Agreed. If we knew everything we probably should we probably wouldn't be rooting/campaigning/supporting any of the current array of politicians in office today, or the past 20 years or more. Perhaps we'd throw down our pom-poms and start being a more United America.
How about a real wall. The Great Wall of China has lasted.
The Berlin Wall worked, albeit for evil purposes. There's no reason such simple applications couldn't be applied except for the fact it's the government doing it.
There is no indication these are U.S. citizens on U.S. soil. Calm down, people. Frankly, if you're an American training in a jihadist camp then I would hope a drone would take you out. You're no longer a citizen to me.
Okay so they use the browser to tap other resources for more power to inflate the speed of the browser. And this is a good thing? Give me a more efficient browser that's leaner and meaner. IE9 tapping more CPU and GPU power is like saying, "By multiplying the number of engines in this school bus we were eventually able to match speeds of those normally associated with sports cars."
The fact that anyone else in the rest of the country gives a damn is an example of how eroded state's rights have become. Why should I care? I don't live in Texas. What if this were another country? Would it be our business? No. It's really not any other state's. Local decisions like this will help or harm them.
If you ask yourself this question then apparently you can put a price on life. Such is life in the collective thinking of the day. At what point do we consider paying $1200 mth to keep grandma in assisted living is too much of a burden?
It would be different if say the husband said, "I don't want to keep trying things if it's not likely to help" or something. My Dad was offered several different treatments but several nurses came to us privately and said, essentially, "None of these treatments are likely to help him and while they may extend his life he'll be very sick most of the time and have no quality of life." Considering that and his overall poor health he likely wouldn't have survived such treatment. We opted for no treatment.
But had they said, "For $600K we got a good shot at beating this thing" we'd have said "Do it" in a heartbeat.
Agreed. When I was a younger admin this sort of thing bothered me. Idealism comes with youth, I suppose. I would say bite your lip, keep your job, and realize things change. At my job we tried to get a RH server in for a new project. The VP was adamant we had to go Sun as that was our standard, not realizing we had RH rolled out in other areas. We went with Sun at a higher cost but over time RH has come to share duties in our company and now we have everthing from Sun, RH, and MS. Who knows? Someday a new exec will come along and lobby for another solution. In the meantime, support what you have or move on.
"We went to do business in a communist nation and they attacked our network, attempting to gain access and who knows what!?" As my teenaged daughter used to say, "Uh..Hello! Yeah!?" Which loosely translates to: And you're surprised?
So now we have a celebrity science pissing-match on our hands. This is simple, IPCC was married with politics, like much of the entire debate. Everyone back to the lab, the field, the research. Stop pandering to politicians and environmentalists, and come up with some science! Until then, no I'm not taking you seriously.
True but Google has this tendency to link to commentary and opinion blogs in their "news" section, as if. Don't get me wrong, journalism has largely become commentary but I wish Google did what newspapers used to do and put such under a heading that identified them as so.
That EDS ad was pretty funny until you realized that YOU were the cats. Without EDS to "herd" those aimless technical staffers why where would your company be? Thank goodness HP bought them.
I would guess it goes something like this:
Programmer: "Oh Hi, Mr. Balmer! Hey, I thought you might like this cool innovation we're working on for the next Windows!"
Balmer: "rrRrRRRRAAARRRRRRR!" (throws chair)
Exactly! It's the cost of doing business. It's staggering the amount of productivity that is accomplished despite IT failures. And human idiocy, corporate theft, pinhead bosses...the list goes on and on and yet profit is still generated. Yes, it's a problem and I won't discount the need to do something about but it's reality.
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Agreed. If we knew everything we probably should we probably wouldn't be rooting/campaigning/supporting any of the current array of politicians in office today, or the past 20 years or more. Perhaps we'd throw down our pom-poms and start being a more United America.
Should've built a wall and put some military down there. Why our military isn't stationed on our border is idiocy to me.
How about a real wall. The Great Wall of China has lasted.
The Berlin Wall worked, albeit for evil purposes. There's no reason such simple applications couldn't be applied except for the fact it's the government doing it.
There is no indication these are U.S. citizens on U.S. soil. Calm down, people. Frankly, if you're an American training in a jihadist camp then I would hope a drone would take you out. You're no longer a citizen to me.
So Microsoft is now using Apple as a proxy in a patent war with Linux. In other news, Hell has indeed frozen over!
You're right. Why even have states!
Okay so they use the browser to tap other resources for more power to inflate the speed of the browser. And this is a good thing? Give me a more efficient browser that's leaner and meaner. IE9 tapping more CPU and GPU power is like saying, "By multiplying the number of engines in this school bus we were eventually able to match speeds of those normally associated with sports cars."
The fact that anyone else in the rest of the country gives a damn is an example of how eroded state's rights have become. Why should I care? I don't live in Texas. What if this were another country? Would it be our business? No. It's really not any other state's. Local decisions like this will help or harm them.
If you ask yourself this question then apparently you can put a price on life. Such is life in the collective thinking of the day. At what point do we consider paying $1200 mth to keep grandma in assisted living is too much of a burden?
It would be different if say the husband said, "I don't want to keep trying things if it's not likely to help" or something. My Dad was offered several different treatments but several nurses came to us privately and said, essentially, "None of these treatments are likely to help him and while they may extend his life he'll be very sick most of the time and have no quality of life." Considering that and his overall poor health he likely wouldn't have survived such treatment. We opted for no treatment.
But had they said, "For $600K we got a good shot at beating this thing" we'd have said "Do it" in a heartbeat.
Barrack O'Chavez? :p
Agreed. When I was a younger admin this sort of thing bothered me. Idealism comes with youth, I suppose. I would say bite your lip, keep your job, and realize things change. At my job we tried to get a RH server in for a new project. The VP was adamant we had to go Sun as that was our standard, not realizing we had RH rolled out in other areas. We went with Sun at a higher cost but over time RH has come to share duties in our company and now we have everthing from Sun, RH, and MS. Who knows? Someday a new exec will come along and lobby for another solution. In the meantime, support what you have or move on.
What an idiot. Of course he works for Microsoft.
"We went to do business in a communist nation and they attacked our network, attempting to gain access and who knows what!?" As my teenaged daughter used to say, "Uh..Hello! Yeah!?" Which loosely translates to: And you're surprised?
That is so wrong!!!!!
Yes...I laughed...
Ha...you're funny...and silly. Here's a ball!
So now we have a celebrity science pissing-match on our hands. This is simple, IPCC was married with politics, like much of the entire debate. Everyone back to the lab, the field, the research. Stop pandering to politicians and environmentalists, and come up with some science! Until then, no I'm not taking you seriously.
True but Google has this tendency to link to commentary and opinion blogs in their "news" section, as if. Don't get me wrong, journalism has largely become commentary but I wish Google did what newspapers used to do and put such under a heading that identified them as so.
The IPCC document has be shown to be a joke. Everytime an error is found in the IPCC Al Gore should get a hemorrhoid.
That said, take what's measurable, measure it. Take the data and vet it. Making scientific theory a cause-celebre can only bring trouble. And it has.
You have to admit, there's some irony in "estimating" time with regards to computer programming.
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Yes, that's supposed to be funny.
I remember. I think the original Outpost.com ads were just the best!
That EDS ad was pretty funny until you realized that YOU were the cats. Without EDS to "herd" those aimless technical staffers why where would your company be? Thank goodness HP bought them.
I would guess it goes something like this:
Programmer: "Oh Hi, Mr. Balmer! Hey, I thought you might like this cool innovation we're working on for the next Windows!"
Balmer: "rrRrRRRRAAARRRRRRR!" (throws chair)
Perhaps everyone should post the doc on their website. let it go viral.
Exactly! It's the cost of doing business. It's staggering the amount of productivity that is accomplished despite IT failures. And human idiocy, corporate theft, pinhead bosses...the list goes on and on and yet profit is still generated. Yes, it's a problem and I won't discount the need to do something about but it's reality.
I saw this on "Numb3rs!"