No, it is in fact partially true. This is exactly what happened to the Mini. People ask "What happened to the SMALL mini with fantastic gas mileage?". Well it's not small and it's not light because of all the safety stuff packed into it. Air conditioning is sort of a wash that's hard to tell. It does require a bigger engine for a very light car, however the other option is to roll down the windows which often creates enough drag to erase much of that fuel efficiency, even with the smaller engine. Aside from that, in many parts of the U.S., not having air conditioning would probably be lethal in congested traffic. My understanding is that Europe is able to better cope without air conditioning in vehicles and can thus get by with smaller engines.
No excuse for American car companies, but it is a legitimate argument.
MeanderingMind has it mostly right. D&T was a high end raiding guild, but had gotten to the point where they were having issues filling slots. So of course recruitment for such a guild is easy... to acquire leeches.
In the end this is the fate of nearly all raiding guilds. The focus is on pushing content, and getting loot. There is basically no loyalty, and the second the grass looks greener on the other side people jump ship. When everything is going good, it looks fine on the outside but basically rots from within. It's sort of strange that people think of MMORPGs as being unique in this way. Crime organizations often go the same way - ala drug cartels, the mob, etc. Didn't anyone learn anything from scarface?:p
You kids wouldn't have that problem if you got off your butts and hunted things like I did back when I was your age. Now the kids just sit around the campfire talking about things. Talk. We didn't have this problem until they invented that new fangled language stuff.
I would recommend doing what I did. Find around NINE books that you want. Get the 5 and the next 4 in a month or two. After that point I just stuck with the SFBK and ended up buying probably around 30 books over the entire time I was in. The little catalog they send is actually pretty interesting for seeing up and coming books in the SF realm. I'm not endorsing them, but SF book club is actually quite honest, and while the 5 books for $1 seems like the sort of thing shady businesses do, it's just a marketing gimick.
They also do custom prints with their books as far as I know. There is something to be said to have a lot of hard cover books that are all the same size in your collection.
If windows is stagnant it is because of the company, not because it is entirely technically infeasible for Windows to progress. Open source is not a magic pixy dust that will fix that. Switching to Linux would be trying to treat the symptoms instead of the cause.
Actually I'd think that it would indeed be the cause. In a way you create a character and project yourself onto that character, then reinforce different aspects by feedback provided through that avatar. If we're looking at basically a sort of feedback amplification/filter then wouldn't self-reinforcement basically be the cause?
I'm not talking about delusional people who really think they're undead, but for example; a genuine gain in confidence by seeing yourself in game succeeding at challenging tasks. Actually this is sort of weird for me because I have noticed I picked up things from games. It's sort of strange in that I like to lean towards role playing by creating a character that is focused on an aspect of myself.
Maybe I should be careful in what sort of characters I come up with.
Strange, I remember the ending being more ambiguous. I was fairly young when I saw the show (in reruns), so I may not recall everything 100%. You never really knew what Avon was up to and the last part where he sort of turns and smiles sort of stuck with me more than any other ending I've ever seen. Like it could have been the sort of smile where he knew his time was up, and there was nothing left but to be gunned down. OR it could have been the sort of smile you get when you've won - by betraying everyone because you had been working with the federation. To me this meant you had to decide how the show ended by what sort of person Avon was, and what you thought his motives were.
Actually I think he has it right. THIS is always the year of the linux desktop. Apple will always be bankrupt by NEXT year. And the next version of windows will be the most secure ever.
I would say when you're 40, that anything you might get out of college will probably be buried under 20 years of life events so that wouldn't be much of a concern. I mean either you're a well rounded individual or you're not. I had a few things happen to me in college that changed some subtle things in my life sure, but I doubt any of the English courses would truly have any bearing on me at 40 if I wanted to become a writer.
I agree that the biggest advantages to a liberal arts college is in fact that there are a lot of secondary things to be considered. And most certainly having a variety of contacts is a huge advantage in my opinion. Strange as it may sound I took CS at a liberal arts college, and I had a lot of friends also in CS or engineering and we usually talked about... well CS, engineering or geek related stuff. It was actually really refreshing to sit down at the end of the day in a cafeteria and talk to a girl about something OTHER than tech junk.
Age 40 is still a ways off for me, and I will admit that I am glad that I didn't go to a tech school. Mainly because of the memories which are not related to classes that I'll have for the rest of my life (and yes women are a big part of that:)
I put a block on Vista migration plans when I first tested it for a week. Everyone said "wait for service pack one" however I came to the conclusion that no service pack would be able to fix Vista - many of its flaws are simply bad UI designs, and service packs do not change that.
So after a week of testing Vista I decided that I would wait until the NEXT version of windows. I wasn't too surprised to see a Windows 7 announcement so soon.
I don't put floppies into machines, however I DO need them to install old os drivers from time to time. With this I could put the driers onto it with the regular flash interface, then disconnect it and put it into the target machine temporarily during the installation.
I hope you just need to reformat these things because I've been looking for exactly this type of device for a long time (and haven't found any).
I don't think it's that surprising though. Look at Ipod ads; they are about the Ipod, not about Apple. Apple targets their products more than their company brand. Apple products are named iStuff. Their office sweet is named iWork. If you look at the Apple website and look where the term "Apple" even appears it's rarely ever a key term on any given page. This is key difference between them and Microsoft who has traditionally used "Microsoft ${x}" as their product name mantra. In recent times Microsoft has also started different branding such as.NET, Windows, and Live. Their brand has been diluted, but I'm not sure the consequences are as dire as many make it sound. It may be of concern that over time if these other brands hold little power and the Microsoft brand also does not have the weight, that they may not be able to simply tout things that are simply made by them. At that point they better have a better product, and at the moment they often don't (X-box probably being the only contender).
There is however different mindsets between objectives in criminal, and terrorist activity. My boss once asked me how I would go about a shooting spree; if I would go through the back door and start shooting or whatnot. I said I'd get a 22 with a silencer and execute every person in the cooperate office and close each office door - because I could kill far more people before the alarm was raised and everyone scattered. He pointed out that this wasn't really the mindset of crazed shooters, but that's true because if we're talking about killing people, I'd kill them; NOT terrorize them.
With computers it's a bit different I feel because security administrators and their malicious hacker counterparts generally are in a similar mindset. Terrorists and crazy people rarely have well thought out plans executed with calculated moves. Criminal activity computing wise is almost always driven by money. And a good hacker is logical, and more than anything probably patient.. not exactly impulsive criminal/terrorist characteristics.
I think you'll also probably find that the other teachers who "overreacted" are typical of many people: they just don't want to think about it. They run around like chickens with their head cut off when something happens because they don't know what to do when the shit hits the fan. Then afterwards they demand that this never happens again, and that someone ELSE will figure out how that will happen. Same people who lose their documents, are told they should have backups - then still never have backups, because they never think about bad scenarios. Same people who are happy to trade their freedoms away for the facade of safety, yet never ask themselves "is it worth it?" and "is it really making me safer?"
I think that also depends on just why you are learning a new language. Personally I would highly recommend Ruby for system administration. However thinking in Ruby isn't overly different than most other common languages. As such LISP is really cool in the fact that you not only gain a new language, but a new methodology in approaching problems - not just a new language with a different syntax. Prologue is another interesting language although much less useful than LISP in my opinion.
But if you're just looking to pad your resume, then I really don't think LISP will do you much good. It may look cool to the guy making the decisions, but you need to get past HR first, and they have no idea what LISP is nor do they care if you're smart enough to learn other languages.
At #6 I realized that Aero was a failure. If I leave outlook open and my computer goes to sleep, it loses authentication with the exchange server and a dialog for login pops up when I log back in. So I start typing... no focus. alt+tab and type... no focus. After 3-4 attempts I just click on the stupid dialog. I realized that I simply could NOT tell what window actually had focus! Like OS X? Hardly. I can't think of any 3d accelerated options that hinder usability in OS X - most enhance. The only reason I even have aero turned on is in order to build up a tolerance to the default, which I'm sure few will bother to change. I think Microsoft lost track of the point that they were supposed to make computers easier to use, not just flashier.
Also taking into account that God doesn't create the sun until day 3 or 4 so the length of time accounted for by a day before this could essentially be forever.
in the kernel config there is a preemption option which I believe is enabled in the default kernel. Generally you can turn this on and off, and use a different scheduler if you want to, but there isn't the myriad of options to tinker with in Linux. Since many don't bother switching from the defaults, and many others tend to choose wrong anyway, this might be a good thing.
And I like the article summary stating that FreeBSD may now be considered "a serious performance contender". Like FreeBSD was 1000% slower than Linux? Most servers spend their time spinning their wheels anyway, generally I'd rather look at security, how it handles under load and other metrics than whatever "performance" is considered in this instance. Linux is good for some things, BSD for others.
About the only really good news here is that MySQL performance is actually adequate. As MySQL has always been a dog (usable, but a dog) on FreeBSD, the general rule of thumb was that if you needed MySQL you should stick to Linux; all other factors being equal. So now at least we can get down to other factors that are important instead of one database that performs poorly on one system.
AMD is in competition with Intel ATI is in commpetition with Nvidia AMD + ATI is in competition with INTEL
Which video chipset manufacturer has the majority of the market? ATI? Nvidia? Matrox? No, Intel does. In fact Intel has more market share then ATI and Nvidia combined. I highly doubt the gamer market will be very high on the uptake of not being able to upgrade their video card. As such this must be aimed more at the integrated mainboard chipset market where Nvidia isn't even a very big player.
They know that their marketing dept is their most important asset, and they can afford to pour cash at them.
And what marketing department isn't? No seriously, I think tech people underestimate the importance of marketing. Having a good product is one thing, but you need to have a good marketing force behind it to really strike gold (see iPod). Some would say they need to put more effort into improving windows. Consider though how long it took Vista to get out, and how many people were working on it. The answer to windows is NOT more money, more people or more time. The company itself lacks direction and lacks the sheer willpower to do what needs to be done to straiten out windows - therefore it flails about in its rather pathetic state. However are they going to just STOP marketing because their product sucks? This being reality and all, of course not:) And if you had more money than you knew what to do with, then trying to hold mind share is as good of an investment as any.
And yes they could continue with the endless "Company ${x} runs SQL server, which you should care about for some reason and switch", but at some point that will hit a wall. Trying new approaches to gain an audience is a natural progression in marketing. I wouldn't say this is the best campaign, but it is far better than say... calling users of older versions of your product dinosaurs...
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No, it is in fact partially true. This is exactly what happened to the Mini. People ask "What happened to the SMALL mini with fantastic gas mileage?". Well it's not small and it's not light because of all the safety stuff packed into it. Air conditioning is sort of a wash that's hard to tell. It does require a bigger engine for a very light car, however the other option is to roll down the windows which often creates enough drag to erase much of that fuel efficiency, even with the smaller engine. Aside from that, in many parts of the U.S., not having air conditioning would probably be lethal in congested traffic. My understanding is that Europe is able to better cope without air conditioning in vehicles and can thus get by with smaller engines.
No excuse for American car companies, but it is a legitimate argument.
This also sums up a considerable amount of porn titles out there.
MeanderingMind has it mostly right. D&T was a high end raiding guild, but had gotten to the point where they were having issues filling slots. So of course recruitment for such a guild is easy... to acquire leeches.
:p
In the end this is the fate of nearly all raiding guilds. The focus is on pushing content, and getting loot. There is basically no loyalty, and the second the grass looks greener on the other side people jump ship. When everything is going good, it looks fine on the outside but basically rots from within. It's sort of strange that people think of MMORPGs as being unique in this way. Crime organizations often go the same way - ala drug cartels, the mob, etc. Didn't anyone learn anything from scarface?
You kids wouldn't have that problem if you got off your butts and hunted things like I did back when I was your age. Now the kids just sit around the campfire talking about things. Talk. We didn't have this problem until they invented that new fangled language stuff.
I would recommend doing what I did. Find around NINE books that you want. Get the 5 and the next 4 in a month or two. After that point I just stuck with the SFBK and ended up buying probably around 30 books over the entire time I was in. The little catalog they send is actually pretty interesting for seeing up and coming books in the SF realm. I'm not endorsing them, but SF book club is actually quite honest, and while the 5 books for $1 seems like the sort of thing shady businesses do, it's just a marketing gimick.
They also do custom prints with their books as far as I know. There is something to be said to have a lot of hard cover books that are all the same size in your collection.
If windows is stagnant it is because of the company, not because it is entirely technically infeasible for Windows to progress. Open source is not a magic pixy dust that will fix that. Switching to Linux would be trying to treat the symptoms instead of the cause.
New career? Suicide prevention it is!
Actually I'd think that it would indeed be the cause. In a way you create a character and project yourself onto that character, then reinforce different aspects by feedback provided through that avatar. If we're looking at basically a sort of feedback amplification/filter then wouldn't self-reinforcement basically be the cause?
I'm not talking about delusional people who really think they're undead, but for example; a genuine gain in confidence by seeing yourself in game succeeding at challenging tasks. Actually this is sort of weird for me because I have noticed I picked up things from games. It's sort of strange in that I like to lean towards role playing by creating a character that is focused on an aspect of myself.
Maybe I should be careful in what sort of characters I come up with.
Strange, I remember the ending being more ambiguous. I was fairly young when I saw the show (in reruns), so I may not recall everything 100%. You never really knew what Avon was up to and the last part where he sort of turns and smiles sort of stuck with me more than any other ending I've ever seen. Like it could have been the sort of smile where he knew his time was up, and there was nothing left but to be gunned down. OR it could have been the sort of smile you get when you've won - by betraying everyone because you had been working with the federation. To me this meant you had to decide how the show ended by what sort of person Avon was, and what you thought his motives were.
Actually I think he has it right. THIS is always the year of the linux desktop. Apple will always be bankrupt by NEXT year. And the next version of windows will be the most secure ever.
I would say when you're 40, that anything you might get out of college will probably be buried under 20 years of life events so that wouldn't be much of a concern. I mean either you're a well rounded individual or you're not. I had a few things happen to me in college that changed some subtle things in my life sure, but I doubt any of the English courses would truly have any bearing on me at 40 if I wanted to become a writer.
:)
I agree that the biggest advantages to a liberal arts college is in fact that there are a lot of secondary things to be considered. And most certainly having a variety of contacts is a huge advantage in my opinion. Strange as it may sound I took CS at a liberal arts college, and I had a lot of friends also in CS or engineering and we usually talked about... well CS, engineering or geek related stuff. It was actually really refreshing to sit down at the end of the day in a cafeteria and talk to a girl about something OTHER than tech junk.
Age 40 is still a ways off for me, and I will admit that I am glad that I didn't go to a tech school. Mainly because of the memories which are not related to classes that I'll have for the rest of my life (and yes women are a big part of that
I put a block on Vista migration plans when I first tested it for a week. Everyone said "wait for service pack one" however I came to the conclusion that no service pack would be able to fix Vista - many of its flaws are simply bad UI designs, and service packs do not change that.
So after a week of testing Vista I decided that I would wait until the NEXT version of windows. I wasn't too surprised to see a Windows 7 announcement so soon.
I don't put floppies into machines, however I DO need them to install old os drivers from time to time. With this I could put the driers onto it with the regular flash interface, then disconnect it and put it into the target machine temporarily during the installation.
I hope you just need to reformat these things because I've been looking for exactly this type of device for a long time (and haven't found any).
I thought it was the OS in the corporate world, and emacs in the open source realm..
I don't think it's that surprising though. Look at Ipod ads; they are about the Ipod, not about Apple. Apple targets their products more than their company brand. Apple products are named iStuff. Their office sweet is named iWork. If you look at the Apple website and look where the term "Apple" even appears it's rarely ever a key term on any given page. This is key difference between them and Microsoft who has traditionally used "Microsoft ${x}" as their product name mantra. In recent times Microsoft has also started different branding such as .NET, Windows, and Live. Their brand has been diluted, but I'm not sure the consequences are as dire as many make it sound. It may be of concern that over time if these other brands hold little power and the Microsoft brand also does not have the weight, that they may not be able to simply tout things that are simply made by them. At that point they better have a better product, and at the moment they often don't (X-box probably being the only contender).
There is however different mindsets between objectives in criminal, and terrorist activity. My boss once asked me how I would go about a shooting spree; if I would go through the back door and start shooting or whatnot. I said I'd get a 22 with a silencer and execute every person in the cooperate office and close each office door - because I could kill far more people before the alarm was raised and everyone scattered. He pointed out that this wasn't really the mindset of crazed shooters, but that's true because if we're talking about killing people, I'd kill them; NOT terrorize them.
With computers it's a bit different I feel because security administrators and their malicious hacker counterparts generally are in a similar mindset. Terrorists and crazy people rarely have well thought out plans executed with calculated moves. Criminal activity computing wise is almost always driven by money. And a good hacker is logical, and more than anything probably patient.. not exactly impulsive criminal/terrorist characteristics.
I think you'll also probably find that the other teachers who "overreacted" are typical of many people: they just don't want to think about it. They run around like chickens with their head cut off when something happens because they don't know what to do when the shit hits the fan. Then afterwards they demand that this never happens again, and that someone ELSE will figure out how that will happen. Same people who lose their documents, are told they should have backups - then still never have backups, because they never think about bad scenarios. Same people who are happy to trade their freedoms away for the facade of safety, yet never ask themselves "is it worth it?" and "is it really making me safer?"
I think that also depends on just why you are learning a new language. Personally I would highly recommend Ruby for system administration. However thinking in Ruby isn't overly different than most other common languages. As such LISP is really cool in the fact that you not only gain a new language, but a new methodology in approaching problems - not just a new language with a different syntax. Prologue is another interesting language although much less useful than LISP in my opinion.
But if you're just looking to pad your resume, then I really don't think LISP will do you much good. It may look cool to the guy making the decisions, but you need to get past HR first, and they have no idea what LISP is nor do they care if you're smart enough to learn other languages.
At #6 I realized that Aero was a failure. If I leave outlook open and my computer goes to sleep, it loses authentication with the exchange server and a dialog for login pops up when I log back in. So I start typing... no focus. alt+tab and type... no focus. After 3-4 attempts I just click on the stupid dialog. I realized that I simply could NOT tell what window actually had focus! Like OS X? Hardly. I can't think of any 3d accelerated options that hinder usability in OS X - most enhance. The only reason I even have aero turned on is in order to build up a tolerance to the default, which I'm sure few will bother to change. I think Microsoft lost track of the point that they were supposed to make computers easier to use, not just flashier.
Also taking into account that God doesn't create the sun until day 3 or 4 so the length of time accounted for by a day before this could essentially be forever.
Actually I believe AMD wants a co-processor model which would be a third option.
in the kernel config there is a preemption option which I believe is enabled in the default kernel. Generally you can turn this on and off, and use a different scheduler if you want to, but there isn't the myriad of options to tinker with in Linux. Since many don't bother switching from the defaults, and many others tend to choose wrong anyway, this might be a good thing.
And I like the article summary stating that FreeBSD may now be considered "a serious performance contender". Like FreeBSD was 1000% slower than Linux? Most servers spend their time spinning their wheels anyway, generally I'd rather look at security, how it handles under load and other metrics than whatever "performance" is considered in this instance. Linux is good for some things, BSD for others.
About the only really good news here is that MySQL performance is actually adequate. As MySQL has always been a dog (usable, but a dog) on FreeBSD, the general rule of thumb was that if you needed MySQL you should stick to Linux; all other factors being equal. So now at least we can get down to other factors that are important instead of one database that performs poorly on one system.
AMD is in competition with Intel
ATI is in commpetition with Nvidia
AMD + ATI is in competition with INTEL
Which video chipset manufacturer has the majority of the market? ATI? Nvidia? Matrox? No, Intel does. In fact Intel has more market share then ATI and Nvidia combined. I highly doubt the gamer market will be very high on the uptake of not being able to upgrade their video card. As such this must be aimed more at the integrated mainboard chipset market where Nvidia isn't even a very big player.
Switches and machines that aggregate multiple saturated gigabit connections?
They know that their marketing dept is their most important asset, and they can afford to pour cash at them.
:) And if you had more money than you knew what to do with, then trying to hold mind share is as good of an investment as any.
And what marketing department isn't? No seriously, I think tech people underestimate the importance of marketing. Having a good product is one thing, but you need to have a good marketing force behind it to really strike gold (see iPod). Some would say they need to put more effort into improving windows. Consider though how long it took Vista to get out, and how many people were working on it. The answer to windows is NOT more money, more people or more time. The company itself lacks direction and lacks the sheer willpower to do what needs to be done to straiten out windows - therefore it flails about in its rather pathetic state. However are they going to just STOP marketing because their product sucks? This being reality and all, of course not
And yes they could continue with the endless "Company ${x} runs SQL server, which you should care about for some reason and switch", but at some point that will hit a wall. Trying new approaches to gain an audience is a natural progression in marketing. I wouldn't say this is the best campaign, but it is far better than say... calling users of older versions of your product dinosaurs...