Oncall once a month for a week....ooooooh...that is sooooo harsh...
Seriously, that is hardly uncommon. In fact, I'd say the majority of places I've worked in the last 10 years have similar rotations, one week per 3-6 weeks. Granted, in most places I've been you only get paged a few times during that week. But one week per month is not that unusual.
No, they conquered the market by abusing their dominance of the desktop OS market to crush competition, by twisting the arm of vendors to make them ship all their computers with the MS inferior product preinstalled.
As a slightly less foam-mouthed observer, I'd note that IE was generally as good as Netscape, and it was free. That may be abuse of a monopoly - IANAL. However, even if it was not as good, the choice was either a free Chevy (IE) or an expensive Buick (Netscape). Consumers took free.
Ultimately, Netscape would have gone out of business anyway. If not Microsoft or Mozilla, someone else would have come along with a free web browser. Netscape's business model didn't really have a chance to succeed in the long term.
I wonder how trigger-happy the US Airforce might get if they stumbled across an SU-27 over US soil though...
Um, not at all? This isn't like 1917 and suddenly coming across a Fokker in Cornwall. It's 2009 and people file flight plans, and there are plenty of other Migs (17s, 21s, etc.) flying privately in the US.
Now, if it was shooting across the border and painted in Russian colors and not responding to radio that might a different point.
"Fifty percent of IT executives say their data centers are understaffed, and companies are still looking for more ways to cut costs, according to Symantec's latest 'State of the Data Center' report.
Gee, you'd almost think Symantec sold software for data center management...oh wait, they do.
The thing is though, I'd much rather a dog, mouse, or even a monkey suffer compared to a human.
I feel just the opposite. Beagles are wholely innocent creatures. Prisoners are not.
I would prefer we outlaw testing on animals and legalize testing on prisoners. And yes, thank you, I have thought that through.
If that is not acceptable, then I'd prefer we simply outlaw testing on animals completely and live with the reduced science. And before you ask, yes, I do have a disease that would likely benefit from further research. Happy to suffer with it and eventually die from it if it'd stop animal testing.
if u think polaroid ok, u not from boston the shafting of the employees that occured in the 90s by the imperial ceo was one of the great untold monstrositys of the decade
they now are known for creating voting machines that can't count, and in some cases have shown evidence of maliciousness in subverting the democratic process. At worst they are guilty of treason,
Do you need a towel to wipe that foam off your chin? For someone who evidently has never read the constitution (and its definition of treason), you sure are getting your bowels in an uproar over software bugs.
The Presario was junk, but do you judge all Fords based solely on the Pinto, all Chevys based solely on the Vega? Compaq made rock-solid business desktops and servers.
The article should have said: "Russian specialists will choose the strategy and then invite the world's leading space agencies to pay for it."
That's nice that the Russians want to think about these problems, but since they don't have the money or resources to actually DO anything about it, this is just a publicity stunt. It's on the same level as a few Caltech grad students sitting around and sketching out solutions on a whiteboard.
In your example, you have proven that some average survival time of your rats is 2.5hrs. That's a positive.
I'm curious why that would be considered proven.
You state that I can't prove that all rats die if put in 0-degree water for 4 hours, because even if I test 1,000,000 of them, rat # 1,000,001 might survive for 20 hours. However, you state above that I could say that the average survival time is 2.5 hours. How is that? What if rat #1,000,001 though 2,000,000 all survive for 20 hours? That would radically change the average time.
Seems like you can't prove a negative or any summary statistic.
The open source "competition" to Linux has been *BSD. If Linux had never existed, we'd all be running *BSD. End of story, really. And it would have happened quickly - if memory serves, the only reason Linux took off was because BSD was still in or had just gotten out of the long clusterfrack legal disputes. If there had been no Linux, *BSD would have picked up its steam, only a year or two later.
At some point, someone would have married the best parts of GNU with *BSD and you'd have RMS screaming about GNU/BSD.
HURD, for all practical purposes, has never existed.
Seriously. Set up a minefield, clearly label it on all sides, and there is no longer a need for all of this wall-building and camera-monitoring. The solution is just, humane, and obvious.
I know most of the liberal Slashdot community will react with "OMG! the children! What would Barbra say!" comments/mods, but really - what is wrong with a nation saying "this is our border, please respect it"?
PHP isn't BAD...it just isn't very GOOD either. The random inconsistencies in functions (strpos, str_split, substr - which is it? Do we put underbars between name parts or run them together?) and the way things are different from other languages for no apparent reason or benefit (as if just to be different) annoy programmers. There's a lot of "it feels tacked on" in PHP, and while other languages have things tacked on, they don't feel quite as awkward about it (e.g., Perl, Java).
To me, PHP feels like something the voodoo magician cooked up in his hut, while other languages feel like they came from the Wizard's Academy. It works, but it's no beauty.
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Oncall once a month for a week....ooooooh...that is sooooo harsh...
Seriously, that is hardly uncommon. In fact, I'd say the majority of places I've worked in the last 10 years have similar rotations, one week per 3-6 weeks. Granted, in most places I've been you only get paged a few times during that week. But one week per month is not that unusual.
You can always tell because they have that Sun logo in their favicon.
Uncertainty about Sun's future has cost over a billion dollars in lost sales in the past year.
Uh.. Citation needed, uhu.
No it isn't. This isn't Wikipedia.
No, they conquered the market by abusing their dominance of the desktop OS market to crush competition, by twisting the arm of vendors to make them ship all their computers with the MS inferior product preinstalled.
As a slightly less foam-mouthed observer, I'd note that IE was generally as good as Netscape, and it was free. That may be abuse of a monopoly - IANAL. However, even if it was not as good, the choice was either a free Chevy (IE) or an expensive Buick (Netscape). Consumers took free.
Ultimately, Netscape would have gone out of business anyway. If not Microsoft or Mozilla, someone else would have come along with a free web browser. Netscape's business model didn't really have a chance to succeed in the long term.
I wonder how trigger-happy the US Airforce might get if they stumbled across an SU-27 over US soil though...
Um, not at all? This isn't like 1917 and suddenly coming across a Fokker in Cornwall. It's 2009 and people file flight plans, and there are plenty of other Migs (17s, 21s, etc.) flying privately in the US.
Now, if it was shooting across the border and painted in Russian colors and not responding to radio that might a different point.
Problem is they cannot be operated in US airspace by a private pilot; excepting only when testing repairs or routine maintenance.
I'm curious why. Certainly, older generations of America fighter aircraft are permitted - Michael Dorn flies his F-86 Sabre all the time.
"Fifty percent of IT executives say their data centers are understaffed, and companies are still looking for more ways to cut costs, according to Symantec's latest 'State of the Data Center' report.
Gee, you'd almost think Symantec sold software for data center management...oh wait, they do.
The world would be much worse for us without medical research,
Ah, no, actually it would be the same as of 2009.
The thing is though, I'd much rather a dog, mouse, or even a monkey suffer compared to a human.
I feel just the opposite. Beagles are wholely innocent creatures. Prisoners are not.
I would prefer we outlaw testing on animals and legalize testing on prisoners. And yes, thank you, I have thought that through.
If that is not acceptable, then I'd prefer we simply outlaw testing on animals completely and live with the reduced science. And before you ask, yes, I do have a disease that would likely benefit from further research. Happy to suffer with it and eventually die from it if it'd stop animal testing.
if u think polaroid ok, u not from boston the shafting of the employees that occured in the 90s by the imperial ceo was one of the great untold monstrositys of the decade
u not speak English.
they now are known for creating voting machines that can't count, and in some cases have shown evidence of maliciousness in subverting the democratic process. At worst they are guilty of treason,
Do you need a towel to wipe that foam off your chin? For someone who evidently has never read the constitution (and its definition of treason), you sure are getting your bowels in an uproar over software bugs.
The Presario was junk, but do you judge all Fords based solely on the Pinto, all Chevys based solely on the Vega? Compaq made rock-solid business desktops and servers.
Yes. That's how brands work.
Sarbanes Oxley separation of roles requirements have been interpreted to mean that developers should not also be admins.
Sorry. there is no such thing in paragraph 404.
The article should have said: "Russian specialists will choose the strategy and then invite the world's leading space agencies to pay for it."
That's nice that the Russians want to think about these problems, but since they don't have the money or resources to actually DO anything about it, this is just a publicity stunt. It's on the same level as a few Caltech grad students sitting around and sketching out solutions on a whiteboard.
isn't it the duty of Yahoo! to provide accurate results to its customers?
No. It's just a search engine, for pity's sake. It's not like they took an oath to serve up truth, justice, and Western decay.
Since its been going on for 21years u might figure out if HE DOESNT PUBLISH, MOST BAD GUYS WILL DO IT FOREVER.
Security through obscurity vs full disclosure. Full disclosure always win for the customer, regular citizens and the greater good.
Obscurity always wins for the bad guys, companies who make money and governments.
ITS AS SIMPLE AS THAT
Please explain how this is so with, say, nuclear weapons technology.
In your example, you have proven that some average survival time of your rats is 2.5hrs. That's a positive.
I'm curious why that would be considered proven.
You state that I can't prove that all rats die if put in 0-degree water for 4 hours, because even if I test 1,000,000 of them, rat # 1,000,001 might survive for 20 hours. However, you state above that I could say that the average survival time is 2.5 hours. How is that? What if rat #1,000,001 though 2,000,000 all survive for 20 hours? That would radically change the average time.
Seems like you can't prove a negative or any summary statistic.
where I make critical calls on my personal Sprint phone instead of my ATT work phone
There really isn't any such thing as a "critical" call. It's just a cell phone call. It's probably not even important.
You will also notice however who many big Western companies use Motorola chips for instance.
Perhaps you should first notice that Motorola is based in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Most advanced? Debatable. Best? Not debatable.
The open source "competition" to Linux has been *BSD. If Linux had never existed, we'd all be running *BSD. End of story, really. And it would have happened quickly - if memory serves, the only reason Linux took off was because BSD was still in or had just gotten out of the long clusterfrack legal disputes. If there had been no Linux, *BSD would have picked up its steam, only a year or two later.
At some point, someone would have married the best parts of GNU with *BSD and you'd have RMS screaming about GNU/BSD.
HURD, for all practical purposes, has never existed.
Seriously. Set up a minefield, clearly label it on all sides, and there is no longer a need for all of this wall-building and camera-monitoring. The solution is just, humane, and obvious.
I know most of the liberal Slashdot community will react with "OMG! the children! What would Barbra say!" comments/mods, but really - what is wrong with a nation saying "this is our border, please respect it"?
Can we afford such massive expenditures of energy on such a frequent basis? And for how long? Is this limitless or what?
Yes. A long time. Nothing is limitless. Let us know if you have any further questions.
we already had a very good literacy prior to it (as in, almost as good as the US), and the XO itself might not even have been the cheapest option.
Fixed that for you.
PHP isn't BAD...it just isn't very GOOD either. The random inconsistencies in functions (strpos, str_split, substr - which is it? Do we put underbars between name parts or run them together?) and the way things are different from other languages for no apparent reason or benefit (as if just to be different) annoy programmers. There's a lot of "it feels tacked on" in PHP, and while other languages have things tacked on, they don't feel quite as awkward about it (e.g., Perl, Java).
To me, PHP feels like something the voodoo magician cooked up in his hut, while other languages feel like they came from the Wizard's Academy. It works, but it's no beauty.