They are arguing against Linux (and for Windows) based on the fact that Linux is open source and *MIGHT* be open to vulnerabilities? Are they saying Windows IS secure?
One Lean Manufacturing technique is to use video cameras to capture the manufacturing process. A quality engineer will analyze the tapes to identify areas in the process that create inefficiencies or excess waste, both in terms of materials and workers' time.
This was done fifty years ago. The only difference is the analysts would actually visit the factory floor.
I reluctantly switched from Mozilla to FF/TB just last week, as it seemed like Mozilla was a dead end. I installed Fedora Core 4 and Mozilla was nowhere to be found on the 4 CDs.
Any opinions on whether I should stick with Thunderbird or go with Evolution? I'm using KDE instead of Gnome.
When you're writing software for an air traffic control system, military avionics software, or an authentication system for the NSA, the delivered code can't afford to have bugs
So a few bugs in commercial avionics is acceptable?
Good. An appointed official should not be deciding the only file format that citizens of the state are allowed to use when dealing with the state. The state should use whatever software the majority of their citizens use, and not try and force them to use something else.
Public officials do that all the time when they choose Microsoft format. I can't acces the local county government website because it only supports IE.
Yahoo News admitted today that it planted a false story about Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his idea to spend billions of dollars on space fantasy Blue Origin. Yahoo also admitted to shorting the living fuck out of AMZN stock shortly before publishing the story. Yahoo spokesbot I. M. Outtahere said it was a desterate attempt to boost quarterly earnings in an otherwise lackluster year.
I had a day without Netflix a few months ago, so I went to BB (hadn't been there in almost a year). I rented Wild Orchid (my wife was out of town), hoping to see some almost softcore action. My wife gets home and a week later I get a notice saying the movie hadn't been returned. I went to the store and the guy says "Yeah it's in. That happens all the time. Computer error you know." So not only did my wife find out, I made wasted gas on a trip into town.
Imagine the PG&E supervisor who lives down the hill...
Besides, if it was really a life or death priority they would have had a crew out there on the weekend (it happened on a Friday night).
I also thought basic phone service was also a "need" as in being able to call 911. I know we had to condsider that when working on ISDN back in the 90's.
Do what I did. Move "upstream" from a power company supervisor. Last winter a tree fell during a storm and took out both power and phone lines. The power company was out at 8am Monday morning and had it fixed by noon, three trucks and 6 guys. (Of course only two guys were working, the other four sat in the trucks, reading newspapers and drinking coffee.)
The phone company sent one guy out on Thursday afternoon.
Fair and balanced? Technically, yes. They don't outright *lie*. They don't even particularly advertise one cause over another, except as-is necessary to generate viewer interest, positive OR negative.
I haven't read all the replies to this, and I am too lazy to provide a link, but Faux News DOES have a policy of lying, and they have won a court case over it. IIRC, a pair of reporters for Faux were working on a story about bovine growth hormone in milk. They were *urged* by FN to alter the story because it might piss off some advertisers. The reporters refused and were fired. They ultimately lost the case because the judge ruled that there was no law to prevent "news" organizations from lying.
At the risk of being here too little/too late, a day late/dollar short, and a little bit drunk, but didn't Jobs sign any contracts with the music industry calling for the pricing of the music?
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We tried that. We got tired of saying "mu-COS" dozens of times per day.
$ uname -r
2.6.14-1.1656_FC4.stk16
Nope.
They are arguing against Linux (and for Windows) based on the fact that Linux is open source and *MIGHT* be open to vulnerabilities? Are they saying Windows IS secure?
Someone hit these guys with a cluestick.
I'll bet if someone really tried they could put together enough acronyms based on the RCT to spell out RECTAL THERMOMETER. I'm too lazy.
Join CAT - the Committee to Abolish TLA's*.
*Three Letter Acronyms.
One Lean Manufacturing technique is to use video cameras to capture the manufacturing process. A quality engineer will analyze the tapes to identify areas in the process that create inefficiencies or excess waste, both in terms of materials and workers' time.
This was done fifty years ago. The only difference is the analysts would actually visit the factory floor.
I reluctantly switched from Mozilla to FF/TB just last week, as it seemed like Mozilla was a dead end. I installed Fedora Core 4 and Mozilla was nowhere to be found on the 4 CDs.
Any opinions on whether I should stick with Thunderbird or go with Evolution? I'm using KDE instead of Gnome.
So a few bugs in commercial avionics is acceptable?
I would have thought the most misspelled word was "misspelled".
Google doesn't like "mis-spelled".
You know, after they had that little problem with simple arithmetic on the new Pentium?
Leap Aside?
I should have been more liberal with the
's. Plus I left out the last line, which should have been "Forest ... trees."
Good. An appointed official should not be deciding the only file format that citizens of the state are allowed to use when dealing with the state. The state should use whatever software the majority of their citizens use, and not try and force them to use something else. Public officials do that all the time when they choose Microsoft format. I can't acces the local county government website because it only supports IE.
Yahoo News admitted today that it planted a false story about Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his idea to spend billions of dollars on space fantasy Blue Origin. Yahoo also admitted to shorting the living fuck out of AMZN stock shortly before publishing the story. Yahoo spokesbot I. M. Outtahere said it was a desterate attempt to boost quarterly earnings in an otherwise lackluster year.
It may not be the first or the best, but here it is.
Try to ignore it.
Oh and BTW, we bought up all the other FP's, and now you have to pay for this one.
I had a day without Netflix a few months ago, so I went to BB (hadn't been there in almost a year). I rented Wild Orchid (my wife was out of town), hoping to see some almost softcore action. My wife gets home and a week later I get a notice saying the movie hadn't been returned. I went to the store and the guy says "Yeah it's in. That happens all the time. Computer error you know." So not only did my wife find out, I made wasted gas on a trip into town.
Bastards.
Oh yeah, Netflix needs to work on the weekends.
What ever happened to Ada for DoD work?
Imagine the PG&E supervisor who lives down the hill...
Besides, if it was really a life or death priority they would have had a crew out there on the weekend (it happened on a Friday night).
I also thought basic phone service was also a "need" as in being able to call 911. I know we had to condsider that when working on ISDN back in the 90's.
Do what I did. Move "upstream" from a power company supervisor. Last winter a tree fell during a storm and took out both power and phone lines. The power company was out at 8am Monday morning and had it fixed by noon, three trucks and 6 guys. (Of course only two guys were working, the other four sat in the trucks, reading newspapers and drinking coffee.)
The phone company sent one guy out on Thursday afternoon.
when you've got a real life?
Who woulda thought to do something like that?
What's next, monthly billing based on credit card purchases?
Can Babelfish translate English to English?
Of course, latex is the way to go.
I haven't read all the replies to this, and I am too lazy to provide a link, but Faux News DOES have a policy of lying, and they have won a court case over it. IIRC, a pair of reporters for Faux were working on a story about bovine growth hormone in milk. They were *urged* by FN to alter the story because it might piss off some advertisers. The reporters refused and were fired. They ultimately lost the case because the judge ruled that there was no law to prevent "news" organizations from lying.
Hence the name Faux News is appropriate.
your vodka nurses you.
Try nursing this.
Nurse a cold, a kid, or even a gin and tonic, but never a vodka.
At the risk of being here too little/too late, a day late/dollar short, and a little bit drunk, but didn't Jobs sign any contracts with the music industry calling for the pricing of the music?