This is incredibly stupid. How come XML helps in dealing with data and metadata? Metadata *is* data.
Metadata is, of course, data. Sometimes, a finer-grained taxonomy method is helpful. After all, sausages and uranium are both matter, but calling them matter doesn't help me with my dinner selection. Mmmmmm - sausage.
You really don't need to spell out the word "ummm" when you write things. It umm doesn't add what you think it adds like when you ummm use it in conversation.
Personal data is a valuable asset. No corporation is going to willingly delete that information. If you're an ex-customer, doubly so: there is no "goodwill" to be gained by deleting it and they may be able to recapture you as a customer as evidenced here.
It would have been even better if the reactors had been designed so as to make prompt criticality unatainable. Prevention is better than the cure.
Safety is the nut of the whole issue. Nuclear is a great option. Unfortunately, there is no trustowrthy entity that can assure a reasonable level of safety. We can either rely on the corporate owners to self-regulate or our bought-and-paid-for US government. In either case, critical safety concerns will be pushed back to make for a better quarterly stock market report. (Can you really envision George Bush and Dick Cheney telling their buddies in the energy industry that they have to enact costly safety regulations? me either).
I think that was the 'real' heart of case. Farmer Cannuck claimed it blew onto his property and then spread, Corporate Monsanto claimed the volume of growth FAR exceeded what could be reasonably explained as 'normal' spread, the court apparently supported Monsanto.
It "blew"? Are you kidding? Seeds can spread in any number of ways. Haven't these people heard of bird shit?
There are so many variables involving your needs and preferences that there is no really good answer to this question. One solution would be to visit http://www.linuxiso.org/ , burn a couple of distros and install them to see what you like.
Personally, I have used three different distros: SuSe, Debian and RedHat. I like the Debian ethos and, if you're setting up a server, it is hands-down my preference.
RedHat used to be the leader but has stopped supporting desktop version and has been replaced with Fedora. When RedHat went public, they replaced their loyalty to customers with loyalty to shareholders - much to the detriment of their product. They had made several Microsoft-style moves to lock users into their product. I don't know if any of these maneuvers currently affect Fedora. If they do, you should avoid it.
SuSe is my most recent experience. I take my own advice and try different distros occasionally and I must say I am extremely happy with the usability and look-and-feel of Suse 9.0. You could certainly do worse.
How is this insightful? The very first link in the google search is "Richard Jewell to get more than $500,000 from NBC." It was the media, not the "feds," that screwed Richard Jewell over.
The media arrested him? The media searched his home? The media told him they were making a training video and wanted him to play the part of a suspected bomber? What color is the sky in your world?
...depending on how poorly conceived your suit is.
Depending on how dumb your lawyer is. A poorly conceived suit can be covered in legalese to make it seem valid. Barratry is rare and, if you do get charged with it, it's your own dumbass fault.
Since it will only be a short time before everyone stops accepting email traffic from your server, you can be sure that no spammer or hacker will want to take control of it. Makes sense. Kind of like cutting off your hand to be sure nobody steals your rings.
I've heard from a tipsy government employee that PGP type codes are broken in almost real time. When quizzed later he/she denied it, meaning that its probably true.
More likely meaning is that said government employee likes to talk out their ass with little idea of what they're saying.
I picked a couple of names at semi-random (names that seemed to be fairly uncommon) and did a Google search. Apparently, the requirements to be a "Teacher Choice Fellow" are not high. Google had zero results for both Don Koniezco and Marilyn Ketter Rittmeyer. Interesting.
This article describes the custom made CD he sent to his family member with patches, tools, and instructions to make a fresh install of Windows XP Home Internet safe. I know I'll be doing this in the future."
I can't stay awake long enough to read the EULA, but making copies for other family members like this sounds like a violation.
We make more on average then most union positions without having to pay dues or being told how to vote.
Maybe you can be told how to vote but it doesn't work so well on me or most of the people I know. Organizing would give us more clout with the issues that concern us. Most techie people I work with are happy with the money they make but would like better benefits and job security. What would you lose by organizing?
I hope your operation is a success. Removing the stick from one's ass is a simple procedure nowadays and your friends will thank you for having it done.
The average teacher in the US makes nearly $42,000 / year. Factoring in an extra 35 days of work that the rest of us work every year brings the average teacher salary to $52,541.
Which makes it even harder figure out why otherwise-intelligent techie-types still refuse to organize. Maybe we enjoy it when we're ignored.
It's fun to imagine there is a NYT editor sending out memos reminding his writers to stick to the anti-Ebay line, but a scenario like that doesn't seem very plausible.
It doesn't have to be that explicit. Here's how it works: 1) Owner of NYT vocally hates Ebay 2) Editors, looking to remain favor, also vocally hate Ebay 2) Reporters realize anti-Ebay stories will get higher visibility and higher likelihood of publication over pro-Ebay stories. 3) There ya go.
It also works when, for instance, owner of the media company also owns (and is in favor of) nuclear power plants, AOL or Republicans.
How can someone be expected to respect a school they don't know.
I don't know a large oercentage of the schools out there. I could certainly find a way to learn about the interviewees school without asking denigrating questions.
I sure hope for your current employer's sake the the vendor you chose had a superior product to the one you rejected for personal reasons.
Maybe it was. I can say that every person that's heard that story now realizes they may have to do business one day with the people they interview. Do you think they'll treat the interview with a bit more respect?
When people are caught with fake degrees, their employers usually say "Oh, it's okay, we didn't hire him for his education anyway. Just his experience and background.
I have had an exact opposite experience. I once had an interviewer actually ask me if my degree was from a real school or if it was a diploma-by-mail degree. Now, my school may not be widely known but it is fairly highly respected. I did get even, though. About a year later, my current employer asked me to evaluate several products. One of which was the company that the asshole worked at. Needless to say, they didn't stand a chance in hell of landing our business.
They are doing no such thing. They are informing the rest of the world "So-and-so is a spammer". The rest of the world rejects messages from so-and-so, or not, as it chooses.
They're not even doing that. They're informing the world that a person or people have reported receiving spam from such-and-such IP address. The world is then free to decide on their own whether or not said person is a spammer.
There are some of us companies who actually do send legitimate email where the recipients are trying _to_ receive the message rather than trying to block us.
If I had a nickel for every spammer who claimed to be a legit marketer, I could retire to a place that didn't have email. My ideal world is one where, in order to receive marketing fluff, one had to walk into the corporate offices, find the director of marketing and slap them in the face. Twice.
I have a hard time believing they charged someone with downloading kiddie-porn when all that really happened was he saw some pop-ups, like you and I (unfortunately) see a million times a day.
Yes, because we all know that the feds are only interested in charging criminals and never ever arrest someone for the newsworthiness of their arrest. Just ask Richard Jewell
Remember, when you are running a stored procedure, you are ceding control of your application to the database. It may or may not be appropriate to do this. Often this is an issue that doesn't get enough consideration.
Also, it seems that less Americans want to go into the sciences - they'd rather do easy, joke majors in school like Communications or Psychology...
I think this attitude is probably one of the reasons for our failing schools. The idea that some areas of inquiry are less valid than others leads to snobbish elitism, such as yours, that stifles investigation.
P.S. No, my major was physics and software engineering.
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This is incredibly stupid. How come XML helps in dealing with data and metadata? Metadata *is* data.
Metadata is, of course, data. Sometimes, a finer-grained taxonomy method is helpful. After all, sausages and uranium are both matter, but calling them matter doesn't help me with my dinner selection.
Mmmmmm - sausage.
Way off-topic:
You really don't need to spell out the word "ummm" when you write things. It umm doesn't add what you think it adds like when you ummm use it in conversation.
Personal data is a valuable asset. No corporation is going to willingly delete that information. If you're an ex-customer, doubly so: there is no "goodwill" to be gained by deleting it and they may be able to recapture you as a customer as evidenced here.
It would have been even better if the reactors had been designed so as to make prompt criticality unatainable. Prevention is better than the cure.
Safety is the nut of the whole issue. Nuclear is a great option. Unfortunately, there is no trustowrthy entity that can assure a reasonable level of safety. We can either rely on the corporate owners to self-regulate or our bought-and-paid-for US government. In either case, critical safety concerns will be pushed back to make for a better quarterly stock market report.
(Can you really envision George Bush and Dick Cheney telling their buddies in the energy industry that they have to enact costly safety regulations? me either).
I think that was the 'real' heart of case. Farmer Cannuck claimed it blew onto his property and then spread, Corporate Monsanto claimed the volume of growth FAR exceeded what could be reasonably explained as 'normal' spread, the court apparently supported Monsanto.
It "blew"?
Are you kidding? Seeds can spread in any number of ways. Haven't these people heard of bird shit?
There are so many variables involving your needs and preferences that there is no really good answer to this question. One solution would be to visit http://www.linuxiso.org/ , burn a couple of distros and install them to see what you like.
Personally, I have used three different distros: SuSe, Debian and RedHat. I like the Debian ethos and, if you're setting up a server, it is hands-down my preference.
RedHat used to be the leader but has stopped supporting desktop version and has been replaced with Fedora. When RedHat went public, they replaced their loyalty to customers with loyalty to shareholders - much to the detriment of their product. They had made several Microsoft-style moves to lock users into their product. I don't know if any of these maneuvers currently affect Fedora. If they do, you should avoid it.
SuSe is my most recent experience. I take my own advice and try different distros occasionally and I must say I am extremely happy with the usability and look-and-feel of Suse 9.0. You could certainly do worse.
How is this insightful? The very first link in the google search is "Richard Jewell to get more than $500,000 from NBC." It was the media, not the "feds," that screwed Richard Jewell over.
The media arrested him?
The media searched his home?
The media told him they were making a training video and wanted him to play the part of a suspected bomber?
What color is the sky in your world?
We'd all still be working 6 day weeks if it weren't for the unions.
...depending on how poorly conceived your suit is.
Depending on how dumb your lawyer is. A poorly conceived suit can be covered in legalese to make it seem valid. Barratry is rare and, if you do get charged with it, it's your own dumbass fault.
Since it will only be a short time before everyone stops accepting email traffic from your server, you can be sure that no spammer or hacker will want to take control of it. Makes sense. Kind of like cutting off your hand to be sure nobody steals your rings.
Why can you even sue over this?
You can sue over anything and everything.
Whether or not you'll be successful is another matter.
I've heard from a tipsy government employee that PGP type codes are broken in almost real time.
When quizzed later he/she denied it, meaning that its probably true.
More likely meaning is that said government employee likes to talk out their ass with little idea of what they're saying.
I picked a couple of names at semi-random (names that seemed to be fairly uncommon) and did a Google search. Apparently, the requirements to be a "Teacher Choice Fellow" are not high. Google had zero results for both Don Koniezco and
Marilyn Ketter Rittmeyer.
Interesting.
This article describes the custom made CD he sent to his family member with patches, tools, and instructions to make a fresh install of Windows XP Home Internet safe. I know I'll be doing this in the future."
I can't stay awake long enough to read the EULA, but making copies for other family members like this sounds like a violation.
We make more on average then most union positions without having to pay dues or being told how to vote.
Maybe you can be told how to vote but it doesn't work so well on me or most of the people I know. Organizing would give us more clout with the issues that concern us. Most techie people I work with are happy with the money they make but would like better benefits and job security.
What would you lose by organizing?
You need to take another logic course.
I hope your operation is a success. Removing the stick from one's ass is a simple procedure nowadays and your friends will thank you for having it done.
The average teacher in the US makes nearly $42,000 / year. Factoring in an extra 35 days of work that the rest of us work every year brings the average teacher salary to $52,541.
Which makes it even harder figure out why otherwise-intelligent techie-types still refuse to organize. Maybe we enjoy it when we're ignored.
It's fun to imagine there is a NYT editor sending out memos reminding his writers to stick to the anti-Ebay line, but a scenario like that doesn't seem very plausible.
It doesn't have to be that explicit. Here's how it works:
1) Owner of NYT vocally hates Ebay
2) Editors, looking to remain favor, also vocally hate Ebay
2) Reporters realize anti-Ebay stories will get higher visibility and higher likelihood of publication over pro-Ebay stories.
3) There ya go.
It also works when, for instance, owner of the media company also owns (and is in favor of) nuclear power plants, AOL or Republicans.
How can someone be expected to respect a school they don't know.
I don't know a large oercentage of the schools out there. I could certainly find a way to learn about the interviewees school without asking denigrating questions.
I sure hope for your current employer's sake the the vendor you chose had a superior product to the one you rejected for personal reasons.
Maybe it was. I can say that every person that's heard that story now realizes they may have to do business one day with the people they interview. Do you think they'll treat the interview with a bit more respect?
When people are caught with fake degrees, their employers usually say "Oh, it's okay, we didn't hire him for his education anyway. Just his experience and background.
I have had an exact opposite experience. I once had an interviewer actually ask me if my degree was from a real school or if it was a diploma-by-mail degree. Now, my school may not be widely known but it is fairly highly respected.
I did get even, though. About a year later, my current employer asked me to evaluate several products. One of which was the company that the asshole worked at. Needless to say, they didn't stand a chance in hell of landing our business.
They are doing no such thing. They are informing the rest of the world "So-and-so is a spammer". The rest of the world rejects messages from so-and-so, or not, as it chooses.
They're not even doing that. They're informing the world that a person or people have reported receiving spam from such-and-such IP address. The world is then free to decide on their own whether or not said person is a spammer.
There are some of us companies who actually do send legitimate email where the recipients are trying _to_ receive the message rather than trying to block us.
If I had a nickel for every spammer who claimed to be a legit marketer, I could retire to a place that didn't have email.
My ideal world is one where, in order to receive marketing fluff, one had to walk into the corporate offices, find the director of marketing and slap them in the face. Twice.
I have a hard time believing they charged someone with downloading kiddie-porn when all that really happened was he saw some pop-ups, like you and I (unfortunately) see a million times a day.
Yes, because we all know that the feds are only interested in charging criminals and never ever arrest someone for the newsworthiness of their arrest. Just ask Richard Jewell
Remember, when you are running a stored procedure, you are ceding control of your application to the database. It may or may not be appropriate to do this. Often this is an issue that doesn't get enough consideration.
Also, it seems that less Americans want to go into the sciences - they'd rather do easy, joke majors in school like Communications or Psychology...
I think this attitude is probably one of the reasons for our failing schools. The idea that some areas of inquiry are less valid than others leads to snobbish elitism, such as yours, that stifles investigation.
P.S. No, my major was physics and software engineering.