I seem to only comment every few years...so just thought I would log back in and say hello. I shall now go back to my experiments. Good day to you sir!!
by airrage on Thursday June 18, 2015 @04:10PM... by airrage on Friday January 21, 2011 @04:26PM
hadn't posted since "...by airrage on Friday July 28 2006, @11:52AM." so just thought I would log back in and say hello. I shall now go back to my experiments. Good day to you sir!!
This is definitely an area of IT that has suffered lately with outsourcing. I find that the issue is really that, at least in my experience in Corporate America, that the SysAdmin role has a interesting career ladder. Generally, my biggest gripe is finding someone who is well rounded in experience. Somehow, seems people are missing some major skill set like the ability to talk to another human being or empathy (just kidding). Actually, what I find is a big reluctance to change.
I think the "we don't even know how bees fly" was used in a metaphorical sense. To illicit that science does not have all the answers either. These statements are often used as debating points, or persuasion topics, but don't quite refute the central logic. With that said, my understanding of ID is this:
If you see a stop sign you realize it is conveying information, though I didn't see it built or designed, I assume someone did. Thus design always preceeds information. DNA, has all these base pairs and conveys information. An informational library on the order of all the atoms in the universe (or something like that). Thus, if there is all this information, where is the designer?
I think that is where the debate rages from. Not necessarily the flight patterns of bees, though that was interesting since I'm always running the other way and never stand long enough to count wing beats.
As a Christian, I'm interested in ID, but like any tool in the wrong hands it can be dangerous.
Now I know Scuttle is an alias for rob. You would think after just having this dicussion this morning on slashdot about stories submissions and conspiracy theories that they (slashdot et. al) would have the cajones to post a book written by rob.
I'm on David Letterman for something unrelated. But I tell David that I've decided that E does not equal MC squared, rather it's cubed. I tell David it's going to be difficult to convince people of this new theory, but if I could get the audience's help, that maybe we could start a revolution. I get a slow chant rolling... E equals M C Cubed! E equals M C Cubed! E equals M C Cubed! Over and over again, and I'm all Jim Carey in the camera, face right on the lens... E equals M C Cubed!
Someone's flipping channels and clicks past CBS, I mean how good can the legacy networks be, but Letterman's funny. He hears the audience chanting and the giddy laughter, and says yes, I knew that was wrong all along, it was just too simple. He takes this little nugget of information and feels some sort of superiority and it makes for some good water-cooler fodder the next day, 'did ya' hear? Einstein got it wrong, it's cubed'. Everyone thinks Marvin takes his job too seriously, but everyone else has heard snippets about the controversy on the way to work, so it settles into the collective-consciousness while everyone goes on about their life.
By now I've got an agent and I'm doing all the talk shows, Larry King, CNN, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, Jerry Springer (Hey, my wife's Father's daughter is my wife!). People are starting to wear T-shirts: E=MC3. Science students on college campuses are catching their professors off-guard as to whether there is any credence to this new way of thinking. And even though they're assured that it's an absurd notion, the students quietly disregard the old man as lacking in foresight and flexibility. Owning a new and crazy idea is chic! It's like wearing an iPod! Oh, sure there are some denouncers but they are quickly dismissed as badly groomed and party-poopers. But there will be some quick-thinking physicists who can't quite make Tenure and they'll say 'what the hell' and start to write non-technical articles about how this looks promising, and they'll get some new clothes and some dental work and an agent and start making the speaking-rounds as an advocate for the cubed-camped. Four out of five physicists agree E equals MC, to the three! Sure it's wrong, but basking in the Hawaiian sun, drinking a Mai Tai, you realize that the universe is the universe, regardless how you choose to define it.
Six months later if you were to Google the Theory of General Relatively, it would be difficult to determine which formula was right, another six, and E=MC2 is page-ranked to the second page -- and therefore does not exist.
And then some centuries hence, a project is created to compile an Encyclopedia Galactica to be sent forth to the heavens or to a small blue-green planet where it is hoped intelligence life exists (chosen specifically for its distance, such that everyone involved in the project will long be dead and thus blameless). The section on The General Theory of Relativity gives our scribe pause, as he can't remember if it's squared or cubed. He thinks it's squared, but he wasn't good at math, and usually in these types of situations he chooses incorrectly. He has this nagging thought that maybe it's cubed, like he heard that somewhere or saw it on a T-shirt; he does a Google search. Knowing, of course, that this being The Encyclopedia Galactica there will be fact checkers and editors and all sorts of cross-verification. It will probably make a funny story in the back section of the paper -- all the prolific mistakes in the encyclopedia -- but it'll have been fixed and it won't be his problem. Headline!Encyclopedia Galactica full of errors, assured all will be fixed before launch. The call goes out to English majors world-wide.
But what our intrepid researcher didn't know is that this is a Department of Defense project, communications with threats unknown and such. And no where in that great plan, from God to Francis Scott Key to the M-16, is an English-major required. Plus, t
Someone asked me to give ten different ways to find a needle in a haystack, these are my thoughts:
1) INDUSTRIAL MAGNENT 2) BLIND LUCK 3) BURN THE HAY, PICK UP THE NEEDLE 4) STATISTICAL ANALYSIS (SINCE NEEDLES IN HAYSTACKS ARE NOT PLACED AT RANDOM, THEY ARE SUBJECT TO REGRESSION ANALYSIS) 5) OFFSHORE TO CHINA WHERE LABOR IS CHEAPER, SEARCH THE HAY WITH 10000 OF WORKERS. 6) WAIT YEARS UNTIL THE HAY DECAYS, PICK UP THE NEEDLE 7) SPREADOUT THE HAY, HIRE BAREFOOT HAY WALKERS 8) TAKE ALL THE HAY, PUT IN A POOL OF WATER - HAY WILL FLOAT, AND NEEDLE WILL SINK 9) LET COWS EAT THE HAY, X-RAY ALL THE COWS! 10) TRIAL AND ERROR - ONE PERSON
For example, the first appearance of a First Ones ship (the Walkers at Sigma 957 in the episode "Mind War") has an explicit note that the as-yet unmentioned "Shadowmen" ship will look very different. Another suggestion during the scene of the battle with raiders recommends using real-world physics for the Starfury crafts to differentiate from other dogfights-in-space shows.
This reminds me of that SNL skit where William Shatner tells the Trekkies to get a life, when posed the question, "Well um, I was wondering if you could settle a bet for me and my friends, okay? Um, like, when you... um, left your quarters for the last time? And you opened up your safe? Um... what was the combination?"
Texas has a Constitution with no "administrative" section. That being said, every law, whether new or an amendment is a constitutional change.
I think hardware manufacturers are in the right on this one, they want to develop drivers and peripherals without a constitutional amendment. Good thing all the way around IMHO.
I think common sense would say that having a "common currency" in file formats is a good thing. But if it were me, and if I play CIO for a moment, I'd make DANG sure I get it right before converting millions of documents. Just one gotcha and ten years down the road you are left out to pasture - technically speaking.
I'd work more towards.pdf in the near-term and see how these openDoc formats shake out.
First it is the applications, just like it is the quality of the movies, just like it is the quality of the television shows. It is the application.
Secondly, the reason the laptop costs more is because it is carrying more burden of the costs associated with fewer sales, thus more cost per unit. This holds true even for identical units. To sell a Linux laptop requires potentially Linux technical support, sales support (knowledge), adding another product line to the web site, etc. While probably all incremental, it has to be shared by the number of units sold. As units increased, this cost would potentially decrease.
Windows on the other hand is massive in market share so everyone who makes cards, controllers, plug-ins etc want to be viable for this market. It's not a great crime to follow the market leader.
Secondly, one quick puruse on goggle.com would have answered which cards offered Linux support instead of trial by error. Stupidity is not an excuse.
It's not some great crime that Linux isn't adopted on the DT. Believe me, once Linux is REALLY ready, we will all switch. Till then, please stop the reverse FUD.
Hear! Hear! Excellent post. I would like to expand on the "not just one application" will matter all that much. IMHO, the reason that switching to Linux is so difficult on the DT is that you are not gaining any additional functionality. I mean Office has a spreadsheet, starOffice has a spreadsheet. I mean if the only spreadsheet in town ran on Linux then everyone and their brother would run Linux (and play games on Windows, just kidding).
So one thought-paradigm I think many of us try to get out there (and the parent does an excellent job of this) is that to be of any use you have to be equivalent (at least) in any one area, or provide additional value at least on the DT.
Logic would dictate that your information is private BY DEFAULT, as in other enlightened countries.
The only way to fix the problem is not to have all these laws after the fact, but to stop the sharing at the source. For example, you sign-up at a bank for a new account. You cannot at that time ask for you information not to be shared. You must call up later and say:
1) I don't want my information shared to third-parties. 2) I don't want my information shared to afflilated companies. 3) I don't want any offers, etc.
If you miss one your screwed. Just think of all the things you've registered for where your information is flying around. It's absolutely unstoppable.
I'd love to do a credit freeze on my account, but in Texas you can only do that AFTER you prove to the credit companies that your a victim of identity-theft. That's like handing out a condom after rape.
The credit-bureaus snap back that without access to the sea of "metadata" people won't get all these advertisements for low-interest lows and crap like that. Makes me want to puke.
Maybe we can change out our SSN#s every so often, but otherwise I assume having your identity stolen will be common-place in 5 to 10 years.
Summer hasn't arrived brah - it is here. And if you are planning on getting by with some cool trash-water, then you are woefully unprepared.
Just a hint here: but a woman is not gonna want to come over and see your sweaty fat-ass playing D&D or whatever you play.
So my advice: go down to the local utility, pay the freakin' $80 bucks and have the A/C turned on. You'd be amazed at how lower-humidity can clear acne.
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I seem to only comment every few years...so just thought I would log back in and say hello. I shall now go back to my experiments. Good day to you sir!!
by airrage on Thursday June 18, 2015 @04:10PM...
by airrage on Friday January 21, 2011 @04:26PM
Nope! Day 'b gone.
hadn't posted since "...by airrage on Friday July 28 2006, @11:52AM." so just thought I would log back in and say hello. I shall now go back to my experiments. Good day to you sir!!
This is definitely an area of IT that has suffered lately with outsourcing. I find that the issue is really that, at least in my experience in Corporate America, that the SysAdmin role has a interesting career ladder. Generally, my biggest gripe is finding someone who is well rounded in experience. Somehow, seems people are missing some major skill set like the ability to talk to another human being or empathy (just kidding). Actually, what I find is a big reluctance to change.
Alas, we suffer on.
Peace Out.
Hey Oracle the 90's called they want their bubble back.
I think the "we don't even know how bees fly" was used in a metaphorical sense. To illicit that science does not have all the answers either. These statements are often used as debating points, or persuasion topics, but don't quite refute the central logic. With that said, my understanding of ID is this:
If you see a stop sign you realize it is conveying information, though I didn't see it built or designed, I assume someone did. Thus design always preceeds information. DNA, has all these base pairs and conveys information. An informational library on the order of all the atoms in the universe (or something like that). Thus, if there is all this information, where is the designer?
I think that is where the debate rages from. Not necessarily the flight patterns of bees, though that was interesting since I'm always running the other way and never stand long enough to count wing beats.
As a Christian, I'm interested in ID, but like any tool in the wrong hands it can be dangerous.
Now I know Scuttle is an alias for rob. You would think after just having this dicussion this morning on slashdot about stories submissions and conspiracy theories that they (slashdot et. al) would have the cajones to post a book written by rob.
Unbelieveable.
I'm on David Letterman for something unrelated. But I tell David that I've decided that E does not equal MC squared, rather it's cubed. I tell David it's going to be difficult to convince people of this new theory, but if I could get the audience's help, that maybe we could start a revolution. I get a slow chant rolling ... E equals M C Cubed! E equals M C Cubed! E equals M C Cubed! Over and over again, and I'm all Jim Carey in the camera, face right on the lens ... E equals M C Cubed!
Someone's flipping channels and clicks past CBS, I mean how good can the legacy networks be, but Letterman's funny. He hears the audience chanting and the giddy laughter, and says yes, I knew that was wrong all along, it was just too simple. He takes this little nugget of information and feels some sort of superiority and it makes for some good water-cooler fodder the next day, 'did ya' hear? Einstein got it wrong, it's cubed'. Everyone thinks Marvin takes his job too seriously, but everyone else has heard snippets about the controversy on the way to work, so it settles into the collective-consciousness while everyone goes on about their life.
By now I've got an agent and I'm doing all the talk shows, Larry King, CNN, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, Jerry Springer (Hey, my wife's Father's daughter is my wife!). People are starting to wear T-shirts: E=MC3. Science students on college campuses are catching their professors off-guard as to whether there is any credence to this new way of thinking. And even though they're assured that it's an absurd notion, the students quietly disregard the old man as lacking in foresight and flexibility. Owning a new and crazy idea is chic! It's like wearing an iPod! Oh, sure there are some denouncers but they are quickly dismissed as badly groomed and party-poopers. But there will be some quick-thinking physicists who can't quite make Tenure and they'll say 'what the hell' and start to write non-technical articles about how this looks promising, and they'll get some new clothes and some dental work and an agent and start making the speaking-rounds as an advocate for the cubed-camped. Four out of five physicists agree E equals MC, to the three! Sure it's wrong, but basking in the Hawaiian sun, drinking a Mai Tai, you realize that the universe is the universe, regardless how you choose to define it.
Six months later if you were to Google the Theory of General Relatively, it would be difficult to determine which formula was right, another six, and E=MC2 is page-ranked to the second page -- and therefore does not exist.
And then some centuries hence, a project is created to compile an Encyclopedia Galactica to be sent forth to the heavens or to a small blue-green planet where it is hoped intelligence life exists (chosen specifically for its distance, such that everyone involved in the project will long be dead and thus blameless). The section on The General Theory of Relativity gives our scribe pause, as he can't remember if it's squared or cubed. He thinks it's squared, but he wasn't good at math, and usually in these types of situations he chooses incorrectly. He has this nagging thought that maybe it's cubed, like he heard that somewhere or saw it on a T-shirt; he does a Google search. Knowing, of course, that this being The Encyclopedia Galactica there will be fact checkers and editors and all sorts of cross-verification. It will probably make a funny story in the back section of the paper -- all the prolific mistakes in the encyclopedia -- but it'll have been fixed and it won't be his problem. Headline! Encyclopedia Galactica full of errors, assured all will be fixed before launch. The call goes out to English majors world-wide.
But what our intrepid researcher didn't know is that this is a Department of Defense project, communications with threats unknown and such. And no where in that great plan, from God to Francis Scott Key to the M-16, is an English-major required. Plus, t
Top 3 Ideas for 40+ programmers:
...
1) Jump to Conclusions mat. You see, it's a mat with conclusions on them
2) Wait for Y3K conversion consultant gig.
3) Make fortran games.
Someone asked me to give ten different ways to find a needle in a haystack, these are my thoughts:
1) INDUSTRIAL MAGNENT
2) BLIND LUCK
3) BURN THE HAY, PICK UP THE NEEDLE
4) STATISTICAL ANALYSIS (SINCE NEEDLES IN HAYSTACKS ARE NOT PLACED AT RANDOM, THEY ARE SUBJECT TO REGRESSION ANALYSIS)
5) OFFSHORE TO CHINA WHERE LABOR IS CHEAPER, SEARCH THE HAY WITH 10000 OF WORKERS.
6) WAIT YEARS UNTIL THE HAY DECAYS, PICK UP THE NEEDLE
7) SPREADOUT THE HAY, HIRE BAREFOOT HAY WALKERS
8) TAKE ALL THE HAY, PUT IN A POOL OF WATER - HAY WILL FLOAT, AND NEEDLE WILL SINK
9) LET COWS EAT THE HAY, X-RAY ALL THE COWS!
10) TRIAL AND ERROR - ONE PERSON
For example, the first appearance of a First Ones ship (the Walkers at Sigma 957 in the episode "Mind War") has an explicit note that the as-yet unmentioned "Shadowmen" ship will look very different. Another suggestion during the scene of the battle with raiders recommends using real-world physics for the Starfury crafts to differentiate from other dogfights-in-space shows.
This reminds me of that SNL skit where William Shatner tells the Trekkies to get a life, when posed the question, "Well um, I was wondering if you could settle a bet for me and my friends, okay? Um, like, when you... um, left your quarters for the last time? And you opened up your safe? Um... what was the combination?"
Texas has a Constitution with no "administrative" section. That being said, every law, whether new or an amendment is a constitutional change.
I think hardware manufacturers are in the right on this one, they want to develop drivers and peripherals without a constitutional amendment. Good thing all the way around IMHO.
Peace Out.
I think common sense would say that having a "common currency" in file formats is a good thing. But if it were me, and if I play CIO for a moment, I'd make DANG sure I get it right before converting millions of documents. Just one gotcha and ten years down the road you are left out to pasture - technically speaking.
.pdf in the near-term and see how these openDoc formats shake out.
I'd work more towards
Looks like the AIDS virus or some sort of peptide.
From the article: Programming is the most empowering thing we can do on a computer, and that's what we do.
... a bad teacher touches the same.
The old saying is that teacher touches eternity
That's overreaching, and I say this with complete ambivalence to all operating systems.
No, mega-dupe! Did I just coin a phrase!?!
I purchase only from a couple of local shops or build my own
I think the issue here really, is for us corporate types who buy literally thousands of PC at one go.
First it is the applications, just like it is the quality of the movies, just like it is the quality of the television shows. It is the application.
Secondly, the reason the laptop costs more is because it is carrying more burden of the costs associated with fewer sales, thus more cost per unit. This holds true even for identical units. To sell a Linux laptop requires potentially Linux technical support, sales support (knowledge), adding another product line to the web site, etc. While probably all incremental, it has to be shared by the number of units sold. As units increased, this cost would potentially decrease.
Windows on the other hand is massive in market share so everyone who makes cards, controllers, plug-ins etc want to be viable for this market. It's not a great crime to follow the market leader.
Secondly, one quick puruse on goggle.com would have answered which cards offered Linux support instead of trial by error. Stupidity is not an excuse.
It's not some great crime that Linux isn't adopted on the DT. Believe me, once Linux is REALLY ready, we will all switch. Till then, please stop the reverse FUD.
Peace Out.
Hear! Hear! Excellent post. I would like to expand on the "not just one application" will matter all that much. IMHO, the reason that switching to Linux is so difficult on the DT is that you are not gaining any additional functionality. I mean Office has a spreadsheet, starOffice has a spreadsheet. I mean if the only spreadsheet in town ran on Linux then everyone and their brother would run Linux (and play games on Windows, just kidding).
So one thought-paradigm I think many of us try to get out there (and the parent does an excellent job of this) is that to be of any use you have to be equivalent (at least) in any one area, or provide additional value at least on the DT.
Just my 2 cents.
Peace Out.
....honestly I don't get the .org reference/joke. Can someone elaborate or do you just have to have been there?
...(humans) continue to put important things in the most vulnerable places...
Humans didn't put New Orleans there, the French did.
Logic would dictate that your information is private BY DEFAULT, as in other enlightened countries.
The only way to fix the problem is not to have all these laws after the fact, but to stop the sharing at the source. For example, you sign-up at a bank for a new account. You cannot at that time ask for you information not to be shared. You must call up later and say:
1) I don't want my information shared to third-parties.
2) I don't want my information shared to afflilated companies.
3) I don't want any offers, etc.
If you miss one your screwed. Just think of all the things you've registered for where your information is flying around. It's absolutely unstoppable.
I'd love to do a credit freeze on my account, but in Texas you can only do that AFTER you prove to the credit companies that your a victim of identity-theft. That's like handing out a condom after rape.
The credit-bureaus snap back that without access to the sea of "metadata" people won't get all these advertisements for low-interest lows and crap like that. Makes me want to puke.
Maybe we can change out our SSN#s every so often, but otherwise I assume having your identity stolen will be common-place in 5 to 10 years.
Peace out!
Happy 4th.
So when Apple creates that "big brother" ad again, maybe the hammer should be thrown at a screen of Steve Jobs talking.
You cannot, I repeat CANNOT, have your cake and eat it too.
Summer hasn't arrived brah - it is here. And if you are planning on getting by with some cool trash-water, then you are woefully unprepared.
Just a hint here: but a woman is not gonna want to come over and see your sweaty fat-ass playing D&D or whatever you play.
So my advice: go down to the local utility, pay the freakin' $80 bucks and have the A/C turned on. You'd be amazed at how lower-humidity can clear acne.
Peace Out.
Air