>And if that country only got where it was by exploiting people in other countries?
But we didn't. We got where we were by saving other countries' asses and having the resources to be self-sufficient.
Then some of us started exploiting foreign nations. Which some of us tried to stop. You think anyone in India cares if the U.S. goes down the tubes because they're stealing our technological treasures?
"Investors" don't think Massachusetts or Arizona or North Carolina when they go shopping for tech companies to invest in.
They believe first in "critical mass", and they think the best critical mass is in California.
They don't think about the cost structure of running a company in California.
Now, by "investors," I don't mean banks or venture capitalists. I mean stock-market speculators. The banks and VCs understand this facet of public stock picking, and since they are the suppliers to that retail market, they angle for position in it.
The result is, just having a CA address on your prospectus is worth 5-10% intangible boost.
Hence the boom then the bubble and now the inability to get a sniff from a VC in any of these locations that are much more attractive from a sincere management standpoint.
The economy is out of control, slamming from rail to rail. Someone needs to reign this in so that it becomes an economy again, instead of just a money pump into the pockets of a few people.
I remember being in the Yahoo MLB chatrooms in the fall of 2000, and this guy logged in on his Ricochet-mobile equipped laptop from Yankee stadium during an ALCS game.
It's too bad Ricochet died (blame the naff commercials). It rocked hard. But it's come back in a lighter, less ambitious, less vulnerable form.
You didn't sign up to be a backstabbing weasel, you signed up to code WAP servlets (or some other demeaning task in the wastebasket-dumping layers of power).
They're asking you to do more than they're paying you for, by having you fight amongst yourselves for their amusement.
So fuck 'em.
It costs about half your pay to replace you. If enough people quit, they'll realize they should just pay everyone 50% more and stop using them for managerial bloodsport.
Microwaves are caused by oscillatory motion of a charge.
Photons are caused by (among other things) reduction in the energy level of an electron orbital in an atom. The stable oscillation of the electron about the atom causes no waves of any kind to be transmitted.
you are not getting it: there are microwaves photons. There is no distinction between visual light and microwaves, other then their frequency
You are not getting it. And probably won't until the third time you learn it.
Isaac Newton said,
I know light is corpuscular because I grind my own lenses.
He knew the mathematics of waves and how they are affected by running into uneven surfaces. He knew that in grinding a lens you never make it an even surface, you use finer and finer powders to make finer and finer scratches in the surface.
No, the British realize they have an accent, and learn that to have no accent, you have to use the voice you sing with, because when you sing you have no accent unless you impute it deliberately.
Americans raised in certain parts of the Midwest (and the television newsreaders who learned to copy them) have perfectly unaccented speech, with no inflections of vowels, no hardening or softening of R's or other consonants depending on lexical position, etc.
N.B. I was disappointed that the "accent database" didn't focus on native English speakers. It would have been an order of magnitude more interesting. Especially if it were rendered as a map (seen them before with special symbols to show accent keys in various places, but never with a click-through playback of the samples, and too tired to see if maybe someone's got one on the web yet).
1. Delegate to line manager to hire transition team. 2. Study IBM's 9-part series on upgrading systems. 3. Days into weeks into months of unusual ??? 4. Hold post mortem on cost overruns and continuing bugs. 5. Fire transition team and manager. 6. Hire consulting firm to manage systems. 7. Look for ways to cut costs elsewhere to cover P&L ass. 8. Hope nobody asks ??? 9. Loss.
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No, seriously.
How can a website continue to function by writing twee stories about moderate interest items like this one?
You'd think the bandwidth fees alone would reduce the profit margins to the point that only blogging would be cost effective.
Want to be fingerprinted?
Join the military.
Helps them identify the 1-2 kg of your remains after you step in the wrong place or stand under a 2000-lb bomb.
Being fingerprinted is not a big deal.
Unless you plan to be a criminal later in life.
Seriously. I feel better knowing they can identify me from the smudges on the inside of the trunk of the car I was buried in.
>And if that country only got where it was by exploiting people in other countries?
But we didn't. We got where we were by saving other countries' asses and having the resources to be self-sufficient.
Then some of us started exploiting foreign nations. Which some of us tried to stop. You think anyone in India cares if the U.S. goes down the tubes because they're stealing our technological treasures?
How long has the NYT been putting periods in the acronym "C.P.U.", and if it's not standard practice then how did it ever get past the eds?
This country created the technology and acts as its primary market.
To send the jobs benefitting from that effort to other countries is treasonous.
IMO.
Someone needs to learn something about the so-called "rights" of corporations before writing this sort of hagiographic dreck.
This is how it all started.
Bubble coming.
I've been crapping on OSS UI's for years.
I guess ESR had to steal from someone.
"Investors" don't think Massachusetts or Arizona or North Carolina when they go shopping for tech companies to invest in.
They believe first in "critical mass", and they think the best critical mass is in California.
They don't think about the cost structure of running a company in California.
Now, by "investors," I don't mean banks or venture capitalists. I mean stock-market speculators. The banks and VCs understand this facet of public stock picking, and since they are the suppliers to that retail market, they angle for position in it.
The result is, just having a CA address on your prospectus is worth 5-10% intangible boost.
Hence the boom then the bubble and now the inability to get a sniff from a VC in any of these locations that are much more attractive from a sincere management standpoint.
The economy is out of control, slamming from rail to rail. Someone needs to reign this in so that it becomes an economy again, instead of just a money pump into the pockets of a few people.
Why hasn't PHP been regression-tested against apache2?
Is there no regression test defined for PHP?
I find that hard to believe.
Are there a boatload of bugs?
That's a little more believable, but still an odd probability, given that there have been 49 revs of 2.0 so far...
Are they being entirely too persnickety about the possibility of minor yet embarassing bugs?
You tell me.
I occasionally visit on the order of one to two thousand pages per day. (Not all unique, but in a history list uniqueness shouldn't be enforced.)
This thing they've come up with isn't nearly powerful enough a compression of the information for me.
I remember being in the Yahoo MLB chatrooms in the fall of 2000, and this guy logged in on his Ricochet-mobile equipped laptop from Yankee stadium during an ALCS game.
It's too bad Ricochet died (blame the naff commercials). It rocked hard. But it's come back in a lighter, less ambitious, less vulnerable form.
Whenever you use Linux, you're using all the Linux users your distro supplier has used.
Simple as that.
You didn't sign up to be a backstabbing weasel, you signed up to code WAP servlets (or some other demeaning task in the wastebasket-dumping layers of power).
They're asking you to do more than they're paying you for, by having you fight amongst yourselves for their amusement.
So fuck 'em.
It costs about half your pay to replace you. If enough people quit, they'll realize they should just pay everyone 50% more and stop using them for managerial bloodsport.
The only proper response:
Start catching muggers or start collecting unemploymentage when we (the people who run the town, its being a democracy and all) replace your lazy ass.
(Hint: requires the actual fortitude to do your democratic duty; something most Americans wouldn't do unless you offered them a free beer.)
Microwaves are caused by oscillatory motion of a charge.
Photons are caused by (among other things) reduction in the energy level of an electron orbital in an atom. The stable oscillation of the electron about the atom causes no waves of any kind to be transmitted.
I can't think of two more different things.
Your trunk is all junk.
you are not getting it: there are microwaves photons. There is no distinction between visual light and microwaves, other then their frequency
You are not getting it. And probably won't until the third time you learn it.
Isaac Newton said,
I know light is corpuscular because I grind my own lenses.
He knew the mathematics of waves and how they are affected by running into uneven surfaces. He knew that in grinding a lens you never make it an even surface, you use finer and finer powders to make finer and finer scratches in the surface.
Grab a copy of Richard Feynman's QED: the Strange Theory of Light and Matter. He confirms Newton's suspicion on the corpuscular nature of light.
Then reread what I said about steam and swells.
Oh. By the way. Dirt is a liquid. In case you run out of things to wonder about.
No, the British realize they have an accent, and learn that to have no accent, you have to use the voice you sing with, because when you sing you have no accent unless you impute it deliberately.
Americans raised in certain parts of the Midwest (and the television newsreaders who learned to copy them) have perfectly unaccented speech, with no inflections of vowels, no hardening or softening of R's or other consonants depending on lexical position, etc.
N.B. I was disappointed that the "accent database" didn't focus on native English speakers. It would have been an order of magnitude more interesting. Especially if it were rendered as a map (seen them before with special symbols to show accent keys in various places, but never with a click-through playback of the samples, and too tired to see if maybe someone's got one on the web yet).
They didn't even know which building was the White House from the air.
I doubt they'd have had a chance of hitting the right building at any nuke plant.
They'd probably aim for the cooling towers.
Just as well.
Stupid terrorists.
If a terrorist has a device capable of destroying Hoover Dam, he'd be better served just nuking L.A.
The difference between photons and microwaves is kind of like the difference between steam and ocean swells.
(I said kind of.)
Your mistake:
Relying on the intricate parts of an operating system in the first place.
Upgrading from WinNT to WinXPPro:
1. Insert disk. Answer questions.
2. The usual ???
3. Profit.
Upgrading from WinNT to Linux:
1. Delegate to line manager to hire transition team.
2. Study IBM's 9-part series on upgrading systems.
3. Days into weeks into months of unusual ???
4. Hold post mortem on cost overruns and continuing bugs.
5. Fire transition team and manager.
6. Hire consulting firm to manage systems.
7. Look for ways to cut costs elsewhere to cover P&L ass.
8. Hope nobody asks ???
9. Loss.
Take a look at the photo of the actual X-43.
All the pics were of the Pegasus booster rocket which was dropped from a B-52. You can't even resolve the X-43 in those photos.
That X-43 is smaller than most of the bombs that B-52 has dropped in its lifetime.