We know they are, metaphorically. But if the litigous bastards don't sue Linus for slander, they must doing it literally. Ah, what the hell; they might as well sue him anyway, even if it means doing time for drug posession. the sentance will just be tacked onto their RICO conviction for the biggest pump-and-dump in history.
You sound a bit ambivalent, based on career prospects rather than passion for the work. In the business environment over the past 20 years, I've seen more career paths close than open up. So, just do what you love, as long as it pays the mortgage. Most career prospects are hit or miss, anyway. It's all about who's across the interview table. Remember: First rate people hire first rate people. Second rate people hire third rate people. Be first rate.
I can't believe I'm sitting in front of a box that's bigger than the IBM XT. What ever happened to miniaturization? (Oh yeah, it all went toward cell phones which have exceded the limits of human usability, unless you have the fingers of an eight-year-old.) Back to the PC - the box is still mostly air. It's only hotter.
A statement Napoleon is said to have made to Robert Fulton:
"What sir, you would make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense."
I thought I was reading a one of those Area Man... articles on The Onion when I read this paragraph:
"Early devices included the chicken vacuum, which sucked up birds and shot them through tubes to waiting trucks. But the birds tended to plug up the tubes and turn somersaults as they traveled inside the contraption. "We had too many die on us," recalls Buddy Burruss, vice president of operations at Tip Top Poultry Inc. of Marietta, Ga., which tested and quickly abandoned the pneumatic approach two decades ago."
I'd be interested to know how many G's you'd pull at that rate of acceleration. Yes, I know, I could dust off my old physics text books and calculate it. But I'm not that interested and I'm not posting it as a challenge because it's not that hard, so don't go there.
The article says Cablevision's on top with an average of 800K. I routinely get from 4-5Mbps with upload consistently at 933kbps (according to DSL Reports. Everybody I know on Cablevision gets speeds in the megs. If the average is 800k, that would mean a lot of people are getting a fraction of that. $45-50/mo is a lot to pay for little more than ISDN-type bandwidth. I don't complain about my speeds or reliability, but I sure like to piss and moan about the soaking I get from Cablevision.
The easiest thing to do, is to do what everybody else does and hope you're not a victim:
"I hope the hackers pick on some other company."
"I hope they lay off someone else in the next reorganization."
"I hope the terrorsts blow up the Holland Tunnel when I'm not in it."
The hype and promise of XML has gone too far. It's a boon for document type data. Semantic content like documentation, on-line content, even spreadsheets and email. (e.g., why isn't there a standard address book format based on XML that any application on any platform can use interchangeably?)
But using XML to build relational databases is slipping a round peg into a square hole. You need something to putty the corners.
When I was job hunting last year, I used the then-current catch phrase on prospective employers: "If you don't hire me, the terrorists win!". It didn't work out too well.
We already know that drugs and SUVs fund terrorism. Basically anything we don't like (cigaretts, firearms, etc.) don't want, and, most of all, don't want anybody else to have, funds terrorism.
WAG (Wild @$$ Guess)
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I read Bob Cringely's columns each week on both PBS and InfoWorld because I like his fanciful take on the things he writes about. But when he comes up with these pie-in-the-sky scenarios, he's almost never right. Just as he suggested Apple would/should port OS X to X86 and Microsoft should replace the Windows kernel with the Linux kernel. Just plain nuts. It also looks as though he compared notes with Charles Cooper at CNet/ZDNet
I think Sun only has to lose their emotional attachment to the Sparc processor. They have too much else going for them.
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The so-called "journalism" media have already determined the accident was caused by foam from the external tank. They will never let it go. Any other theories, regardless of scientfic validity, will be dismissed as a NASA cover-up. The news meadia already have their slings out and they're just looking for asses to put in them.
This is only one way administrations institute policy without having to get congressional approval. I prefer to keep sensitive information secret, but this practice is part of a larger issue.
The Federal Govt. collects taxes from all Americans, then uses grants, loans, and subsidies to institute policy. Well, who's policy? They tie subsidies to your local school district to certain courses or earmarks for the money; e.g., you have to implement a certain history or language program. Maybe what your local HS really needs is a new boiler or roof. Why send $ to D.C. to have it skimmed and returned with mandates?
Whatever administration is in power, both political parties do this and it's a quick and easy way to instute a policy by doing an end-around to Congress.
If MIT has the guts to tell the feds what they can do with our money, maybe we should too:
"GIVE IT BACK!!"
Sorry about the rant. I just got my W2s and 1099s. (GRRRR) No trolling or baiting intended.
I distinctly remember my 3rd and 4th birthday parties, but nothing in between. I recall my older brother trying to explain the numerical concept of being three years old, and how he was seven.
In the movie "Stand by Me" the kids debate who would win in a fight, Superman or Mighty Mouse: "Mighty Mouse is just a cartoon; Superman is a real guy!" (based, of course, on the television series from the 1950s). I recall, at a very early age, having the sme debate with some friends on my block and arriving at the exact same conclusion.
Like my father (when I was born in the 1950s), I still drive to work in a car with a steering wheel and four tires (albeit auotmatic tranny and air conditioned), I still talk on the telephone (albeit cordless or wireless), I still watch TV (albeit color), I still listen to records (albeit anywhere), and I cook, clean, vacuum, and do laundry in much the same ways my mother did, (save for my microwave). And like my father, I don't have to get up in the morning before everybody else and stoke a furnace to get heat (like my grandfather did).
Point is, most of the truly life-changing inventions, or at least their introduction into mainstream society, occurred in the first half of the 20th century. We in the tech sector tend to forget that./p
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If the BIOS is in the operating system, how would you load the operating system? How would it boot? What happens when you simply apply power?
I'm with Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper on this:
"Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?"
What if the company is privately held and they don't file with the SEC?
We know they are, metaphorically. But if the litigous bastards don't sue Linus for slander, they must doing it literally. Ah, what the hell; they might as well sue him anyway, even if it means doing time for drug posession. the sentance will just be tacked onto their RICO conviction for the biggest pump-and-dump in history.
You sound a bit ambivalent, based on career prospects rather than passion for the work. In the business environment over the past 20 years, I've seen more career paths close than open up. So, just do what you love, as long as it pays the mortgage. Most career prospects are hit or miss, anyway. It's all about who's across the interview table. Remember: First rate people hire first rate people. Second rate people hire third rate people. Be first rate.
I can't believe I'm sitting in front of a box that's bigger than the IBM XT. What ever happened to miniaturization? (Oh yeah, it all went toward cell phones which have exceded the limits of human usability, unless you have the fingers of an eight-year-old.) Back to the PC - the box is still mostly air. It's only hotter.
A statement Napoleon is said to have made to Robert Fulton:
"What sir, you would make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense."
I thought I was reading a one of those Area Man ... articles on The Onion when I read this paragraph:
"Early devices included the chicken vacuum, which sucked up birds and shot them through tubes to waiting trucks. But the birds tended to plug up the tubes and turn somersaults as they traveled inside the contraption. "We had too many die on us," recalls Buddy Burruss, vice president of operations at Tip Top Poultry Inc. of Marietta, Ga., which tested and quickly abandoned the pneumatic approach two decades ago."
I'd be interested to know how many G's you'd pull at that rate of acceleration. Yes, I know, I could dust off my old physics text books and calculate it. But I'm not that interested and I'm not posting it as a challenge because it's not that hard, so don't go there.
Just a thought, even though I'm too lazy.
I just don't know if I'm ready to root for Khan Noonien Singh.
The article says Cablevision's on top with an average of 800K. I routinely get from 4-5Mbps with upload consistently at 933kbps (according to DSL Reports. Everybody I know on Cablevision gets speeds in the megs. If the average is 800k, that would mean a lot of people are getting a fraction of that. $45-50/mo is a lot to pay for little more than ISDN-type bandwidth. I don't complain about my speeds or reliability, but I sure like to piss and moan about the soaking I get from Cablevision.
I think the US imports more than 4 million barrels per year. Last I heard, the US consumes about 20 million barrels per day.
The easiest thing to do, is to do what everybody else does and hope you're not a victim:
"I hope the hackers pick on some other company."
"I hope they lay off someone else in the next reorganization."
"I hope the terrorsts blow up the Holland Tunnel when I'm not in it."
The hype and promise of XML has gone too far. It's a boon for document type data. Semantic content like documentation, on-line content, even spreadsheets and email. (e.g., why isn't there a standard address book format based on XML that any application on any platform can use interchangeably?)
But using XML to build relational databases is slipping a round peg into a square hole. You need something to putty the corners.
When I was job hunting last year, I used the then-current catch phrase on prospective employers: "If you don't hire me, the terrorists win!". It didn't work out too well.
We already know that drugs and SUVs fund terrorism. Basically anything we don't like (cigaretts, firearms, etc.) don't want, and, most of all, don't want anybody else to have, funds terrorism.
The whole shebang.
I read Bob Cringely's columns each week on both PBS and InfoWorld because I like his fanciful take on the things he writes about. But when he comes up with these pie-in-the-sky scenarios, he's almost never right. Just as he suggested Apple would/should port OS X to X86 and Microsoft should replace the Windows kernel with the Linux kernel. Just plain nuts. It also looks as though he compared notes with Charles Cooper at CNet/ZDNet
I think Sun only has to lose their emotional attachment to the Sparc processor. They have too much else going for them.
The so-called "journalism" media have already determined the accident was caused by foam from the external tank. They will never let it go. Any other theories, regardless of scientfic validity, will be dismissed as a NASA cover-up. The news meadia already have their slings out and they're just looking for asses to put in them.
Reminds me of a commercial a few years back about some 'Engulf and Devour' type conglomerate board meeting:
"Should we make salsa or oven mits?"
This is only one way administrations institute policy without having to get congressional approval. I prefer to keep sensitive information secret, but this practice is part of a larger issue.
The Federal Govt. collects taxes from all Americans, then uses grants, loans, and subsidies to institute policy. Well, who's policy? They tie subsidies to your local school district to certain courses or earmarks for the money; e.g., you have to implement a certain history or language program. Maybe what your local HS really needs is a new boiler or roof. Why send $ to D.C. to have it skimmed and returned with mandates?
Whatever administration is in power, both political parties do this and it's a quick and easy way to instute a policy by doing an end-around to Congress.
If MIT has the guts to tell the feds what they can do with our money, maybe we should too:
"GIVE IT BACK!!"
Sorry about the rant. I just got my W2s and 1099s. (GRRRR) No trolling or baiting intended.
A library that detects anything Microsoft doesn't like:
welsu_urass.dll
"How perfectly Goddam delightful it all is, to be sure." - Robert Crumb
I distinctly remember my 3rd and 4th birthday parties, but nothing in between. I recall my older brother trying to explain the numerical concept of being three years old, and how he was seven.
In the movie "Stand by Me" the kids debate who would win in a fight, Superman or Mighty Mouse: "Mighty Mouse is just a cartoon; Superman is a real guy!" (based, of course, on the television series from the 1950s). I recall, at a very early age, having the sme debate with some friends on my block and arriving at the exact same conclusion.
Not just the DOJ. The FTC may also have something to say about it.
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"How perfectly Goddam delightful it all is, to be sure." - Robert Crumb
Like my father (when I was born in the 1950s), I still drive to work in a car with a steering wheel and four tires (albeit auotmatic tranny and air conditioned), I still talk on the telephone (albeit cordless or wireless), I still watch TV (albeit color), I still listen to records (albeit anywhere), and I cook, clean, vacuum, and do laundry in much the same ways my mother did, (save for my microwave). And like my father, I don't have to get up in the morning before everybody else and stoke a furnace to get heat (like my grandfather did).
Point is, most of the truly life-changing inventions, or at least their introduction into mainstream society, occurred in the first half of the 20th century. We in the tech sector tend to forget that./p
Another one spewing the mantra that Linux will never be successful as a desktop OS. Many have said it, and I don't know who uttered it first but
"Linux is inevitable."