrogen from a local source of water. The hydrogen can then be shipped to other places, or even used later in the day to create power when the sun is out.
.. maybe at Niagara falls. When demand is low, they pump water up to a large lake, so that later they have all that potential energy they can draw upon if necessary. I could have the details wrong.
I seem to recall a similar idea with hydro power
Or perhaps industry would spring up around these places, which would mean the power wouldn't have to be shipped as far. I know the major internet players are currently building new DCs close to power, even if they're out of the way of the normal big cities, this could be another facility to offer cheap power. Combine it with the previous idea (hydrogen power plant) and you'd, potentially, have a very self reliant power center.
Another point I'd add to your note is that the smaller, poorer nations shouldn't just "allow the rich nations to come in and setup the plants". They should be working to develop these resources (perhaps with public/private financing) for themselves, so that the poorer nations actually get something out of it, instead of seeing all the money/jobs going to a rich nation (read: the US). Having just finished reading a book about the role of Americans in oil/resource development in South America, I'd like to see small nations develop their own natural resources, and actually benefit from them. In this case, having a clear sky and lots of sunlight is a national resource that some other countries don't have.
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