It's by design. For some reason, "engineering" is a specialty profession with huge barriers to entry. The shortage of "architectural engineers" is likely due to the fact that most colleges wouldn't even think of offering such an obscure degree.
No one would dream of hiring, say, a physicist to design a datacenter. Yet a physics degree in most universities differs from an "architectural engineering" degree by just a handful of classes. And ultimately the physicist would probably do a better job.
Speaking of jobs, I'm surrounded by engineers. But I'm not an engineer. I'm a Linux expert. So let me tell you what I do at my current job: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
I've taken the tasks I'm charged with, some of which constitute "engineering", and put them into a handful of programs. My programs read AutoCAD drawings, find errors, and automatically generate installation, operation & maintenance manuals for custom industrial equipment. The end result is the same as if an engineer had sat down to write a manual from scratch, which is the way it was done before I got here.
Actually, I won't even go that far. My results are better. My results are faster. My results are consistent. My programs find design errors that no engineer would waste their time trying to find. My programs don't waste time reinventing the wheel.
I just push a button every now and then. That leaves time for me to hassle with IT for more disk space and a faster computer and, of course, read Slashdot. The IT dept. is probably also reading Slashdot right now, and thinking about ways they can outsource their servers to a datacenter somewhere. It's a good thing there aren't enough datacenters for them to do that, because that would probably make my programs slower.
You have managed to contradict yourself twice in a single post.
Radio stations play them to attract listeners to ads.... Some way for me to send my recording to you, without giving you the right to profit from it, or to publicize it. In this case, the radio stations are both profiting from and publicizing the music that was given to them.
And your proposal is that the legal system should recognize Indian giving?
In fact, the legal system does recognize a form of Indian giving. But that requires a contract. Which requires the consent of both parties. Which can't possibly occur via a one-way transmission of goods. So, thankfully, giving something unsolicited to someone else is still considered a gift, and by the most basic logic, always will be.
1) You would not go to jail for failing to spy on US Citizens.
2) People are unaware of NSA directives because they are largely classified. The one you cited earlier was only recently declassified.
3) Since you have confirmed your belief that the Constitution and the laws passed by congress are irrelevant. And since you have also asserted your belief that NSA directives can provide for exceptions to the US Constitution. Would you kindly tell us if there are any other (secret) NSA directives that you feel provide for exceptions to the rights protected by the US Constitution?
4) You should be aware that an appeal to authority is a logical fallacy. But in this case I hope you're right that NSA obtained the Attorney General's permission every time they spied on US Citizens. And I hope they are able to produce those documents when required.
5) You can see my name above. If you really work for NSA then you can probably get the names of everyone else in this conversation (go ahead and ask Gonzo for permission, if that's all you feel you require). Would you be so kind as to provide us with your name?
6) If the answer to #5 is no, do you think it would be okay for Taco to give us your IP address if, say, he issued a secret "Slashdot directive" providing exceptions to the Terms of Service beforehand?
You would know that a law is only valid insofar as it is authorized by the Constitution.
Article VI
...This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding....
Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
I have mod points. But I want you to repeat for us your assertion that the Attorney General has the power to issue warrants. Alternately, you may explicitly state your belief that a law may override the Constitution.
The problem with motorcycles is, of course, safety. The rider is on the *outside* of the vehicle, meaning in a collision, he gets hit/thrown/generally injured. The solution is to put the driver on the inside (hello car), but while also maintaining the small size of a motorcycle and not just building a full blown car.
This design comes pretty close to fitting the bill. One thing I like is that the integral helmet and racing-style seatbelt pretty much eliminates the possibility of whiplash. In my humble opinion, though, it needs a few more features. 1) a scoop on the front to deflect road debris and 2) the ability to withstand being run over by an SUV.:D
The problem has never been technological As someone who helped to rescue a small business from $10,000/month AT&T frame relay, only to watch them turn around and sign a similar deal with Southwestern Bell (now AT&T lol), I can say the problem is most assuredly dumbfuck "consumers" who have no understanding of the concept of monopoly.
This has been obvious to me for a long time. And it's obvious that, even with the tremendous amount of development that they do, RedHat has been going in the wrong direction. They do a fine job with hardware support and security updates and building distros that are well-integrated and up-to-date, if somewhat of a pain to administer. But RedHat is still missing the one final step, the market that Canonical has done so well in of late: putting Linux in front of the average user and MAKING IT WORK FOR THEM. And you can bet your ass that RedHat considers Canonical a threat.
The potential of Linux doesn't lie in selling a $500 OS that's better than Windows for a few enterprise users. It lies in selling a $50 OS that's better than Windows for the vast majority of users, and for the users that don't even own computers yet.
On the other hand, it's good that Shuttleworth has finally learned the folly of a six-month release cycle. It's unfortunate he had to fork Debian to learn that lesson. And ironic, of course, that Debian is one of the distros he's now asking to coordinate efforts with. For all the jokes about Debian Stable being old, it's one of the few versions of Linux that doesn't consistently come with some glaringly obvious broken component in the form of a pre-release or Beta from upstream.
1) Mass-produced products are not better quality. They are often worse.
2) What you want may not currently be made in a factory. It may be an "obsolete" style or model of something. I have a perfect example right in my kitchen: tupperware. I have three different sets of mis-matched tupperware. I don't like the "new" style. I like the old style. If personal fabrication devices ever become reality, Tupperware is toast. Their entire business, like fashion and other 'design' industries with extremely low raw materials costs, seems to revolve around changing the style of their products every few years and forcing you to purchase a completely new set.
3) Not everything is made on an assembly line. Many products are simply not being produced in the most efficient way possible. Which is cheaper, paying someone to build something for you in a one-off fashion, or building it yourself in a one-off fashion? "Just-in-time" manufacturing was supposed to reduce costs by building things at the last minute as the parts arrive from your suppliers, but what it has really reduced is efficiency and quality, as parts are not inspected before they are installed and more often arrive "at the wrong time" rather than "just in time", completely screwing scheduling and any semblance of an assembly line at the manufacturers that implement it poorly.
4) As the Open Source movement has proven, many times end-users have better ideas about how products should work than the people who make them. Personal fabrication can do for manufacturing what personal computing did for information technology.
5) For certain 'disposable' products, personal fabrication has the potential to reduce waste and environmental impact. Recycle products instead of replacing them.
Electricity is, by far, more valuable than hydrogen (or any common chemical fuel for that matter). I'm not going to waste my time digging up the numbers to refute this.
Gasification of wood is achieved via partial combustion. Instead of the wood burning completely to produce H2O and CO2 as it would under ideal circumstances, the amount of oxygen is limited so that the hydrocarbons composing the wood are instead only partially oxidized, producing appreciable amounts of CO and H2, along with an unavoidable amount of H2O and CO2. The CO and H2 are the products which can be oxidized at a later time in a more convenient fashion than by burning wood, or used to produce intermediate hydrocarbons such as liquid fuels. Ultimately, the process of gasification and combustion always entails the oxidation of complex hydrocarbons and some mixture of H2O and CO2 are the end result.
This process, however, is the reverse of oxidation. It is the reduction of CO2 to produce CO and O2, which, for any technology besides the humble plant, is quite a difficult feat. To do so requires a substantial energy input, in this case in the form of thermal energy from solar concentrators.
I would say the difference is that there are kinds of stress that are self-induced, and there are kinds that are externally induced.
Most of the people I've known who thrive on stress are dealing with stress that is completely self-induced, from lawyers to students striving for high marks. Whereas the kinds of stress that the study seems to deal with, group status, annoying sounds, uninteresting environments, are all external and, more importantly, uncontrollable by the subject. That's also the case with post-traumatic stress disorder, for example. It isn't the stress per se, but the lack of ability to influence the cause of the stress, that likely causes damage.
Sports would be another example of self-induced stress. There is really little consequence in winning or losing, but pushing yourself can be beneficial.
Oh, the Democrats do too, they're just being quiet about it right now. That's why they've been completely unable to field any sort of opposition to the Bush administration for the last 6 years.
2) Purchasing searches for a new one, and buys the cheapest one they can find -- a new Dell with Windows Vista.
3) Office envy sets in, and soon the entire dept./company has to have a new Pentium (IV/V) with (256/512) megs of RAM and whatever flashy new screensavers or icons Vista will come with.
At most companies, this is exactly how it works. Greed and envy and laziness mean that 90% of corporate users will fight to stay on the Windows upgrade treadmill as long as they can.
But I see no benefits of staying on Windows. Bottom line: switch to Linux or BSD like everyone else managing multiple remote servers and reap the benefits. It's as simple as:
If you're really in the consulting business, I have two questions for you:
1) Why are you talking to sysadmins?
2) Why are you letting them tell you what to use?
It sounds like you're really just selling systems that happen to run on Linux. In that case, you're a system integrator or VAR.
Instead of going to sysadmins and saying "here add this other OS to your systems because it's leet," you should be going to CIO's and saying "replace *all* your systems with Linux and save a bundle in support and maintenance, and if your admins don't want to go along we can outsource them and save even more."
Your customers aren't admins. Your customers are businesses.
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It's by design. For some reason, "engineering" is a specialty profession with huge barriers to entry. The shortage of "architectural engineers" is likely due to the fact that most colleges wouldn't even think of offering such an obscure degree.
No one would dream of hiring, say, a physicist to design a datacenter. Yet a physics degree in most universities differs from an "architectural engineering" degree by just a handful of classes. And ultimately the physicist would probably do a better job.
Speaking of jobs, I'm surrounded by engineers. But I'm not an engineer. I'm a Linux expert. So let me tell you what I do at my current job: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
I've taken the tasks I'm charged with, some of which constitute "engineering", and put them into a handful of programs. My programs read AutoCAD drawings, find errors, and automatically generate installation, operation & maintenance manuals for custom industrial equipment. The end result is the same as if an engineer had sat down to write a manual from scratch, which is the way it was done before I got here.
Actually, I won't even go that far. My results are better. My results are faster. My results are consistent. My programs find design errors that no engineer would waste their time trying to find. My programs don't waste time reinventing the wheel.
I just push a button every now and then. That leaves time for me to hassle with IT for more disk space and a faster computer and, of course, read Slashdot. The IT dept. is probably also reading Slashdot right now, and thinking about ways they can outsource their servers to a datacenter somewhere. It's a good thing there aren't enough datacenters for them to do that, because that would probably make my programs slower.
I'm not sure what "theory" you're referring to. Is that the one that says the price of oil is directly proportional to the production costs?
Regardless, you're still assuming they use oil to extract the oil and pay their employees nothing.
Some way for me to send my recording to you, without giving you the right to profit from it, or to publicize it. In this case, the radio stations are both profiting from and publicizing the music that was given to them.
And your proposal is that the legal system should recognize Indian giving?
In fact, the legal system does recognize a form of Indian giving. But that requires a contract. Which requires the consent of both parties. Which can't possibly occur via a one-way transmission of goods. So, thankfully, giving something unsolicited to someone else is still considered a gift, and by the most basic logic, always will be.
1) You would not go to jail for failing to spy on US Citizens.
2) People are unaware of NSA directives because they are largely classified. The one you cited earlier was only recently declassified.
3) Since you have confirmed your belief that the Constitution and the laws passed by congress are irrelevant. And since you have also asserted your belief that NSA directives can provide for exceptions to the US Constitution. Would you kindly tell us if there are any other (secret) NSA directives that you feel provide for exceptions to the rights protected by the US Constitution?
4) You should be aware that an appeal to authority is a logical fallacy. But in this case I hope you're right that NSA obtained the Attorney General's permission every time they spied on US Citizens. And I hope they are able to produce those documents when required.
5) You can see my name above. If you really work for NSA then you can probably get the names of everyone else in this conversation (go ahead and ask Gonzo for permission, if that's all you feel you require). Would you be so kind as to provide us with your name?
6) If the answer to #5 is no, do you think it would be okay for Taco to give us your IP address if, say, he issued a secret "Slashdot directive" providing exceptions to the Terms of Service beforehand?
Article VI
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
I have mod points. But I want you to repeat for us your assertion that the Attorney General has the power to issue warrants. Alternately, you may explicitly state your belief that a law may override the Constitution.
The problem with motorcycles is, of course, safety. The rider is on the *outside* of the vehicle, meaning in a collision, he gets hit/thrown/generally injured. The solution is to put the driver on the inside (hello car), but while also maintaining the small size of a motorcycle and not just building a full blown car.
:D
This design comes pretty close to fitting the bill. One thing I like is that the integral helmet and racing-style seatbelt pretty much eliminates the possibility of whiplash. In my humble opinion, though, it needs a few more features. 1) a scoop on the front to deflect road debris and 2) the ability to withstand being run over by an SUV.
Who said it keeps the driver standing upright?
This has been obvious to me for a long time. And it's obvious that, even with the tremendous amount of development that they do, RedHat has been going in the wrong direction. They do a fine job with hardware support and security updates and building distros that are well-integrated and up-to-date, if somewhat of a pain to administer. But RedHat is still missing the one final step, the market that Canonical has done so well in of late: putting Linux in front of the average user and MAKING IT WORK FOR THEM. And you can bet your ass that RedHat considers Canonical a threat.
The potential of Linux doesn't lie in selling a $500 OS that's better than Windows for a few enterprise users. It lies in selling a $50 OS that's better than Windows for the vast majority of users, and for the users that don't even own computers yet.
On the other hand, it's good that Shuttleworth has finally learned the folly of a six-month release cycle. It's unfortunate he had to fork Debian to learn that lesson. And ironic, of course, that Debian is one of the distros he's now asking to coordinate efforts with. For all the jokes about Debian Stable being old, it's one of the few versions of Linux that doesn't consistently come with some glaringly obvious broken component in the form of a pre-release or Beta from upstream.
Begin collection proceedings on your unpaid balance, of course.
The word you are looking for is 'profligate'. 'Proliferate' is a verb.
1) Mass-produced products are not better quality. They are often worse.
2) What you want may not currently be made in a factory. It may be an "obsolete" style or model of something. I have a perfect example right in my kitchen: tupperware. I have three different sets of mis-matched tupperware. I don't like the "new" style. I like the old style. If personal fabrication devices ever become reality, Tupperware is toast. Their entire business, like fashion and other 'design' industries with extremely low raw materials costs, seems to revolve around changing the style of their products every few years and forcing you to purchase a completely new set.
3) Not everything is made on an assembly line. Many products are simply not being produced in the most efficient way possible. Which is cheaper, paying someone to build something for you in a one-off fashion, or building it yourself in a one-off fashion? "Just-in-time" manufacturing was supposed to reduce costs by building things at the last minute as the parts arrive from your suppliers, but what it has really reduced is efficiency and quality, as parts are not inspected before they are installed and more often arrive "at the wrong time" rather than "just in time", completely screwing scheduling and any semblance of an assembly line at the manufacturers that implement it poorly.
4) As the Open Source movement has proven, many times end-users have better ideas about how products should work than the people who make them. Personal fabrication can do for manufacturing what personal computing did for information technology.
5) For certain 'disposable' products, personal fabrication has the potential to reduce waste and environmental impact. Recycle products instead of replacing them.
86% Coal, at $50/ton + 14% Hydrogen, at $1310/ton electricity equivalent + Magic = Profit
Suffice it to say, you're wrong.
Gasification of wood is achieved via partial combustion. Instead of the wood burning completely to produce H2O and CO2 as it would under ideal circumstances, the amount of oxygen is limited so that the hydrocarbons composing the wood are instead only partially oxidized, producing appreciable amounts of CO and H2, along with an unavoidable amount of H2O and CO2. The CO and H2 are the products which can be oxidized at a later time in a more convenient fashion than by burning wood, or used to produce intermediate hydrocarbons such as liquid fuels. Ultimately, the process of gasification and combustion always entails the oxidation of complex hydrocarbons and some mixture of H2O and CO2 are the end result.
This process, however, is the reverse of oxidation. It is the reduction of CO2 to produce CO and O2, which, for any technology besides the humble plant, is quite a difficult feat. To do so requires a substantial energy input, in this case in the form of thermal energy from solar concentrators.
I would say the difference is that there are kinds of stress that are self-induced, and there are kinds that are externally induced.
Most of the people I've known who thrive on stress are dealing with stress that is completely self-induced, from lawyers to students striving for high marks. Whereas the kinds of stress that the study seems to deal with, group status, annoying sounds, uninteresting environments, are all external and, more importantly, uncontrollable by the subject. That's also the case with post-traumatic stress disorder, for example. It isn't the stress per se, but the lack of ability to influence the cause of the stress, that likely causes damage.
Sports would be another example of self-induced stress. There is really little consequence in winning or losing, but pushing yourself can be beneficial.
Oh, the Democrats do too, they're just being quiet about it right now. That's why they've been completely unable to field any sort of opposition to the Bush administration for the last 6 years.
Perhaps that's because "real" bullshit in "real" life is more than just printed words.
Is there any power infrastructure advancements that are being made to better support the growing rise of computer use in the middle east?
They'd like to move to nuclear power, but have hit some snags.
"It looks like you're trying to run a program!"
1) Your computer breaks.
2) Purchasing searches for a new one, and buys the cheapest one they can find -- a new Dell with Windows Vista.
3) Office envy sets in, and soon the entire dept./company has to have a new Pentium (IV/V) with (256/512) megs of RAM and whatever flashy new screensavers or icons Vista will come with.
At most companies, this is exactly how it works. Greed and envy and laziness mean that 90% of corporate users will fight to stay on the Windows upgrade treadmill as long as they can.
I can see the benefits of such an arrangement.
/home; pwd"
But I see no benefits of staying on Windows. Bottom line: switch to Linux or BSD like everyone else managing multiple remote servers and reap the benefits. It's as simple as:
$ ssh remote.host "cd
Did you pay for those three or four versions of a, what, $200 operating system?
Don't you want to invest?
If you're really in the consulting business, I have two questions for you:
1) Why are you talking to sysadmins?
2) Why are you letting them tell you what to use?
It sounds like you're really just selling systems that happen to run on Linux. In that case, you're a system integrator or VAR.
Instead of going to sysadmins and saying "here add this other OS to your systems because it's leet," you should be going to CIO's and saying "replace *all* your systems with Linux and save a bundle in support and maintenance, and if your admins don't want to go along we can outsource them and save even more."
Your customers aren't admins. Your customers are businesses.