Seconded. If you're a PRO, and your Show Control is important, then you have duplicates in place for everything which would stop the show.
I wonder if you can have the manual-firing and show control up at the same time, so that, although it runs automatically, there's someone still hitting the contacts to fire them by hand. Once they see the show-control computer is running right, they can stop doing it manually, but still follow the cues in-case it goes down again...
"M" *is* the Database. Billing, Scripts, and Imaging are issues, as they generally rely on Closed, Strictly Licensed and Expensive components. ( Medical Imaging is regulated by the FDA, as any problem can seriously screw up patient care... )
Consider for a moment, that the rules are only there to provide a metric, which is easily manipulable.
In this case, the TSA grades itself on "Number of items intercepted".
So by adding an entire class of items which can be taken away from fliers, they are enabling their ability to say, "We've INCREASED our effectiveness, we took away 10% *more* this quarter than previously. Give us more money."
"And in the coming years, law enforcement authorities around the world will be able to rely on iris patterns, face-shape data, scars and perhaps even the unique ways people walk and talk"...
It's a great way to profit from the coming federal contracts! It doesn't matter to them that the "Science" was debunked a century ago... We'll dress it up with some new buzzwords and make millions!
I've heard it dismissed in the past, but let me just ask you this question about technology development.
Are you carrying a "Communicator" on you right now?
40 years ago, it was a plot device. Today they give cellphones away to get you on the monthly-recurring-charges of the service plan.
We are blind to what the future brings. We can dream of what it may bring, but without action, those dreams can never come true.
I think, if we *really*, *really* had control of the government, and *really*, *really* considered Energy Independence to be a critical national security issue, than it would be a no-brainer to make the right moves so that our children's children don't need to deal with this bullshit.
They should have other, more interesting and exciting bullshit to deal with!
Nuclear Energy can be a good short-term stop gap, until we get the Solar Power/Beamed Microwave satellites up and running, but to not even consider it as a source of base-load power shows a disturbing ignorance.
He lays out a great argument for the Government to just GIVE MONEY AWAY as a reward for meeting technological goals ( Such as launching, servicing, and relaunching the same airframe (spaceframe? No, that's something else.. ) 4 times in 90 days, carrying some significant amount of cargo...
That's my off the cuff example, btw, and not any example invoked as part of Pournelle's discussion.
Structured right, we get heavy lift, and space based solar satellites, for a modest expense from the treasury, and develop American businesses and industries at the same time.
OR, we could just tell the Navy it's now responsible for not just Above and Below the seas, but above the atmosphere, too...
Consider this. NOW she gets to sue for Wrongful Termination, *and* a COURT gets to rule on whether ID is anything to be seriously considered by *any* educational organization.
IF the court rules that ID is NOT worthy of consideration in any Science Curriculum, then it's NOT something she would have to remain neutral on, as the Board shouldn't have ever been considering it.
You need to discuss this with the company lawyer, but it *could be* as straight-forward as cutting him a check for a grand or two, and sending it, with a letter over to him saying...
"We found your code snippet on the web, and it didn't say GPL on it. We'd like to use it."
I suspect we will find that the top percentile of expert users will instead eschew all the "innovations" and use a window manager like Ratpoison which presents each window as it's own FULL SCREEN entity, without lost real-estate to window borders, taskbars, and other widgets.
I think you can summarize this as "terminal user using modern GUI". Since obviously he knows to use his sudo password at the command prompt, my only possible conclusion is the he's never encountered it in a GUI and didn't recognize it as a sudo prompt.
YES! I installed gOS on a laptop to play around with it, and I got caught up with "Password for admin tasks? It didn't ask me for a password for admin tasks when I setup my user password. I don't think this *has* a root password." It took a while, until I realized it was a sudo prompt.
I don't know if the printed materials accompanying the product make this clear, but sticking a "SUDO" label on the dialog box might help.
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In a nutshell, this sums up perfectly Microsoft's traditional disconnect with their product's markets.
If the suicidal hijackers can't complete their mission because the Passengers stop them, then they attack is a failure.
They run the backbone. Which is why their partnership with the NSA is so disturbing.
Seconded. If you're a PRO, and your Show Control is important, then you have duplicates in place for everything which would stop the show.
I wonder if you can have the manual-firing and show control up at the same time, so that, although it runs automatically, there's someone still hitting the contacts to fire them by hand. Once they see the show-control computer is running right, they can stop doing it manually, but still follow the cues in-case it goes down again...
Of course, then people could see that the important columns are missing.
"M" *is* the Database. Billing, Scripts, and Imaging are issues, as they generally rely on Closed, Strictly Licensed and Expensive components. ( Medical Imaging is regulated by the FDA, as any problem can seriously screw up patient care... )
Available via a FOIA request, excepting some showstopping components, of course.
Two Words: Joint Stereo
As a default, it's the worst possible choice.
It seems that FLAC does the job quite nicely.
Consider for a moment, that the rules are only there to provide a metric, which is easily manipulable.
In this case, the TSA grades itself on "Number of items intercepted".
So by adding an entire class of items which can be taken away from fliers, they are enabling their ability to say, "We've INCREASED our effectiveness, we took away 10% *more* this quarter than previously. Give us more money."
http://spacesolarpower.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/final-sbsp-interim-assessment-release-01.pdf
Long story short, if we get off our asses, in 50 years we can have energy independence, AND cheap access to space.
Isn't burying things in "Fine Print" evidence of Bad Faith on behalf of the party authoring the contract.
Strangely enough, so does Terry Pratchett...
"And in the coming years, law enforcement authorities around the world will be able to rely on iris patterns, face-shape data, scars and perhaps even the unique ways people walk and talk"...
It's a great way to profit from the coming federal contracts! It doesn't matter to them that the "Science" was debunked a century ago... We'll dress it up with some new buzzwords and make millions!
The working group http://spacesolarpower.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/final-sbsp-interim-assessment-release-01.pdf
has laid out plans for 10% of baseload by 2050.
I've heard it dismissed in the past, but let me just ask you this question about technology development.
Are you carrying a "Communicator" on you right now?
40 years ago, it was a plot device. Today they give cellphones away to get you on the monthly-recurring-charges of the service plan.
We are blind to what the future brings. We can dream of what it may bring, but without action, those dreams can never come true.
I think, if we *really*, *really* had control of the government, and *really*, *really* considered Energy Independence to be a critical national security issue, than it would be a no-brainer to make the right moves so that our children's children don't need to deal with this bullshit.
They should have other, more interesting and exciting bullshit to deal with!
Bingo.
Nuclear Energy can be a good short-term stop gap, until we get the Solar Power/Beamed Microwave satellites up and running, but to not even consider it as a source of base-load power shows a disturbing ignorance.
I laughed when they called a barcode scanner "High Tech".
Google Jerry Pournelle and X-Prizes.
He lays out a great argument for the Government to just GIVE MONEY AWAY as a reward for meeting technological goals ( Such as launching, servicing, and relaunching the same airframe (spaceframe? No, that's something else.. ) 4 times in 90 days, carrying some significant amount of cargo...
That's my off the cuff example, btw, and not any example invoked as part of Pournelle's discussion.
Structured right, we get heavy lift, and space based solar satellites, for a modest expense from the treasury, and develop American businesses and industries at the same time.
OR, we could just tell the Navy it's now responsible for not just Above and Below the seas, but above the atmosphere, too...
Just wait until you see what the NEXT totalitarian to hold office does, now that Bush has lowered the bar....
Sheesh. Nerds, Geeks, Wherefore art thou???
Consider this. NOW she gets to sue for Wrongful Termination, *and* a COURT gets to rule on whether ID is anything to be seriously considered by *any* educational organization.
IF the court rules that ID is NOT worthy of consideration in any Science Curriculum, then it's NOT something she would have to remain neutral on, as the Board shouldn't have ever been considering it.
You need to discuss this with the company lawyer, but it *could be* as straight-forward as cutting him a check for a grand or two, and sending it, with a letter over to him saying...
"We found your code snippet on the web, and it didn't say GPL on it. We'd like to use it."
I suspect we will find that the top percentile of expert users will instead eschew all the "innovations" and use a window manager like Ratpoison which presents each window as it's own FULL SCREEN entity, without lost real-estate to window borders, taskbars, and other widgets.
It's a Zen thing, you just wouldn't understand.
Since you're not paying the Microsoft License, you don't need to raise your prices accordingly.
Therefore your products can sell for LESS than those which require a Microsoft License, and you are more competitive on the marketplace.
e.g.: Asus eeePC, Everex
YES! I installed gOS on a laptop to play around with it, and I got caught up with "Password for admin tasks? It didn't ask me for a password for admin tasks when I setup my user password. I don't think this *has* a root password." It took a while, until I realized it was a sudo prompt.
I don't know if the printed materials accompanying the product make this clear, but sticking a "SUDO" label on the dialog box might help.