Er... this is a weak question in a job interview. Not sure how its better in an election.
"My biggest mistake is driving myself too hard. You see I'm a perfectionist, I won't stop until the job is done, doing what ever is needed at any time. Negative repercussions is that I make the entire White House staff look like comatose slackers on vacation. I am trying fix (although I don't see it as a "problem") by only working 5 mintues a day."
Maybe we should ask "What challenges excite you about your current position?"
I'm all for mindless American bashing (Their beer is weak!) but having a low tolerence for death isn't solely an American thing.
I recall one South Asian country pulled from Iraq after a few of their hostages were killed, but America still are there after over a thousand military deaths.
>It's no coincidence in my opinion that Americans have no real heroes because nobody lays their life on the line for big ideas.
When did a hero become someone who throws their life away like yesterday's newspaper? A life-long dedication I can see, but not if the life isn't that long.
>You don't see Foale or Benjamin Harris saying "Fuck it all. Today is a good day to die."
Maybe because its a dumb thing to say except when you are showing-off?
>Vote republican. Vote democrat. Vote anything, just vote!
Thats the problem with the way the modern electorial system is set up. You vote for a party/person, not on the issues. (yes I know that you can vote on propositions but not in this big national election)
Suppose I like abortion and I like the war in Iraq?
Or suppose I like tax cuts but more should go to the poor.
I still vote, but its more like choosing the lesser of two evils.
I like that proposal from California where a person can vote for "none of the above" and force them to redo the election.
> the reason is simple...the desires of the many will trump those of the few or only.
The few ARE the ones who control this. If you get a few software makers (MS, Apache, Apple) and some service companies (Yahoo, AOL, Google) to accept a standard, then its going to be the standard regardless of what anyone else outside of say the dozen companies want.
I don't get a vote in which email verification gets to be the standard. How am I not the many?
How much email goes around that originate or recieved from a MS related system (Exchange/Hotmail/MSN)?
Maybe they can get a few other big mail services (say Yahoo) and ISPs (say AOL) to get on board. Someone makes a plugin/module for Apache to implement SenderID (if its possible, I suspect it would be), that would open up new servers using it.
It will be a sell job and thats what a big company like MS is good at.
>If iTunes / iPods accounted for 90% of the music player market and if Apple were trying to leverage this market share to take over other markets, I might agree with you.
But IF they had 90% in the music player market and they didn't use it to leverage in other markets (creating iShirts or iBladeServers or iDialUpInternetService, works with iMacs/iPods only since why should I support someone else's product?) wouldn't it be a dumb business move?
Its like saying that you are the top 10% in track and field but you can't use any of those skills to play succeed in football.
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>In "Apache: The Definitive Guide", Ben and Peter Laurie suggest a way to learn how to build an Apache config file - start with a blank file, and start Apache.
I'm not a sysadmin or worked with Apache, but doesn't this sound a bit crude to figure out a configuration of a system?
Its like going through the Apache source code to see what strings in the config file they are looking for.
>One of the purposes of this is to provide free or very low cost high speed access to traditionally poorer inner city communities that are either not served by high speed access or
But the network is city wide, if they wanted to service inner city communities, why build it in rich areas?
>simply can't afford it.
And then they are going to magically going to afford the wireless hardware? If they can't afford AOL, then I think a wireless broadband is the least of their worries.
>Cities have to promote social benefit for its people,
The network is going to cost 1.5 million a year. How about using this money to support a freenet? http://www.ccil.org/
>and free high-speed access is critical in many areas.
How is it critical when they don't have it now and there isn't an upswell of poor people crying out for it? They are asking for better childcare, street safety, schools and public transportation. Aren't these more critical?
>I know there is going to be many people that narrow mindedly say that the dollars could be spent on the poor or in some other avenue of no return.
How about spending the money on schools? On inproved health care? On the public transportation system?
Or do these things just benefit the poor or will have no return?
>into a massive savings,
They are spending $1.5 million a year to maintain the network and there is no mention on how they can make up the savings. So I'm not sure where you got this from besides theoritical wishing.
>data collection, data manipulation, data optimization threshold
>Economists use the same sort of observations and reasoning to support their predetermined conclusions
How do your perform an controlled experiment in astronomy? Can you prove anything palentology since there is only one general set of fossils made in one specific set of conditions we can study?
>I found the best recommendation from my shelf to be "Computer Hardware Theory" (1972 University of Illinois) and "Fundamentals of Signal Theory" (1960).
Two books from 30 years ago on computer hardware and one is on Signal Theory?
Unless I'm doing assembly, could you explain why these books would be good for me, a programmer?
>Have some common sense and don't post pictures of yourself masturbating, don't send messages about how you think of someone else, and don't allow yourself to be video taped by other kids doing sexual things with others.
I, as a mature and responsible member of society, am shocked that they were doing this... for FREE.
Do you know how much money they could have gotten if they that set up a pay-site and charged $19.99 per month (first 7 days free)?!?!?!
Slashdot Mirror
It might not be a "backdoor", but a problem/weakness with the basic algorithm that NSA/KGB/the Grey Aliens can exploit.
With any security system, there is always a point where "faith" comes in.
>What function of Oracle made it more useful than MySQL in this case?
When they developed the system it was 9 years ago, what was the state of MySQL back then?
>I stick by the fact that I can't imagine a properly deployed Linux solution underperforming a properly deployed Windows solution.
The definintion of "properly deployed" is the part that gets me. Its vague and allows for too much interpretation.
Does your OS fail?
Its not the fault of the OS, it just wasn't "properly deployed".
Er... this is a weak question in a job interview. Not sure how its better in an election.
"My biggest mistake is driving myself too hard. You see I'm a perfectionist, I won't stop until the job is done, doing what ever is needed at any time. Negative repercussions is that I make the entire White House staff look like comatose slackers on vacation. I am trying fix (although I don't see it as a "problem") by only working 5 mintues a day."
Maybe we should ask "What challenges excite you about your current position?"
I'm all for mindless American bashing (Their beer is weak!) but having a low tolerence for death isn't solely an American thing.
I recall one South Asian country pulled from Iraq after a few of their hostages were killed, but America still are there after over a thousand military deaths.
>It's no coincidence in my opinion that Americans have no real heroes because nobody lays their life on the line for big ideas.
When did a hero become someone who throws their life away like yesterday's newspaper? A life-long dedication I can see, but not if the life isn't that long.
>You don't see Foale or Benjamin Harris saying "Fuck it all. Today is a good day to die."
Maybe because its a dumb thing to say except when you are showing-off?
What a sad comment.
Space exploration is about man reaching out and wonderment, not about man being nagged to get off the couch and get the groceries from the car.
>Space simply won't be a "real" place until we have a real human presence
And why do we need to have space become "real" as opposed to what it is now. ("non-real"?)
Or its pi or 1/2 pi or the surface area of some sphere.
I hated 2nd year calculus.
>Vote republican. Vote democrat. Vote anything, just vote!
Thats the problem with the way the modern electorial system is set up. You vote for a party/person, not on the issues. (yes I know that you can vote on propositions but not in this big national election)
Suppose I like abortion and I like the war in Iraq?
Or suppose I like tax cuts but more should go to the poor.
I still vote, but its more like choosing the lesser of two evils.
I like that proposal from California where a person can vote for "none of the above" and force them to redo the election.
What about "Kids who have no idea of what they want to do for the rest of their lives"?
That would be a bigger group than any one of yours.
>They offer an amazing depth of roleplaying experience, often modelling even the smallest aspects of ST universe.
Welcome to Start Trek MUD!
Please choose a character:
1 - Captain
2 - Science Officer
3 - Red Shirt Ensign
> 3
You beam down to a strange rocky planet and die before the first commerical break.
Do you want to play again? [y/n]
Thees is goo chort storrie.
Mee hapie Bush waz re-ellectd.
>Somebody will have to eat the cost of that development time.
And how is this different from any other OpenSource project?
The $1million is a bonus.
> the reason is simple...the desires of the many will trump those of the few or only.
The few ARE the ones who control this. If you get a few software makers (MS, Apache, Apple) and some service companies (Yahoo, AOL, Google) to accept a standard, then its going to be the standard regardless of what anyone else outside of say the dozen companies want.
I don't get a vote in which email verification gets to be the standard. How am I not the many?
How much email goes around that originate or recieved from a MS related system (Exchange/Hotmail/MSN)?
Maybe they can get a few other big mail services (say Yahoo) and ISPs (say AOL) to get on board. Someone makes a plugin/module for Apache to implement SenderID (if its possible, I suspect it would be), that would open up new servers using it.
It will be a sell job and thats what a big company like MS is good at.
>If iTunes / iPods accounted for 90% of the music player market and if Apple were trying to leverage this market share to take over other markets, I might agree with you.
But IF they had 90% in the music player market and they didn't use it to leverage in other markets (creating iShirts or iBladeServers or iDialUpInternetService, works with iMacs/iPods only since why should I support someone else's product?) wouldn't it be a dumb business move?
Its like saying that you are the top 10% in track and field but you can't use any of those skills to play succeed in football.
>In "Apache: The Definitive Guide", Ben and Peter Laurie suggest a way to learn how to build an Apache config file - start with a blank file, and start Apache.
I'm not a sysadmin or worked with Apache, but doesn't this sound a bit crude to figure out a configuration of a system?
Its like going through the Apache source code to see what strings in the config file they are looking for.
>One of the purposes of this is to provide free or very low cost high speed access to traditionally poorer inner city communities that are either not served by high speed access or
But the network is city wide, if they wanted to service inner city communities, why build it in rich areas?
>simply can't afford it.
And then they are going to magically going to afford the wireless hardware? If they can't afford AOL, then I think a wireless broadband is the least of their worries.
>Cities have to promote social benefit for its people,
The network is going to cost 1.5 million a year. How about using this money to support a freenet?
http://www.ccil.org/
>and free high-speed access is critical in many areas.
How is it critical when they don't have it now and there isn't an upswell of poor people crying out for it? They are asking for better childcare, street safety, schools and public transportation. Aren't these more critical?
That was the best part of of the TV show.
Those interludes with its English accent voice overs helped the show, to me, become something more than just a funny Doctor Who series.
>I know there is going to be many people that narrow mindedly say that the dollars could be spent on the poor or in some other avenue of no return.
How about spending the money on schools? On inproved health care? On the public transportation system?
Or do these things just benefit the poor or will have no return?
>into a massive savings,
They are spending $1.5 million a year to maintain the network and there is no mention on how they can make up the savings. So I'm not sure where you got this from besides theoritical wishing.
>data collection, data manipulation, data optimization threshold
They could do this without this network.
>Economists use the same sort of observations and reasoning to support their predetermined conclusions
How do your perform an controlled experiment in astronomy?
Can you prove anything palentology since there is only one general set of fossils made in one specific set of conditions we can study?
Or are these all non-science areas?
>I found the best recommendation from my shelf to be "Computer Hardware Theory" (1972 University of Illinois) and "Fundamentals of Signal Theory" (1960).
Two books from 30 years ago on computer hardware and one is on Signal Theory?
Unless I'm doing assembly, could you explain why these books would be good for me, a programmer?
Why is this a troll? It is true that people will choose one product over another because of naming and branding.
Look at Nike. Look at BMW.
Why does this have to be government run?
>Have some common sense and don't post pictures of yourself masturbating, don't send messages about how you think of someone else, and don't allow yourself to be video taped by other kids doing sexual things with others.
... for FREE.
I, as a mature and responsible member of society, am shocked that they were doing this
Do you know how much money they could have gotten if they that set up a pay-site and charged $19.99 per month (first 7 days free)?!?!?!
I fear for our future.
>Quicktime penetration is the benefit Apple reaps.
Wouldn't it be cheaper just to buy us all dinner and some flowers?