What kinda stupid tftp server crashes? I'd have to go check, but I think mines been running for three years straight on a Pentium I machine somewhere...
Dave Letterman has enough money to hire a kid to build him 10 Linux-based PVR's, buy all the best hardware, set up all the $500 remote controls correctly on every unit, network them all via high-speed wireless or wired, or even fiber, communicate with each other over any open 802.11b access point they might find (that's for the one in the limo) and to put in enough receivers and capture cards to record every TV show in multiple countries while sharing his 2000* DVD's that have been ripped to the hard disk(s) to every unit for his viewing pleasure and still not care how much it costs.
That's the beauty of standards, there's so many of them to choose from.
The Internet is hardly a good example of good Engineering practice.
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Leo's one of the few people willing to help others with the computer issues/problems at whatever level they're at without being condescending to them.
He's also willing to do it on the public stage where he gets idiots like you throwing tomatoes at him while he's trying to do it, while you yourself would never have the people skills, the production skills, nor the willingness to take his place in the limelight.
Shove off and leave the guy alone, he was doing good work helping the average Joe actually get something out of their computer other than an AOL account.
He was making the PERSONAL computer side of our industry look fun again for thousands of people who aren't techies and geeks, for the first time in many years. Explaining things like how to rip a music collection of CD's into MP3's in newbie terms and showing them how to do it on-screen in the very limited timeframe of a television show -- that type of thing does take skill.
You manage to do the same type of work, get up on stage and do it in front of thousands, and then we'll compare apples to apples by seeing if people watch you... or Leo. Good luck on that one.
He's not a "tech authority" but he's a "tech celebrity", I'd say. He's out there in front of people every day explaining how to use their computers -- work that few techies really want to do, but helps our industry immensely.
You forgot the 6-inch high LED countdown display that every movie bomb always has! Because you know every bomber makes sure to both not bobby-trap the most important wire the "expert" with the shaky sweating hands needs to cut, and he also wants to make sure there's something the film crew can zoom in on (the countdown) every few seconds for impact.
All this mountain climbing B.S. -- the answer to most business problems is right in the word business... Busy.
Get busy, stay busy, do what your customers want, and knock off all the silly rah-rah crap about "Reaching the Peak" or "Summiting the Goal" or whatever... it turns off a lot of people on your staff just as much as it energizes others.
All most normal people come to those big corporate rah-rah meetings to hear are two things:
1. Are we making money? 2. Where the after-meeting food is.
Who wouldn't love to walk into a business meeting like that. That's true business. The rest of it... wasting everyone (including the speaker's) time.
One downside to heavy policy forcing the use of document management and the tools to do it is that the entire document database can be supoenaed in a heartbeat in a liability case.
Humans learn by making mistakes. Having no evidence trail of those mistakes can sometimes be useful. We all know that from the time we're little kids. "Oooh, you scraped your knee! Mom's gonna know you fell down!"
This is probably why document shredders are more widely applied than document management.
Everything's a copycat of something. Only a very few inventions are truly revolutionary. Most are *evolutionary*.
When you stop worrying about the copycats and just enjoy whatever "stuff" you like, you figure it out. And then you start improving on the things you like, instead of worrying about other people's things you don't even use. (Whatever they are.)
Don't waste brain cycles worrying about whether there will be an EverQuack 2000 or whatever -- it's either going to happen or it isn't, but if you want something truly new and revolutionary for computers, just go make it.
And it doesn't integrate cleanly with the PSTN at all, so you can't call a Skype user from a regular telephone or vice-versa.
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You just keep right on believing that...
"The Washington State legislature may sign-off on new conditions for power plant operators to offset their plants' carbon dioxide emissions. House Bill 3141 was approved by the Senate and once minor differences are worked out with the House, the measure will be sent to Governor Gary Locke to sign into law. The bill guarantees certain environmental considerations will be included with the approval of new power plants while providing builders with certainty over what those considerations will cost."
I thought the whole way to survive to live to a ripe old age in a B2 was NOT to turn on any emitters?
At least the B1 could scoot and get on outta there when necessary (better hope the tanker's nearby), but the B2's emitting on purpose to help a JDAM along its way seems like a quick way to bring attention to the aircraft's current location.
Gee Wally, maybe even a full-blown microprocessor even! Golly!
(Hint: I don't think they'd bother with a microcontroller... they've got the budget for a full blown CPU with its peripherals external to the processing device. See definition of microcontroller and microprocessor.)
Not true. The USSR has had GLONASS aloft for a very long time now.
And with the fall of the Soviet Union, you can buy GLONASS receivers all over the world now. (Some specialized surveying gear compares GPS/GLONASS signals, for example.)
Get a better designed 1RU case. And don't trust those four tiny 1" high fans... friends and I have already blown one motherboard/CPU combo assuming those would last a while. They were dead in 3 months.
Take a look at the squirrel-cage ducted blower in an HP/Compaq 1RU DL380 sometime... that's what you want in a 1RU case. Those cheesy-assed 1" high fans will bite you -- soon.
Some of us have people who do the HTML tags for us? Gone soft over the years and can't cut it anymore, eh?
The whole point is that it's the SAME HTML tag you used in '96. Only a moron would forget it... the syntax is quite simple and you can steal it from every single web page you've ever looked at ever by just clicking on "View Source", you moron.
As someone else who's "been around the block" I don't find it particularly difficult to remember the same tag I've been using to create hyperlinks in HTML for about a decade now.
You think there might be some HTML references on the WEB???? Whoa!!! Really?!?!
You're a shining star of laziness. At least I'll tip my hat to you there... keep slouchin', Mr. Around the Block! You lazy AC SOB you!
Call centers are the knowledge worker equivalent of sweatshops. The only advice anyone should give about call centers is "get out while you're still young".
No but if a corporate CEO were responsible for the company during a time when there were employees breaking another human being's civil rights and/or abusing them, they'd most likely be asked to resign by their Board of Directors. And at the very least EVERYONE from the lowliest middle manager who managed that staff all the way up to their VP would probably be asked to resign, immediately.
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What kinda stupid tftp server crashes? I'd have to go check, but I think mines been running for three years straight on a Pentium I machine somewhere...
From the photos we've all seen inside Iraqi prisons, nope. Still all about the sex...
"Linux for sparks"... snicker snicker... nice one.
Dave Letterman has enough money to hire a kid to build him 10 Linux-based PVR's, buy all the best hardware, set up all the $500 remote controls correctly on every unit, network them all via high-speed wireless or wired, or even fiber, communicate with each other over any open 802.11b access point they might find (that's for the one in the limo) and to put in enough receivers and capture cards to record every TV show in multiple countries while sharing his 2000* DVD's that have been ripped to the hard disk(s) to every unit for his viewing pleasure and still not care how much it costs.
;-)
Why would he care?
* made up number
So who would enforce or monitor for legal violations?
And the RF rules could change across jurisdictional boundaries?
Completely unworkable. Unless you've come up with a way to keep RF inside city/state/county/country boundaries.
Think it through.
That's the beauty of standards, there's so many of them to choose from.
The Internet is hardly a good example of good Engineering practice.
Leo's one of the few people willing to help others with the computer issues/problems at whatever level they're at without being condescending to them.
He's also willing to do it on the public stage where he gets idiots like you throwing tomatoes at him while he's trying to do it, while you yourself would never have the people skills, the production skills, nor the willingness to take his place in the limelight.
Shove off and leave the guy alone, he was doing good work helping the average Joe actually get something out of their computer other than an AOL account.
He was making the PERSONAL computer side of our industry look fun again for thousands of people who aren't techies and geeks, for the first time in many years. Explaining things like how to rip a music collection of CD's into MP3's in newbie terms and showing them how to do it on-screen in the very limited timeframe of a television show -- that type of thing does take skill.
You manage to do the same type of work, get up on stage and do it in front of thousands, and then we'll compare apples to apples by seeing if people watch you... or Leo. Good luck on that one.
He's not a "tech authority" but he's a "tech celebrity", I'd say. He's out there in front of people every day explaining how to use their computers -- work that few techies really want to do, but helps our industry immensely.
You're just another whiner in your recliner.
You forgot the 6-inch high LED countdown display that every movie bomb always has! Because you know every bomber makes sure to both not bobby-trap the most important wire the "expert" with the shaky sweating hands needs to cut, and he also wants to make sure there's something the film crew can zoom in on (the countdown) every few seconds for impact.
All this mountain climbing B.S. -- the answer to most business problems is right in the word business... Busy.
Get busy, stay busy, do what your customers want, and knock off all the silly rah-rah crap about "Reaching the Peak" or "Summiting the Goal" or whatever... it turns off a lot of people on your staff just as much as it energizes others.
All most normal people come to those big corporate rah-rah meetings to hear are two things:
1. Are we making money?
2. Where the after-meeting food is.
Who wouldn't love to walk into a business meeting like that. That's true business. The rest of it... wasting everyone (including the speaker's) time.
One downside to heavy policy forcing the use of document management and the tools to do it is that the entire document database can be supoenaed in a heartbeat in a liability case.
Humans learn by making mistakes. Having no evidence trail of those mistakes can sometimes be useful. We all know that from the time we're little kids. "Oooh, you scraped your knee! Mom's gonna know you fell down!"
This is probably why document shredders are more widely applied than document management.
There is nothing new under the Sun.
Everything's a copycat of something. Only a very few inventions are truly revolutionary. Most are *evolutionary*.
When you stop worrying about the copycats and just enjoy whatever "stuff" you like, you figure it out. And then you start improving on the things you like, instead of worrying about other people's things you don't even use. (Whatever they are.)
Don't waste brain cycles worrying about whether there will be an EverQuack 2000 or whatever -- it's either going to happen or it isn't, but if you want something truly new and revolutionary for computers, just go make it.
Otherwise you're just a whiner in the recliner...
And it doesn't integrate cleanly with the PSTN at all, so you can't call a Skype user from a regular telephone or vice-versa.
You just keep right on believing that...
"The Washington State legislature may sign-off on new conditions for power plant operators to offset their plants' carbon dioxide emissions. House Bill 3141 was approved by the Senate and once minor differences are worked out with the House, the measure will be sent to Governor Gary Locke to sign into law. The bill guarantees certain environmental considerations will be included with the approval of new power plants while providing builders with certainty over what those considerations will cost."
Source: Snohomish County PUD, March 2004.
Hell, we have to have some reason to not give North Dakota to the Canadians... filling it up with silos gives those folks up there something to do!
I thought the whole way to survive to live to a ripe old age in a B2 was NOT to turn on any emitters?
At least the B1 could scoot and get on outta there when necessary (better hope the tanker's nearby), but the B2's emitting on purpose to help a JDAM along its way seems like a quick way to bring attention to the aircraft's current location.
Gee Wally, maybe even a full-blown microprocessor even! Golly!
(Hint: I don't think they'd bother with a microcontroller... they've got the budget for a full blown CPU with its peripherals external to the processing device. See definition of microcontroller and microprocessor.)
Not true. The USSR has had GLONASS aloft for a very long time now.
And with the fall of the Soviet Union, you can buy GLONASS receivers all over the world now. (Some specialized surveying gear compares GPS/GLONASS signals, for example.)
Get a better designed 1RU case. And don't trust those four tiny 1" high fans... friends and I have already blown one motherboard/CPU combo assuming those would last a while. They were dead in 3 months.
Take a look at the squirrel-cage ducted blower in an HP/Compaq 1RU DL380 sometime... that's what you want in a 1RU case. Those cheesy-assed 1" high fans will bite you -- soon.
So you're saying that crap was released before some other really bad crap that eventually wasn't so bad, but still crap.
Cool. Sounds just like today. Of course, we're up to Crap version 10 or 20 or something like that now.
Some of us have people who do the HTML tags for us? Gone soft over the years and can't cut it anymore, eh?
The whole point is that it's the SAME HTML tag you used in '96. Only a moron would forget it... the syntax is quite simple and you can steal it from every single web page you've ever looked at ever by just clicking on "View Source", you moron.
As someone else who's "been around the block" I don't find it particularly difficult to remember the same tag I've been using to create hyperlinks in HTML for about a decade now.
You think there might be some HTML references on the WEB???? Whoa!!! Really?!?!
You're a shining star of laziness. At least I'll tip my hat to you there... keep slouchin', Mr. Around the Block! You lazy AC SOB you!
You take t-shirts that seriously? Wow...
You'll really get upset over this one then...
Would you like to buy a vowel?
Call centers are the knowledge worker equivalent of sweatshops. The only advice anyone should give about call centers is "get out while you're still young".
No but if a corporate CEO were responsible for the company during a time when there were employees breaking another human being's civil rights and/or abusing them, they'd most likely be asked to resign by their Board of Directors. And at the very least EVERYONE from the lowliest middle manager who managed that staff all the way up to their VP would probably be asked to resign, immediately.
This book is getting very dated and the included programmer is known to have been a "problem child" for many people, as it's not a very robust design.
Save yourself the headache and buy something else.
The GNUPic project supports PIC on Linux.