I just thought it pretty damned amusing that the same post with a few words changed was apropos to both threads. Even more amusing that they both were modded up.
With failures like this mounting up, it's obvious why the government is so reluctant to spend more money on NASA projects. We need a victory of some sort [...]
Apparently, in your hurry to post this profundity, you missed the summary, which specifically mentioned the altitude record set two years ago. Not a failure by any means. Just a setback.
Thus continuing a great tradition of first flights.
If it does not crash and burn it was not a good test.
Apparently, in your hurry to post this profundity, you missed the summary, which specifically mentioned the altitude record set two years ago. Not a first flight by any means.
I'm actually rather curious about how it is (er, was) constructed. It looks quite flimsy...
I did not mean to imply that anything not on the opinion page is strictly impartial. However, there's a difference between editorial slant coloring the selection of stories and editorial comments IN the story. It was the latter that we were discussing.
For that matter, however, I don't think it unreasonable to strive for journalistic ideals, rather than settling for what everyone else is doing. Again--we can dream, can't we?
Remember: in a newspaper, the editorial is where the editor gives his personal opinion.
That's right. And where does he/she do that? On the opinion page. While it might make for interesting stories if editors just put their opinions right in the middle of the front page articles, it wouldn't make for very good journalism.
I like how they explained how they combined and colorized the pictures. I can't help but think, however, that the temptation to "improve" it a bit more with giant Earthbound meteors would be nigh overwhelming... =)
Statistically speaking :
1. You are not going to find a job on Monster, Dice, etc... A job may find you there, but if a job is posted it is either a scam, fake job because some recruited is collecting resumes, or 1,200 other Random L. User.COM flunky wannabe's have already flooded the poster with lies err... resumes.
Just as a meaningless data point, I found my last three jobs (everything since I graduated in 2000) via Monster.com (or a similar site) or the local newspaper.
It doesn't seem to be helping me much now, so it may be that those methods are less useful of late. I've been home for two months now.
You raise a good point, and your math is valid based solely on the numbers. However, prospective students should think carefully about whether the cost of their education is going to be an investment or an expense.
If you go to school, and use the degree gained therein to get a better job than you might have otherwise, it's an investment. If you go to school and get a degree but are unable to find work in your field and end up in desktop and network support [innocent whistle], your education wasn't an investment--it was an expense. A LUXURY expense, at that.
We are in such a situation. My wife has a BS in Environmental Science that for a variety of reasons she has been unable to leverage into employment in that field. While she makes a kickass office administrator and a superb nanny, her degree (and related professional knowledge) is gathering dust. Similarly, my BA in Political Science is only useful if I wanted to go to law school or intern with an elected official or something similar. I chose not to do any of those things, so my degree is also an expense.
No real complaints--we made decisions about post-college life which I still think were the correct ones for us, but if we could go back farther and re-consider our college paths before starting them, things might be different. I might not be unemployed, for example. =)
The point of light here is that we could (either or both of us) return to school and get advanced degrees or teaching credentials and turn our expenses back into investments. That's a pretty serious investment when we already have close to $30k in student debts, though, so we would want to be absolutely certain that this time it is an investment.
Since the opportunity presented itself to me, I recently enlisted in the National Guard under a program which will help pay my student loans while I learn Russian on the federal dime. Only an 8-year commitment, and they gave me a free t-shirt!
The simple fact is that had the public really had a strong preference one way or another, there wouldn't have been a Supreme Court case to decide the issue. The general population's indifference brought us to where we are today.
This holds true for the current occupant of the White House and for the existence of USA PATRIOT: an unrelated travesty, since Congress passed it--not the President. Do you honestly believe that things would be so much better if a different man were in the White House? How would that have changed USA PATRIOT?
Your last sentence is the only insightful one. "See what you get when you let democracy break down, people?"
Blaming the current state of affairs on the Supreme Court or the system (the rules to which all partipants agreed beforehand) is a red herring.
...is Mark Minasi's "Linux for Windows Administrators, 2nd Ed." from Sybex. There's a sample chapter on the Sybex site to give you an idea what it's all about. It's targeted at people who are competent and knowledgeable in the NT/2k realm, but looking to apply that knowledge to Linux.
(Gives me something useful to learn while I'm waiting to be employed again...)
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force... as if millions of university tech support people suddenly cried out in terror--and were suddenly silenced. I fear something dreadful has happened."
Seriously, is there any demographic (outside of sales) more technophobic than university professors? Or was my experience atypical?
Dr. Evil: "Relase the sharks! Mr. Powers, you'll notice that all the sharks have laser beams attached to their heads. I figure every creature deserves a warm meal.."
Number 2: "*ahem* Dr. Evil, it's about the sharks. When you froze them, they were put on the endangered species list. We tried to get some, but it would have taken months to clear up the red tape."
Dr. Evil: "You know, I have one simple request - and that is, to have sharks with frikkin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic collegue informs me that that can't be done. Can you remind me what I pay you people for? Honestly, throw me a bone here. What do we have?
I'm not sure what you mean by "Photo Viewer" (Imaging?), but Photo Editor (which comes with Office2k) works just fine under regular unprivileged user accounts. There is an intermittent problem where it won't open JPEG files, but you can do a very simple registry permissions fix to enable this for everyone again. It's a known issue with MS, but they don't consider Photo Editor to be a core component of Office, and don't seem intent on fixing it.
But a lot of times they are worth a paycheck. Mine, to pick one example near and dear to my heart.
So it may be worth looking into discussions and issues that could have a real impact on that paycheck, you know? Anything that saves my company money--and me headaches (why yes, I am a support tech, how could you tell?)--it worth looking into.
But yeah, definitely get out and smell the freaking roses. It's going to be a gorgeous spring here.
An unconstitutional law never holds force in the first place. The Supreme Court hasn't ruled on this yet, but even if they claim that these laws are valid, they are still wrong -- anyone can read the Constitution and decide for themselves.
Sorry, but I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of law.
Legal and illegal are not just abstract concepts. Whatever you happen to think, the Supreme Court is the official body that interprets laws in light of the United States Constitution. They may interpret poorly, but having done so, that interpretation has the force of law. It is the law. If they decide that the DMCA prevents you from converting your car to electric (to pick one ridiculous example from an infinite stock), that is the law of the land.
It may be an incredibly poor interpretation, and likely to be eventually overturned by a subsequent ruling, but until then that is the law of the land.
I don't know where people get the idea that "anyone can read the Constitution and decide for themselves;" while literally true, that interpretation doesn't mean a damned thing for keeping you out of prison unless you manage to convince the Supreme Court. And until you manage to do that, you are acting contrary to the law--that is, you are acting illegally.
In general, people do not understand just how important and central the Supreme Court is, else they would pay more attention to things like confirmation hearings. But I guess that is true of pretty much everything relating to government and politics in general in this age. We get the government that we let happen.
I'm not entirely familiar with the terms of the GPL, but would it be possible for someone else to read the source, document the system independently, and then provide that documentation for free?
Not a solution for the original poster, obviously, unless they have a lot more time than I do. Still, it could save the next guy's bacon, and discourage what seems to me a rather underhanded letter-not-the-spirit implementation.
I love doing documentation. Too bad I can't program my way out of a batch file.
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I just thought it pretty damned amusing that the same post with a few words changed was apropos to both threads. Even more amusing that they both were modded up.
So every time they change out some (admittedly key) piece of equipment in this plane, it's a new "first flight?" That's a little hard to swallow.
You gotta admit that the timing is awfully disturbing...
I'm actually rather curious about how it is (er, was) constructed. It looks quite flimsy...
Hmm, you haven't actually used NT4 lately, have you? =)
For that matter, however, I don't think it unreasonable to strive for journalistic ideals, rather than settling for what everyone else is doing. Again--we can dream, can't we?
Yeah, yeah, I know, but we can dream, can't we?
I like how they explained how they combined and colorized the pictures. I can't help but think, however, that the temptation to "improve" it a bit more with giant Earthbound meteors would be nigh overwhelming... =)
Honestly, though, it would cut into my pen & paper D&D evenings. Can't have that. ("Can I have a Mountain Dew?")
If you go to school, and use the degree gained therein to get a better job than you might have otherwise, it's an investment. If you go to school and get a degree but are unable to find work in your field and end up in desktop and network support [innocent whistle], your education wasn't an investment--it was an expense. A LUXURY expense, at that.
We are in such a situation. My wife has a BS in Environmental Science that for a variety of reasons she has been unable to leverage into employment in that field. While she makes a kickass office administrator and a superb nanny, her degree (and related professional knowledge) is gathering dust. Similarly, my BA in Political Science is only useful if I wanted to go to law school or intern with an elected official or something similar. I chose not to do any of those things, so my degree is also an expense.
No real complaints--we made decisions about post-college life which I still think were the correct ones for us, but if we could go back farther and re-consider our college paths before starting them, things might be different. I might not be unemployed, for example. =)
The point of light here is that we could (either or both of us) return to school and get advanced degrees or teaching credentials and turn our expenses back into investments. That's a pretty serious investment when we already have close to $30k in student debts, though, so we would want to be absolutely certain that this time it is an investment.
Since the opportunity presented itself to me, I recently enlisted in the National Guard under a program which will help pay my student loans while I learn Russian on the federal dime. Only an 8-year commitment, and they gave me a free t-shirt!
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 meets Dark Dungeons
The simple fact is that had the public really had a strong preference one way or another, there wouldn't have been a Supreme Court case to decide the issue. The general population's indifference brought us to where we are today.
This holds true for the current occupant of the White House and for the existence of USA PATRIOT: an unrelated travesty, since Congress passed it--not the President. Do you honestly believe that things would be so much better if a different man were in the White House? How would that have changed USA PATRIOT?
Your last sentence is the only insightful one. "See what you get when you let democracy break down, people?"
Blaming the current state of affairs on the Supreme Court or the system (the rules to which all partipants agreed beforehand) is a red herring.
I've seen and heard shiny things about Gallery, though I have not tried it out myself.
...is Mark Minasi's "Linux for Windows Administrators, 2nd Ed." from Sybex. There's a sample chapter on the Sybex site to give you an idea what it's all about. It's targeted at people who are competent and knowledgeable in the NT/2k realm, but looking to apply that knowledge to Linux.
(Gives me something useful to learn while I'm waiting to be employed again...)
"Are you all right? What's wrong?"
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force... as if millions of university tech support people suddenly cried out in terror--and were suddenly silenced. I fear something dreadful has happened."
Seriously, is there any demographic (outside of sales) more technophobic than university professors? Or was my experience atypical?
=)
Number 2: "*ahem* Dr. Evil, it's about the sharks. When you froze them, they were put on the endangered species list. We tried to get some, but it would have taken months to clear up the red tape."
Dr. Evil: "You know, I have one simple request - and that is, to have sharks with frikkin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic collegue informs me that that can't be done. Can you remind me what I pay you people for? Honestly, throw me a bone here. What do we have?
Number 2: "Sea Bass"
Dr. Evil: "Riiiiiight..."
Number 2: "They are mutated sea bass."
Dr. Evil: "Really? Are they ill-tempered?"
Number 2: "Absolutely."
Dr. Evil: "That's a start."
I'm not sure what you mean by "Photo Viewer" (Imaging?), but Photo Editor (which comes with Office2k) works just fine under regular unprivileged user accounts. There is an intermittent problem where it won't open JPEG files, but you can do a very simple registry permissions fix to enable this for everyone again. It's a known issue with MS, but they don't consider Photo Editor to be a core component of Office, and don't seem intent on fixing it.
So it may be worth looking into discussions and issues that could have a real impact on that paycheck, you know? Anything that saves my company money--and me headaches (why yes, I am a support tech, how could you tell?)--it worth looking into.
But yeah, definitely get out and smell the freaking roses. It's going to be a gorgeous spring here.
It may be an incredibly poor interpretation, and likely to be eventually overturned by a subsequent ruling, but until then that is the law of the land.
I don't know where people get the idea that "anyone can read the Constitution and decide for themselves;" while literally true, that interpretation doesn't mean a damned thing for keeping you out of prison unless you manage to convince the Supreme Court. And until you manage to do that, you are acting contrary to the law--that is, you are acting illegally.
In general, people do not understand just how important and central the Supreme Court is, else they would pay more attention to things like confirmation hearings. But I guess that is true of pretty much everything relating to government and politics in general in this age. We get the government that we let happen.
The users I call "prey." =)
Not a solution for the original poster, obviously, unless they have a lot more time than I do. Still, it could save the next guy's bacon, and discourage what seems to me a rather underhanded letter-not-the-spirit implementation.
I love doing documentation. Too bad I can't program my way out of a batch file.