I asked what would happen to our investment if they went belly up, they told me it the network hardware would be unusable if that happened.
A little one-sided there, methinks. After all, the money you would have given them would still work just fine. This business deserves to fail in the marketplace.
I have asked Wind River representatives whether their Linux product is meant to replace VxWorks and they emphatically said no. (If that means anything.)
I thought I'd comment -- I'd been eying one of those ultra-lightweight, tiny Vaio laptops for a while now, but I have the same reservations about Sony hardware that you do. That said, Fujitsu often offers comparable systems, and I've had good luck installing "vanilla" XP Pro and divers flavors of Linux on my Lifebook P5010. Fujitsu has long since stopped supporting it now, but I've never had any trouble installing more recent chipset drivers, etc., that I downloaded direct from the manufacturers. This is not a knock on Lenovo or Toshiba; I just find that Fujitsu is often overlooked, when they offer some sweet little ultralights.
By comparison, I've recently been dismayed to discover that I cannot install Mac OS X on my Sony Vaio desktop, apparently because my SATA chipset is not in AHCI mode. Unfortunately, Sony seems to have crippled the BIOS so there is no way to switch to that mode.
You can't very well blame the extremely hardworking Ubuntu and Linux kernel developers when hardware manufacturers actively block their attempts to write drivers, refuse to release specs, etc. Sure, it would be another success for Linux if it could support your device without using the Windows drivers. But you act as if it's a failure for Ubuntu when you try to use incompatible hardware with it. In future, try to buy from vendors whose hardware is at least possible to support under Linux.
Unfortunately, it won't explain how she becomes Luke's father.
What? I thought this was the spoiler thread!
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...or you really don't realize that Iain M. Banks, the science fiction author, and Iain Banks, the "literary" fiction author, are one and the same. I'm posting this for the benefit of those who are really confused.
I used to work at a 7-11 and believe me, the prominently-placed security cameras there were less about recognizing the face of the stick-up man as he's making his getaway and more about watching the employees as they lift money out of the register and put it into the pockets of their smocks. People are stupid. They steal, and they steal for bullshit stakes.
My 7-11 had a policy where employees kept <$100 in the register (all $20 bills and up went immediately into the timed safe). We had one employee who "forgot" the policy one particular day, and "coincidentally" that was the same day some "random" guy came in, held him up, and took all the money out of the register -- less than $1K but considerably more than was supposed to be in there. The employee really, seriously thought that the video cameras were going to vindicate him -- "look, there's the guy threatening me, isn't he scary?" As if an armed robbery had ever happened at this suburban 7-11 store before, in all the years it had been in business, up until exactly about three weeks after this clown was hired.
Another guy had been working there for about two days when some kids ran in and, in a flash, stole about six cases of beer. Security cameras showed the employee was nowhere to be found during the robbery. An eyewitness later came forward and said the employee had been standing out in front of the store during the incident, smoking a cigarette.
The smartest guy who ever ripped the place off actually kept his cool and bided his time. He was this Abercrombie and Fitch looking kid who was always all smiles and glad-handing, always ready to agree with the owners, always ready to talk down the other employees. Compared to the rest of the long-haired tweakers who worked at the store, he must have looked like the all-American boy. So they made him manager. About a month later, he walked away from the back office with about $6,000, abandoning his car in the lot.
Even that guy was stupid, though. Like I said, he abandoned his car in the front lot. So a coworker and I broke into it. Rifling his dashboard, we found a court summons. He was scheduled to appear in about two weeks' time on a prior charge. We called the sheriff's department and asked if they could please meet him at his court date at such-and-such time. And guess what? He actually showed up.
But the cops didn't. They showed up about 45 minutes late, by which time the case had already cleared the docket. Better luck next time, huh? So I guess the moral of the story is that there's a reason for stuff like video cameras if you're a business owner. Better grab all the evidence you can possibly get, because you might need it later. If you rely on the cops you could be in for a long wait.
How can you not justify a $50 a month expense, and a $50 initial cost?
If I had to guess, I'd say it has to do with the telecom industry charging businesses more than consumers, especially if they're "reselling" the service (for free). I don't know for a fact that this is the case, but -- duh. If you were a telecom company, why would you not try to fleece businesses?
Interestingly, SECAM is still currently used by Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam, Rwanda, Libya, most of the countries of the former USSR... and France. Coincidence? I think not! Note that one of the first benefits of the U.S. military action in Iraq has been to liberate the country from the grip of SECAM and migrate it to PAL. I rest my case.
There is something else working in your favor when it comes to checking bags: Money.
I was once boarding a flight to New York when I was told, arbitrarily at the gate, that I would need to check my smallish bag because there was no more overhead cabin room. "B-but-!" I said. "I'm sorry sir, that's the way it is," they said, grabbing my bag and tying a tag around it. Away went my bag. "You can pick it up at your destination."
What didn't really dawn on me until much later was, how could she possibly know what my destination even WAS? With the hub-and-spoke system airlines use in the U.S., it was foolish of her to assume that my destination was New York. So while American Airlines (yes, let me repeat, the airline in question was American Airlines) promptly delivered my bag to the terminal at JFK airport, I had to leg it to catch my connecting flight to Paris, then to Florence, and then by cab to a remote villa in Tuscany -- to which location American Airlines was then forced to deliver my bag, individually, by driver.
Hey, Lady at the Terminal -- was it worth it? How was your performance report that month? And let's not forget that my bag was damaged when it arrived and my camera was missing, meaning I couldn't take any photos at the wedding I was attending... nice one, American Airlines!
Seriously... many incidents like that, and terrorism or no terrorism, some flight attendants are going to exercise discretion when it comes to carry-on bags.
the moment there is a no children airline, sign me up.
Hear hear! I would like to sell you the real estate to start that airline, sir. I have several hundred acres available outside the town of Bedford Falls, in Upstate New York. Please contact me via my estate agent; the name is Potter.
Let's also not forget that a *single* person (male or female) who doesn't think much of the consequences of him/her having sex that is infected will be a fatal blow to your "cure".
Far be it from me to "forget" this point, but would you care to present some statistics to back up your claim?
You cannot reliably prevent infections without a massive, completely non-corrupt police state.
Why not? In the 1960s-1970s we effectively eradicated smallpox from the face of the earth.
No there is another way to kill of aids. You hint at it, but don't follow to conclusion. Just infect everybody
Surely this likewise calls for a massive police state? Then again, I suppose you consider this a more effective approach because it does not require the police state to be free of corruption?
Well, whatever. Great thoughts here, pal! You've got my vote.
What does this option do that turning off Aero (or going all the way back to 'Windows Classic' theme) doesn't do?
From what I can see, that's pretty much what it does. So in order to get good performance on Vista, according to Microsoft, you need to roll it back to Windows 2000 look-and-feel.
Is this the test now? Which desert? What's a tortoise? Do you think up these questions yourself, Mr. Ellison, or do they write them down for you? What do you mean I'm not helping? My mother?
Roderic Page, who is involved in the Encyclopedia of Life "in an advisory capacity," has posted some fairly damning criticisms of the project in its current form. I have not spent much time poking around the site myself, but if what he says is true then it sounds like he's pretty right on. (Example: Some pages actually devote more on-screen space to contributor/sponsor logos than to content.) Here's hoping they're already taking steps to improve it.
I know that many times when I am in the grips of it, I wish I could actually feel unhappy. It's more like a fog, a lead blanket, a loss of engagement with life.
Really true. This is something that I struggle to explain to people who have never experienced it.
I've had episodes of pretty severe (I'm not qualified to say "clinical") depression, lasting a few months at a time. When I tell people this, they give me that "aw, that's too bad" look -- not understanding that, throughout these periods of depression, I was rarely actually "sad." People picture you moping around the house, looking through old pictures, crying at TV commercials... for me it was nothing like this.
The only way I can describe it is this: Picture your emotions as a sine wave. The top of the wave is "happy." The bottom of it is "unhappy." The zero line is "feeling nothing much." Throughout your life you oscillate between various points on the curve. As you slip into depression, though, your baseline drifts below the zero line, into "unhappy." It does this in such an insidious way that you don't really notice it slipping. Eventually, though, the tops of your own personal sine curves -- the points that used to reach into the "happy" zone -- stop hitting "happy." Instead, they only make it about as far as "not feeling much of anything."
I'm a pretty logical person, most of the time. But when your brain is misbehaving on you like this, your normal logical processes start to get clouded and messed up, and this can compound the problem. Here's how it worked for me:
Let's say you're feeling sort of down, so you want to cheer up. You go and take down your favorite book off the shelf, the one you've loved since childhood, and you start flipping through it for a little pick-me-up. But you're depressed, so you still feel... nothing much. Not much of anything at all. So you put the book back. LOGICAL CONCLUSION? I must not really like that book after all. I guess I grew out of it.
A few such "conclusions" and the evidence starts to mount up: All this stuff that I say I'm "about," that I've been saying I like and enjoy, is really sort of a sham. Because clearly I don't really like any of it. I don't like going to movies, I don't like music...I don't get much joy out of any of it, at all. So the fact that I own these rock band T-shirts...what a joke! I'm putting people on. I'm just making small-talk, covering up for the "fact" (again, pseudo-logical deductions taking place here) that I don't have any real interests at all.
At my absolute lowest points, I would find myself downtown, out in front of Macy's somewhere, and I would have a "revelation": Look at all these people, all these crowds. Everyone coming and going. Everyone with their own way of looking, their own way of speaking, their own interests, their own goals and plans. Everyone, that is... except me. Because I have no discernible hopes or joys or interests. I have no discernible personality at all.
And I know it's pretty hard for people to believe this if you're not in the same space -- I have a hard time comprehending those feelings right now -- but when I was in the grip of it, let me assure you that I was not speaking metaphorically. I really, seriously meant that I was a non-person, some kind of entity, desperately afraid that all the people around me were going to catch on to the fact that I had been lying to them all the years that I'd known them, because all the ways that I had pretended to be a unique individual had just been an elaborate ruse to cover up my shame at being a complete and utter non-person.
If you knew me, you'd see immediately how absurd that notion is. But that's the thing about delusions. When you're having them, there still might be a little voice in the back of your head saying, "Whoah, buddy, ease up, maybe you oughtta go lie down for a while or something" -- but it doesn't matter. You're not going to be
Oh, I speak as someone that was depressed and attempted suicide a few times.. until I finally woke up, and chose not to worry about things I couldn't necessarly change. Been pretty good since then.
And I speak as someone who used to listen to fools, until I woke up...
You realize that your anecdotal experience wouldn't have any real bearing on any issue, no matter what we were talking about, right? If you said you used to have problems with getting rained on during your walk to work, until you started doing a rain dance every morning, I wouldn't give it any more credit than what you're saying now. You might as well say that Christ cured your depression. If it's true, then great for you. But it means nothing for anybody else. You have an opinion and you're entitled to it, but please at least own up to the fact that an opinion is all it is. You sound like somebody's drunken uncle, insisting that every kid who gets beat up at school just needs to "man up."
I'm told that the absolute worst-case scenario for this is schizophrenia, where patients may need to take one or more antipsychotic drugs every day for the rest of their lives. Not wanting to take drugs every single day is a perfectly normal reaction to "feeling fine," especially when you've previously been through one or more really hellish ordeals (where you feel like you really did need drugs). As a result, the rate of relapse due to noncompliance for schizophrenics is basically 100 percent. They'll comply for a while, but sooner or later they'll want to test the waters, so to speak. It's only natural. But unfortunately it can set their treatment back years.
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A little one-sided there, methinks. After all, the money you would have given them would still work just fine. This business deserves to fail in the marketplace.
I have asked Wind River representatives whether their Linux product is meant to replace VxWorks and they emphatically said no. (If that means anything.)
I thought I'd comment -- I'd been eying one of those ultra-lightweight, tiny Vaio laptops for a while now, but I have the same reservations about Sony hardware that you do. That said, Fujitsu often offers comparable systems, and I've had good luck installing "vanilla" XP Pro and divers flavors of Linux on my Lifebook P5010. Fujitsu has long since stopped supporting it now, but I've never had any trouble installing more recent chipset drivers, etc., that I downloaded direct from the manufacturers. This is not a knock on Lenovo or Toshiba; I just find that Fujitsu is often overlooked, when they offer some sweet little ultralights.
By comparison, I've recently been dismayed to discover that I cannot install Mac OS X on my Sony Vaio desktop, apparently because my SATA chipset is not in AHCI mode. Unfortunately, Sony seems to have crippled the BIOS so there is no way to switch to that mode.
You can't very well blame the extremely hardworking Ubuntu and Linux kernel developers when hardware manufacturers actively block their attempts to write drivers, refuse to release specs, etc. Sure, it would be another success for Linux if it could support your device without using the Windows drivers. But you act as if it's a failure for Ubuntu when you try to use incompatible hardware with it. In future, try to buy from vendors whose hardware is at least possible to support under Linux.
Unfortunately, it won't explain how she becomes Luke's father.
What? I thought this was the spoiler thread!
...or you really don't realize that Iain M. Banks, the science fiction author, and Iain Banks, the "literary" fiction author, are one and the same. I'm posting this for the benefit of those who are really confused.
To clarify, a hardcore torrent is one that fills every port at the same time, seeding everywhere.
I used to work at a 7-11 and believe me, the prominently-placed security cameras there were less about recognizing the face of the stick-up man as he's making his getaway and more about watching the employees as they lift money out of the register and put it into the pockets of their smocks. People are stupid. They steal, and they steal for bullshit stakes.
My 7-11 had a policy where employees kept <$100 in the register (all $20 bills and up went immediately into the timed safe). We had one employee who "forgot" the policy one particular day, and "coincidentally" that was the same day some "random" guy came in, held him up, and took all the money out of the register -- less than $1K but considerably more than was supposed to be in there. The employee really, seriously thought that the video cameras were going to vindicate him -- "look, there's the guy threatening me, isn't he scary?" As if an armed robbery had ever happened at this suburban 7-11 store before, in all the years it had been in business, up until exactly about three weeks after this clown was hired.
Another guy had been working there for about two days when some kids ran in and, in a flash, stole about six cases of beer. Security cameras showed the employee was nowhere to be found during the robbery. An eyewitness later came forward and said the employee had been standing out in front of the store during the incident, smoking a cigarette.
The smartest guy who ever ripped the place off actually kept his cool and bided his time. He was this Abercrombie and Fitch looking kid who was always all smiles and glad-handing, always ready to agree with the owners, always ready to talk down the other employees. Compared to the rest of the long-haired tweakers who worked at the store, he must have looked like the all-American boy. So they made him manager. About a month later, he walked away from the back office with about $6,000, abandoning his car in the lot.
Even that guy was stupid, though. Like I said, he abandoned his car in the front lot. So a coworker and I broke into it. Rifling his dashboard, we found a court summons. He was scheduled to appear in about two weeks' time on a prior charge. We called the sheriff's department and asked if they could please meet him at his court date at such-and-such time. And guess what? He actually showed up.
But the cops didn't. They showed up about 45 minutes late, by which time the case had already cleared the docket. Better luck next time, huh? So I guess the moral of the story is that there's a reason for stuff like video cameras if you're a business owner. Better grab all the evidence you can possibly get, because you might need it later. If you rely on the cops you could be in for a long wait.
If I had to guess, I'd say it has to do with the telecom industry charging businesses more than consumers, especially if they're "reselling" the service (for free). I don't know for a fact that this is the case, but -- duh. If you were a telecom company, why would you not try to fleece businesses?
Yeah. Sure -- if you're, like, good at your job.
(Though I would add that criticism like yours is what we in the media field need more of.)
Oh, no. Watch your mailboxes -- here come the free CDs!
Interestingly, SECAM is still currently used by Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam, Rwanda, Libya, most of the countries of the former USSR ... and France. Coincidence? I think not! Note that one of the first benefits of the U.S. military action in Iraq has been to liberate the country from the grip of SECAM and migrate it to PAL. I rest my case.
Eh, you're exaggerating.
... nice one, American Airlines!
... many incidents like that, and terrorism or no terrorism, some flight attendants are going to exercise discretion when it comes to carry-on bags.
There is something else working in your favor when it comes to checking bags: Money.
I was once boarding a flight to New York when I was told, arbitrarily at the gate, that I would need to check my smallish bag because there was no more overhead cabin room. "B-but-!" I said. "I'm sorry sir, that's the way it is," they said, grabbing my bag and tying a tag around it. Away went my bag. "You can pick it up at your destination."
What didn't really dawn on me until much later was, how could she possibly know what my destination even WAS? With the hub-and-spoke system airlines use in the U.S., it was foolish of her to assume that my destination was New York. So while American Airlines (yes, let me repeat, the airline in question was American Airlines) promptly delivered my bag to the terminal at JFK airport, I had to leg it to catch my connecting flight to Paris, then to Florence, and then by cab to a remote villa in Tuscany -- to which location American Airlines was then forced to deliver my bag, individually, by driver.
Hey, Lady at the Terminal -- was it worth it? How was your performance report that month? And let's not forget that my bag was damaged when it arrived and my camera was missing, meaning I couldn't take any photos at the wedding I was attending
Seriously
Hear hear! I would like to sell you the real estate to start that airline, sir. I have several hundred acres available outside the town of Bedford Falls, in Upstate New York. Please contact me via my estate agent; the name is Potter.
No shit, Sherlock. Read the top post of the thread.
Far be it from me to "forget" this point, but would you care to present some statistics to back up your claim?
Why not? In the 1960s-1970s we effectively eradicated smallpox from the face of the earth.
Surely this likewise calls for a massive police state? Then again, I suppose you consider this a more effective approach because it does not require the police state to be free of corruption?
Well, whatever. Great thoughts here, pal! You've got my vote.
You seem to have a misguided interpretation of the role and purpose of Slashdot...
Yeah. If those dirty savages would just stop getting bitten by mosquitoes, they'd have no more problems. But you can't teach 'em.
From what I can see, that's pretty much what it does. So in order to get good performance on Vista, according to Microsoft, you need to roll it back to Windows 2000 look-and-feel.
Here are some more for you:
Is this the test now? Which desert? What's a tortoise? Do you think up these questions yourself, Mr. Ellison, or do they write them down for you? What do you mean I'm not helping? My mother?
Roderic Page, who is involved in the Encyclopedia of Life "in an advisory capacity," has posted some fairly damning criticisms of the project in its current form. I have not spent much time poking around the site myself, but if what he says is true then it sounds like he's pretty right on. (Example: Some pages actually devote more on-screen space to contributor/sponsor logos than to content.) Here's hoping they're already taking steps to improve it.
Nnnnaaaaah, just patch it in SP4.
Really true. This is something that I struggle to explain to people who have never experienced it.
... for me it was nothing like this.
... nothing much. Not much of anything at all. So you put the book back. LOGICAL CONCLUSION? I must not really like that book after all. I guess I grew out of it.
... except me. Because I have no discernible hopes or joys or interests. I have no discernible personality at all.
I've had episodes of pretty severe (I'm not qualified to say "clinical") depression, lasting a few months at a time. When I tell people this, they give me that "aw, that's too bad" look -- not understanding that, throughout these periods of depression, I was rarely actually "sad." People picture you moping around the house, looking through old pictures, crying at TV commercials
The only way I can describe it is this: Picture your emotions as a sine wave. The top of the wave is "happy." The bottom of it is "unhappy." The zero line is "feeling nothing much." Throughout your life you oscillate between various points on the curve. As you slip into depression, though, your baseline drifts below the zero line, into "unhappy." It does this in such an insidious way that you don't really notice it slipping. Eventually, though, the tops of your own personal sine curves -- the points that used to reach into the "happy" zone -- stop hitting "happy." Instead, they only make it about as far as "not feeling much of anything."
I'm a pretty logical person, most of the time. But when your brain is misbehaving on you like this, your normal logical processes start to get clouded and messed up, and this can compound the problem. Here's how it worked for me:
Let's say you're feeling sort of down, so you want to cheer up. You go and take down your favorite book off the shelf, the one you've loved since childhood, and you start flipping through it for a little pick-me-up. But you're depressed, so you still feel
A few such "conclusions" and the evidence starts to mount up: All this stuff that I say I'm "about," that I've been saying I like and enjoy, is really sort of a sham. Because clearly I don't really like any of it. I don't like going to movies, I don't like music...I don't get much joy out of any of it, at all. So the fact that I own these rock band T-shirts...what a joke! I'm putting people on. I'm just making small-talk, covering up for the "fact" (again, pseudo-logical deductions taking place here) that I don't have any real interests at all.
At my absolute lowest points, I would find myself downtown, out in front of Macy's somewhere, and I would have a "revelation": Look at all these people, all these crowds. Everyone coming and going. Everyone with their own way of looking, their own way of speaking, their own interests, their own goals and plans. Everyone, that is
And I know it's pretty hard for people to believe this if you're not in the same space -- I have a hard time comprehending those feelings right now -- but when I was in the grip of it, let me assure you that I was not speaking metaphorically. I really, seriously meant that I was a non-person, some kind of entity, desperately afraid that all the people around me were going to catch on to the fact that I had been lying to them all the years that I'd known them, because all the ways that I had pretended to be a unique individual had just been an elaborate ruse to cover up my shame at being a complete and utter non-person.
If you knew me, you'd see immediately how absurd that notion is. But that's the thing about delusions. When you're having them, there still might be a little voice in the back of your head saying, "Whoah, buddy, ease up, maybe you oughtta go lie down for a while or something" -- but it doesn't matter. You're not going to be
And I speak as someone who used to listen to fools, until I woke up...
You realize that your anecdotal experience wouldn't have any real bearing on any issue, no matter what we were talking about, right? If you said you used to have problems with getting rained on during your walk to work, until you started doing a rain dance every morning, I wouldn't give it any more credit than what you're saying now. You might as well say that Christ cured your depression. If it's true, then great for you. But it means nothing for anybody else. You have an opinion and you're entitled to it, but please at least own up to the fact that an opinion is all it is. You sound like somebody's drunken uncle, insisting that every kid who gets beat up at school just needs to "man up."
I'm told that the absolute worst-case scenario for this is schizophrenia, where patients may need to take one or more antipsychotic drugs every day for the rest of their lives. Not wanting to take drugs every single day is a perfectly normal reaction to "feeling fine," especially when you've previously been through one or more really hellish ordeals (where you feel like you really did need drugs). As a result, the rate of relapse due to noncompliance for schizophrenics is basically 100 percent. They'll comply for a while, but sooner or later they'll want to test the waters, so to speak. It's only natural. But unfortunately it can set their treatment back years.