I went to college, was there for 4 years (that was the way the course was set up). After 3 years I almost dropped out. I felt I had learned all I was going to learn at that place. I was talked into remaining there another year. That last year was totally finals-orientated. "Finals" turned out to be totally rote-knowledge based, something which rather surprised me.
Yes, the last year was pretty much a waste of time. Nothing I picked up during that time actually turned out to be of any use, apart maybe from the degree itself - something which I have never needed since. The preceding (third) year - *that* was loaded with useful information.
I live in Germany. They have this "tax" on various devices / media such as: writeable CDs, CD/DVD burners, printers (!), I can't remember what else. That does not stop them going for people they think are file-sharing, copying content or whatever.
Absolute parasites. The government are just as bad for forgetting who they are supposed to be representing and going along with this theft.
RFC 3514 dates from 2003, and would not really be of much help in hiding things. RFC 2549 dates from 1999 and was successfully used for a demonstration in late April 2001 ("ping" was implemented).
Given the common roots of Christianity and Islam, you could just as easily be making a case for that half-wit down in Florida being a Satanist. One thing he is not is 'tolerant'.
It appears that this reactor was poorly designed in the first place (the technology was new for them and they did not know what they were doing). If they had known what they were doing, they would have worried more about Tsunamis. It also appears that the company operating it had a *very* cosy relationship with the people responsible for safety. Used elements were simply left on site and had been for years. The safety people apparently did not bother coming around and actually checking.
Recent news indicated they were on top of the problem. Nope, the news was apparently manipulated.
I hope to hell their counterparts in California are learning from this debacle.
We have a mainframe application which relies on something from Java, some classes I think. An update to Java around three years ago broke that application for the clients which had appled the update. Two or three levels later (4-5 months?) it started working again.
My reason is different. When I am browsing with Windows - which is not very often - it is with XP without Admin rights. Up comes a warning saying 'There is a new Java version available'. Well, I don't have the rights so I switch to an account *with* rights and . . . nothing. Ok, I go to Settings/Java and tell it to upgrade. It ignores me.
Ok, I could go to the Oracle site and download the JVM directly, but wtf does the standard update mechanism simply not work? It did once.
I tried installing once without Admin rights and it happily downloaded the update to some place I never found before telling me that it was not able to do the update. If I go into XP in the first place it is normally because I want to do something specific which I can't get to work on Linux. I really can't be bothered trying to work out why some stupid software package feels it can't update itself.
I did not bother with the vaccine and a co-worker infected me just over a year ago. A couple of bad days and it was over. I have had hangovers which were worse (30-35 years ago!).
I am surprised no-one has prosecuted Mr Andrew Wakefield for murder.
So, just *where* did you buy this SIM card? At the very least, I'd expect people to become a lot more careful about where they buy their SIM cards if this story receives enough publicity.
Actually no. Slashdot is FOSS centered but also covers a multitude of other sins, look at the one on near-nuclear disasters in the US for example. My background knowledge of this particular story could be summarised as
Sun bought Star Office several years back
Sun released the Star Office sources and founded OpenOffice, while still releasing a non-free version under the original name
OpenOffice became more and more important over the years, but the lion's share of the development was funded by Sun
Oracle bought MySQL but this did not work out too well. A central problem was that MySQL is a free competitor to Oracle's main product (simplifying things a lot!!)
Oracle bought Sun, thus acquiring Java and OpenOffice. They were not the reason for the buyout.
loss?
That is simply general knowledge and does not adequately explain the background to this confrontation.
From what I was told back then (18-odd years ago), it had metastised so an operation would not have helped. I don't know (and never asked) what ruled Chemo out but she decided the diet was her only hope. Her kids were aged around 6 months and 2-3 years.
I think the doctor who suggested that course gave it a 20% chance of succeeding. That could hame meant "40% chance if you follow the diet, only 50% manage it" or it might have been "20% if you follow the diet". This is so long ago. I do remember the woman though, she was seriously tough.
Around 20 years ago, some friends of mine had a visit from friends of theirs, friends with two small kids.
A few months later I heard that the wife, the mother of those kids had advanced inoperable cancer and a matter of months to live. I don't know what kind of cancer. What she apparently did was to visit several doctors going for second opinions on alternative ways of fighting it. The road she took was dietary, I believe she cut virtually everything containing sugar out of her diet. This meant preparing everything herself so she knew exactly what she was eating. The next time I saw this woman was 9 years ago, her two tiny kids were teenagers. She herself was thin but not to the point of being emaciated, and was in full remission. She was still maintaining her diet with iron discipline.
The friends of mine have moved away and I don't get to see them much nowadays but I asked 5 years ago and she was still going strong.
What would prevent a doctor suggesting this route?
They don't know about it?
There is nothing in it for them? (that is being nasty)
Doctors are taught to heal by 'doing something'. That can be surgery or drugs. This does not fit the pattern. It is also completely passing responsibility for the treatment on to the patient.
Liability issues. If someone does not maintain their diet, will their relatives lie about it and sue? I imagine that is a major problem in the US.
The doctor who suggested this path told her that the chances of success were not that high. As far as she was concerned, 20% (this is what I remember from 18 years ago) was better than 0%.
I'm curious. Are these world class engineers from the US or are they imports? The US has been importing trained (and semi-trained via MIT et al) technical people for decades, offering higher pay and more opportunities than at home. Has that model broken down? Of course you have to be a bit careful, Chinese and Israelis (for example) have been convicted of spying in the past.
Dress codes were imposed? Some of the other stuff makes sense but that is just wacky.
I have worked at a place where most people did very little, people who were competent and effective tended to leave. We had programmers whose incompetence was legendary, and they frequently exceeded even those expectations (for those who know Cobol, one's nickname was "move space to filler"). Internal politics was something people spent a lot of time on, partially because they were totally overstaffed anyway. This was the DP department, I never looked at other departments and left as soon as I found something sensible.
This company provided a special service at a lower price to a well defined customer base and they pretty much had a captive audience. The service they provided was so bad that the customers decamped in large numbers to other 'outside' companies which were more expensive but at least provided the service. There was a general announcement on day on the loudspeakers that a TV program on the company was coming that evening and that it was all a pack of lies (this was back in the days of 3-4 TV channels), the program highlighted a lobbying group of people who had suffered through the lies and incompetence of this company. (I should never have signed that NDA!).
Well, they were taken over years ago. They had financial reserves equivalent to a small country so they could not go under. I should ask around some time and see if I know anyone who uses them, they do still exist.
A downloaded a brand new opensuse level around 20-December last year and am pretty sure it was 11.1. That is a l-o-n-g 8 months. I am grabbing it now and will put it up on my test machine when BitTorrent finishes.
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I went to college, was there for 4 years (that was the way the course was set up).
After 3 years I almost dropped out. I felt I had learned all I was going to learn at that place. I was talked into remaining there another year.
That last year was totally finals-orientated. "Finals" turned out to be totally rote-knowledge based, something which rather surprised me.
Yes, the last year was pretty much a waste of time. Nothing I picked up during that time actually turned out to be of any use, apart maybe from the degree itself - something which I have never needed since. The preceding (third) year - *that* was loaded with useful information.
So he "chooses his battles". Nothing wrong with that.
The prices for blank CDs and DVDs are here (in German, go to Page 3). They vary from 6.2 cents for CDs, to €3.473 for a Blu-Ray DVD.
A PC with a burner comes in at €13.65, not sure if they differentiate between CDs and DVDs.
With respect to printers, that is still being fought out in the courts.
I live in Germany.
They have this "tax" on various devices / media such as: writeable CDs, CD/DVD burners, printers (!), I can't remember what else.
That does not stop them going for people they think are file-sharing, copying content or whatever.
Absolute parasites. The government are just as bad for forgetting who they are supposed to be representing and going along with this theft.
Mow they just store it on their private facebook profiles.
Is that why Facebook is so 'all your data belongs to us' insecure?
disclaimer: That comment was not paid for or otherwise sponsored by Google. ;-)
RFC 3514 dates from 2003, and would not really be of much help in hiding things.
RFC 2549 dates from 1999 and was successfully used for a demonstration in late April 2001 ("ping" was implemented).
Given the common roots of Christianity and Islam, you could just as easily be making a case for that half-wit down in Florida being a Satanist. One thing he is not is 'tolerant'.
It appears that this reactor was poorly designed in the first place (the technology was new for them and they did not know what they were doing). If they had known what they were doing, they would have worried more about Tsunamis.
It also appears that the company operating it had a *very* cosy relationship with the people responsible for safety. Used elements were simply left on site and had been for years. The safety people apparently did not bother coming around and actually checking.
Recent news indicated they were on top of the problem. Nope, the news was apparently manipulated.
I hope to hell their counterparts in California are learning from this debacle.
You don't remember the /. story about Russia's most prolific spammer a couple of years back.
Hint: it was an obituary / whodunnit
We have a mainframe application which relies on something from Java, some classes I think. An update to Java around three years ago broke that application for the clients which had appled the update. Two or three levels later (4-5 months?) it started working again.
My reason is different.
When I am browsing with Windows - which is not very often - it is with XP without Admin rights. Up comes a warning saying 'There is a new Java version available'. Well, I don't have the rights so I switch to an account *with* rights and . . . nothing. Ok, I go to Settings/Java and tell it to upgrade. It ignores me.
Ok, I could go to the Oracle site and download the JVM directly, but wtf does the standard update mechanism simply not work? It did once.
I tried installing once without Admin rights and it happily downloaded the update to some place I never found before telling me that it was not able to do the update. If I go into XP in the first place it is normally because I want to do something specific which I can't get to work on Linux. I really can't be bothered trying to work out why some stupid software package feels it can't update itself.
I did not bother with the vaccine and a co-worker infected me just over a year ago. A couple of bad days and it was over. I have had hangovers which were worse (30-35 years ago!).
I am surprised no-one has prosecuted Mr Andrew Wakefield for murder.
So, just *where* did you buy this SIM card?
At the very least, I'd expect people to become a lot more careful about where they buy their SIM cards if this story receives enough publicity.
And when a number is changed? or added?
Nope. Locking them down to the APN was much better.
Presumably they know which numbers were being called, it can't be that difficult to find out who did this.
Elected?
Since when has China been holding elections?
Patent it, this has to be stopped.
Actually no.
Slashdot is FOSS centered but also covers a multitude of other sins, look at the one on near-nuclear disasters in the US for example.
My background knowledge of this particular story could be summarised as
That is simply general knowledge and does not adequately explain the background to this confrontation.
From what I was told back then (18-odd years ago), it had metastised so an operation would not have helped. I don't know (and never asked) what ruled Chemo out but she decided the diet was her only hope. Her kids were aged around 6 months and 2-3 years.
I think the doctor who suggested that course gave it a 20% chance of succeeding. That could hame meant "40% chance if you follow the diet, only 50% manage it" or it might have been "20% if you follow the diet". This is so long ago. I do remember the woman though, she was seriously tough.
Around 20 years ago, some friends of mine had a visit from friends of theirs, friends with two small kids.
A few months later I heard that the wife, the mother of those kids had advanced inoperable cancer and a matter of months to live. I don't know what kind of cancer. What she apparently did was to visit several doctors going for second opinions on alternative ways of fighting it. The road she took was dietary, I believe she cut virtually everything containing sugar out of her diet. This meant preparing everything herself so she knew exactly what she was eating. The next time I saw this woman was 9 years ago, her two tiny kids were teenagers. She herself was thin but not to the point of being emaciated, and was in full remission. She was still maintaining her diet with iron discipline.
The friends of mine have moved away and I don't get to see them much nowadays but I asked 5 years ago and she was still going strong.
What would prevent a doctor suggesting this route?
Best of luck to you and your family.
There is an option missing in the current /. The worst I've ever been in trouble w/ the law ... poll.
I'm curious. Are these world class engineers from the US or are they imports? The US has been importing trained (and semi-trained via MIT et al) technical people for decades, offering higher pay and more opportunities than at home. Has that model broken down?
Of course you have to be a bit careful, Chinese and Israelis (for example) have been convicted of spying in the past.
That falls over on so many levels.
What use was it in 1938 that people - by then dead - had screwed up the peace after WW1.
Oh, it was Ron Hubbard who founded Scientology, *not* Robert Heinlein. File under bad, bad, bad, misguided and ill-informed.
Ever heard of Knoppix?
It has NTFS drivers as well.
Dress codes were imposed? Some of the other stuff makes sense but that is just wacky.
I have worked at a place where most people did very little, people who were competent and effective tended to leave. We had programmers whose incompetence was legendary, and they frequently exceeded even those expectations (for those who know Cobol, one's nickname was "move space to filler"). Internal politics was something people spent a lot of time on, partially because they were totally overstaffed anyway. This was the DP department, I never looked at other departments and left as soon as I found something sensible.
This company provided a special service at a lower price to a well defined customer base and they pretty much had a captive audience. The service they provided was so bad that the customers decamped in large numbers to other 'outside' companies which were more expensive but at least provided the service. There was a general announcement on day on the loudspeakers that a TV program on the company was coming that evening and that it was all a pack of lies (this was back in the days of 3-4 TV channels), the program highlighted a lobbying group of people who had suffered through the lies and incompetence of this company. (I should never have signed that NDA!).
Well, they were taken over years ago. They had financial reserves equivalent to a small country so they could not go under. I should ask around some time and see if I know anyone who uses them, they do still exist.
A downloaded a brand new opensuse level around 20-December last year and am pretty sure it was 11.1. That is a l-o-n-g 8 months. I am grabbing it now and will put it up on my test machine when BitTorrent finishes.