AIX. BTW, we have a large AIX server in our test lab, and I told the IBM guy that years ago IBM was "the Evil Empire" but I thought they were redeeming themselves by supporting Linux. I think he thought I was a nutcase. He may be right, in any case.
given my today's knowledge of Physics and Mathematics that I learn by my twelfth grade, I would have been the most intelligent man alive 400 years ago.
Learning what other people have figured out is not intelligence, it's education. You'd be more educated, but I hardly think more intelligent.
They intentionally chose the boring one as a safe bet.
Dullness is OK. It can be good. Nice, quiet, dull, who wouldn't want that in a president compared to what we've had for the last 12 years? But Gore and Kerrey are malevolent in their dullness.
The idea that a crowd has wisdom is simply ludicrous. Maybe in a crowd you'll find wise individuals, but there's nothing like a crowd to make a lot of people act stupid together.
most of the stations in my area play between 40-45 minutes of non-commercial crap.
I listen to the local classical station (it's old-school: no NPR, no junk). I let all the people from 200 years ago do all the weeding out of crap--now all I hear is the great music.
I sure hope that SP2 gets released by Sept. 7. That's when the girls come back to school here. That's when they bring their spyware-infected, unpatched systems to school.
Let's see, the girls come back to school, they need computing help, you are the man on the job, and you don't see the opportunity there? Must be a/. geek...
But, I'm mostly starting to agree with you...govt. is creeping WAY too far into our lives...legislating behavior, morality...our lives. I for one and pissed about LA re-instating the 'helmet' law for motorcycles. I'm a grown adult, and should be able to decide if I want to wear one or not. Heck, I'm pretty sure that MOST vehicular head trauma cases are incurred by car drivers, so, why not require all people in automobiles to wear helmets too??
In an irony worthy of the Age of Reason, an emphasis on individual rights leads to larger government. After all, who is to enforce and protect the multitude of rights that have been conjured up in the last 200 years? The State, of course! The more rights, the bigger the state.
In your example the helmetless motorcyclist's "right" to medical care conflicts with my "right" not to pay for his carelessness. Who wins? Why, the State, of course. The state decides, in a utilitarian fashion, that my "right" trumps, and sets up the appropriate structure to enforce it. Somewhere in there your "right" to drive helmetless and the hospital's "right" to refuse to treat you without payment were lost.
It's not lack of intelligence that cause people not to read.
Quite true. And for those that do read it is laziness and lack of good taste that causes so many people to read pulp instead of _War and Peace_. Those are character, not intellectual, qualities. I think the critics back in the 50's may have classified LOTR as in bad taste ("juvenile trash"), but it sure isn't easy reading.
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AIX. BTW, we have a large AIX server in our test lab, and I told the IBM guy that years ago IBM was "the Evil Empire" but I thought they were redeeming themselves by supporting Linux. I think he thought I was a nutcase. He may be right, in any case.
Learning what other people have figured out is not intelligence, it's education. You'd be more educated, but I hardly think more intelligent.
Do you mean your NICs get hot? Or does the machine start vibrating under the load?
The calm before the storm. I sense a reinstall coming.
Let me guess. You weigh 468 pounds?
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Look both ways before you cross. Don't play with matches. Buy low, sell high. Car analogies on /. will fail every time.
You're right. I'm sick of it, too. I'm going to filter out "politics" on my home page right now.
Dullness is OK. It can be good. Nice, quiet, dull, who wouldn't want that in a president compared to what we've had for the last 12 years? But Gore and Kerrey are malevolent in their dullness.
Why the Hysteria? You have nothing to worry about.
A one-eyed man in the land of the blind is King.
The idea that a crowd has wisdom is simply ludicrous. Maybe in a crowd you'll find wise individuals, but there's nothing like a crowd to make a lot of people act stupid together.
You mean, it's not dead yet, Bones?
It's not just radio: it's the whole of America that's been homogenized. Look out, world!
I listen to the local classical station (it's old-school: no NPR, no junk). I let all the people from 200 years ago do all the weeding out of crap--now all I hear is the great music.
Not enough. Just read about OpenBSD and CARP and how it was developed to go around a Cisco Patent that is also an IETF "standard".
Just another /. Car Analogy which gets nitpicked to death.
That's why you want to hire one-handed economists, so they can't say, "on the other hand."
It was rather cool and rainy around here today. Quite unseasonable.
Let's see, the girls come back to school, they need computing help, you are the man on the job, and you don't see the opportunity there? Must be a /. geek...
Headscarves and opium.
In an irony worthy of the Age of Reason, an emphasis on individual rights leads to larger government. After all, who is to enforce and protect the multitude of rights that have been conjured up in the last 200 years? The State, of course! The more rights, the bigger the state.
In your example the helmetless motorcyclist's "right" to medical care conflicts with my "right" not to pay for his carelessness. Who wins? Why, the State, of course. The state decides, in a utilitarian fashion, that my "right" trumps, and sets up the appropriate structure to enforce it. Somewhere in there your "right" to drive helmetless and the hospital's "right" to refuse to treat you without payment were lost.
He's been working on licensing Jar-Jar from Lucas, hence the belated additions.
Quite true. And for those that do read it is laziness and lack of good taste that causes so many people to read pulp instead of _War and Peace_. Those are character, not intellectual, qualities. I think the critics back in the 50's may have classified LOTR as in bad taste ("juvenile trash"), but it sure isn't easy reading.
You don't _have_ to be a Christian to enjoy Tolkien. You just enjoy the fruits of the Western Christian heritage.