Ironically, I've gotten a lot more liberal as I've gotten older, but then I was raised by conservative Southern Baptists and spent my entire K-12 school experience at a tiny private Baptist school.
IT departments everywhere have had their staffing cut to the bone. Even if they haven't had actual staff cuts, they've probably just barely kept the same level of staff while the rest of the company and the demands on IT kept growing. That's assuming their jobs haven't been transitioned to an Indian office.
It's no surprise IT departments are not devoting resources to rolling out new technologies. Unless it's something the CIO is demanding as a corporate priority, it's probably not even on most IT staff's radar.
I've always wondered what people with perfect pitch do in this circumstance.
My wife has taken a few harmony classes, and more than once the instructor has complained about someone in the class insisting on keeping to the "correct" pitch no matter where the rest of the class is. The instructor's position has been that singing harmony means being in harmony, whether the pitch is precisely right or not, so it's a case where insisting on being right just makes you wrong.
And remember that Uptime should be based on Services, not Servers. Nobody above a first-level IT manager should ever care if a specific piece of hardware is unavailable, as long as the services provided by that hardware continues to be provided.
That's one of the bigger metrics-related mistakes I've seen several times over the years, focussing too much on monitoring components while not monitoring the service as a whole.
This sometimes creates amusing scenarios where everyone's individual department gets to report excellent uptime while somehow the end user sitting in their chair was still unable to use the service much of the time.
I remember back when I had my Atari 800 and a cassette drive for loading programs, some software provided muzak on the alternate track to entertain you while the program loaded. Maybe this is just MS's misguided attempt to recreate that bygone era!
The hospital I worked in something like 15+ years ago had a supply of Magna Doodles. (I think that's what they were called, basically a toy that you could write on with a magnetic "pencil" and easily wipe off anything you wrote by sliding a level.)
They kept a few around the ICU/CCU for patients that needed them to communicate. At the time I sort of assumed that most hospitals kept some sort of tools around for that purpose.
Pretend instead of students you are talking about bridges. Should the bridges in the worst need of repair be assigned the worst engineers? While the bridges with the most minor repair needs are assigned the best engineers?
Here in Englewood, every eighth-grader already works with a guidance counselor to formulate a six-year academic career plan that stretches through the first year of college.
Jesus, 8th grade? I guess in a few years we should be expecting a glut of astronauts, firemen, and ballerinas.
This is weird, because my wife and I both have gmail accounts, and she has the exact same complaint, that her gmail inbox gets immediately filled with tons of spam that isn't caught by the spam filter. She's even tried creating new gmail accounts and the same thing happens.
But I have almost no problems with spam on my gmail account. The spam I do get goes into the spam folder, and I only get a few false positives from time to time.
I have yet to figure out what is different about my gmail and her gmail. And I know she's smart enough to not give her email address out all over the place.
Wow, you can use MS Virtual PC 2007 to run an entire farm of virtual machine servers, running hundreds or thousands of virtual machines that transparently and automatically move to different physical servers as needed?
I'm sorry, what? You're saying that charging people for copies of software code is unethical and evil, but charging them for copies of music, sound, or art is not? Can we get the official list of which people's work is considered to have value, and which isn't?
Why should health metrics be used at all? Why not just charge people more based on what actual claims they make on the insurance? I'm overweight but pretty healthy. Why should I pay higher premiums just to support some skinny guy with asthma, or some pregnant woman???
Of course, this begs the question, why do we even have insurance at all? Why not just eliminate it and let the healthy people not have it since they don't need it, and the people who do need healthcare will just have to file bankruptcy. I assume this is our perfect capitalist solution, right? Will there be a point when we are done nickle-and-diming people into bankruptcy for health care?
How would enabling a true right-button support make the experience worse for anyone? Make the trackpad support two buttons the same way the Mighty Mouse does. If you enable right-click as a preference, then the right side of the button is a right-click, if you don't then the whole button acts as one button.
Tada, you've made life better for people who like 2-button mice and you have not hurt the 1-button mouse people in the slightest!
It depends on the hardware, and really there tends to be little windows of time where some hardware is so new compared to how old the Windows CDs are that you might have to look for drivers elsewhere. It's not something I've ever had to do commonly supporting a lot of R&D labs, but there were times through the years where, for example, the Dell servers we were getting came with RAID controllers that the Windows of the time didn't understand, requiring the old "Hit F-whatever to insert an alternate driver disk" during install thing. It's been much less common in recent years though because in situations like that you typically get a set of install discs from Dell that handles that for you.
The only other exception I've ever had was Compaq desktops. We only bought a few of those but all of them were very specific about what version of Windows they supported and getting something like NT 4.0 working on the Compaq box that came with Windows 95 was far more of a pain than it should ever be.
For the most part though in the last few years, buying machines from relatively well-known and reputable vendors I have not had to deal hunting up 3rd party drivers during Windows installs.
But at the same time, in those same recent years, my only real problem with various linux installs has been the wireless drivers, largely just because of stupid legal issues with distributing some drivers for which there were no open source versions at the time.
I challenge you to point out where I demanded that everyone always buy $HIGHER_QUALITY_THING.
I merely pointed out that it is the age-old question. And it's why there is more than one model of car. It doesn't make the people who buy a Yarus wrong, and neither does it make the people who buy a Lamborghini or Ford F-350 wrong.
Personally, I have expensive pans and knives, I have a Tivo, I have a Macbook Pro. I have a modest small house. I have a modest boring car (Subaru Forester). I've probably spent less than $200 on clothes in the last 5 years, while spending probably 5 times that on going to see live music.
We all value things differently, if someone can be happy with the piece of shit cable company box that I tried and could not stand, good for them. If someone cares about hi-def, good for them. Personally, I don't care about it that much. If I had to choose between non-HD DirecTivo and the HD DirecTV DVR, I would take the DirecTivo every time. But that's just me.
Ha, that was one of the things I thought Enterprise did really well, finally presenting the Vulcans as a real species with real problems rather than just inherently better than everyone else in every way, except we get to look down on them for not having our hu-man emotions.
My local cable company offers a DVR for a $5 a month rental, if I order the HD Cable package I get one for free. Where is my incentive to buy a Tivo?
I can get $LESSER_QUALITY THING for less money than $HIGHER_QUALITY_THING. What's my incentive to buy $HIGHER_QUALITY_THING?
It's the age-old question. Why buy any car but a used Yugo? Why buy a bigger house if a smaller house is cheaper? Why buy real food from a grocery store when you can get a burrito from Taco Bell for less than a buck?
Not only that but the HD models aren't compatible with my cable providers HD service.
Seriously? Isn't that illegal now? I thought all US cable providers were required to provide CableCards now to allow 3rd party set-top boxes like Tivo full access to all their non-interactive services.
I can tell you that where I take lessons instructors probably photocopy thousands of guitar tab pages a day for popular songs that they've worked out simplified chord progressions for. The justification for this is usually a vague claim of Fair Use, but I've long assumed that this has never actually been challenged, and that the sheet music people would love to avidly punish music schools for stuff like this.
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Ironically, I've gotten a lot more liberal as I've gotten older, but then I was raised by conservative Southern Baptists and spent my entire K-12 school experience at a tiny private Baptist school.
I'm a big fan of socialized health care, but Canada's health care is not free nor almost free. Taxpayers pay for it.
IT departments everywhere have had their staffing cut to the bone. Even if they haven't had actual staff cuts, they've probably just barely kept the same level of staff while the rest of the company and the demands on IT kept growing. That's assuming their jobs haven't been transitioned to an Indian office.
It's no surprise IT departments are not devoting resources to rolling out new technologies. Unless it's something the CIO is demanding as a corporate priority, it's probably not even on most IT staff's radar.
My wife has taken a few harmony classes, and more than once the instructor has complained about someone in the class insisting on keeping to the "correct" pitch no matter where the rest of the class is. The instructor's position has been that singing harmony means being in harmony, whether the pitch is precisely right or not, so it's a case where insisting on being right just makes you wrong.
And remember that Uptime should be based on Services, not Servers. Nobody above a first-level IT manager should ever care if a specific piece of hardware is unavailable, as long as the services provided by that hardware continues to be provided.
That's one of the bigger metrics-related mistakes I've seen several times over the years, focussing too much on monitoring components while not monitoring the service as a whole.
This sometimes creates amusing scenarios where everyone's individual department gets to report excellent uptime while somehow the end user sitting in their chair was still unable to use the service much of the time.
I remember back when I had my Atari 800 and a cassette drive for loading programs, some software provided muzak on the alternate track to entertain you while the program loaded. Maybe this is just MS's misguided attempt to recreate that bygone era!
The hospital I worked in something like 15+ years ago had a supply of Magna Doodles. (I think that's what they were called, basically a toy that you could write on with a magnetic "pencil" and easily wipe off anything you wrote by sliding a level.)
They kept a few around the ICU/CCU for patients that needed them to communicate. At the time I sort of assumed that most hospitals kept some sort of tools around for that purpose.
Pretend instead of students you are talking about bridges. Should the bridges in the worst need of repair be assigned the worst engineers? While the bridges with the most minor repair needs are assigned the best engineers?
Ah, so they're Ents? We just need to find the young impulsive Quickbeam alien.
Jesus, 8th grade? I guess in a few years we should be expecting a glut of astronauts, firemen, and ballerinas.
This is weird, because my wife and I both have gmail accounts, and she has the exact same complaint, that her gmail inbox gets immediately filled with tons of spam that isn't caught by the spam filter. She's even tried creating new gmail accounts and the same thing happens.
But I have almost no problems with spam on my gmail account. The spam I do get goes into the spam folder, and I only get a few false positives from time to time.
I have yet to figure out what is different about my gmail and her gmail. And I know she's smart enough to not give her email address out all over the place.
Wow, you can use MS Virtual PC 2007 to run an entire farm of virtual machine servers, running hundreds or thousands of virtual machines that transparently and automatically move to different physical servers as needed?
Cool.
(VMWare Server is free too, you know.)
I'm sorry, what? You're saying that charging people for copies of software code is unethical and evil, but charging them for copies of music, sound, or art is not? Can we get the official list of which people's work is considered to have value, and which isn't?
Why should health metrics be used at all? Why not just charge people more based on what actual claims they make on the insurance? I'm overweight but pretty healthy. Why should I pay higher premiums just to support some skinny guy with asthma, or some pregnant woman???
Of course, this begs the question, why do we even have insurance at all? Why not just eliminate it and let the healthy people not have it since they don't need it, and the people who do need healthcare will just have to file bankruptcy. I assume this is our perfect capitalist solution, right? Will there be a point when we are done nickle-and-diming people into bankruptcy for health care?
How would enabling a true right-button support make the experience worse for anyone? Make the trackpad support two buttons the same way the Mighty Mouse does. If you enable right-click as a preference, then the right side of the button is a right-click, if you don't then the whole button acts as one button.
Tada, you've made life better for people who like 2-button mice and you have not hurt the 1-button mouse people in the slightest!
I just did that a few months ago. Sata drives in a mirrored raid configuration, and Windows XP instal CD recognized everything just fine.
It depends on the hardware, and really there tends to be little windows of time where some hardware is so new compared to how old the Windows CDs are that you might have to look for drivers elsewhere. It's not something I've ever had to do commonly supporting a lot of R&D labs, but there were times through the years where, for example, the Dell servers we were getting came with RAID controllers that the Windows of the time didn't understand, requiring the old "Hit F-whatever to insert an alternate driver disk" during install thing. It's been much less common in recent years though because in situations like that you typically get a set of install discs from Dell that handles that for you.
The only other exception I've ever had was Compaq desktops. We only bought a few of those but all of them were very specific about what version of Windows they supported and getting something like NT 4.0 working on the Compaq box that came with Windows 95 was far more of a pain than it should ever be.
For the most part though in the last few years, buying machines from relatively well-known and reputable vendors I have not had to deal hunting up 3rd party drivers during Windows installs.
But at the same time, in those same recent years, my only real problem with various linux installs has been the wireless drivers, largely just because of stupid legal issues with distributing some drivers for which there were no open source versions at the time.
I challenge you to point out where I demanded that everyone always buy $HIGHER_QUALITY_THING.
I merely pointed out that it is the age-old question. And it's why there is more than one model of car. It doesn't make the people who buy a Yarus wrong, and neither does it make the people who buy a Lamborghini or Ford F-350 wrong.
Personally, I have expensive pans and knives, I have a Tivo, I have a Macbook Pro. I have a modest small house. I have a modest boring car (Subaru Forester). I've probably spent less than $200 on clothes in the last 5 years, while spending probably 5 times that on going to see live music.
We all value things differently, if someone can be happy with the piece of shit cable company box that I tried and could not stand, good for them. If someone cares about hi-def, good for them. Personally, I don't care about it that much. If I had to choose between non-HD DirecTivo and the HD DirecTV DVR, I would take the DirecTivo every time. But that's just me.
Ha, that was one of the things I thought Enterprise did really well, finally presenting the Vulcans as a real species with real problems rather than just inherently better than everyone else in every way, except we get to look down on them for not having our hu-man emotions.
I can get $LESSER_QUALITY THING for less money than $HIGHER_QUALITY_THING. What's my incentive to buy $HIGHER_QUALITY_THING?
It's the age-old question. Why buy any car but a used Yugo? Why buy a bigger house if a smaller house is cheaper? Why buy real food from a grocery store when you can get a burrito from Taco Bell for less than a buck?
Seriously? Isn't that illegal now? I thought all US cable providers were required to provide CableCards now to allow 3rd party set-top boxes like Tivo full access to all their non-interactive services.
But mine are side-by-side!
If memory serves, singing along to music was actually found to *improve* driving skills in some studies.
500 degrees seems awfully high for many oils.
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Olive oil can be perfectly safe for frying:
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Ma
Pomace oil, particularly, is commonly used for frying in parts of the world.
The vessle with the Postle holds the brew that is true!
I can tell you that where I take lessons instructors probably photocopy thousands of guitar tab pages a day for popular songs that they've worked out simplified chord progressions for. The justification for this is usually a vague claim of Fair Use, but I've long assumed that this has never actually been challenged, and that the sheet music people would love to avidly punish music schools for stuff like this.