Next week is also National Astronomy Week, with National Astronomy Day scheduled for Saturday, April 24th. Dust off those old scopes and binocs and get outside!
...although only by inference. The one thing that keeps us from moving to OO tomorrow is the lack of a user-friendly, quick-learning-curve, brain-dead-reporting database application. And tools to get all the *&^$%% mission-critical.mdb's running around this office converted.
And in the case of an operating system, the context is tool. For instance, my job is not installing and configuring the latest OS. My job is, however, writing memos and TPS reports. Now, forty years ago, memos were typed on an IBM Selectric 2. Nobody had one at home - they were prohibitively expensive. And no one expected the TPS report to be completed outside business hours. Then, twenty years ago, DOS and WordStar replaced the Selectric. But since then, the memo-generating tools and TPS report tools haven't really changed. They certainly haven't even gotten any faster, as my brain and hands tend to be the limiting factor.
The innovation in hardware, however, has changed the tool context. Now my boss wants the TPS report on his desk in Tokyo on Sunday. So I complete it on a PDA connected through the Dupont Circle Starbucks wi-fi. Very little software innovation - it's still Word and TCP/IP. The change in context is hardware (and firmware). Hardware innovation has made the specialized tool an ubiquitous tool.
Where can a software company add value in the 'ubiquitous tool' context now? Security. Microsoft recognizes this; they are rushing to try to show value in that context. They have failed so far, some would say miserably. It remains to be seen whether they will succeed.
You are a cretin, and an anonymous one at that. Do a little research, if you can type. Try googling 'Valerie Lakey'.
" Why not against the idiot who damaged the pool drain? The company had nothing to do with this."
And therin lies the point. The drain was known to be dangerous with the grille removed. The company knew this. They also knew 4 and 5 year olds could remove the grille. This wasn't an 'idiot' removing the grile - it was a kid. They had paid damages on similar incidents MORE THAN TEN TIMES BEFORE. No urban legend here - google 'Valerie Lakey'.
The company didn't tell anyone, warn anyone, they didn't do anything. If you think that Sta-Rite "were not to blame" then there is no hope for you. Vote for President W Shithead again, get your fucking tort 'reform' and when your kid is mangled, or it's your ass on the line, good luck.
OK, asswipe. No guesses. Here's how Sen. Edwards made his dirty trial lawyer millions:
A 5-year-old girl was playing in a community pool in Wake County, NC. She sat on an uncovered pool drain (someone had removed the cover earlier that day) and had most of her large intestine pulled out through her anus by the suction, before the pumps were turned off and she could be rescued. She will be fed through a stomach tube for the rest of her life.
The maker of the pool initially offered the family $100,000. Edward's firm discovered at least twenty other identical accidents involving that same drain cover design... then when the company offered another lowball settlement ($250,000), the family went to court and won $25 million... only 1/3 of the maximum possible award.
The case was a classic one of corporate indifference to a known defective product. The victims were (every one of them) children. How exactly do you think the courts should have decided in this case? Do you think 'tort reform' would have saved any of those children from disfigurement or death?
"I indescriminantly send my resume to recruiter I can, if my skills match what they're looking for or not. I get a lot of calls from confused recruiters, but after about a month of doing it for six to ten hours a day, I usually end up getting my resume into the right hands, or hopefully several pairs of right hands. Works every time. Just takes a little patience. There's a lot of competition out there these days."
Combine that with "HR has to keep all resumes on file for $FOO years" and the only people who are happy are the document management and NAS salespeople.
Modified Newtonian Dynamics, proposed by Milgrom in 1983:
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~ssm/mond/faq.html
Essentially 'fitting' Newton's laws to what we observe. Equally dicey, in my opinion, to 'dark matter'. But I'm not a physicist - just the son of one. And Dad does low-temperature, not cosmology, so what the hell do I know?
If you give a digital watch to someone who can't tell time, they are ok - unless the watch is broken. If the display reads 9:74 or 54:12, they will have no idea that it is malfunctioning.
You hit that nail on the head. Clinton's moral failings and mistakes were truly pedestrian and unremarkable.
Of course, I rather prefer my leaders to fuck one just constituent at a time, rather than fuck the whole country like the current one does. Takes them longer to get around to me, you see. But that's just my preference.
The majority of non-medical 'controlled substance' laws, including alcohol, are drafted by each state. That is why a Constitutional amendment was required - simply passing a law banning sale of alcohol would have interfered with inerstate commerce, states rights, etc., and would have been unconstitutional.
Currently, the federal government uses its not-inconsequential financial clout to keep those states in line that would de-criminalize any 'bad' drug. Look to California, Oregon, or DC to see what happens when medical marijuana or decriminalization initiatives are raised for public consideration...
Hmmmmm... the Red Cross/ Red Crescent has been in Baghdad since the early 1980's - and had never been bombed in those 23 years. Probably wouldn't have now, either, if the country hadn't been invaded and plunged into chaos by a foreign power.... Exactly who are you implying is 'evil' here?
McNealy, Ellison, Jobs - every one of them would behave exactly like Gates does if they had the same market position. They are all profit-first, stop-at-nothing, fuck-the-customer-if-you-have-to, market-domination-is-the-goal corporate bastards; don't ever forget that. The only place free software makes it into their 'vision' is as a steppingstone to monopoly on their terms.
Actually, the barriers to entry are quite low - Microsoft could publish their source tomorrow and be immediately included in the list of qualified vendors. However, they choose not to release the source - and that does not a monopoly make.
Judge Moore isn't a federal judge, correct. He is the Alabama State Supreme Court Chief Justice - an elected position. Which just goes to show you that maybe an elected judiciary isn't such a great idea either...
The framers of the Constitution did a pretty good job of placing an unelected judiciary, with carefully proscribed powers, to check the potential runaway legislation of an elected Congress. Works pretty well, if you ask me...
The "recent string of ssh vulnerabilties", while troubling, were only remote exploitable when privilege separation is turned OFF - a non-standard setting.
Which goes back to the whole issue of whether Windows is less secure - RPC communications run as a system or root account, NO privelege separation by default.
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Next week is also National Astronomy Week, with National Astronomy Day scheduled for Saturday, April 24th. Dust off those old scopes and binocs and get outside!
"Oh, you mean like OS/2 vs. Windows 95."
Probably more like Microchannel. Or maybe PC Junior...
Have you ever seen Boston Public??
People who base their opinions on TV shows obviously got a stellar primary and secondary 'edumacation'.
...although only by inference. The one thing that keeps us from moving to OO tomorrow is the lack of a user-friendly, quick-learning-curve, brain-dead-reporting database application. And tools to get all the *&^$%% mission-critical .mdb's running around this office converted.
And in the case of an operating system, the context is tool. For instance, my job is not installing and configuring the latest OS. My job is, however, writing memos and TPS reports. Now, forty years ago, memos were typed on an IBM Selectric 2. Nobody had one at home - they were prohibitively expensive. And no one expected the TPS report to be completed outside business hours. Then, twenty years ago, DOS and WordStar replaced the Selectric. But since then, the memo-generating tools and TPS report tools haven't really changed. They certainly haven't even gotten any faster, as my brain and hands tend to be the limiting factor.
The innovation in hardware, however, has changed the tool context. Now my boss wants the TPS report on his desk in Tokyo on Sunday. So I complete it on a PDA connected through the Dupont Circle Starbucks wi-fi. Very little software innovation - it's still Word and TCP/IP. The change in context is hardware (and firmware). Hardware innovation has made the specialized tool an ubiquitous tool.
Where can a software company add value in the 'ubiquitous tool' context now? Security. Microsoft recognizes this; they are rushing to try to show value in that context. They have failed so far, some would say miserably. It remains to be seen whether they will succeed.
You are a cretin, and an anonymous one at that. Do a little research, if you can type. Try googling 'Valerie Lakey'.
" Why not against the idiot who damaged the pool drain? The company had nothing to do with this."
And therin lies the point. The drain was known to be dangerous with the grille removed. The company knew this. They also knew 4 and 5 year olds could remove the grille. This wasn't an 'idiot' removing the grile - it was a kid. They had paid damages on similar incidents MORE THAN TEN TIMES BEFORE. No urban legend here - google 'Valerie Lakey'.
The company didn't tell anyone, warn anyone, they didn't do anything. If you think that Sta-Rite "were not to blame" then there is no hope for you. Vote for President W Shithead again, get your fucking tort 'reform' and when your kid is mangled, or it's your ass on the line, good luck.
OK, asswipe. No guesses. Here's how Sen. Edwards made his dirty trial lawyer millions:
A 5-year-old girl was playing in a community pool in Wake County, NC. She sat on an uncovered pool drain (someone had removed the cover earlier that day) and had most of her large intestine pulled out through her anus by the suction, before the pumps were turned off and she could be rescued. She will be fed through a stomach tube for the rest of her life.
The maker of the pool initially offered the family $100,000. Edward's firm discovered at least twenty other identical accidents involving that same drain cover design... then when the company offered another lowball settlement ($250,000), the family went to court and won $25 million... only 1/3 of the maximum possible award.
The case was a classic one of corporate indifference to a known defective product. The victims were (every one of them) children. How exactly do you think the courts should have decided in this case? Do you think 'tort reform' would have saved any of those children from disfigurement or death?
Here's a post from above from 'cshark':
"I indescriminantly send my resume to recruiter I can, if my skills match what they're looking for or not. I get a lot of calls from confused recruiters, but after about a month of doing it for six to ten hours a day, I usually end up getting my resume into the right hands, or hopefully several pairs of right hands. Works every time. Just takes a little patience. There's a lot of competition out there these days."
Combine that with "HR has to keep all resumes on file for $FOO years" and the only people who are happy are the document management and NAS salespeople.
If this stuff works off of magnetic signatures, then a magnet can block it, and:
Nobody alerted us to a new use for our Alex Chiu immortality rings!
Modified Newtonian Dynamics, proposed by Milgrom in 1983:
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~ssm/mond/faq.html
Essentially 'fitting' Newton's laws to what we observe. Equally dicey, in my opinion, to 'dark matter'. But I'm not a physicist - just the son of one. And Dad does low-temperature, not cosmology, so what the hell do I know?
If you give a digital watch to someone who can't tell time, they are ok - unless the watch is broken. If the display reads 9:74 or 54:12, they will have no idea that it is malfunctioning.
...spake 'nevermore'.
(apologies to Edgar)
Where is fucking Osama bin Laden?
You hit that nail on the head. Clinton's moral failings and mistakes were truly pedestrian and unremarkable.
Of course, I rather prefer my leaders to fuck one just constituent at a time, rather than fuck the whole country like the current one does. Takes them longer to get around to me, you see. But that's just my preference.
The majority of non-medical 'controlled substance' laws, including alcohol, are drafted by each state. That is why a Constitutional amendment was required - simply passing a law banning sale of alcohol would have interfered with inerstate commerce, states rights, etc., and would have been unconstitutional.
Currently, the federal government uses its not-inconsequential financial clout to keep those states in line that would de-criminalize any 'bad' drug. Look to California, Oregon, or DC to see what happens when medical marijuana or decriminalization initiatives are raised for public consideration...
Hmmmmm... the Red Cross/ Red Crescent has been in Baghdad since the early 1980's - and had never been bombed in those 23 years. Probably wouldn't have now, either, if the country hadn't been invaded and plunged into chaos by a foreign power.... Exactly who are you implying is 'evil' here?
Sorry, knowing this administration, the next moon engine will be designed by Halliburton and use shitloads of Iraqi crude as fuel.
...thereby immensely frustrating the tinfoil hat community.
If you do not agree with the above post, then you must be a terrorist.
The line for 'special detention' begins on the left...
McNealy, Ellison, Jobs - every one of them would behave exactly like Gates does if they had the same market position. They are all profit-first, stop-at-nothing, fuck-the-customer-if-you-have-to, market-domination-is-the-goal corporate bastards; don't ever forget that. The only place free software makes it into their 'vision' is as a steppingstone to monopoly on their terms.
Actually, the barriers to entry are quite low - Microsoft could publish their source tomorrow and be immediately included in the list of qualified vendors. However, they choose not to release the source - and that does not a monopoly make.
Judge Moore isn't a federal judge, correct. He is the Alabama State Supreme Court Chief Justice - an elected position. Which just goes to show you that maybe an elected judiciary isn't such a great idea either...
The framers of the Constitution did a pretty good job of placing an unelected judiciary, with carefully proscribed powers, to check the potential runaway legislation of an elected Congress. Works pretty well, if you ask me...
The "recent string of ssh vulnerabilties", while troubling, were only remote exploitable when privilege separation is turned OFF - a non-standard setting.
Which goes back to the whole issue of whether Windows is less secure - RPC communications run as a system or root account, NO privelege separation by default.
Isn't it Ironic?
Like when there 1000 websites with Sendmail patches and all you really wanted was a Postfix install disc.
(with absolutely NO fsking apologies to Ms Morisette)
Pons and Fleischmann, upon being sued by SCO, anounced they are on their way to IRAQ to search for WMD. Said Pons: "If we can't find em, nobody will."