I was a software engineer and lead in Systems at Microsoft for 13 years. I worked on several OS projects including windows NT. So I quote myself as an authority: NT is not VMS.
While one of the Architects of NT was also an architech of VMS, the two OS's are completely different. NT was written from scratch. To say that NT is VMS is like saying "IT" is the same as "Dreamcatcher" because they had the same author.
The reason you see job postings that seem to be ridiculously specific and arbitary for simple jobs is that the company already knows who they are going to hire. See, there are rules about hiring foreigners into positions that could be filled by local candidates. So what they do is sit the candidate they want down (maybe a former intern) and ask for every conceivable skill they possess, attempting to create a job position for which there is only one person on earth qualified.
If you follow the links provided in the parent post, you will find the rebuttal by the authros where they state: We did not ask for an Excel spreadsheet nor did we receive one. If you read the rest of their rebuttal, it becomes clear that Mann just made the excel error up! No really! Go read!
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. ~ Thomas Haliburton
I have found many people will get angry when you say that global warming isn't real. Are you one of these people? Do you hold on so dearly to this notion that evidence to the contrary outrages you? Isn't this a symptom that just maybe you might be wrong? When I look at any of the graphs used to back up the global warming story, I do not see evidence of warming. Usually the graphs are zoomed in and incorrectly based. People like to imagine that they can 'see' a signal in the noise just like the stock graphs on the nightly news. But its not there, it is an illusion. Weather is a chaotic system so you will see fluctuations. Fluctuations are indicative of nothing. Making the case that just because there is no evidence of a problem that reducing CO2 emmisions is still a good idea is an invalid argument. There are many things that might be true but have no basis, such as the idea that you should give me all your money if you want to go to heaven. Taking action on imagined crisis is foolish.
Just because the neo-cons are assholes does not imply that everything they say is wrong. In this case, the evidence is on their side.
I remember back several years ago hearing about an entire automobile design that was lost by General Motors when their server died. They did regular backups and the backups worked fine. Just to be safe, they ran a verify program on the backup, then put the tape in storage. Turns out the verify program erased the backups! The whole project was cancelled when they discovered several years of data had been lost.
How do you know that you can do this, have you seen the version she is talking about? She did post a picture of what she used to be able to do and says she can't anymore. That is to say, she is specifically saying it is broken in the new release.
I noticed that with Jaguar and I noticed the same with Panther: about 10-20% of the third party applications just won't load anymore, or they will crash on load. I understand that this policy has dsitinct advantages, but that's a lot of incompatable apps (out of 7,000 available for OSX) and while most of these will be recompiled in the next few months by their authors, the inconvienience caused is already there.
I have never understood why Mac developers and users tolerate Apple screwing them over every couple of years. Say what you will about Microsoft, but they do spent enormous effort trying to avoid this problem on each release, and the effort shows in their market share. And of course open source doesn't require you to wait a few months to recompile...
And when I said #2, I wasn't talking about their position in the market.
...agents were known as Daemons. Being faster in thought than humans and more devious, they were appropriately described by the term Diabolical.
The machines have become more subtle in these end times at their method of controlling our minds by corrupting our language, recasting the diabolical daemons of the netherworld as the more politically palatable and iconographically hip Intelligent Agents.
One day my brother got a credit card in the mail. And lots of spam and calls too. Unlike the article above however, he never had any contact with these people. He has no idea how it happened. He called the credit card company and they claimed they had a signed copy of the agreement. He asked them to fax it to him. They refused, but did 'cancel' the credit card. Spam and phone calls still come though.
Stuff like this makes you doubt the quality of our judgment when we put high tech into hands of the masses. Like handing a gun to a baby.
Go buy an inverter at the hardware store. I have one, pretty cool. Yes, I can boil water and watch TV in my car. However,you get closer to 100 watts, not 100kwatts.
Filesystem benchmarks can be remarkably inconsistent. These tables do not display average difference between runs. Usually this means that the methodology used to do the benchmarking is lax, and thus, untrustworthy.
For example, consider that harddrives do their own error correction. Depending on the location of marginal blocks on the media, different file systems can score dramatically for no other reason than the drive's re-mapping or error correction logic is kicking in at a bad point. Alignment of data can also be a factor in performace which depending on the formatting procedure may be completely random when compared to the file system sitting on top of it. For these reasons and a host of others, it is not reliable to do filesystem performance comparison on a single machine. Bottom line is that there is a good chance that these data are not fair representations of the relative merits of each filesystem.
Have you ever noticed that people who write about "science" in the abstract never seem to have a clue about what science is? Read this piece of humanities trash. Nothing about observation, theory or methodology. Lots about politics and education.
It almost comes off as a political mad-lib where the key words included "science" and "franklin" and "civic".
Compulsary licensing doesnt mean musicians are compelled to get a license, it means ISPs have to pay a license [as it already works in retail outlets that play the copyrighted music for example]. Not just any music falls under this rule; only music on the RIAA's extensive list of covered works. You cant just take some noise to the RIAA and say give me royalties!
At first this seemed like a clever idea, turning binaries into music and then getting paid for sharing them as music.
But wait a minute here.
Nobody gets paid for sharing music. The RIAA does collect fees and pay royalties for licenced copyrighted works that have been registered under them; but not just any musical work is covered by them. I mean, there is a procedure for this that is a little more complicated than just declaring it so. They have to agree, in a contract, to include your work. If they dont then even if you have legitimate music you don't get to collect royalties from them.
I worked at MS when they decided to use ctrl+alt+del for login. The people who made the decision were under the impression that it could not be trapped *by dos apps* that tried to steal passwords. They were deeply mistaken. Indeed it is was not trappable using the int 16 interrupt, but easily trapped with int 9. But, the decision had been made, bad design and all, and they weren't going to admit the mistake. So the whole thing is a testament to the power of ignorance when it gets momentum.
Smart cars are taking europe by storm. They look too small to be comfortable, but actually the front seats have as much room as any car. Since they are as short as a normal car is wide, you can park nose-in instead of parallel parking. Great gas mileage, totally practical.
I bought nVidia 5 times in a row, so really I find it quite cool to be back to ATI. I was worried the competition in the market was over.
The key thing ATI did besides great cost/performance was get drivers out the door that didnt totally suck. For the first time in memory I have the original video driver and am not forced to download a patch!
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I was a software engineer and lead in Systems at Microsoft for 13 years. I worked on several OS projects including windows NT. So I quote myself as an authority: NT is not VMS.
While one of the Architects of NT was also an architech of VMS, the two OS's are completely different. NT was written from scratch.
To say that NT is VMS is like saying "IT" is the same as "Dreamcatcher" because they had the same author.
The reason you see job postings that seem to be ridiculously specific and arbitary for simple jobs is that the company already knows who they are going to hire. See, there are rules about hiring foreigners into positions that could be filled by local candidates. So what they do is sit the candidate they want down (maybe a former intern) and ask for every conceivable skill they possess, attempting to create a job position for which there is only one person on earth qualified.
If you follow the links provided in the parent post, you will find the rebuttal by the authros where they state:
We did not ask for an Excel spreadsheet nor did we receive one.
If you read the rest of their rebuttal, it becomes clear that Mann just made the excel error up! No really! Go read!
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. ~ Thomas Haliburton
I have found many people will get angry when you say that global warming isn't real. Are you one of these people?
Do you hold on so dearly to this notion that evidence to the contrary outrages you? Isn't this a symptom that just maybe you might be wrong?
When I look at any of the graphs used to back up the global warming story, I do not see evidence of warming. Usually the graphs are zoomed in and incorrectly based. People like to imagine that they can 'see' a signal in the noise just like the stock graphs on the nightly news. But its not there, it is an illusion. Weather is a chaotic system so you will see fluctuations. Fluctuations are indicative of nothing.
Making the case that just because there is no evidence of a problem that reducing CO2 emmisions is still a good idea is an invalid argument. There are many things that might be true but have no basis, such as the idea that you should give me all your money if you want to go to heaven. Taking action on imagined crisis is foolish.
Just because the neo-cons are assholes does not imply that everything they say is wrong. In this case, the evidence is on their side.
Note that that is the same management team that runs SCO now!
I remember back several years ago hearing about an entire automobile design that was lost by General Motors when their server died. They did regular backups and the backups worked fine. Just to be safe, they ran a verify program on the backup, then put the tape in storage. Turns out the verify program erased the backups! The whole project was cancelled when they discovered several years of data had been lost.
Funny I can't find a reference on google.
How do you know that you can do this, have you seen the version she is talking about? She did post a picture of what she used to be able to do and says she can't anymore. That is to say, she is specifically saying it is broken in the new release.
So good of you to point this out. I stopped using Macs years ago and my memory has gotten fuzzy hehe.
I noticed that with Jaguar and I noticed the same with Panther: about 10-20% of the third party applications just won't load anymore, or they will crash on load. I understand that this policy has dsitinct advantages, but that's a lot of incompatable apps (out of 7,000 available for OSX) and while most of these will be recompiled in the next few months by their authors, the inconvienience caused is already there.
I have never understood why Mac developers and users tolerate Apple screwing them over every couple of years. Say what you will about Microsoft, but they do spent enormous effort trying to avoid this problem on each release, and the effort shows in their market share. And of course open source doesn't require you to wait a few months to recompile...
And when I said #2, I wasn't talking about their position in the market.
...agents were known as Daemons. Being faster in thought than humans and more devious, they were appropriately described by the term Diabolical.
The machines have become more subtle in these end times at their method of controlling our minds by corrupting our language, recasting the diabolical daemons of the netherworld as the more politically palatable and iconographically hip Intelligent Agents.
One day my brother got a credit card in the mail. And lots of spam and calls too. Unlike the article above however, he never had any contact with these people. He has no idea how it happened. He called the credit card company and they claimed they had a signed copy of the agreement. He asked them to fax it to him. They refused, but did 'cancel' the credit card. Spam and phone calls still come though.
Stuff like this makes you doubt the quality of our judgment when we put high tech into hands of the masses. Like handing a gun to a baby.
Go buy an inverter at the hardware store. I have one, pretty cool. Yes, I can boil water and watch TV in my car. However,you get closer to 100 watts, not 100kwatts.
There is a link to information about the machine. However, the rest of your comment still holds.
Filesystem benchmarks can be remarkably inconsistent. These tables do not display average difference between runs. Usually this means that the methodology used to do the benchmarking is lax, and thus, untrustworthy.
For example, consider that harddrives do their own error correction. Depending on the location of marginal blocks on the media, different file systems can score dramatically for no other reason than the drive's re-mapping or error correction logic is kicking in at a bad point. Alignment of data can also be a factor in performace which depending on the formatting procedure may be completely random when compared to the file system sitting on top of it.
For these reasons and a host of others, it is not reliable to do filesystem performance comparison on a single machine.
Bottom line is that there is a good chance that these data are not fair representations of the relative merits of each filesystem.
Have you ever noticed that people who write about "science" in the abstract never seem to have a clue about what science is? Read this piece of humanities trash. Nothing about observation, theory or methodology. Lots about politics and education.
It almost comes off as a political mad-lib where the key words included "science" and "franklin" and "civic".
Compulsary licensing doesnt mean musicians are compelled to get a license, it means ISPs have to pay a license [as it already works in retail outlets that play the copyrighted music for example]. Not just any music falls under this rule; only music on the RIAA's extensive list of covered works. You cant just take some noise to the RIAA and say give me royalties!
At first this seemed like a clever idea, turning binaries into music and then getting paid for sharing them as music.
But wait a minute here.
Nobody gets paid for sharing music. The RIAA does collect fees and pay royalties for licenced copyrighted works that have been registered under them; but not just any musical work is covered by them. I mean, there is a procedure for this that is a little more complicated than just declaring it so. They have to agree, in a contract, to include your work. If they dont then even if you have legitimate music you don't get to collect royalties from them.
This whole idea is a total red herring.
Tracking spammers is trival! Just buy one of their products and trace where the money goes...
Computer! What's the situation down on the planet?
Penis sizes are getting bigger! And staying erect longer with Viagra! Hot chicks are waiting for you to call! You could make a lot of money!
I worked at MS when they decided to use ctrl+alt+del for login. The people who made the decision were under the impression that it could not be trapped *by dos apps* that tried to steal passwords.
They were deeply mistaken. Indeed it is was not trappable using the int 16 interrupt, but easily trapped with int 9.
But, the decision had been made, bad design and all, and they weren't going to admit the mistake.
So the whole thing is a testament to the power of ignorance when it gets momentum.
These cars are vaporware. You cannot buy one, they dont exist.
Smart cars are taking europe by storm. They look too small to be comfortable, but actually the front seats have as much room as any car. Since they are as short as a normal car is wide, you can park nose-in instead of parallel parking. Great gas mileage, totally practical.
NWN id my main game! no problems at all here so far.
I bought nVidia 5 times in a row, so really I find it quite cool to be back to ATI. I was worried the competition in the market was over.
The key thing ATI did besides great cost/performance was get drivers out the door that didnt totally suck. For the first time in memory I have the original video driver and am not forced to download a patch!
Good job ATI!