Well said. People who bash a particular political party all day are just too lazy to think for themselves. To say that republicans are evil and the democrats are good(or vice versa) is just ill-informed. Each party does some boneheaded stuff, so all you can do is vote on a person by person basis using the qualifications that are important to you.
I would go nuts working at home from the lack of interaction. The best programming environment I have been in so far is one with lots of windows and space, but not neccessarily privacy. Sharing a decent size space with a few other programmers makes for a fun, active work environment. All that I feel is required are some windows and general monitor privacy.
What you say makes sense. I was wondering if/when all the exlusions to the DNCL were going to give it some trouble.
I like the idea of being able to sign up and not receive telemarketing calls, but the libertarian side of me doesn't like the idea of the govt. stepping in to an issue such as this. Is it really the governments job to regulate who can call your phone?
A VP of AMD was on Squawkbox this morning talking about how the AMD-64 was the first ever 64bit chip for Windows. He told Mark Haines that the expensive version was going to run around $700 for the chip. Mark asked him what was so special about 64bits v. 32bits and the VP just said that 64 is better because it is bigger. LOL
No one expects or predicts that at all, although it would have a disasterous effect on some life
I agree that no matter what happens some life forms on the planet will be affected. Hasn't this kind of thing been going on for all the planets living history though? I wonder if the human preservation tendency is screwing up the planets cycle of clearing the old to make way for the new? Of course it will eventually be our turn to be cleared away.
Have you ever dropped a salt-water fish into a fresh-water tank?
The ice caps wouldn't melt overnight though. Fish can adapt pretty well to slow changes in salinity of the water.
For example, I live near a lot of tidal lakes that contain a mix of fresh and salt water fish(wierd that you can catch a red fish then a large mouth bass back to back). The fresh water fish were put into the lake at creation and the salt water fish swam into the lake when it was created. The lake is now mostly fresh water because a one way run-off was set up to allow only water to flow back out of the lake into the ocean. Fresh and salt water fish seem to do ok in this lake now.
Um, release of CO2 into the atmosphere does increase the overall greenhouse retention of heat.
I don't think the parent poster was arguing with you there. He was just making a point that humans release only a tiny fraction of CO2 as compared to the planet itself.
C is the right approach, but your missing the final step.
C1) Offer the bandwith hog his old bandwidth for an additional fee. This puts the others on his segment in the same situation again, but the cable company doesn't really care because they are getting more money out of it.
Everyone eventually gets aggregated at some point. The only difference between cable and DSL is where the aggregation occurs. Do you think you have a private circuit to the/. servers?
You could have thought before posting and realized that Hummer makes two models, the H1 and H2. The H2 is the most popular consumer Hummer which is why I based my price on it. If you look the H2 does come in ~$50k.
As a side note, Hummers are actually one place where people buy them for a real reason...a TAX break. Because the Hummer is so heavy it falls under the rules for farm equipment. I believe that with a little creativity you can write off the entire purchase price of a Hummer. Of course you must be paying 50k in taxes to begin with for it to become useful;)
Could he please tell me which SUV that can climb a 1:1 (45 degree) dirt slope
I saw a show on Discovery which showed the militarys version of the Hummer doing some pretty crazy stuff. It did climb some crazy slopes, but I'm not sure what the surfaces was.
And could he please tell me why he believes that java is an advanced and difficult language?
Java as a language is easy. Something that I have just recently struggled with and figured out though was the setting up of a J2EE environment. The Sun tuturorial is way to complex to see just how to run a jsp or servlet. Now that I know how to do it, it is extremely easy. Finding nice straightforward information about doing simple J2EE things was a PITA. The apache tomcat site is what ended up showing me that way.
gotta compete. Intel had to come with something better(cost effective) than Athalon64. If there was no competition, we would be still using 8088/6
LOL, Intel is actually their largest competitor. Every time they release a new chip guess who they are primarily up against? People who are running other Intel chips.
Without AMD though, I'm sure Intel would keep their new chips at higher price points for a bit longer and milk the power user crowd for a little more money.
All this story reflects is that the stock market has rebounded somewhat. Most(all?) of the wealth that these people have is tied into various company stocks and when the crash happened they lost. Now that it has rebounded some they are winning again. I doubt any of them are looking in their bank accounts and seeing 1b more dollars than they saw the year before. I would be curious to see how their increase compares % wise with the average american who is invested in the stock market.
the only thing sweeter than money earned is money won.
So true, but let me add to it. Money won from someone else just like you is the purest form of what you describe. For example, winning at blackjack in a casino is fun, but beating people at the poker table is a rush that can't be matched.
What they teach in University seems to have such limited applicability in the real world as to be almost useless.
The problem is not what the university teaches, but rather who is doing the learning. I didn't go to college to learn a programming language, I can read books for that. I went to school to learn about computer science.
I understand your frustration with hiring fresh college graduates though. So many people went into CS because of the dotcom boom who really didn't have a love of technology. When I graduated(12/99) there was roughly a 50/50 split between people who just went and got a degree and people who lived technology and would be good at it.
Now that I'm back getting my MS(I would like to one day bring a "real world" experience class into my school) it frustrates me in class to see so many people who are just there for the degree. They don't really care about learning anything more than what is required. Seeing the local talent does keep me confident that I shouldn't have trouble finding a new job if the one I have ever goes belly up though:)
A massive tax cut for the rich (while killing off all sorts of social programs at the same time).
LMAO, just because the tax cuts help people who actually pay taxes doesn't mean they just went to the rich. Hell, I got a tax cut and don't think I'm anywhere near rich.
I never understand the bashing of either political party though. Each does some pretty stupid things(I'm sure someone else can list many of them) Both parties are converging to the same middle though. Differing from what the media wants you to think, Americans as a whole are not radically right or left(lets leave out some of the looney independents for now). Every person can find things that they agree with in either party. As we move forward each party will begin to put forth more and more candidates who are "moderate." These moderates will end up doing well because the average person can relate to their ideas and opinions.
Perhaps to drag around a gas-guzzling boat or other symbol of virility?
He probably has a boat to enjoy the many rivers and oceans that are around our country. I know this is a foreign concept to many/.ers, but there are things to do outside when the weather is nice.
Heh, I agree. I manage and maintain apps/dbs that insert upwards of ~300k rows per month. It does go back to the addage of using the right tool for the job though. mySQL probably works great as a web site backend or an MSAccess replacement. I haven't seen anything yet showing it could handle really large amounts of data though.
When I was a linux noob I had two boxes rooted(one was set up to email bomb mirablis, who blocked my IP and ended up reversing the bomb on my box because of returned mail which is how I noticed the problem...pretty damn funny when you think about it). I traced it back to security hole in wu-ftp. I have sinced learned:), but am fully aware that it is not if but when it will happen again. With that mindset I now have a plan to recover from a attack and am vigilant about looking for updates and possible attacks.
The shop I go to is pretty busy so what they do is dump the recent CDs in a big rack and the older stuff that hasn't sold in awhile will eventually get to the alphabetical order section. Problem is that if you want a CD that is in the least bit popular it never makes it to where it would be easy to find, so there:p
Microsoft is hardware accelerating their entire desktop
That sounds like a great use of time. Seriously how is hardware accelerating going to make me(or any other computer user) more productive?
MS is really stuck in a bind at this point. Operating systems have become(or are very close depending on what you do) commodity systems. Even office is headed that way with the free alternatives(although for the power user the free ones aren't there yet). What can MS do to get people to buy the next version of Windows?
Add more security features? Not really, anything they don't backport to previous versions is looked at as MS being evil.
Add more interoperability features? Hell no, that goes against everything that is MS.
Rewrite the system in.Net? Sounds cool, but what is that going to provide to the business user? the average user?
Hardware accelerate the desktop? Yep, that's it. I can see people lining up for this one.
The recent moves that MS has made toward piracy and the like show me that they are struggling. The main way they became dominant in the Offic arena was the fact that they did not go hardcore after the people who may have taken a copy home or are not quite licensed right at the office.(On a side note, does anyone acutally know someone who paid has paid the $300 for a new copy of Office XP from a comp store?) They are starting to turn the corner from a growth company to a value company, which is not a good corner to turn. Only growth companies can sustain multiples that most MS investors want. Hence, they are scrambling to come up with anything at this point. It will be interesting to see if they can innovate anything past Bob for their next windows release.
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Well said. People who bash a particular political party all day are just too lazy to think for themselves. To say that republicans are evil and the democrats are good(or vice versa) is just ill-informed. Each party does some boneheaded stuff, so all you can do is vote on a person by person basis using the qualifications that are important to you.
I would go nuts working at home from the lack of interaction. The best programming environment I have been in so far is one with lots of windows and space, but not neccessarily privacy. Sharing a decent size space with a few other programmers makes for a fun, active work environment. All that I feel is required are some windows and general monitor privacy.
What you say makes sense. I was wondering if/when all the exlusions to the DNCL were going to give it some trouble.
I like the idea of being able to sign up and not receive telemarketing calls, but the libertarian side of me doesn't like the idea of the govt. stepping in to an issue such as this. Is it really the governments job to regulate who can call your phone?
A VP of AMD was on Squawkbox this morning talking about how the AMD-64 was the first ever 64bit chip for Windows. He told Mark Haines that the expensive version was going to run around $700 for the chip. Mark asked him what was so special about 64bits v. 32bits and the VP just said that 64 is better because it is bigger. LOL
No one expects or predicts that at all, although it would have a disasterous effect on some life
I agree that no matter what happens some life forms on the planet will be affected. Hasn't this kind of thing been going on for all the planets living history though? I wonder if the human preservation tendency is screwing up the planets cycle of clearing the old to make way for the new? Of course it will eventually be our turn to be cleared away.
True, I'm more concerned about deforestation than I am about how much CO2 we let off into the air.
Have you ever dropped a salt-water fish into a fresh-water tank?
The ice caps wouldn't melt overnight though. Fish can adapt pretty well to slow changes in salinity of the water.
For example, I live near a lot of tidal lakes that contain a mix of fresh and salt water fish(wierd that you can catch a red fish then a large mouth bass back to back). The fresh water fish were put into the lake at creation and the salt water fish swam into the lake when it was created. The lake is now mostly fresh water because a one way run-off was set up to allow only water to flow back out of the lake into the ocean. Fresh and salt water fish seem to do ok in this lake now.
Um, release of CO2 into the atmosphere does increase the overall greenhouse retention of heat.
I don't think the parent poster was arguing with you there. He was just making a point that humans release only a tiny fraction of CO2 as compared to the planet itself.
C is the right approach, but your missing the final step.
C1) Offer the bandwith hog his old bandwidth for an additional fee. This puts the others on his segment in the same situation again, but the cable company doesn't really care because they are getting more money out of it.
Everyone eventually gets aggregated at some point. The only difference between cable and DSL is where the aggregation occurs. Do you think you have a private circuit to the /. servers?
You could have thought before posting and realized that Hummer makes two models, the H1 and H2. The H2 is the most popular consumer Hummer which is why I based my price on it. If you look the H2 does come in ~$50k.
I would like to let you know I have a 9 inch penis and I LOVE Java.
You just proved the original posters point that Java is preferred by men with small penises.
$100k Hummer
;)
I think fully loaded they go for about ~$50k
As a side note, Hummers are actually one place where people buy them for a real reason...a TAX break. Because the Hummer is so heavy it falls under the rules for farm equipment. I believe that with a little creativity you can write off the entire purchase price of a Hummer. Of course you must be paying 50k in taxes to begin with for it to become useful
Could he please tell me which SUV that can climb a 1:1 (45 degree) dirt slope
I saw a show on Discovery which showed the militarys version of the Hummer doing some pretty crazy stuff. It did climb some crazy slopes, but I'm not sure what the surfaces was.
And could he please tell me why he believes that java is an advanced and difficult language?
Java as a language is easy. Something that I have just recently struggled with and figured out though was the setting up of a J2EE environment. The Sun tuturorial is way to complex to see just how to run a jsp or servlet. Now that I know how to do it, it is extremely easy. Finding nice straightforward information about doing simple J2EE things was a PITA. The apache tomcat site is what ended up showing me that way.
gotta compete. Intel had to come with something better(cost effective) than Athalon64. If there was no competition, we would be still using 8088/6
LOL, Intel is actually their largest competitor. Every time they release a new chip guess who they are primarily up against? People who are running other Intel chips.
Without AMD though, I'm sure Intel would keep their new chips at higher price points for a bit longer and milk the power user crowd for a little more money.
All this story reflects is that the stock market has rebounded somewhat. Most(all?) of the wealth that these people have is tied into various company stocks and when the crash happened they lost. Now that it has rebounded some they are winning again. I doubt any of them are looking in their bank accounts and seeing 1b more dollars than they saw the year before. I would be curious to see how their increase compares % wise with the average american who is invested in the stock market.
P.S. Does anyone have a small army I can borrow?
Why do you need an army for France? Just tell them your coming and they will surrender.
the only thing sweeter than money earned is money won.
So true, but let me add to it. Money won from someone else just like you is the purest form of what you describe. For example, winning at blackjack in a casino is fun, but beating people at the poker table is a rush that can't be matched.
What they teach in University seems to have such limited applicability in the real world as to be almost useless.
:)
The problem is not what the university teaches, but rather who is doing the learning. I didn't go to college to learn a programming language, I can read books for that. I went to school to learn about computer science.
I understand your frustration with hiring fresh college graduates though. So many people went into CS because of the dotcom boom who really didn't have a love of technology. When I graduated(12/99) there was roughly a 50/50 split between people who just went and got a degree and people who lived technology and would be good at it.
Now that I'm back getting my MS(I would like to one day bring a "real world" experience class into my school) it frustrates me in class to see so many people who are just there for the degree. They don't really care about learning anything more than what is required. Seeing the local talent does keep me confident that I shouldn't have trouble finding a new job if the one I have ever goes belly up though
A massive tax cut for the rich (while killing off all sorts of social programs at the same time).
LMAO, just because the tax cuts help people who actually pay taxes doesn't mean they just went to the rich. Hell, I got a tax cut and don't think I'm anywhere near rich.
I never understand the bashing of either political party though. Each does some pretty stupid things(I'm sure someone else can list many of them) Both parties are converging to the same middle though. Differing from what the media wants you to think, Americans as a whole are not radically right or left(lets leave out some of the looney independents for now). Every person can find things that they agree with in either party. As we move forward each party will begin to put forth more and more candidates who are "moderate." These moderates will end up doing well because the average person can relate to their ideas and opinions.
Perhaps to drag around a gas-guzzling boat or other symbol of virility?
/.ers, but there are things to do outside when the weather is nice.
He probably has a boat to enjoy the many rivers and oceans that are around our country. I know this is a foreign concept to many
20K is no huge number in my book.
Heh, I agree. I manage and maintain apps/dbs that insert upwards of ~300k rows per month. It does go back to the addage of using the right tool for the job though. mySQL probably works great as a web site backend or an MSAccess replacement. I haven't seen anything yet showing it could handle really large amounts of data though.
and to this day none of them have gotten owned.
:), but am fully aware that it is not if but when it will happen again. With that mindset I now have a plan to recover from a attack and am vigilant about looking for updates and possible attacks.
Not that you know of anyway.
When I was a linux noob I had two boxes rooted(one was set up to email bomb mirablis, who blocked my IP and ended up reversing the bomb on my box because of returned mail which is how I noticed the problem...pretty damn funny when you think about it). I traced it back to security hole in wu-ftp. I have sinced learned
The shop I go to is pretty busy so what they do is dump the recent CDs in a big rack and the older stuff that hasn't sold in awhile will eventually get to the alphabetical order section. Problem is that if you want a CD that is in the least bit popular it never makes it to where it would be easy to find, so there :p
Microsoft is hardware accelerating their entire desktop
.Net? Sounds cool, but what is that going to provide to the business user? the average user?
That sounds like a great use of time. Seriously how is hardware accelerating going to make me(or any other computer user) more productive?
MS is really stuck in a bind at this point. Operating systems have become(or are very close depending on what you do) commodity systems. Even office is headed that way with the free alternatives(although for the power user the free ones aren't there yet). What can MS do to get people to buy the next version of Windows?
Add more security features? Not really, anything they don't backport to previous versions is looked at as MS being evil.
Add more interoperability features? Hell no, that goes against everything that is MS.
Rewrite the system in
Hardware accelerate the desktop? Yep, that's it. I can see people lining up for this one.
The recent moves that MS has made toward piracy and the like show me that they are struggling. The main way they became dominant in the Offic arena was the fact that they did not go hardcore after the people who may have taken a copy home or are not quite licensed right at the office.(On a side note, does anyone acutally know someone who paid has paid the $300 for a new copy of Office XP from a comp store?) They are starting to turn the corner from a growth company to a value company, which is not a good corner to turn. Only growth companies can sustain multiples that most MS investors want. Hence, they are scrambling to come up with anything at this point. It will be interesting to see if they can innovate anything past Bob for their next windows release.