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The cool part of this service (and there are competitors) is the ability to bring up VM's on demand for whatever either automated or manually. Cool! This is perfect for that botnet I've been meaning to build...;)
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was designed to fight organized crime, but in recent years more than 100 times as many civil as federal RICO cases have been filed.
Well, if the feds can't be bothered to prosecute most things that they should... that's how the numbers end up, right?
Beyond Australia, New Zealand, and parts of South-East Asia, the southern hemisphere is largely less developed in all kinds of ways than the north. This plays out in lots of areas international organizations like the UN deal with. It's nifty that the 'net reflects it, but not particularly surprising.
I must say that while my august brethren are recovery-minded, the list of things from which they desire recovery most certainly does not include alcohol or any other things they may enjoy ingesting.
I'm relatively monolingual, and while I'm proud of my English skills (I write and edit with PhD's pretty regularly, and they don't point and laugh derisively at me) I'm ashamed of my overall knowledge of language, and I know it holds me back somewhat in life and my career.
I took a grand total of 2 years of Spanish in high school, long ago and far away, so I've got some Spanish, but it's very rusty. My German, French, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese and Hawaiian are even more minimal. And I'm limited to greetings in Russian, Arabic, Swahili, Luganda, Ankole, Turkish, Hindi, Maori, Cook Islander, Korean and some others.
I work in a field where the world's top facility complexes use English and/or Spanish. I live and work somewhere English, Hawaiian and Japanese are all widely spoken, with speakers of Chinese, Korean and Tagalog also easy to find. I collaborate regularly with people in France. And I attend conferences where simultaneous translation occurs in up to six languages - English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian.
Improving my skills in any of those languages has value to me, the people I work with, and the people I work for. And I mean value in a basic dollars-and-cents, professional advancement way.
Depends on whether it met my needs as well as or better than my current setup.
I'd like something smaller, lighter and preferably tougher than my black MacBook. But I need to be able to type (fast), get photos onto it from my DSLR, and burn stuff to DVDs. That might be a lot to ask of a "newton ii"
I've fallen asleep on the job in IT at least once.
I haven't kissed any co-workers, and given the co-workers I've had, the idea squicks me.
I've since escaped from pure IT and work freakish schedules in research, some of which actually take it as a given that I will sleep.
e.g. Arrive at work, get ferried to another location (1 hour, sleep allowed), eat, get ferried another half hour (sleep allowed), then rotate 1 hour on, 1 hour off (sleep allowed) for 4-5 cycles, then ferried back to base (90 minutes, sleep allowed).
Agreed - nothing is really a threat to Microsoft's market share at this point.
And on the other hand, when it comes to security, usability, and technology, some will say that OSX and Linux aren't on Vista's tail, but miles ahead of it.
Or the VLBA, a 'world-sized' very long baseline interferometer. Yeah... although I wouldn't really call it "world-sized" since the maximum baseline is only 5000 miles or so.:)
(I work up the hill from the westernmost VLBA dish.)
Needles = unconsciousness for me, and I don't thing something resembling a barcode scanner will have the same result. Now if they can just apply this to everything else doctors wanna stick me for...
That's why there are, ta-dah! "transport" planes. Like a C-5. Or a C-17. One of those can probably carry a lot more than 6 missiles. Bombers are designed to transp... OOPS, did I drop that on you? things, not to deliver them from point A to point B intact with nobody getting hurt.
You don't put a cruise missile on a B-52 because you need to ship it somewhere. You do it because you want to make some kind of point.
Islam is a religion, a set of beliefs and ideas. Not a person. Make it "Fuck Muslims" and you're talking about its followers you've got hate speech (well, unless they're cute muslimahs and you mean it in a good way?) but I have a hard time parsing dissing a religion or set of beliefs itself as being hate speech.
Yes, it's a fine line, but it's possible for me to think various religions, beliefs and ideas are utter crap without translating that into going out and harming their practitioners. (And I simply don't have the time to do that anyway.)
I'm (non-teaching) graduate-level support staff in astronomy at a state university known for its graduate-level astronomy program, and from what I see among the post-docs, professors and staff I work with, both at the university and elsewhere through collaborations, I think Apple's market share in some of the sciences is significantly better than one-in-six laptops, and has been for the last few years. A friend who did database work for an observatory told me of going to an ADASS conference a couple years ago, and getting looks of pity because he had the only non-Mac laptop in the room.
Why is this the case? It's not about iPods and it's not about Vista. It's about UNIX, X, and Boot Camp/Parallels/VMWare. The professor who used to have a Sparc, a PC and a PPC Mac in his office now just does his number-crunching and scientific visualization on an 8-core Mac Pro with dual 30" displays, and takes a MacBook Pro places with him. (I'm low on the totem pole, so I have a plain black MacBook.)
What's really amazed me lately is that this isn't just a US thing. I work near a major Japanese facility, so there are always Japanese scientists around. For years, they've always had these cute little Panasonic/Toshiba/Sony/Sanrio/whoever laptops that we never see at stores in the US (except at Shirokiya in Honolulu, I guess). Earlier this month, I actually worked with three of them one night, and they brought 2 laptops with them - both Macs. I never thought I'd ever see any "American" brand become that popular with the Japanese scientists.
But I can't seem to find The Pirate Bay's figures for how many users they have, or how many billion tracks have been downloaded. Are they keeping track? It'd make it a lot easier to compare to Apple's numbers for iTunes.
Although there are some Microsoft updates out for stuff I've got on my MacBook, I haven't downloaded them, and my Mac Skype has been acting up. I think I'll trust Skype's own statements to the effect that there's a glitch in some algorithm on their back-end.
Implying that its not surprising for CIA employees to have interests outside of work. Wouldn't "fringe" interests tend to be viewed poorly during the checks for a security clearance, though? Along with gambling, poor credit, etc?
I had a 401(k) somewhere. I don't remember which investment company it was with, or what former employer of mine it correlated to, or anything. Anyway, I rolled it into an IRA I had, along with some other old accounts. It went well - except for the investment company leaving a balance of about $0.11 in the 401(k) account.
They now spend about $0.75 every quarter to mail me a thick statement telling me whether my balance has fallen to $0.10, risen to $0.12, or whatever.
I realize that informing them would be the merciful thing to do, but my sense of ethics isn't that overdeveloped, so I let nature take its course.
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The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was designed to fight organized crime, but in recent years more than 100 times as many civil as federal RICO cases have been filed.
Well, if the feds can't be bothered to prosecute most things that they should... that's how the numbers end up, right?
If only there were some way for you - or someone else - to correct that simple error!
Beyond Australia, New Zealand, and parts of South-East Asia, the southern hemisphere is largely less developed in all kinds of ways than the north. This plays out in lots of areas international organizations like the UN deal with. It's nifty that the 'net reflects it, but not particularly surprising.
I must say that while my august brethren are recovery-minded, the list of things from which they desire recovery most certainly does not include alcohol or any other things they may enjoy ingesting.
I'm relatively monolingual, and while I'm proud of my English skills (I write and edit with PhD's pretty regularly, and they don't point and laugh derisively at me) I'm ashamed of my overall knowledge of language, and I know it holds me back somewhat in life and my career.
I took a grand total of 2 years of Spanish in high school, long ago and far away, so I've got some Spanish, but it's very rusty. My German, French, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese and Hawaiian are even more minimal. And I'm limited to greetings in Russian, Arabic, Swahili, Luganda, Ankole, Turkish, Hindi, Maori, Cook Islander, Korean and some others.
I work in a field where the world's top facility complexes use English and/or Spanish. I live and work somewhere English, Hawaiian and Japanese are all widely spoken, with speakers of Chinese, Korean and Tagalog also easy to find. I collaborate regularly with people in France. And I attend conferences where simultaneous translation occurs in up to six languages - English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian.
Improving my skills in any of those languages has value to me, the people I work with, and the people I work for. And I mean value in a basic dollars-and-cents, professional advancement way.
Well heck, if it's "news" every time there's not an explanation for something... excuse me, I've got a few thousand peer-reviewed papers to go write.
Or have they decided on a mechanism for white dwarves exceeding the Chandrasekhar mass before blowing themselves up?
Depends on whether it met my needs as well as or better than my current setup.
I'd like something smaller, lighter and preferably tougher than my black MacBook. But I need to be able to type (fast), get photos onto it from my DSLR, and burn stuff to DVDs. That might be a lot to ask of a "newton ii"
I've fallen asleep on the job in IT at least once.
I haven't kissed any co-workers, and given the co-workers I've had, the idea squicks me.
I've since escaped from pure IT and work freakish schedules in research, some of which actually take it as a given that I will sleep.
e.g. Arrive at work, get ferried to another location (1 hour, sleep allowed), eat, get ferried another half hour (sleep allowed), then rotate 1 hour on, 1 hour off (sleep allowed) for 4-5 cycles, then ferried back to base (90 minutes, sleep allowed).
The phrase "sweater meat" does not exist without reason, sir.
Agreed - nothing is really a threat to Microsoft's market share at this point.
And on the other hand, when it comes to security, usability, and technology, some will say that OSX and Linux aren't on Vista's tail, but miles ahead of it.
(I work up the hill from the westernmost VLBA dish.)
Needles = unconsciousness for me, and I don't thing something resembling a barcode scanner will have the same result. Now if they can just apply this to everything else doctors wanna stick me for...
That's why there are, ta-dah! "transport" planes. Like a C-5. Or a C-17. One of those can probably carry a lot more than 6 missiles. Bombers are designed to transp... OOPS, did I drop that on you? things, not to deliver them from point A to point B intact with nobody getting hurt.
You don't put a cruise missile on a B-52 because you need to ship it somewhere. You do it because you want to make some kind of point.
Islam is a religion, a set of beliefs and ideas. Not a person. Make it "Fuck Muslims" and you're talking about its followers you've got hate speech (well, unless they're cute muslimahs and you mean it in a good way?) but I have a hard time parsing dissing a religion or set of beliefs itself as being hate speech.
Yes, it's a fine line, but it's possible for me to think various religions, beliefs and ideas are utter crap without translating that into going out and harming their practitioners. (And I simply don't have the time to do that anyway.)
I'm holding out for besting Hubble in ultraviolet.
Pass the SPF-100, wouldja?
The researchers I work with are interested in targets at z=0.03-0.08, which they consider "nearby." (Their targets aren't galaxies.)
That's 400 million to 1 billion light years.
Right around the corner.
z=0.20 is sufficiently distant that the restaurants don't even deliver.
I'm (non-teaching) graduate-level support staff in astronomy at a state university known for its graduate-level astronomy program, and from what I see among the post-docs, professors and staff I work with, both at the university and elsewhere through collaborations, I think Apple's market share in some of the sciences is significantly better than one-in-six laptops, and has been for the last few years. A friend who did database work for an observatory told me of going to an ADASS conference a couple years ago, and getting looks of pity because he had the only non-Mac laptop in the room.
Why is this the case? It's not about iPods and it's not about Vista. It's about UNIX, X, and Boot Camp/Parallels/VMWare. The professor who used to have a Sparc, a PC and a PPC Mac in his office now just does his number-crunching and scientific visualization on an 8-core Mac Pro with dual 30" displays, and takes a MacBook Pro places with him. (I'm low on the totem pole, so I have a plain black MacBook.)
What's really amazed me lately is that this isn't just a US thing. I work near a major Japanese facility, so there are always Japanese scientists around. For years, they've always had these cute little Panasonic/Toshiba/Sony/Sanrio/whoever laptops that we never see at stores in the US (except at Shirokiya in Honolulu, I guess). Earlier this month, I actually worked with three of them one night, and they brought 2 laptops with them - both Macs. I never thought I'd ever see any "American" brand become that popular with the Japanese scientists.
So... basically they're trying to make it as expensive as possible to produce?
So if I take a photo at, say, f/10 instead of my usual f/1.8, resulting in greater depth-of-field, this is revolutionary?
How can I patent this?
They might, yes.
But I can't seem to find The Pirate Bay's figures for how many users they have, or how many billion tracks have been downloaded. Are they keeping track? It'd make it a lot easier to compare to Apple's numbers for iTunes.
(Do people actually still use AT&T for anything other than iPhones?)
Although there are some Microsoft updates out for stuff I've got on my MacBook, I haven't downloaded them, and my Mac Skype has been acting up. I think I'll trust Skype's own statements to the effect that there's a glitch in some algorithm on their back-end.
I had a 401(k) somewhere. I don't remember which investment company it was with, or what former employer of mine it correlated to, or anything. Anyway, I rolled it into an IRA I had, along with some other old accounts. It went well - except for the investment company leaving a balance of about $0.11 in the 401(k) account.
They now spend about $0.75 every quarter to mail me a thick statement telling me whether my balance has fallen to $0.10, risen to $0.12, or whatever.
I realize that informing them would be the merciful thing to do, but my sense of ethics isn't that overdeveloped, so I let nature take its course.