'There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore,' Carly Fiorina, chief executive for Hewlett-Packard Co., said Wednesday.
Well Carly can kiss my ass. I'd like to see her reaction if someone tried to outsource her job to India. After all, if no job is America's god-given right anymore, then why not move the CEO position to India and save HP a few million bucks?
I think my right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (i.e. not having to dodge bullets or end up looking down the muzzle of handgun, which incidentally, I have before, and not in a good way) trumps their right to own or carry a handgun.
No. It trumps their right to use a handgun in an illegal manner. There is a big difference here between simply owning one and using one illegally. The vast majority of legally owned guns are not used for criminal purposes.
Banning guns just because a few people do use them illegally would be like banning computers because some people use them to spread viruses, steal credit card numbers, or pirate MP3s.
Exactly! Add to that the fact that the site he mentions sells processor upgrades. So I can have a faster G4 processor running in a box with slow PC100/133 memory, slow bus, etc.
When I meant upgrade, I meant replacing the entire motherboard with something faster. Hell, someone probably sells a P4 card for a 386 system, but why bother?
Macs, though, are great for people who can't/won't do their own upgrade work.
Another thing to consider is the responsiveness of the OS. WinXP is snappier and more responsive on my 700MHz P-III system than MacOS X is on my dual 1.25 GHz box. This may not mean much to some, but I waste a lot of time every day waiting for the MacOS X GUI to catch up with me.
There's nothing here you couldn't do in an Opteron system. With an Opteron system built from scratch, you'd have the option of replacing the processor(s) or the motherboard when newer technology became available. With Apple, there's no upgrade path short of buying a new system, which can get expensive.
The core development team for Linux may be smaller, tho I doubt it. Also, the core Linux developers are by all accounts (and from reading lkml for years) some of the best programmers/debuggers on earth, paid or unpaid. They are good team members, and their skills complement each other naturally.
Then how come the Linux kernel is full of some of the most god-awful crap that I've ever seen? Why are entire subsystems constantly being rewritten and replaced with new code (VM, for example)? Have you seen the IDE code lately? For such an important subsystem, it's in a disgraceful state.
Even 4-6 weeks of working people 12/7 is going to burn people out and cause productivity to fall to the point where the job won't get done on time, no matter how hard management cracks the whip.
Good managers understand this, most managers don't. Any company that employs these practices on a regular basis will end up with a high employee turnover rate, pissed customers, and a bad reputation that will make it difficult for them to recruit talented people. In other words, they're shooting themselves in the foot (or head).
For this reason, we can understand that Joe-6-amphorae (the average Egyptian) doesn't want to see a movie which describes the fear Zion people are living in.
Is it that the average Egyptian doesn't want to see the movie, or is it that the Egyptian government doesn't want him to see the movie. I suspect the latter.
Concerning the many religious aspects of the movie, I'd rather describe these as some uninspired mysticism.
I consider all of the major religions of the world to be uninspired mysticism. What is new here?
In any case, is there really such a thing as a "burglary tool?"
I have a friend who lives in New York City. One night he was working on his computer and decided to go out and get a snack at a Dunkin Donuts. He had two screw drivers he was using on the computer in the back pocket of his jeans. He was stopped by, and arrested by the police for possession of "burglary tools". He was held for almost 16 hours before he was released.
So yes, as far as the NYPD is concerned, there really is a such thing as a burglary tool.
It's a good thing laws like this didn't exist in the past, or half of the classical music repertoire wouldn't exist. Classical composers based much of their music in whole or in part on previous works by other composers.
So who cares if the downtime is for a reboot or a recompile? From the users point of view the machine is inaccessable
Sure, compiling the update takes a few minutes, but moving the new binaries into place takes a few seconds. Shutting down Apache for a few seconds while moving the binaries and then restarting it is preferable to the length of time it takes to reboot a box running Win2K Server (which can take 15 minutes).
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Well Carly can kiss my ass. I'd like to see her reaction if someone tried to outsource her job to India. After all, if no job is America's god-given right anymore, then why not move the CEO position to India and save HP a few million bucks?
Is this the RIAA's way of saying Merry Christmas?
No brakes? What are you going to do if the chain breaks? Stop Fred Flintstone-style?
"The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank" - Scotty
No. It trumps their right to use a handgun in an illegal manner. There is a big difference here between simply owning one and using one illegally. The vast majority of legally owned guns are not used for criminal purposes.
Banning guns just because a few people do use them illegally would be like banning computers because some people use them to spread viruses, steal credit card numbers, or pirate MP3s.
How about if we rewrote it like this:
"A well educated electorate being necessary to the safety of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed."
Would you take this to imply that only college educated voters would have the right to read books?
Try more like $1400...
When I meant upgrade, I meant replacing the entire motherboard with something faster. Hell, someone probably sells a P4 card for a 386 system, but why bother?
Macs, though, are great for people who can't/won't do their own upgrade work.
Another thing to consider is the responsiveness of the OS. WinXP is snappier and more responsive on my 700MHz P-III system than MacOS X is on my dual 1.25 GHz box. This may not mean much to some, but I waste a lot of time every day waiting for the MacOS X GUI to catch up with me.
There's nothing here you couldn't do in an Opteron system. With an Opteron system built from scratch, you'd have the option of replacing the processor(s) or the motherboard when newer technology became available. With Apple, there's no upgrade path short of buying a new system, which can get expensive.
Then how come the Linux kernel is full of some of the most god-awful crap that I've ever seen? Why are entire subsystems constantly being rewritten and replaced with new code (VM, for example)? Have you seen the IDE code lately? For such an important subsystem, it's in a disgraceful state.
Even 4-6 weeks of working people 12/7 is going to burn people out and cause productivity to fall to the point where the job won't get done on time, no matter how hard management cracks the whip.
Good managers understand this, most managers don't. Any company that employs these practices on a regular basis will end up with a high employee turnover rate, pissed customers, and a bad reputation that will make it difficult for them to recruit talented people. In other words, they're shooting themselves in the foot (or head).
Is it that the average Egyptian doesn't want to see the movie, or is it that the Egyptian government doesn't want him to see the movie. I suspect the latter.
Concerning the many religious aspects of the movie, I'd rather describe these as some uninspired mysticism.
I consider all of the major religions of the world to be uninspired mysticism. What is new here?
Sounds like some of the early adopters may have a valid false advertising claim based on the "runs flawlessly" statement on Apple's web site.
There certainly is BSD code in Windows. For example:
C>strings \winnt\system32\ftp.exe | grep Regents
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
All rights reserved.
Hey, that's nothing! I've got a binary patch to MS-DOS 3.2 to enable hyperthreading on P4 Xeons that's just awesome.
I have a friend who lives in New York City. One night he was working on his computer and decided to go out and get a snack at a Dunkin Donuts. He had two screw drivers he was using on the computer in the back pocket of his jeans. He was stopped by, and arrested by the police for possession of "burglary tools". He was held for almost 16 hours before he was released.
So yes, as far as the NYPD is concerned, there really is a such thing as a burglary tool.
He probably wants to make a big investment in SCO.
Maybe the guy just wanted to learn Java or get more experience programming. Sometimes that's all the excuse one needs to do a project like this.
I have nothing against theming, but I feel that it should come after stability, performance, and useability in the overall scheme of things.
Too many OSS projects put it in first place.
Or WindowsKey-M. This minimizes all open windows.
It's a good thing laws like this didn't exist in the past, or half of the classical music repertoire wouldn't exist. Classical composers based much of their music in whole or in part on previous works by other composers.
I wonder if John Quincy Adams was the laughing stock of his day...
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Sure, compiling the update takes a few minutes, but moving the new binaries into place takes a few seconds. Shutting down Apache for a few seconds while moving the binaries and then restarting it is preferable to the length of time it takes to reboot a box running Win2K Server (which can take 15 minutes).
At least with Linux you don't have to reboot the machine every time you apply a patch like you need to do after patching Windows.