see a href="http://www.cnn.com/US/9707/12/blackout/" for old CNN article on blackouts of 68 and 77. Riots in 77. Baby boom nine months later in both cases, if memory serves. (invest in diaper makers?)
There. Right there. My major annoyance with Linux and all the flavors. Well, actually, two or three annoyances. All these flavors don't play very well together. (Lack of good daycare in childhood?) 1). Any dependencies should #$#%-well be handled by the installing app. with decent explanation of requirements (warnings) in the install manual (A man can dream...) 2.) When you must descend into Dependency Hell: Look in the parent post. 5 Linux OS's, 5 tools. (There are probably more.) Having a choice is a good thing, but if all these Linux flavors keep going the way they are, they will probably not having anything in common in, say, ten years. By then, I guess they'll have all evolved into new distinct species, unable to interact except by tcp/ip and the like. Doesn't sound like progress to me, though. MOTOW - Master of the Obvious, What?
The most interesting thing in all of this is that BIA is mostly comprised of Native Americans. BIA has given priority in their hiring process to Native Americans for over 70 years. Most BIA vacancy announcements contain the following: "Indian Preference Policy: Preference in filling vacancies is given to qualified Indian candidates in accordance with the Indian Preference act of 1934, (Title 25, USC Section 472)." I used to work in DOI IT in DC(& had to retire to get away from it). The case against DOI is clear, but what has not been made clear is that the Native Americans in BIA have pretty supported the status quo ever since they got control of "their Agency". They got theirs; too bad about the folk back home. Sad.
I am a full-time (senior, even) web db-based app. developer and a part-time (evenings) senior CSE student at a major Uni. in VA. (No, not UVA.) I learned what I do for a living by a top down approach. (ie, How'd they do that? Borrow the code from webmonkey, etc, go to a commercial school for 3-5 days every couple of years, & figure out the rest "under fire") I appreciate the bottom-up approach of my CSE curriculum, but, oddly, we haven't got to the point where any of it is useful in my job, yet. I look forward to that day. Really. (I am, of course, assuming that the two approaches will, one day, converge.) I enjoy both approaches. I think there is room for both ideas, rather than the dogmatic exclusive-OR approach employed by both (encamped) camps.
I think something web-based is the best possible solution. I am surprised that Earthlink and all the other major ISP's are not offering some sort of commercial Enterprise email package (no matter what it's based on). (I think it may already be happening.) Perhaps it's just time to move the email out of the Office (pun partially intended.) Perhaps Earthlink shoudda bought lifestyle.com before it tanked. One drawback, of course, is the possibility/probability of local connection problems. Perhaps a local MTA could help. (I am sure/. can think of better ideas, but this is just some "yeast" ( a starter.:})
If '1984' had used any other title, it would have had no more effect than any other SF effort like, say, 'TH-1138'. I had to read '1984' in HS (back in the '60's) and I wasn't very impressed with it then, either. I think the '1984' environment is just about as like as say, um, the Matrix or 'Soylent Green' quiche or conservatives giving up their gun collections.
I can't seem remember a thing about it. Must be a forgettable book. He has a few good ideas, but His other books are pretty forgettable, too. Sorry . No much out there worth buying these days.
Check out Kaser Software . Great mind games. There's one called "Krazy Mazes" that is to Mindsweeper as Hulk is to Bruce Banner. Lots of good stuff. Been buying from this guy for years. Not disappointed, yet.
This "news" is pretty old. There was even a Learning Channel (or Discovery) show a couple of years ago about the idea of "supervolcanoes", one of which could rest beneath Yellowstone and one (Toba) that, they think, blasted ~70K years ago, causing global average temperatures to drop and nearly causing our species to become extinct. Interesting stuff.
And in other news, the Chimpanzee World Spokesman, uu uu waaa uuu u, says they want no part of any "tree" that has humans in it, thank you very much, and, besides, it's against THEIR religion to believe that humans evolved from Chimps. Especially the ones with fake hair.
Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. - Mark Twain
They always talk handsomely about the literature of the land....And in the midst of their enthusiasm they turn around and do what they can to discourage it. - Mark Twain Speech in Congress, 1906
I wonder if I can copywrite my own genes? or that cute thing I do...
Something we'll look back at this all and say 'WTF?'
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SAIC can be a great place to work if you are a PM, VP or above. Otherwise, you are just considered contract labor that will probably be laid off at the end of whatever contract you are on. The VP's and project managers move on to the next contract and the worker bees are all let go. Great place to be a boss. ('Course if the PM ticks off the contractor (The Army, in our case), the contract closes even earlier, all the worker bees get terminated, and the PM just goes on to the next SAIC contract. I was the last one out the door of about 70 FTE's.) The weirdest thing about SAIC is that it is so much like it's biggest customer -- Uncle Sam. All the Big VPs used to work in the areas (and Agencies) in which they are now expected to produce contracts. Fancy that.
Well, if the category is military stuff, you can throw in the M-16, combat boots, etc. On the large side, how about the carrier, USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63). Made around 1961, I think? Still going strong. I was stationed on it in 1976, nearly 30 years ago. (yeesh.) Not sure about its sister ships, Ranger(CV-64) and Constellation(CV-62). (I may have the numbers reversed.)
and how many $$ in fines has M$ paid so far? or how many $$ has M$ lost to any court action to date? (Besides greasing the lawyers...) It seems to be ZERO, zero, Zer0. (I would not mind being wrong.) (We seem to be attacking their toenails. They keep growing back.)
Actually, there is a difference in "real" value. But to follow your train of "thought", it can get even worse. All of your money is made from thin air. When you deposit money in a bank, they can loan out X% of it (say over 90%), depending on what the Fed currently requires the banks to keep on hand. They collect the interest on the loans and loan out that money and collect the interest, etc. If (and it's a big if) I remember my Money and Banking 410 class right, depositing $X can ultimately *create* over $10X, over whatever number of years. Almost makes me wish I were a banker, instead of a coder.
I really hate to encourage this sort of thing, but... hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah. *sob* that was beeuuutiful. "So that's what it's like to work under a deadline."
Your previous post was a little less acrimonious. The real truth is that the ones who will, and can, dig into the heart of computing and programming are few and far between. If they get, or got, the chance to exercise their ability to learn, they were very lucky. I wish them all the best.
Most of us did not grow up in a good learning enviroment. Many of us "woke up" somewhere along the way and realized we had some potential. The computer world became a way to have a bunch of fun and, by the way, make a pretty good living. Many of us still really don't know how to learn. We just dig and dig, wishing we were a genius so we could find that elusive "final key to the puzzle".
I was lucky to get that chance (by waking up to both my and the computing world's potential) in my 30's, about 15 years ago. I just played and played, eventually turning into someone useful.:) I am the "jack of just about everything digital". I make REAL, REAL good money, doing nothing fancy, but a lot of stuff that is needed by the non-technical types. They know they need me and I know I need them.
My old non-CS degree got me in the door, but my dream is to get that CS degree someday just so I can grok all, or even most, of the/. discussions.
It's a start. Good luck to them and everyone else trying to find their place. (Just look around. Your opportunity is probably right next to you.:) )
For many (most?) of us, no sort of comic "book" succeeds, no more than Saturday morning cartoons do. Pictures are not necessary if a real writer is involved. Sorry. I'd rather read a book. Anytime.
I have sleep apnea. The fix for it saved my career, my marraige, and maybe my life. For years, I woke up 2-3 times a night. My wife told me of my snoring, my stopping breathing & gasping for air while asleep, etc. I was always dog-tired, taking naps every opportunity, etc. Went to the doc. He sent me to a sleep study clinic.
Turns out a flap in my throat closes off and prevents breathing while I am sleeping. I thought something like that happened, but I thought it happened like one or twice an hour. Turns out, if untreated, it happens about every 15 seconds while I am asleep. The "cure" is a CPAP machine (controlled pressurized air pump, I think) that keeps a very small steady air flow (about 1/10th normal) down my throat while sleeping, to keep the flap, that closes off my breathing, open.
Since using the CPAP, I now sleep normally. 8 hrs and then I am truly awake and alert, for the first time in maybe 15 years. This is a new thing for me. My medical insurance covered every penny of the clinic visits and all the CPAP stuff. (Since using this, I have gotten 3 doctorates, made $30B, and sired 47 children.;P) I do think that the life of my family has improved by finally having a husband and father who is "there" all the time. Well, as "there" as a geek gets.:)
If you don't feel alert all the time, go to the doctor. Find out why. And if the doctor does not help you, dump him or her and go find one who will help you. Keep looking until you do. It really is worth it to see life without a haze of sleepiness.
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Sorry. That would be Black out article . Hey, a new way to get more Karma - screw up your post & fix it post hast. :)
see a href="http://www.cnn.com/US/9707/12/blackout/" for old CNN article on blackouts of 68 and 77. Riots in 77. Baby boom nine months later in both cases, if memory serves. (invest in diaper makers?)
Yup. Stands about as much chance at working as making all emails traceable. Not too soon, I should think.
There. Right there. My major annoyance with Linux and all the flavors. Well, actually, two or three annoyances. All these flavors don't play very well together. (Lack of good daycare in childhood?)
1). Any dependencies should #$#%-well be handled by the installing app. with decent explanation of requirements (warnings) in the install manual (A man can dream...)
2.) When you must descend into Dependency Hell: Look in the parent post. 5 Linux OS's, 5 tools. (There are probably more.) Having a choice is a good thing, but if all these Linux flavors keep going the way they are, they will probably not having anything in common in, say, ten years. By then, I guess they'll have all evolved into new distinct species, unable to interact except by tcp/ip and the like. Doesn't sound like progress to me, though.
MOTOW - Master of the Obvious, What?
ta-da. (seemed probable...)
The most interesting thing in all of this is that BIA is mostly comprised of Native Americans. BIA has given priority in their hiring process to Native Americans for over 70 years. Most BIA vacancy announcements contain the following: "Indian Preference Policy: Preference in filling vacancies is given to qualified Indian candidates in accordance with the Indian Preference act of 1934, (Title 25, USC Section 472)." I used to work in DOI IT in DC(& had to retire to get away from it). The case against DOI is clear, but what has not been made clear is that the Native Americans in BIA have pretty supported the status quo ever since they got control of "their Agency". They got theirs; too bad about the folk back home. Sad.
a real geek would do it all on-line, never leaving home.("Take a trip and never leave the farm".)
I am a full-time (senior, even) web db-based app. developer and a part-time (evenings) senior CSE student at a major Uni. in VA. (No, not UVA.) I learned what I do for a living by a top down approach. (ie, How'd they do that? Borrow the code from webmonkey, etc, go to a commercial school for 3-5 days every couple of years, & figure out the rest "under fire") I appreciate the bottom-up approach of my CSE curriculum, but, oddly, we haven't got to the point where any of it is useful in my job, yet. I look forward to that day. Really. (I am, of course, assuming that the two approaches will, one day, converge.) I enjoy both approaches. I think there is room for both ideas, rather than the dogmatic exclusive-OR approach employed by both (encamped) camps.
We used to throw the old keyboards in a dishwasher when something sticky was spilled on 'em. Do they still do that?
I think something web-based is the best possible solution. I am surprised that Earthlink and all the other major ISP's are not offering some sort of commercial Enterprise email package (no matter what it's based on). (I think it may already be happening.) Perhaps it's just time to move the email out of the Office (pun partially intended.) Perhaps Earthlink shoudda bought lifestyle.com before it tanked. One drawback, of course, is the possibility/probability of local connection problems. Perhaps a local MTA could help. (I am sure /. can think of better ideas, but this is just some "yeast" ( a starter. :})
If '1984' had used any other title, it would have had no more effect than any other SF effort like, say, 'TH-1138'. I had to read '1984' in HS (back in the '60's) and I wasn't very impressed with it then, either. I think the '1984' environment is just about as like as say, um, the Matrix or 'Soylent Green' quiche or conservatives giving up their gun collections.
I can't seem remember a thing about it. Must be a forgettable book. He has a few good ideas, but His other books are pretty forgettable, too.
Sorry . No much out there worth buying these days.
Check out Kaser Software . Great mind games. There's one called "Krazy Mazes" that is to Mindsweeper as Hulk is to Bruce Banner. Lots of good stuff. Been buying from this guy for years. Not disappointed, yet.
Have fun,
Paul
This "news" is pretty old. There was even a Learning Channel (or Discovery) show a couple of years ago about the idea of "supervolcanoes", one of which could rest beneath Yellowstone and one (Toba) that, they think, blasted ~70K years ago, causing global average temperatures to drop and nearly causing our species to become extinct. Interesting stuff.
And in other news, the Chimpanzee World Spokesman, uu uu waaa uuu u, says they want no part of any "tree" that has humans in it, thank you very much, and, besides, it's against THEIR religion to believe that humans evolved from Chimps. Especially the ones with fake hair.
Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
- Mark Twain
They always talk handsomely about the literature of the land....And in the midst of their enthusiasm they turn around and do what they can to discourage it.
- Mark Twain Speech in Congress, 1906
I wonder if I can copywrite my own genes? or that cute thing I do...
Something we'll look back at this all and say 'WTF?'
SAIC can be a great place to work if you are a PM, VP or above. Otherwise, you are just considered contract labor that will probably be laid off at the end of whatever contract you are on. The VP's and project managers move on to the next contract and the worker bees are all let go. Great place to be a boss. ('Course if the PM ticks off the contractor (The Army, in our case), the contract closes even earlier, all the worker bees get terminated, and the PM just goes on to the next SAIC contract. I was the last one out the door of about 70 FTE's.) The weirdest thing about SAIC is that it is so much like it's biggest customer -- Uncle Sam. All the Big VPs used to work in the areas (and Agencies) in which they are now expected to produce contracts. Fancy that.
Well, if the category is military stuff, you can throw in the M-16, combat boots, etc. On the large side, how about the carrier, USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63). Made around 1961, I think? Still going strong. I was stationed on it in 1976, nearly 30 years ago. (yeesh.) Not sure about its sister ships, Ranger(CV-64) and Constellation(CV-62). (I may have the numbers reversed.)
and how many $$ in fines has M$ paid so far? or how many $$ has M$ lost to any court action to date? (Besides greasing the lawyers...) It seems to be ZERO, zero, Zer0. (I would not mind being wrong.) (We seem to be attacking their toenails. They keep growing back.)
Actually, there is a difference in "real" value. But to follow your train of "thought", it can get even worse. All of your money is made from thin air. When you deposit money in a bank, they can loan out X% of it (say over 90%), depending on what the Fed currently requires the banks to keep on hand. They collect the interest on the loans and loan out that money and collect the interest, etc. If (and it's a big if) I remember my Money and Banking 410 class right, depositing $X can ultimately *create* over $10X, over whatever number of years. Almost makes me wish I were a banker, instead of a coder.
*psst* (Doesn't that picture look like a picture of the city lights of earth on the nightside, all spread out? It couldn't be, could it? Nah...)
I really hate to encourage this sort of thing, but ... hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah. *sob* that was beeuuutiful. "So that's what it's like to work under a deadline."
Your previous post was a little less acrimonious. The real truth is that the ones who will, and can, dig into the heart of computing and programming are few and far between. If they get, or got, the chance to exercise their ability to learn, they were very lucky. I wish them all the best.
:) I am the "jack of just about everything digital". I make REAL, REAL good money, doing nothing fancy, but a lot of stuff that is needed by the non-technical types. They know they need me and I know I need them.
/. discussions.
:) )
Most of us did not grow up in a good learning enviroment. Many of us "woke up" somewhere along the way and realized we had some potential. The computer world became a way to have a bunch of fun and, by the way, make a pretty good living. Many of us still really don't know how to learn. We just dig and dig, wishing we were a genius so we could find that elusive "final key to the puzzle".
I was lucky to get that chance (by waking up to both my and the computing world's potential) in my 30's, about 15 years ago. I just played and played, eventually turning into someone useful.
My old non-CS degree got me in the door, but my dream is to get that CS degree someday just so I can grok all, or even most, of the
It's a start. Good luck to them and everyone else trying to find their place. (Just look around. Your opportunity is probably right next to you.
For many (most?) of us, no sort of comic "book" succeeds, no more than Saturday morning cartoons do. Pictures are not necessary if a real writer is involved. Sorry. I'd rather read a book. Anytime.
I have sleep apnea. The fix for it saved my career, my marraige, and maybe my life. For years, I woke up 2-3 times a night. My wife told me of my snoring, my stopping breathing & gasping for air while asleep, etc. I was always dog-tired, taking naps every opportunity, etc. Went to the doc. He sent me to a sleep study clinic. :)
Turns out a flap in my throat closes off and prevents breathing while I am sleeping. I thought something like that happened, but I thought it happened like one or twice an hour. Turns out, if untreated, it happens about every 15 seconds while I am asleep. The "cure" is a CPAP machine (controlled pressurized air pump, I think) that keeps a very small steady air flow (about 1/10th normal) down my throat while sleeping, to keep the flap, that closes off my breathing, open.
Since using the CPAP, I now sleep normally. 8 hrs and then I am truly awake and alert, for the first time in maybe 15 years. This is a new thing for me. My medical insurance covered every penny of the clinic visits and all the CPAP stuff. (Since using this, I have gotten 3 doctorates, made $30B, and sired 47 children.;P) I do think that the life of my family has improved by finally having a husband and father who is "there" all the time. Well, as "there" as a geek gets.
If you don't feel alert all the time, go to the doctor. Find out why. And if the doctor does not help you, dump him or her and go find one who will help you. Keep looking until you do. It really is worth it to see life without a haze of sleepiness.