BEA tried this awhile ago with their brand spankin' new 8.0 version of their server. The marketing department got clever and instead of calling it 8.0, decided it would be released as version 8.1
It might have initially fooled a few people, but it later just served as fodder to ridicule the company when we'd uncover the most basic bugs.
More importantly, their marketing department must have eventually concluded it was a bad idea, as the next version abandoned that scheme and was released as 9.0 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblogic)
I agree with the parent that your OSS project clearly shows you've got no lack of raw brainpower. Kudos, that's hardcore stuff.
However, there are MANY other facets to landing a job -- personality matters. For example, there's no shortage of brainy developers in the world who have that annoying know-it-all attitude. Yes, they're smart, but nobody would be willing to work alongside them.
I'm not saying this is your problem. But if call center tech support is your last employment option, it sounds like the issue is something aside from your tech qualifications.
I'd actually disagree with that. People have circumstances and opportunities that land them different paid jobs -- and resumes will never tell you if they truly love doing the job. Many people end up doing a certain job because it falls in their lap.
However, someone who volunteers with open source not only clearly loves what they're doing, but allows you (the potential employer) to see the quality of code they've created, how they interact with other project team members, and how they guide the direction of the project.
I'd take an OSS volunteer over a commercial person any day.
Parent post makes an important commonly overlooked point. If women are just underpaid for doing the exact same work and producing the exact same results, then by hiring them a company would save X% across the entire workforce. Hire 'em all and you'd destroy your competitors.
Capitalism does not discriminate, and difference in pay is not evidence of discrimination.
Why is there one of these "the problem is too many people" comments in every energy thread that gets modded up to 5??
I'll one-up your totally unrealistic assessment of the situation: The problem is people using energy. We should all ride bikes or have a Flintstone mobile we peddle around.
Even if the problem is too many people -- so what? Why waste time coming up up with silly points that nobody can do anything about. The same thing goes with conservation. Yes, conservation can help, bit it's a short term fix. Even if everyone greatly reduces the amount of energy they use, technology will advance and *gasp* the population will grow, and we'll find ourselves in the exact same predicament. The only solution is to find a new source of energy.
It just irks me when people come in, state the obvious, and add nothing to the conversation. I'm sure you're "too many people" take wows people everytime on Digg, but at the end of the day -- so what?
Your wife's recovery and you staying with her, through all of that, is the most poignant thing I have read on Slashdot, ever.
Indeed. Most significant others have trouble staying faithful to a perfectly healthy partner, not to mention if some terrible accident happens.
I'd love to read more about how you coped with it. I believe it would be far easier to go through it being the one that was injured, as opposed to watching it happen to someone else.
Okay, kinda sorta off-topic here, but if ANY of you have done an integration I'm sure you've hit the same thing:
Why do none of the map providers support https? Google, Microsoft, and Y! all only allow http.
I figure the fact that all 3 of them have the same policy MUST mean there's something I'm not getting. But it's a common requirement these days for clients to require their website only be accessible via https. And including non-https resources (e.g. one of these maps) in their page will result in security pop-ups in many browsers (e.g. IE7).
Anyone have an idea on this? In the past, as a workaround I had to use Apache's mod_proxy to relay the map data back from Google's domain, but I had to include a BUNCH of workaround rewriting rules to make it work.
You take issue with the status of father's rights in the US. Yes, I agree that the system could use some changes. However, because of that, you conclude that "USA is equally bad in the other direction"? WHAT?? I can't stand moral equivalencey like this that concludes because the USA isn't perfect, we can't criticize others. Hell no. There is absolutely zero comparison between parental rights in the USA and the state of human rights in Saudi Arabia. Absolutly none. There is good and evil in this world, and despite our flaws, it's our responsibility to continue to point out evil where it exists.
For instance, women are stoned for adultery. You ever seen someone get stoned? To see someone writhing in agony, buried up to their neck, while be pummeled with rocks thrown at their face until they're dead is a horrible, horrible, horrible thing. And to disregard this because the USA isn't perfect means you're a lousy human being to have on this planet. Your brothers and sisters are struggling against a terrible regime, and you instead sit back and conclude that because you don't have the moral high ground, you will do nothing. Shame on you.
Here's a snapshot from Wikipedia about good 'ole women's rights in SA:
Women are not allowed to drive or ride bicycles on public roads in large cities. However, most women are capable of driving, and some do so on rural roads illegally. Women are allowed to fly aircraft, though they must be chauffeured to the airport. Education, although limited, has become an important aspect. Religious police enforce a modest code of dress; foreign women are also expected to wear abaya, violators may face caning, harassment or fines. There are numerous legal restrictions of what kind of jobs women can do (as to prevent their direct contact with men). Progressively over the decades, many foreigners residing in the Kingdom have reported that enforcement of dress code laws has become slightly less strict. Institutions from schools to ministries to restaurants are always sex-segregated. Women cannot be admitted to a hospital, examined by a doctor, travel abroad or leave the house without the express permission and/or company of an immediate male relative. After their first menstrual cycle, women must cover their entire body in a long black cloak (abaaya) as according to tradition. Failing to do so results in severe punishment.
dude.. the pda is already dead. i'm riding on a bus right now, posting this w my cingular 2125, which is also using windows media player to stream my favorite online radio station.
I tried to resist responding to this, but I really can't help it. It truly bothers me when somebody who knows nothing about the world takes a break from American Idol to try telling someone how the world works.
Did you actually even read the stupid website? I was curious so I checked it out.
He is in favor of stoning all homosexuals to death
No, he's not. Where the heck did you pull this from?
is quite powerful in Kansas city
No, again, he's not. He's a attention-seeking pastor at one church. Somewhat misguided, yes, but CERTAINLY not in favor of killing anyone.
Anyway, your attempt to show one person that characterizes Christianity as incompatible with basic human rights (like Islam) failed. I don't doubt you can find SOME loon out there that makes your point for you -- but the difference is we just witnessed MILLIONS of muslims that resorted to violence over someone expressing their right to freedom of speech. In Africa, 15+ Christian churches were burned down, and several Christians were forced into tyres, drenched in gas, and set ablaze.
Fundamentalist islam is not compatable with Western democracy.
But I'm sure you've already returned to American Idol thinking you just taught the Slashdot crowd a lesson today..
I think that people are people wherever you go. It doesn't matter whether you're a Christian or a Muslim, and both religions have had their ugly moments.
Well, not exactly. Regardless of what religion you subscribe to, your choice prophet is the ideal person to emulate: If you're Christian, you follow Jesus. If you're a Muslim, you follow Mohammad.
Read the history of Islam in addition to a few of the supposedly 'peaceful' quotes of the Koran (IN CONTEXT) before you resort to the Western "I'm okay, you're okay" appologist attitude for Islam. Remember, educating yourself is only ever a good thing. And believe me, you'll be unpleasantly surprised by what you find inside of that book.
I didn't believe any of this, either, until this whole cartoon row occured, and I actually picked up a Koran and started reading it for myself. Scary stuff.
-Fatty
p.s.
I know someone will now point out violence in the Old Testament; however, keep in mind that this was before Jesus died (as Christians believe) for the sins of the world, which outdated the Old and paved the way for the New Testament.
The parent post is absolutely wrong -- how did this get modded up to a 5? I'd like to point out for everyone who reads this thread that *** there are a grand total of 0 cases of someone ever starving to death and being fat at the end*** Nada. Zip. Zero. It doesn't ever happen. If you don't consume calories, you will lose weight -- that's a truth that has existed since the beginning of humanity and it will continue until the end.
Studies like this only further the "not my fault" attitude, and result in bonehead comments like the parent post. Some people may have a (genetic/virial/etc) disposition to being overweight, but eat right and exercise and you WILL lose weight. End of story.
For a bunch of blokes that are way to eager to pride themselves on the value of science and logical thought, I'm always blown away at how you all will literally bend over backwards to try and contort gender issues fit within your P.C. mentality.
Guess what, men and women are significantly different. And that's okay. Women love to communicate and nurture. Men love to solve problems, compete, and get laid. It's like this in virtually every society around the world, and it's been that way since the beginning of time.
SIDETRACK Now, let me already congratulate the reply to this that will use the anecdotal example that contradicts this. Hooray, there are exceptions. Acknowledged. However, those outliers are statistically insignificant and I'm talking about the vast majority which explains the results in this article./SIDETRACK
I majored in EE/CS and psychology, and I saw both sides of the coin. And I know you all have seen it, too. For instance, women say about 7,000 words per day, compared to men who speak about 2,000. Women even start speaking sooner than men. Men (albeit later in life), will excel in advanced math, logic, and competition.
Ever see a woman's face when she sees a baby? Her eyes light up and she forgets everything around her. Ever watched a man's eyes when he walks by a scantily clad hottie or encounters a VCR that needs to be programmed? His eyes light up and he forgets everything around him.
Men and women are different. Stop trying to invent complicated explanations to convince yourself otherwise, and enjoy the diversity. It's not a bad thing.
I gotta say -- this post right here speaks volumes about the social scars you still have and why you, despite having a wonderful gift, have squandered it and lived a life of mediocrity.
1. I'm not talking about the "gifted" people way down there in the 125-140 IQ range [emphasis mine]. Heh, referring to people that are already lucky enough to have an above average IQ is an easy way to belittle 90%+ of the population. Kudos! I don't even know my IQ, but after reading this sentence I already dislike you.
2. I have an IQ of 151 Okay, apparently it's show-and-tell day. Your post would have been just as relevant without dropping that information, which was already clearly implied from the previous point. This is like a lawyer coming to pick up her kid from a daycare center and telling the employee "Oh, I don't need a parking permit, I found a spot for my BMW in front" -- merely referring to it as a car would have been more than sufficient to make your point. But good job finding yet another chance to brag!
3. which is the 125-135 people, who aren't too bright Okay, and now I'm going to call bullshit. Someone in the 125-135 is certainly 'bright' by IQ standards, and you know it, too. But this is a great job of you finding yet another opportunity to let us all know that your IQ is apparently well above 135. Congrats! I can really feel myself wanting to hang out with you and hear your opinion on other matters now!
My friend, I've got some advise for you. Find a way to forgive the world for what they did to you, learn to accept yourself, and make your life more about helping others rather than propping up your own ego. And read THIS book. Seriously. I know the world is a tough place, but by continuing as you are you're never going to hurt anyone except yourself. And the great thing about life is that it's never, never too late to change.
...Any individual or group is entitled to exercise their right of self-government...
Huh? Since when? Try declaring independence from the US and not paying taxes and see how long you remain out of jail.
Freedom of speech? Sure. Right to assemble? Yeah. But the right to just declare your property a soverign state and do whatever the hell you want (e.g. slavery)? Dream on.
This may be off topic, but everyone in this thread is discussing 'moving' to NZ as if it's actually an option -- HOW on earth can one just move there? I understand how you can get there, and even stay for a period of time, but isn't it virtually impossible to get a job and stay?
I'd LOVE to move over there, but as with most other countries, they try hard to keep the few jobs they have for their citizens.
Ever tried installing it? It's *incredibly difficult*. It's not an open source package that a sys admin can simply decide to try out quickly. Installing it involves loads of time and all sorts of system-specific tweaks. Our organization investigated moving to that platform but abandoned it when realizing how large of an undertaking it would be (in both time and skills) to even get it running.
I've heard that the 1.0 release's main focus is making installation easier, however, it can't even be installed on RHEL I really don't see the installation improving at all if they continue to ignore one of the most popular platforms out there.
Ahhh.. huh? +5 Interesting? You think this is a publicity stunt? They haven't just talked about it -- they physically prevent you from taking a frickin' picture of it.
I find it scary that you'd be so dismissive and call this a publicity stunt. Hopefully someday, when they've locked away all the Slashdotter's for their illegal 'Independent Thinking', you can be happily laughing your head off in your prision cell and marveling about how great a 'publicity stunt' your jail sentence is.
Your analogy sucks. Why? Washington sniper guys: They did not attack because they were black. Timothy McVeigh: He did not attack because he was a white Christian. Sept 11, Cole, etc: They DID attack because they were Muslim extremists.
You're deliberately trying to blur the line between random characteristics and causation, and then concluding by implying that the parent's logic is as lousy as racist crap. Keep your analogs straight, and don't use extremest conclusions where they're not warranted.
I remember first reading about this shortly after Sept 11th. It's certainly intriguing -- if not only for the fact that, as a humans, we seem to want to believe in mysterious things like this.
That first day I read about it, I couldn't help but be perplexed: Was Sept 11th REALLY a significant enough world event to register a response? I mean, really? While big news to us, only a few thousand people died. That's nothing compared to most global tragedies.
At the time, I figured I'd suspend my evaluation of it until a genuinely Big event happened. Well, by anyone's account, the tsunami was probably the biggest catastrophe that will happen in any of our lifetimes. Over 200,000 people dead. If there's any true ability in this theory, the December readings should have been literally OFF THE CHARTS.
However, I can't find/don't know enough to evaluate the data. And I felt the article skirted around how significant the December findings were. Anyone out there able to compare the December readings to both A) Normal results and B) Sept. 11th?
You are a moron -- nukes are not an IQ pill. The inventor of dynamite had the exact same thought: "With this tremendous explosive, countries will no longer wage warfare because of the devistating consequences". Boy was he wrong.
Bigger guns in the hands of lunatics just results in lunatics that cause even more damage.
According to this, Infective Endocarditis is an infection of the lining of the heart's chambers (called the endocardium) or the heart's valves. If left untreated, endocarditis can cause life-threatening complications.
If you have chronic endocarditis, which may last for months, you may feel feverish and chilled, be very tired, lose weight, and have joint pain, night sweats, or the symptoms of heart failure.
It's treated by antibiotics, and sometimes requires surgery. The incidence of IE is approximately 2-4 cases per 100,000 persons per year. This rate has not changed in the past 50 years.
Its getting to the point of asking yourself WHY you watch broadcast TV anymore.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but you opt for the programming of those 2 links you provided over broadcast TV?
Huh?
Everything that's in English on those lists is either public access, some random college station, or music videos. Sure that's cool to check out every once in awhile, and I agree this is the future of TV - but THAT's your replacement for network TV?
Horray for free information.. but you gotta be kidding me.
Slashdot Mirror
BEA tried this awhile ago with their brand spankin' new 8.0 version of their server. The marketing department got clever and instead of calling it 8.0, decided it would be released as version 8.1
It might have initially fooled a few people, but it later just served as fodder to ridicule the company when we'd uncover the most basic bugs.
More importantly, their marketing department must have eventually concluded it was a bad idea, as the next version abandoned that scheme and was released as 9.0 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblogic)
I agree with the parent that your OSS project clearly shows you've got no lack of raw brainpower. Kudos, that's hardcore stuff.
However, there are MANY other facets to landing a job -- personality matters. For example, there's no shortage of brainy developers in the world who have that annoying know-it-all attitude. Yes, they're smart, but nobody would be willing to work alongside them.
I'm not saying this is your problem. But if call center tech support is your last employment option, it sounds like the issue is something aside from your tech qualifications.
I'd actually disagree with that. People have circumstances and opportunities that land them different paid jobs -- and resumes will never tell you if they truly love doing the job. Many people end up doing a certain job because it falls in their lap.
However, someone who volunteers with open source not only clearly loves what they're doing, but allows you (the potential employer) to see the quality of code they've created, how they interact with other project team members, and how they guide the direction of the project.
I'd take an OSS volunteer over a commercial person any day.
Parent post makes an important commonly overlooked point. If women are just underpaid for doing the exact same work and producing the exact same results, then by hiring them a company would save X% across the entire workforce. Hire 'em all and you'd destroy your competitors.
Capitalism does not discriminate, and difference in pay is not evidence of discrimination.
Why is there one of these "the problem is too many people" comments in every energy thread that gets modded up to 5??
I'll one-up your totally unrealistic assessment of the situation: The problem is people using energy. We should all ride bikes or have a Flintstone mobile we peddle around.
Even if the problem is too many people -- so what? Why waste time coming up up with silly points that nobody can do anything about. The same thing goes with conservation. Yes, conservation can help, bit it's a short term fix. Even if everyone greatly reduces the amount of energy they use, technology will advance and *gasp* the population will grow, and we'll find ourselves in the exact same predicament. The only solution is to find a new source of energy.
It just irks me when people come in, state the obvious, and add nothing to the conversation. I'm sure you're "too many people" take wows people everytime on Digg, but at the end of the day -- so what?
Your wife's recovery and you staying with her, through all of that, is the most poignant thing I have read on Slashdot, ever.
Indeed. Most significant others have trouble staying faithful to a perfectly healthy partner, not to mention if some terrible accident happens.
I'd love to read more about how you coped with it. I believe it would be far easier to go through it being the one that was injured, as opposed to watching it happen to someone else.
Okay, kinda sorta off-topic here, but if ANY of you have done an integration I'm sure you've hit the same thing:
Why do none of the map providers support https? Google, Microsoft, and Y! all only allow http.
I figure the fact that all 3 of them have the same policy MUST mean there's something I'm not getting. But it's a common requirement these days for clients to require their website only be accessible via https. And including non-https resources (e.g. one of these maps) in their page will result in security pop-ups in many browsers (e.g. IE7).
Anyone have an idea on this? In the past, as a workaround I had to use Apache's mod_proxy to relay the map data back from Google's domain, but I had to include a BUNCH of workaround rewriting rules to make it work.
Isn't this the same thing as eyeos.org?
Goodness..
i _Arabia
You take issue with the status of father's rights in the US. Yes, I agree that the system could use some changes. However, because of that, you conclude that "USA is equally bad in the other direction"? WHAT?? I can't stand moral equivalencey like this that concludes because the USA isn't perfect, we can't criticize others. Hell no. There is absolutely zero comparison between parental rights in the USA and the state of human rights in Saudi Arabia. Absolutly none. There is good and evil in this world, and despite our flaws, it's our responsibility to continue to point out evil where it exists.
For instance, women are stoned for adultery. You ever seen someone get stoned? To see someone writhing in agony, buried up to their neck, while be pummeled with rocks thrown at their face until they're dead is a horrible, horrible, horrible thing. And to disregard this because the USA isn't perfect means you're a lousy human being to have on this planet. Your brothers and sisters are struggling against a terrible regime, and you instead sit back and conclude that because you don't have the moral high ground, you will do nothing. Shame on you.
Here's a snapshot from Wikipedia about good 'ole women's rights in SA:
Women are not allowed to drive or ride bicycles on public roads in large cities. However, most women are capable of driving, and some do so on rural roads illegally. Women are allowed to fly aircraft, though they must be chauffeured to the airport. Education, although limited, has become an important aspect. Religious police enforce a modest code of dress; foreign women are also expected to wear abaya, violators may face caning, harassment or fines. There are numerous legal restrictions of what kind of jobs women can do (as to prevent their direct contact with men). Progressively over the decades, many foreigners residing in the Kingdom have reported that enforcement of dress code laws has become slightly less strict. Institutions from schools to ministries to restaurants are always sex-segregated. Women cannot be admitted to a hospital, examined by a doctor, travel abroad or leave the house without the express permission and/or company of an immediate male relative. After their first menstrual cycle, women must cover their entire body in a long black cloak (abaaya) as according to tradition. Failing to do so results in severe punishment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saud
So let me play your question back to you now. Where would your significant other like to life, USA or Saudi?
dude.. the pda is already dead. i'm riding on a bus right now, posting this w my cingular 2125, which is also using windows media player to stream my favorite online radio station.
I tried to resist responding to this, but I really can't help it. It truly bothers me when somebody who knows nothing about the world takes a break from American Idol to try telling someone how the world works.
Did you actually even read the stupid website? I was curious so I checked it out.
He is in favor of stoning all homosexuals to death
No, he's not. Where the heck did you pull this from?
is quite powerful in Kansas city
No, again, he's not. He's a attention-seeking pastor at one church. Somewhat misguided, yes, but CERTAINLY not in favor of killing anyone.
Anyway, your attempt to show one person that characterizes Christianity as incompatible with basic human rights (like Islam) failed. I don't doubt you can find SOME loon out there that makes your point for you -- but the difference is we just witnessed MILLIONS of muslims that resorted to violence over someone expressing their right to freedom of speech. In Africa, 15+ Christian churches were burned down, and several Christians were forced into tyres, drenched in gas, and set ablaze.
Fundamentalist islam is not compatable with Western democracy.
But I'm sure you've already returned to American Idol thinking you just taught the Slashdot crowd a lesson today..
-Fatty
I think that people are people wherever you go. It doesn't matter whether you're a Christian or a Muslim, and both religions have had their ugly moments.
Well, not exactly. Regardless of what religion you subscribe to, your choice prophet is the ideal person to emulate: If you're Christian, you follow Jesus. If you're a Muslim, you follow Mohammad.
Jesus killed nobody. In fact, while possbily being considered a biggot by today's standards, he never even advocated violence. However, Mohammad was a warrior who killed a crapload of people and was even a robber for a period of good while.
Read the history of Islam in addition to a few of the supposedly 'peaceful' quotes of the Koran (IN CONTEXT) before you resort to the Western "I'm okay, you're okay" appologist attitude for Islam. Remember, educating yourself is only ever a good thing. And believe me, you'll be unpleasantly surprised by what you find inside of that book.
I didn't believe any of this, either, until this whole cartoon row occured, and I actually picked up a Koran and started reading it for myself. Scary stuff.
-Fatty
p.s.
I know someone will now point out violence in the Old Testament; however, keep in mind that this was before Jesus died (as Christians believe) for the sins of the world, which outdated the Old and paved the way for the New Testament.
The parent post is absolutely wrong -- how did this get modded up to a 5? I'd like to point out for everyone who reads this thread that *** there are a grand total of 0 cases of someone ever starving to death and being fat at the end*** Nada. Zip. Zero. It doesn't ever happen. If you don't consume calories, you will lose weight -- that's a truth that has existed since the beginning of humanity and it will continue until the end.
Studies like this only further the "not my fault" attitude, and result in bonehead comments like the parent post. Some people may have a (genetic/virial/etc) disposition to being overweight, but eat right and exercise and you WILL lose weight. End of story.
-Fatty
For a bunch of blokes that are way to eager to pride themselves on the value of science and logical thought, I'm always blown away at how you all will literally bend over backwards to try and contort gender issues fit within your P.C. mentality.
/SIDETRACK
Guess what, men and women are significantly different. And that's okay. Women love to communicate and nurture. Men love to solve problems, compete, and get laid. It's like this in virtually every society around the world, and it's been that way since the beginning of time.
SIDETRACK Now, let me already congratulate the reply to this that will use the anecdotal example that contradicts this. Hooray, there are exceptions. Acknowledged. However, those outliers are statistically insignificant and I'm talking about the vast majority which explains the results in this article.
I majored in EE/CS and psychology, and I saw both sides of the coin. And I know you all have seen it, too. For instance, women say about 7,000 words per day, compared to men who speak about 2,000. Women even start speaking sooner than men. Men (albeit later in life), will excel in advanced math, logic, and competition.
Ever see a woman's face when she sees a baby? Her eyes light up and she forgets everything around her. Ever watched a man's eyes when he walks by a scantily clad hottie or encounters a VCR that needs to be programmed? His eyes light up and he forgets everything around him.
Men and women are different. Stop trying to invent complicated explanations to convince yourself otherwise, and enjoy the diversity. It's not a bad thing.
-Fatty
I gotta say -- this post right here speaks volumes about the social scars you still have and why you, despite having a wonderful gift, have squandered it and lived a life of mediocrity.
1. I'm not talking about the "gifted" people way down there in the 125-140 IQ range [emphasis mine]. Heh, referring to people that are already lucky enough to have an above average IQ is an easy way to belittle 90%+ of the population. Kudos! I don't even know my IQ, but after reading this sentence I already dislike you.
2. I have an IQ of 151 Okay, apparently it's show-and-tell day. Your post would have been just as relevant without dropping that information, which was already clearly implied from the previous point. This is like a lawyer coming to pick up her kid from a daycare center and telling the employee "Oh, I don't need a parking permit, I found a spot for my BMW in front" -- merely referring to it as a car would have been more than sufficient to make your point. But good job finding yet another chance to brag!
3. which is the 125-135 people, who aren't too bright Okay, and now I'm going to call bullshit. Someone in the 125-135 is certainly 'bright' by IQ standards, and you know it, too. But this is a great job of you finding yet another opportunity to let us all know that your IQ is apparently well above 135. Congrats! I can really feel myself wanting to hang out with you and hear your opinion on other matters now!
My friend, I've got some advise for you. Find a way to forgive the world for what they did to you, learn to accept yourself, and make your life more about helping others rather than propping up your own ego. And read THIS book. Seriously. I know the world is a tough place, but by continuing as you are you're never going to hurt anyone except yourself. And the great thing about life is that it's never, never too late to change.
Cheers..
Fatty
...Any individual or group is entitled to exercise their right of self-government...
Huh? Since when? Try declaring independence from the US and not paying taxes and see how long you remain out of jail.
Freedom of speech? Sure. Right to assemble? Yeah. But the right to just declare your property a soverign state and do whatever the hell you want (e.g. slavery)? Dream on.
--Fatty
This may be off topic, but everyone in this thread is discussing 'moving' to NZ as if it's actually an option -- HOW on earth can one just move there? I understand how you can get there, and even stay for a period of time, but isn't it virtually impossible to get a job and stay?
I'd LOVE to move over there, but as with most other countries, they try hard to keep the few jobs they have for their citizens.
Any ideas?
-Fatty
Ever tried installing it? It's *incredibly difficult*. It's not an open source package that a sys admin can simply decide to try out quickly. Installing it involves loads of time and all sorts of system-specific tweaks. Our organization investigated moving to that platform but abandoned it when realizing how large of an undertaking it would be (in both time and skills) to even get it running.
I've heard that the 1.0 release's main focus is making installation easier, however, it can't even be installed on RHEL I really don't see the installation improving at all if they continue to ignore one of the most popular platforms out there.
-Fatty
Ahhh.. huh? +5 Interesting? You think this is a publicity stunt? They haven't just talked about it -- they physically prevent you from taking a frickin' picture of it.
I find it scary that you'd be so dismissive and call this a publicity stunt. Hopefully someday, when they've locked away all the Slashdotter's for their illegal 'Independent Thinking', you can be happily laughing your head off in your prision cell and marveling about how great a 'publicity stunt' your jail sentence is.
This is real. It's happening now. React.
- Fatty
Oh stop.
Your analogy sucks. Why? Washington sniper guys: They did not attack because they were black. Timothy McVeigh: He did not attack because he was a white Christian. Sept 11, Cole, etc: They DID attack because they were Muslim extremists.
You're deliberately trying to blur the line between random characteristics and causation, and then concluding by implying that the parent's logic is as lousy as racist crap. Keep your analogs straight, and don't use extremest conclusions where they're not warranted.
- Fatty
- Fatty
I remember first reading about this shortly after Sept 11th. It's certainly intriguing -- if not only for the fact that, as a humans, we seem to want to believe in mysterious things like this.
That first day I read about it, I couldn't help but be perplexed: Was Sept 11th REALLY a significant enough world event to register a response? I mean, really? While big news to us, only a few thousand people died. That's nothing compared to most global tragedies.
At the time, I figured I'd suspend my evaluation of it until a genuinely Big event happened. Well, by anyone's account, the tsunami was probably the biggest catastrophe that will happen in any of our lifetimes. Over 200,000 people dead. If there's any true ability in this theory, the December readings should have been literally OFF THE CHARTS.
However, I can't find/don't know enough to evaluate the data. And I felt the article skirted around how significant the December findings were. Anyone out there able to compare the December readings to both A) Normal results and B) Sept. 11th?
- Fatty
You are a moron -- nukes are not an IQ pill. The inventor of dynamite had the exact same thought: "With this tremendous explosive, countries will no longer wage warfare because of the devistating consequences". Boy was he wrong.
Bigger guns in the hands of lunatics just results in lunatics that cause even more damage.
Some lying slimeball is exploiting the /. crowd to get some free publicity for his shitty commercial product.
So go ahead, tell this guy what you think.
-Fatty
According to this, Infective Endocarditis is an infection of the lining of the heart's chambers (called the endocardium) or the heart's valves. If left untreated, endocarditis can cause life-threatening complications.
If you have chronic endocarditis, which may last for months, you may feel feverish and chilled, be very tired, lose weight, and have joint pain, night sweats, or the symptoms of heart failure.
It's treated by antibiotics, and sometimes requires surgery. The incidence of IE is approximately 2-4 cases per 100,000 persons per year. This rate has not changed in the past 50 years.
Its getting to the point of asking yourself WHY you watch broadcast TV anymore.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but you opt for the programming of those 2 links you provided over broadcast TV?
Huh?
Everything that's in English on those lists is either public access, some random college station, or music videos. Sure that's cool to check out every once in awhile, and I agree this is the future of TV - but THAT's your replacement for network TV?
Horray for free information.. but you gotta be kidding me.
-Fatty