And for anyone who would argue with that statement, I have 2 words: Roland Burris
The only person that needed to vote for Roland Burris was Blagojevich. While he was Governor he was entitled by law to appoint the new senator, and there was no legal remedy to stop it. I don't see any of Obama's fingerprints on it. Or do you actually believe what you hear on talk radio.
We've never been at a place where a racist wasn't a serious candidate for the supreme court. This one is less racist than most. She just doesn't happen to be a white man, which is what's really got you spooked.
Seriously, who didn't think that the plan all along was for the gov't to seize control of the financial sector and dictate wages? The writing's on the wall, folks. Liberty is almost dead.
Typical overreaction, AC! If you had actually come to any of the meetings, the plan was for the financial sector to seize control of the government. And it's worked pretty damn well twenty-six years.
Now we've had a little bump in the road, and if the plan is going to continue we need to appease the people for a year or two before we get back on track. Look it up! It's "Phase B Contingency 2a" under Paragraph 9: Preventing oligarchicide.
In short: if the code is BSD-licensed, the and you GPL it, you're saying "I will share these changes with my own community, not with the community who I got the code from in the first place". Which is just a bit of an asshole thing to do.
The most important difference between the BSD license and the GPL is that the BSD license doesn't require you to share your changes with anybody. If you've got a problem with someone not giving back to the community, then you shouldn't be using the BSD license in the first place.
Alfred Nobel notwithstanding I'm not sure I'd really classify economics as a science
Alfred Nobel didn't. There is no Nobel Prize in economics. There's just the "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel"
Was the decision to use the Taurus to keep launch costs down? Launching from Vandenberg, I'm assuming they were aiming for a steep inclination. Just wondering if anyone knows why they didn't go with a Delta II....
I'd guess that yes, launch costs were the main determinant of the vehicle used. You can probably launch two Taurus XLs for the cost of a Delta II launch. And in this case they may.
Not knowing anything except the time of the launch, I'd guess they were going for a polar sun synchronous orbit with nodes at 6am and 6pm.
Anyone who takes medical advice from Jenny McCarthy deserves to have their lineage ended.
It would be nice if it worked that way. Unfortunately the way it actually works is better demonstrated by the 2008 measles outbreak in San Diego. Some of the victims were too young to have gotten their measles vaccination.
The idiot parents who took their unvaccinated child to Switzerland and brought him back with the measles should feel free to stick to their beliefs.
They should also be forced to compensate their victims for any medical care, including lost time at work, and any costs incurred by the city, state, medical facilities, and the airlines because of their beliefs put a lot people at risk and cost the rest of us a lot of money.
instead of/usr/home/you you have c:\Documents and Settings\you.
'/usr/home/you' is considered a bad idea./usr is a local system directory and shouldn't have user accounts in it. '/home/you' is more the norm.
And I can see which version of Windows you run. Your user directory might be 'c:\' or it might be 'c:\windows\profiles\you' or it might be 'c:\profiles\you' or it might be 'c:\Documents\you' or it might be 'c:\Documents and Settings\you'. The directory above it might be hidden, or it might be visible.
I don't intend to download the beta, but I wouldn't be surprised if in Windows 7 user accounts have been moved again. 'c:\the place where we sometimes keep user accounts\screw you\you\'
It's a real shame that companies presently developing private space vehicles are more concerned with just getting people far up enough to enjoy freefall (for dumb prices) instead of really looking towards space.
I really don't care how the commercialization of space happens - in a capitalist society that's how you get things done. I just want it to happen and we can work out the details later.
Yes, the libertarian dream. Open up space to commercial development and the next thing you know we'll have colonies on Mars.
The details your didn't work out are that space travel is damn expensive, subject to sudden enormous losses, and provides no immediate return on investment. There's no comparison in complexity between the suborbital commercial programs and getting someone into and out of orbit.
Getting government out of the space exploration business would mean the end of space exploration. The only commercially viable enterprises that would continue would be communications satellites and a privatized GPS constellation with a subscription pricing model aimed at the military and the airlines.
The beloved market would quickly decide that human presence in space isn't worth the investment.
ISTR that in the South Korean economic collapse in the early part of this decade (or was it the late 90s) the South Korean government mandated that alternate Saturdays were to be added to the work week. I don't think that extra pay was included.
Let's hope that the U.S. government doesn't pick up on that one.
If you're hourly, you can often get away with a "40 hour" work week that lasts less than 45 hours. If you're salaried, whether in government or not, you will be expected to get your job done whether it takes 10 hours a week or 168 hours a week. If you don't get it done, in this economic environment they will find someone who will get it done.
That said, my wife works a 40 hour week that's supposed to be 4 days per week, 10 hours per day. Usually that translates to 8am to 7pm daily. She say's she'd never go back to 5x8.
Unfortunately we car pool to work, so I work 8 to 7 as well. And then I usually put in 4 or 5 hours on Friday, and a few hours each on Saturday and Sunday. The difference.... You guessed it. She's in an hourly position that isn't exempt from overtime rules. I'm in a salaried position that is exempt from overtime rules. And to top it off, she makes about 20% more than I do because she is in an industry that competes to get workers. I'm in an industry that has more workers than it can afford.
All in all 4-5x9 probably works OK, and if you're in an urban area, it's 10% less time that you'll sit in traffic. Maybe more because you either be commuting early or late. If the extra hour in the work day is cutting into your sleep, your commute is way too long. If it's cutting into your TV watching, then get TiVo and watch on your new day off.
What many people argue for, in terms of privatization, is getting the government out of the business of actually staffing the show. Why do we have such a large DMV? Why not farm the maintenance out to a private company that has to go through a bidding process?
"Private business is always more efficient" is also one of the lies that never gets challenged. For anyone who has been on the buying end of a large contract can tell you is that "low bid" is equivalent to "low quality", "inexperienced workers," "behind schedule", and "over budget" and that no amount of oversight changes that. The reason why is obvious to anyone: profit motive.
For any job with a finite time frame, there is going to be a minimum cost required for engineers, workers and materials. Now add 10% profit, and you've just made the job more expensive than it would have been for the government to do it. Now add some government engineers and managers to oversee the work. You've just added more cost to a price tag that is already too high.
Now throw in competition to be the low bidder. Well, a company isn't going to cut their profit, so the only options are to cut workers below the minimum necessary to meet schedule, cut material quality, and to pay off the inspectors not to notice how you're screwing the state. Then when it becomes apparent that you won't meet schedule, you start asking for more money. What are they going to do, stop the job? Hire someone else? You've already earned your profit on what you've done so far, what do you care if they give the rest of the job to someone else?
TFP also claims that PG&E is getting rich off CFLs. I'm curious at how the PG&E program that allows me to buy a $2 bulb that would cost $12 out of state is making them rich.
I can't imagine using either in a professional environment. Why hire a running back if you're going to break his legs with a sledge hammer on opening day?
3. Linux and Windows systems don't check firmware levels before updates at all. AFAIK, Solaris patches don't even automatically check firmware levels or block installs, but I might be wrong.
That's because Linux, Windows, and Solaris systems don't assume that there is anything but minimal firmware functionality. They check for the most common chipset and processor bugs and work around them when necessary. Since Apple controls the firmware of Macs, they both assume and require much more functionality.
It's virtually a truism that control of the operating environment results in code that is environment specific. Unless management bashes to developers over the head with this screw up at every release, expect to see more of this, not less.
I had a Bell's Palsy. Went to several acupuncturists and a chiropractor, and it was gone very quickly.
My father had Bell's Palsy back in the 1970s. He went to a doctor that told him he didn't know what was causing it, and that it might go away, and it might not, and that if it wasn't getting worse he should give it a week or two before trying anything more. It went away quickly without any treatment.
When I get a cold, I go right away to my acupuncturist. Seven to ten days later it's like I never had a cold at all.
I'd be interested to know if anyone wants to make a case that AFP is necessary, but my personal opinion is that it's only worth using if you're running an OSX server.
I can personally make a case for it. My home network contains no Macs new enough to run OSX and includes a Mac SE and an Apple IIgs that talk through a localtalkethertalk gateway.
Now you could claim that I'm an idiot or a masochist for wanting my IIgs to talk to my NAS box. But if I shut down the SE and the IIgs, my IBM XT would be the only machine on the localtalk network.... And that just wouldn't be right.
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The only person that needed to vote for Roland Burris was Blagojevich. While he was Governor he was entitled by law to appoint the new senator, and there was no legal remedy to stop it. I don't see any of Obama's fingerprints on it. Or do you actually believe what you hear on talk radio.
We've never been at a place where a racist wasn't a serious candidate for the supreme court. This one is less racist than most. She just doesn't happen to be a white man, which is what's really got you spooked.
Ca...ear...m...ow?
Just like Vista to get today's date wrong by several months after a crash.
In that case wouldn't we choose GPLv2 rather than "later"?
Unless you happen to be carrying the "Blessed Scroll of the Barrister," you will need to roll 15 or better on 2d6.
Typical overreaction, AC! If you had actually come to any of the meetings, the plan was for the financial sector to seize control of the government. And it's worked pretty damn well twenty-six years.
Now we've had a little bump in the road, and if the plan is going to continue we need to appease the people for a year or two before we get back on track. Look it up! It's "Phase B Contingency 2a" under Paragraph 9: Preventing oligarchicide.
Yeah, and starting the house on fire is OK, because we would need to heat it if it weren't on fire. Think of all the money we'll save!
In short: if the code is BSD-licensed, the and you GPL it, you're saying "I will share these changes with my own community, not with the community who I got the code from in the first place". Which is just a bit of an asshole thing to do.
The most important difference between the BSD license and the GPL is that the BSD license doesn't require you to share your changes with anybody. If you've got a problem with someone not giving back to the community, then you shouldn't be using the BSD license in the first place.
Alfred Nobel notwithstanding I'm not sure I'd really classify economics as a science
Alfred Nobel didn't. There is no Nobel Prize in economics. There's just the "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel"
Was the decision to use the Taurus to keep launch costs down? Launching from Vandenberg, I'm assuming they were aiming for a steep inclination. Just wondering if anyone knows why they didn't go with a Delta II....
I'd guess that yes, launch costs were the main determinant of the vehicle used. You can probably launch two Taurus XLs for the cost of a Delta II launch. And in this case they may.
Not knowing anything except the time of the launch, I'd guess they were going for a polar sun synchronous orbit with nodes at 6am and 6pm.
Unless things have changed drastically at Vandenberg, the launch operations were also run by Orbital Sciences with range support by the USAF.
It would be nice if it worked that way. Unfortunately the way it actually works is better demonstrated by the 2008 measles outbreak in San Diego. Some of the victims were too young to have gotten their measles vaccination.
The idiot parents who took their unvaccinated child to Switzerland and brought him back with the measles should feel free to stick to their beliefs.
They should also be forced to compensate their victims for any medical care, including lost time at work, and any costs incurred by the city, state, medical facilities, and the airlines because of their beliefs put a lot people at risk and cost the rest of us a lot of money.
instead of /usr/home/you you have c:\Documents and Settings\you.
'/usr/home/you' is considered a bad idea. /usr is a local system directory and shouldn't have user accounts in it. '/home/you' is more the norm.
And I can see which version of Windows you run. Your user directory might be 'c:\' or it might be 'c:\windows\profiles\you' or it might be 'c:\profiles\you' or it might be 'c:\Documents\you' or it might be 'c:\Documents and Settings\you'. The directory above it might be hidden, or it might be visible.
I don't intend to download the beta, but I wouldn't be surprised if in Windows 7 user accounts have been moved again. 'c:\the place where we sometimes keep user accounts\screw you\you\'
It's a real shame that companies presently developing private space vehicles are more concerned with just getting people far up enough to enjoy freefall (for dumb prices) instead of really looking towards space.
I really don't care how the commercialization of space happens - in a capitalist society that's how you get things done. I just want it to happen and we can work out the details later.
Yes, the libertarian dream. Open up space to commercial development and the next thing you know we'll have colonies on Mars.
The details your didn't work out are that space travel is damn expensive, subject to sudden enormous losses, and provides no immediate return on investment. There's no comparison in complexity between the suborbital commercial programs and getting someone into and out of orbit.
Getting government out of the space exploration business would mean the end of space exploration. The only commercially viable enterprises that would continue would be communications satellites and a privatized GPS constellation with a subscription pricing model aimed at the military and the airlines.
The beloved market would quickly decide that human presence in space isn't worth the investment.
ISTR that in the South Korean economic collapse in the early part of this decade (or was it the late 90s) the South Korean government mandated that alternate Saturdays were to be added to the work week. I don't think that extra pay was included.
Let's hope that the U.S. government doesn't pick up on that one.
If you're hourly, you can often get away with a "40 hour" work week that lasts less than 45 hours. If you're salaried, whether in government or not, you will be expected to get your job done whether it takes 10 hours a week or 168 hours a week. If you don't get it done, in this economic environment they will find someone who will get it done.
That said, my wife works a 40 hour week that's supposed to be 4 days per week, 10 hours per day. Usually that translates to 8am to 7pm daily. She say's she'd never go back to 5x8.
Unfortunately we car pool to work, so I work 8 to 7 as well. And then I usually put in 4 or 5 hours on Friday, and a few hours each on Saturday and Sunday. The difference.... You guessed it. She's in an hourly position that isn't exempt from overtime rules. I'm in a salaried position that is exempt from overtime rules. And to top it off, she makes about 20% more than I do because she is in an industry that competes to get workers. I'm in an industry that has more workers than it can afford.
All in all 4-5x9 probably works OK, and if you're in an urban area, it's 10% less time that you'll sit in traffic. Maybe more because you either be commuting early or late. If the extra hour in the work day is cutting into your sleep, your commute is way too long. If it's cutting into your TV watching, then get TiVo and watch on your new day off.
What many people argue for, in terms of privatization, is getting the government out of the business of actually staffing the show. Why do we have such a large DMV? Why not farm the maintenance out to a private company that has to go through a bidding process?
"Private business is always more efficient" is also one of the lies that never gets challenged. For anyone who has been on the buying end of a large contract can tell you is that "low bid" is equivalent to "low quality", "inexperienced workers," "behind schedule", and "over budget" and that no amount of oversight changes that. The reason why is obvious to anyone: profit motive.
For any job with a finite time frame, there is going to be a minimum cost required for engineers, workers and materials. Now add 10% profit, and you've just made the job more expensive than it would have been for the government to do it. Now add some government engineers and managers to oversee the work. You've just added more cost to a price tag that is already too high.
Now throw in competition to be the low bidder. Well, a company isn't going to cut their profit, so the only options are to cut workers below the minimum necessary to meet schedule, cut material quality, and to pay off the inspectors not to notice how you're screwing the state. Then when it becomes apparent that you won't meet schedule, you start asking for more money. What are they going to do, stop the job? Hire someone else? You've already earned your profit on what you've done so far, what do you care if they give the rest of the job to someone else?
Insightful.
TFP also claims that PG&E is getting rich off CFLs. I'm curious at how the PG&E program that allows me to buy a $2 bulb that would cost $12 out of state is making them rich.
I can't imagine using either in a professional environment. Why hire a running back if you're going to break his legs with a sledge hammer on opening day?
3. Linux and Windows systems don't check firmware levels before updates at all. AFAIK, Solaris patches don't even automatically check firmware levels or block installs, but I might be wrong.
That's because Linux, Windows, and Solaris systems don't assume that there is anything but minimal firmware functionality. They check for the most common chipset and processor bugs and work around them when necessary. Since Apple controls the firmware of Macs, they both assume and require much more functionality.
It's virtually a truism that control of the operating environment results in code that is environment specific. Unless management bashes to developers over the head with this screw up at every release, expect to see more of this, not less.
I had a Bell's Palsy. Went to several acupuncturists and a chiropractor, and it was gone very quickly.
My father had Bell's Palsy back in the 1970s. He went to a doctor that told him he didn't know what was causing it, and that it might go away, and it might not, and that if it wasn't getting worse he should give it a week or two before trying anything more. It went away quickly without any treatment.
When I get a cold, I go right away to my acupuncturist. Seven to ten days later it's like I never had a cold at all.
Believing bullets don't kill doesn't make the guy pulling the trigger any less a murderer.
I'd be interested to know if anyone wants to make a case that AFP is necessary, but my personal opinion is that it's only worth using if you're running an OSX server.
I can personally make a case for it. My home network contains no Macs new enough to run OSX and includes a Mac SE and an Apple IIgs that talk through a localtalkethertalk gateway.
Now you could claim that I'm an idiot or a masochist for wanting my IIgs to talk to my NAS box. But if I shut down the SE and the IIgs, my IBM XT would be the only machine on the localtalk network.... And that just wouldn't be right.