Seriously, people, move on - in case you didn't notice, a Black man was elected President and has chosen a woman for his Secretary of State. The debate is over, racism is out.
If that could've ended the debate, it would have been over years ago. We've had a *black woman* as Secretary of State for years now. I guess she doesn't count, because she didn't run around talking about glass ceilings or breaking racial barriers. She just did her job and did it well, without drawing attention to her underclass status.
Racism won't end until the correct response to being unjustly called a racist is "Fuck off, dickhead."
There's also moocher racism. That's where someone of one of the declared 'oppressed' classes is on the constant lookout for something to be offended by.
There's also opportunistic racism. That's where the poverty pimps constantly wait for someone to be offended so they can swoop in and proclaim how they are defending the poor oppressed person.
As someone of neither the majority power class or the 'oppressed' power class, I find the constant "oh my, I'm so oppressed" to be mostly humorous.
What the parent was speaking of is basically RIP, and it would work fairly well up to the ISP's border routers. Everything would appear to be fairly flat between various end host inside the ISP's network, and then the hop count would get erratic. After the border routers, the RIP algorithm would be next to useless.
Except that in the real world, a client would be hacked to request from everyone that it can hear off. It will just be smart enough to request more from those that answer faster.
In the early nineties, I worked on a moving van. One job we had was to move the Jefferson-Pilot insurance company into a new building. They had a floor of nothing but filing cabinets full of 3"x5", carbon-copy, slips. For you youngsters*, carbon-copy slips are thin paper placed under a piece of carbon paper, placed under a document. It provided a way to record a second or third copy when you signed a document. Each one of those slips represented someone's insurance policy, and many of those slips got picked up off the floor (they just fell out).
Today, those thousands upon thousands of slips of paper can be digitized and kept on a couple of hard drives for instant access, or recorded to some more permanent media for long term storage. We're talking a couple of hard drives to keep up with, vs a floor of filing cabinets. There is the a new headache to deal with (maintaining the digital storage), but the effort to maintain a few thousand of yesterdays records will suffice to maintain billions of todays.
Companies stagnating or collapsing under the weight of their IT? Those companies could NOT have existed 30 years ago. The IT is the only thing that allowed them to get so big. They have problems for sure, but the easy problems are solved.
You don't find C to be readable? That sounds to me like a personal coding style problem. It is no hard to read or maintain than the TCL, perl, Java or C++ programs that I have to work with.
An important part of any analogy in teaching is to point out where the new differs from the analogy. The point of the analogy is to get your brain over to where the new stuff is. It is a bridge from old to new. The line is not "an electron is like a wave". The line is "an electron is like a wave, except..."
Except that the act of programming a computer DOES involve determining how the you will get up and read the thermometer. The math part is a major portion of software engineering. Other portions include: -deciding whether you will write code for calculating the temperature, or if you will hand it off to someone else (call a standard function or API) -deciding when or if the temperature reading given is to be believed. -how much precision do you have the processing capability to do, and how much precision is necessary.
The paper goes on about how analogies let us down by being to shallow and should thus be avoided. But my reading reveals that the paper is full of analogies that are to shallow to be useful. The paper ignores the fact that humans need a bridge between what they know and what they don't know.
Software is engineered. Most testing involves endpoints (just like analog object testing), because that DOES work for the most part. The term "bug" is used, because the root cause is not necessarily an error. We use analogies to teach, because that is the most effective way.
In short, the paper is the the typical navel-gazing elitist geek thinking the whole world looks like his basement.
Switch your company to GNUCash. Of course, you will need to know something about bookkeeping and accounting to hide your bonus in there like the C*Oes do.
(What? You didn't think you'd get anything more than a Jelly-of-the-Month club subscription for saving the company millions, did you?)
No. What's really needed is for the airports to regulate departure times between the various airlines. All the airlines want to schedule flights leaving at 8am and 6pm to service business travelers. All those flights need to arrive simultaneously at the hub airports and then leave again simultaneously.
The airports should auction off the departure window times to spread them out. The contention for resources would then be spread out. I can fly into KRDU at 10am, 3pm or midnight and often be the only plane in the airspace.
You need to read about how the ground based and satellite based radars work.
These are not active systems. They do not send out a powerful pulse and measure the reflection. These systems depend on a 'transponder'. The 'radar' (they need to stop calling it that) sends out a moderately powered interrogation signal. The airplane carries a transponder, that replies with a number.
When I fly VFR (visual flight rules), I set my transponder to respond with 1200. If my radio is broken, I set it to 7600. If I'm hijacked, I set it to 7400. If I want to disappear from the FAA completely, I turn it off.
The satellite system works the same, except there isn't an interrogation signal (I believe). The airplane just constantly transmits it's position.
Dude, nothing so complex is going on. It's pretty much just like a kid playing with LEGO. You see how something behaves, build something as close as possible, tinker until it works.
There's no science behind these robots, it's just trial and error plus some basic logic and dedication. Anybody with any sort of love for mechanics could build something like this. No matter how awesome it is.
And mathematical proofs are just moving symbols around and following a set of simple rules. Anybody with any sort of love for mathematics could prove Fermat's Last Theorem.
Just a piece of anecdote. During WWII, the designers of the Mustang, which arguably gave the Allied forces air superiority over Europe, were having a helluva time with the engine's cooling system. The aft located radiator intake was ingesting boundary layer air off the airplane's belly. The resultant turbulance was shielding much of the radiator. The simple solution was to move the intake away from the belly, and out of the boundary layer. As the story goes, a team of engineers were attempting to create various sorts of mechanisms to re-energize or smooth the air just ahead of the intake. Weeks and weeks went by without a workable solution, with German fighters still dominating and Allied bombers taking a heavy beating for lack of air support. Finally one of the old, crusty, and very respected mechanics working on the project spoke up and told them, "Just move the damn intake away from the belly and be done with it."
The point being, thinking about how something should be built and actually producing a working solution are two very different skills. Both are very important and both deserve our applause. You say that Wu just built a clockwork mechanism, but the fact remains that he built a clockwork mechanism. You say anyone can do it, but the fact remains that very few do. So few, in fact, that someone building such a clockwork mechanism attracts a lot of attention.
So, where does CUSA support come from? I can understand the freshman class being wild-eyed and stupid, but I would expect some maturity to set in by the time their senior year starts to roll around. If they are still wild-eyed and stupid during the senior year, I can only blame that on the faculty. Somebody didn't do their job.
Agreed. HOA's are the worst form of bottom feeding government. I have spent the last two years fighting them off as they've tried to assume more and more power. Part of the draw of the house I'm in was that the community had a weak HOA. But they've gone as far as trying to commandeer a large chunk of my land.
I wouldn't dare give them any more control than they already think they have.
So, the researchers know where the CnC is originating from. Chase the rats down their holes with flamethrowers. Expose the subnets and let us DDoS them till the service providers cry uncle.
Yes, it will probably take Estonia offline for a while, but eventually providers will get the clue that taking in criminals and scufflaws as clients is not profitable.
But does it have the production value of the singing bears at Chuck-ee Cheese? I am glad to see the Japanese are catching up, though. (I jest. I jest!!)
We're basically fucked now that big corporations know the government will print money for them.
vs. individuals knowing the government will print money for them?
It was so sad to see all the websites calculating which candidates tax plan would save you the most money? I guess elections have always been for sale, but I don't recall it being so blatant. This was the first time I've seen the price of a vote pegged at $1000(US) in a nationally televised political debate. It's as if the Titanic is sinking, and the officers were arguing over which shipmate should get the china vs the crystal.
We were fucked when the populace realized that they held the strings of the public purse.
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Seriously, people, move on - in case you didn't notice, a Black man was elected President and has chosen a woman for his Secretary of State. The debate is over, racism is out.
If that could've ended the debate, it would have been over years ago. We've had a *black woman* as Secretary of State for years now. I guess she doesn't count, because she didn't run around talking about glass ceilings or breaking racial barriers. She just did her job and did it well, without drawing attention to her underclass status.
Racism won't end until the correct response to being unjustly called a racist is "Fuck off, dickhead."
There's also moocher racism. That's where someone of one of the declared 'oppressed' classes is on the constant lookout for something to be offended by.
There's also opportunistic racism. That's where the poverty pimps constantly wait for someone to be offended so they can swoop in and proclaim how they are defending the poor oppressed person.
As someone of neither the majority power class or the 'oppressed' power class, I find the constant "oh my, I'm so oppressed" to be mostly humorous.
I note with jocularity that both examples you gave were half-breeds. As a mutt myself, I welcome our mixed-heritage overlords.
Time-Warner is still not going to give me more than 50k upstream.
What the parent was speaking of is basically RIP, and it would work fairly well up to the ISP's border routers. Everything would appear to be fairly flat between various end host inside the ISP's network, and then the hop count would get erratic. After the border routers, the RIP algorithm would be next to useless.
If that happens, either your neighbor is not a local peer, or the peering ISPs have some severely broken routers.
Except that in the real world, a client would be hacked to request from everyone that it can hear off. It will just be smart enough to request more from those that answer faster.
It just requires a traceroute to the handful of connections each client makes. Throw is a little routing protocol, and your in business against Cisco.
In the early nineties, I worked on a moving van. One job we had was to move the Jefferson-Pilot insurance company into a new building. They had a floor of nothing but filing cabinets full of 3"x5", carbon-copy, slips. For you youngsters*, carbon-copy slips are thin paper placed under a piece of carbon paper, placed under a document. It provided a way to record a second or third copy when you signed a document. Each one of those slips represented someone's insurance policy, and many of those slips got picked up off the floor (they just fell out).
Today, those thousands upon thousands of slips of paper can be digitized and kept on a couple of hard drives for instant access, or recorded to some more permanent media for long term storage. We're talking a couple of hard drives to keep up with, vs a floor of filing cabinets. There is the a new headache to deal with (maintaining the digital storage), but the effort to maintain a few thousand of yesterdays records will suffice to maintain billions of todays.
Companies stagnating or collapsing under the weight of their IT? Those companies could NOT have existed 30 years ago. The IT is the only thing that allowed them to get so big. They have problems for sure, but the easy problems are solved.
You don't find C to be readable? That sounds to me like a personal coding style problem. It is no hard to read or maintain than the TCL, perl, Java or C++ programs that I have to work with.
I still prefer my work in C for pure readability.
An important part of any analogy in teaching is to point out where the new differs from the analogy. The point of the analogy is to get your brain over to where the new stuff is. It is a bridge from old to new. The line is not "an electron is like a wave". The line is "an electron is like a wave, except..."
Except that the act of programming a computer DOES involve determining how the you will get up and read the thermometer. The math part is a major portion of software engineering. Other portions include:
-deciding whether you will write code for calculating the temperature, or if you will hand it off to someone else (call a standard function or API)
-deciding when or if the temperature reading given is to be believed.
-how much precision do you have the processing capability to do, and how much precision is necessary.
The paper goes on about how analogies let us down by being to shallow and should thus be avoided. But my reading reveals that the paper is full of analogies that are to shallow to be useful. The paper ignores the fact that humans need a bridge between what they know and what they don't know.
Software is engineered. Most testing involves endpoints (just like analog object testing), because that DOES work for the most part. The term "bug" is used, because the root cause is not necessarily an error. We use analogies to teach, because that is the most effective way.
In short, the paper is the the typical navel-gazing elitist geek thinking the whole world looks like his basement.
People?! Really? The Republicans got rid of most of them. What was left just disbursed, after they got their man elected.
Switch your company to GNUCash. Of course, you will need to know something about bookkeeping and accounting to hide your bonus in there like the C*Oes do.
(What? You didn't think you'd get anything more than a Jelly-of-the-Month club subscription for saving the company millions, did you?)
No. What's really needed is for the airports to regulate departure times between the various airlines. All the airlines want to schedule flights leaving at 8am and 6pm to service business travelers. All those flights need to arrive simultaneously at the hub airports and then leave again simultaneously.
The airports should auction off the departure window times to spread them out. The contention for resources would then be spread out. I can fly into KRDU at 10am, 3pm or midnight and often be the only plane in the airspace.
You need to read about how the ground based and satellite based radars work.
These are not active systems. They do not send out a powerful pulse and measure the reflection. These systems depend on a 'transponder'. The 'radar' (they need to stop calling it that) sends out a moderately powered interrogation signal. The airplane carries a transponder, that replies with a number.
When I fly VFR (visual flight rules), I set my transponder to respond with 1200. If my radio is broken, I set it to 7600. If I'm hijacked, I set it to 7400. If I want to disappear from the FAA completely, I turn it off.
The satellite system works the same, except there isn't an interrogation signal (I believe). The airplane just constantly transmits it's position.
Dude, nothing so complex is going on. It's pretty much just like a kid playing with LEGO. You see how something behaves, build something as close as possible, tinker until it works.
There's no science behind these robots, it's just trial and error plus some basic logic and dedication. Anybody with any sort of love for mechanics could build something like this. No matter how awesome it is.
And mathematical proofs are just moving symbols around and following a set of simple rules. Anybody with any sort of love for mathematics could prove Fermat's Last Theorem.
Just a piece of anecdote. During WWII, the designers of the Mustang, which arguably gave the Allied forces air superiority over Europe, were having a helluva time with the engine's cooling system. The aft located radiator intake was ingesting boundary layer air off the airplane's belly. The resultant turbulance was shielding much of the radiator. The simple solution was to move the intake away from the belly, and out of the boundary layer. As the story goes, a team of engineers were attempting to create various sorts of mechanisms to re-energize or smooth the air just ahead of the intake. Weeks and weeks went by without a workable solution, with German fighters still dominating and Allied bombers taking a heavy beating for lack of air support. Finally one of the old, crusty, and very respected mechanics working on the project spoke up and told them, "Just move the damn intake away from the belly and be done with it."
The point being, thinking about how something should be built and actually producing a working solution are two very different skills. Both are very important and both deserve our applause. You say that Wu just built a clockwork mechanism, but the fact remains that he built a clockwork mechanism. You say anyone can do it, but the fact remains that very few do. So few, in fact, that someone building such a clockwork mechanism attracts a lot of attention.
So, where does CUSA support come from? I can understand the freshman class being wild-eyed and stupid, but I would expect some maturity to set in by the time their senior year starts to roll around. If they are still wild-eyed and stupid during the senior year, I can only blame that on the faculty. Somebody didn't do their job.
I've never met someone who is pro-abortion. What do they look like?
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No. But in Soviet Russia, Sarah Palin knows you.
Agreed. HOA's are the worst form of bottom feeding government. I have spent the last two years fighting them off as they've tried to assume more and more power. Part of the draw of the house I'm in was that the community had a weak HOA. But they've gone as far as trying to commandeer a large chunk of my land.
I wouldn't dare give them any more control than they already think they have.
Ok. You got me. I thought I was being funny. Please moderate my original post as: Sad. So very, very sad.
So, the researchers know where the CnC is originating from. Chase the rats down their holes with flamethrowers. Expose the subnets and let us DDoS them till the service providers cry uncle.
Yes, it will probably take Estonia offline for a while, but eventually providers will get the clue that taking in criminals and scufflaws as clients is not profitable.
But does it have the production value of the singing bears at Chuck-ee Cheese? I am glad to see the Japanese are catching up, though. (I jest. I jest!!)
We're basically fucked now that big corporations know the government will print money for them.
vs. individuals knowing the government will print money for them?
It was so sad to see all the websites calculating which candidates tax plan would save you the most money? I guess elections have always been for sale, but I don't recall it being so blatant. This was the first time I've seen the price of a vote pegged at $1000(US) in a nationally televised political debate. It's as if the Titanic is sinking, and the officers were arguing over which shipmate should get the china vs the crystal.
We were fucked when the populace realized that they held the strings of the public purse.