Yes, lots of very weak minds out there! One fellow in this office tells about getting his insurance license shortly after high school and a stint in the Army. When someone skeptically inquired about how successful calls out of the blue were, the instuctor stated that industry research showed that 1 in 47 would actually buy insurance on a cold call. Sure enough, he found that the case--in fact, the odds were even more in his favor. Shades of Boiler Room!
Not satisfied with killing Roy Rogers, huh?
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A pox on Ronald MacDonald!!
Actually, my kids have been boycotting MacDonald's since they were in elementary school (they are in high school now). A few years back, MacDonald's bought the failing Hardee's chain in the Washington, DC area. Hardee's also owned the Roy Rogers chain, about the finest fastfood burger joint in town (I fondly remember their "Fixin's Bar" and their fried chicken). MacDonald's then closed both Roy Rogers in our town and would not negotiate with other fastfood franchise for their old buildings. Boston Market tried and failed. Both buildings finally went to sit-down places.
Anyway, for closing Roys and for denying Boston Market, my kids decided--quite on their own--that they prefered Wendy's and Burger King. We haven't been in a MacDonald's since. This nonesense with Sims tells me that we're not ready to go back.
Maybe we should add Electronic Arts to our boycott as well!
I have not been impressed with Wrox books in the past. Too many of them have so many authors that the book's focus is poor. Even one Wrox book I have with two authors has examples so mired in their own utility library that I lost track of what the example were trying to accomplish and how. Plus about 1/4th of the book was incomplete reprints of Javadocs and specs that I can get over net (why enclose CDs any longer?).
That said, I will definately check this book out. We use Tomcat a great deal (with Apache and IIS) and the more info, the better.
I would also rate very highly your role in the filmed-for-TV play of The Andersonville Trial with Jack Cassidy. Those were stepping out roles for both of you. I wish there had been more...
I run Linux at work and home. I use Linux for everything--development, office stuff, recrecation, etc.--except (1) product testing on Windows; (2) playing QuickTime/*.mov files; and (3) for surfing at home when the kids left the machine booted in Windows & I don't have time to reboot (like now).
Actually, the only good reason I have seen for Windows is Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator games. Wow! Neat stuff!
What the heck is a dumb bunny like that doing teaching? Did he also deny the Holocost? If my kids got some cretin like that, you can be sure that everyone from the principal to the state certification board would hear about it.
So the Germans stole from the Brits but the Yanks stole from the Germans. I recall that the Germans invented the Mauser bolt-action rifle mechanism, considered the finest in the world at the that time. After the First World War, the US Springfield arsenal was sued for failing to pay royalties on their wartime production of the 1903 Springfield rifle, the standard US Army rifle for WWI. Of course, this was heard in a US court that was not sympathetic to a German claim.
I live in a mostly rural area, too far from any switch for DSL. Adelphia Cable has promised cable modem service for my county for well over a year now and still zip. And, now of course, Adelphia has 'restated' their earnings and we've seen their CEO lead away in cuffs. We may never see cable modem at the rate. But the good ole boys in county government renew them anyway...
The most successful training I have seen was the internal training program that TRW set up in its northern Virginia offices. I was there five years and found that it worked quite well.
First, we had a committee, chaired by Human Resources but staffed by employee volunteers. Second, we had a budget with which to furnish classrooms and pay instructors. Our classrooms had PCs, Mac, Linux, and various servers. We managed the classrooms, scheduled instruction, and picked instructors. The instructors were fellow employees.
Using your own employees has several advantages. First, you know this guy or gal. You can look at their work and see that they know their stuff. Next, the person knows you and they can tailor the instruction accordingly--like match it to current or future projects. Finally, the person is available during the work day for questions should they arise. For example, I became Joe-X-Windows and, as a result, had my pick of projects
Classes were mostly held after work hours, starting at 5pm. Instructors were paid (8 years ago) $25/hr for preparation (negotiated ahead of time with the training committee) and $30/hr instruction time. Slots went first come first serve or, occassionally, to projects/employees where a need was seen.
Everyone got a lot out of this: The student got a good class. The instructor got some extra money, the chance to look good to his/her peers, and the learning experience of teaching. And the company got off cheap! Not that we didn't send people outside when necessary, but looking inside worked very well.
Amen! I have been forced to run BEA and it has been agony. Plenty of things that run under Tomcat won't under WebLogic. IMHO, this just plain wrong! Afterall, isn't Tomcat the *reference* implementation? Examples:
6.0SP2 would not honor VariableInfo.NESTED in custom tag libraries
6.1 requires the weblogic.xml file in your WAR. Huh? Why in the WAR?
6.1 will hang for 30 seconds on your servlets if you open and close the stream without sending anything on the stream
6.1SP2 to set the proper application CLASSPATH
6.1SP3 fails to handle code that translates a SAX2 event stream to HTML using Xerces (SAX2) and Xalan (XSL); I'm dead in the water with this because our application depends on SAX2 streams
Honestly, I think I have spent more time tryiing to make WebLogic work than it took to write the application in the first place!
My wife--God bless her--didn't want a diamond. She wanted an aquamarine. We picked out matching bands and then got her a 2d band to which we mounted an elliptical cut aquamarine. It's 1.25ct and, at a very pale blue, looks grand.
Better than filters would be a program that would trace the originator and auto-respond with 5-10 messages. Imagine if everyone receiving spam sent back 5-10 messages. Maybe then ISPs would put a stop to it.
I remember the first spam I saw, back in '94, IIRC. Some lawyer selling immigration services. I ran a cron job that night that mailed him a core dump every 15 minutes. It didn't take long to swamp his mailbox.
Amen to that! I have a VIA chipset in the box I configured from Tiger some while back and it has been nothing but trouble. Every time you call some vendor--HP, Diamond, etc.--with a problem, the first thing I hear is "Oh, VIA, huh?" HP ThinkJet tech support told me that don't test with anything but Intel chip sets, which sounds suspicious to me. Do all HP-Compaq machines use *only* Intel chip sets?
I haven't read the Space series but I've loved everything I've read by Lewis--Narnia, Mere Christianity, Screwtape, Miracles, The Great Divorce, etc. I don't know how Screwtape would be on the screen. As a book, it's great comedy and great instruction. It would take someone with great creativity and a sensitivity to Lewis' writings. Maybe the guy who wrote "What Dreams May Come"? I thought that one very clever--a bit of Dante, Lewis, and others.
As the others say, a read of Jane's or Aviation Week and Space Technology could have told you of the F-117. Just as those same texts will tell you lots about the successors to the SR-71 though NIMA keeps that quiet. Moreover, there was nothing *illegal* about the F-117 while conspiracy theorists want to you to believe that what's being covered up is illegal, immoral, or fattening!:-)
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Amen! I feel the same way about conspiracy theorists. Ever notice that the same people that think the government can't do anything right also think that the government can successfully keep these bizzare secrets for years and years?
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Really? And where is Mr. Ward these days?
Yes, lots of very weak minds out there! One fellow in this office tells about getting his insurance license shortly after high school and a stint in the Army. When someone skeptically inquired about how successful calls out of the blue were, the instuctor stated that industry research showed that 1 in 47 would actually buy insurance on a cold call. Sure enough, he found that the case--in fact, the odds were even more in his favor. Shades of Boiler Room!
A pox on Ronald MacDonald!!
Actually, my kids have been boycotting MacDonald's since they were in elementary school (they are in high school now). A few years back, MacDonald's bought the failing Hardee's chain in the Washington, DC area. Hardee's also owned the Roy Rogers chain, about the finest fastfood burger joint in town (I fondly remember their "Fixin's Bar" and their fried chicken). MacDonald's then closed both Roy Rogers in our town and would not negotiate with other fastfood franchise for their old buildings. Boston Market tried and failed. Both buildings finally went to sit-down places.
Anyway, for closing Roys and for denying Boston Market, my kids decided--quite on their own--that they prefered Wendy's and Burger King. We haven't been in a MacDonald's since. This nonesense with Sims tells me that we're not ready to go back.
Maybe we should add Electronic Arts to our boycott as well!
I have not been impressed with Wrox books in the past. Too many of them have so many authors that the book's focus is poor. Even one Wrox book I have with two authors has examples so mired in their own utility library that I lost track of what the example were trying to accomplish and how. Plus about 1/4th of the book was incomplete reprints of Javadocs and specs that I can get over net (why enclose CDs any longer?).
That said, I will definately check this book out. We use Tomcat a great deal (with Apache and IIS) and the more info, the better.
I would also rate very highly your role in the filmed-for-TV play of The Andersonville Trial with Jack Cassidy. Those were stepping out roles for both of you. I wish there had been more...
I run Linux at work and home. I use Linux for everything--development, office stuff, recrecation, etc.--except (1) product testing on Windows; (2) playing QuickTime/*.mov files; and (3) for surfing at home when the kids left the machine booted in Windows & I don't have time to reboot (like now).
Actually, the only good reason I have seen for Windows is Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator games. Wow! Neat stuff!
... think the government can't do anything right except cover up whatever pet project they think was faked or hidden?
What the heck is a dumb bunny like that doing teaching? Did he also deny the Holocost? If my kids got some cretin like that, you can be sure that everyone from the principal to the state certification board would hear about it.
I just replaced my son's Sony mini-disk player (on a Circuit City warranty) and it is slick. Why don't we see more for the mini-disk here in the US?
So the Germans stole from the Brits but the Yanks stole from the Germans. I recall that the Germans invented the Mauser bolt-action rifle mechanism, considered the finest in the world at the that time. After the First World War, the US Springfield arsenal was sued for failing to pay royalties on their wartime production of the 1903 Springfield rifle, the standard US Army rifle for WWI. Of course, this was heard in a US court that was not sympathetic to a German claim.
I'm going to have to by the White Album all over again.
Take that Mr. Stallman!
To me, banner ads are like SPAM--they get on my nerves and I pay them no attention.
What about running MS "Combat Flight Simulator"? I found getting all my drivers just right was the very devil before CFS2 would run.
And, IMHO, CFS/CFS2 is the only reason to run Windows, period! (Although my son would add "Medal of Honor" and "Silent Hunter II").
I live in a mostly rural area, too far from any switch for DSL. Adelphia Cable has promised cable modem service for my county for well over a year now and still zip. And, now of course, Adelphia has 'restated' their earnings and we've seen their CEO lead away in cuffs. We may never see cable modem at the rate. But the good ole boys in county government renew them anyway...
The most successful training I have seen was the internal training program that TRW set up in its northern Virginia offices. I was there five years and found that it worked quite well.
First, we had a committee, chaired by Human Resources but staffed by employee volunteers. Second, we had a budget with which to furnish classrooms and pay instructors. Our classrooms had PCs, Mac, Linux, and various servers. We managed the classrooms, scheduled instruction, and picked instructors. The instructors were fellow employees.
Using your own employees has several advantages. First, you know this guy or gal. You can look at their work and see that they know their stuff. Next, the person knows you and they can tailor the instruction accordingly--like match it to current or future projects. Finally, the person is available during the work day for questions should they arise. For example, I became Joe-X-Windows and, as a result, had my pick of projects
Classes were mostly held after work hours, starting at 5pm. Instructors were paid (8 years ago) $25/hr for preparation (negotiated ahead of time with the training committee) and $30/hr instruction time. Slots went first come first serve or, occassionally, to projects/employees where a need was seen.
Everyone got a lot out of this: The student got a good class. The instructor got some extra money, the chance to look good to his/her peers, and the learning experience of teaching. And the company got off cheap! Not that we didn't send people outside when necessary, but looking inside worked very well.
Amen! I have been forced to run BEA and it has been agony. Plenty of things that run under Tomcat won't under WebLogic. IMHO, this just plain wrong! Afterall, isn't Tomcat the *reference* implementation? Examples:
6.0SP2 would not honor VariableInfo.NESTED in custom tag libraries
6.1 requires the weblogic.xml file in your WAR. Huh? Why in the WAR?
6.1 will hang for 30 seconds on your servlets if you open and close the stream without sending anything on the stream
6.1SP2 to set the proper application CLASSPATH
6.1SP3 fails to handle code that translates a SAX2 event stream to HTML using Xerces (SAX2) and Xalan (XSL); I'm dead in the water with this because our application depends on SAX2 streams
Honestly, I think I have spent more time tryiing to make WebLogic work than it took to write the application in the first place!
But maybe the IRS and the State Department could use this.
Oh, hell... they'ld just loose the damn watches, too.
My wife--God bless her--didn't want a diamond. She wanted an aquamarine. We picked out matching bands and then got her a 2d band to which we mounted an elliptical cut aquamarine. It's 1.25ct and, at a very pale blue, looks grand.
And it's done the job for 23+ years now...
Better than filters would be a program that would trace the originator and auto-respond with 5-10 messages. Imagine if everyone receiving spam sent back 5-10 messages. Maybe then ISPs would put a stop to it.
I remember the first spam I saw, back in '94, IIRC. Some lawyer selling immigration services. I ran a cron job that night that mailed him a core dump every 15 minutes. It didn't take long to swamp his mailbox.
Amen to that! I have a VIA chipset in the box I configured from Tiger some while back and it has been nothing but trouble. Every time you call some vendor--HP, Diamond, etc.--with a problem, the first thing I hear is "Oh, VIA, huh?" HP ThinkJet tech support told me that don't test with anything but Intel chip sets, which sounds suspicious to me. Do all HP-Compaq machines use *only* Intel chip sets?
Isn't there another member of Dubya's computer security staff that is a former Microsoft senior executive? One can imagine two scenarios:
(1) that fellow is messing his pants and wants Mr. Clarke canned for pushing hacking, or
(2) Mr. Clarke was put up to this as a way of getting free security labor for Microsoft while restricting press leaks about their software.
And whom would you be required to contact in the case of Open Source?
I haven't read the Space series but I've loved everything I've read by Lewis--Narnia, Mere Christianity, Screwtape, Miracles, The Great Divorce, etc. I don't know how Screwtape would be on the screen. As a book, it's great comedy and great instruction. It would take someone with great creativity and a sensitivity to Lewis' writings. Maybe the guy who wrote "What Dreams May Come"? I thought that one very clever--a bit of Dante, Lewis, and others.
As the others say, a read of Jane's or Aviation Week and Space Technology could have told you of the F-117. Just as those same texts will tell you lots about the successors to the SR-71 though NIMA keeps that quiet. Moreover, there was nothing *illegal* about the F-117 while conspiracy theorists want to you to believe that what's being covered up is illegal, immoral, or fattening! :-)
Amen! I feel the same way about conspiracy theorists. Ever notice that the same people that think the government can't do anything right also think that the government can successfully keep these bizzare secrets for years and years?