Nice try, AC. Olympia Snowe helped push the telecommunications act of 1996. E-rate was the unconstitutional tax levied by the FCC as a result of a loophole in the law. In summary, E-rate is not and was never an act of legislation.
So it's okay for the FCC to create a new tax without congressional oversight, but if they ever decide to get rid of that same tax, there's an uproar?
I actually worked on an E-rate project in a large urban area. Graft and corruption do not begin to describe the money sucking machine that was E-rate. So I speak with some authority on the subject when I say that we are all better off without it.
I've always hated you. There, I said it. I mean, sure, there was that childlike wonder in the 3.0 days when I was all "ooo... icons", but even then, you were fat, clumsy, and held me back from truly enjoying what I was really after.
The computer - that sweet hotness that took my breath away from the very beginning when I first saw my friend's TI99-4A. O how I pine for the days of the bliss of programming in basic! And then came DOS, and GAMES! We had some wild nights back in the day.
But you were always there, the computer's ugly friend who I had to accomodate and pretend to like. The only time I really ever began to think of you as anything more than an obstacle to my happiness is when I stopped using BBS services and discovered the Internet. But for that, I needed winsock and Netscape 1.0. You did the job poorly, but what choice did I have? You became not only my seetheart's ugly sister, but the ugly sister who had a car. If I wanted to see Dupree's Iguana cam, I had to hitch a ride from you. And so it went.
Then came Windows95. You went from fat, annoying, and in the way to outright mean. You deliberately made my life difficult with your constant registry needs and inexplicable crashes. You harassed my customers and friends, and sucked away years of my life toiling in utter futility to find some way to get along with you without the situation becoming abusive. I knew there were places I could go to escape what was clearly an unhealthy relationship, like Linux, but I felt trapped. I had become so numb to the constant cycle of learning and relearning what would ultimately be useless information about how you went about your business and how best to work with you, wading through so much heartache and lies, that I let myself think that everyone was like you. I thought that getting to know someone like Linux would be just as futile as it was to live with you, and so I never sought escape. I thought it would be so hard to start new with someone else, and so I never did.
98 came and went, as did 99, the year we all focused on WindowsME (selfish bitch). By 2000, I had forgotten why I started doing any of this in the first place. The wonder at the freedom to sit down in front of my C64 and create my own world was lost in a cacophony of blue screens, conflicting dlls, and product license key dialog boxes. I thought of ending it all. I thought of choosing another career, maybe working on cars for a living, because I just couldn't take it anymore.
Then, off in the distance, I saw Linux again. She had changed since I'd seen her last. She was so much more open and welcoming. She didn't have your sophistication and clout, at least in those days, but there was a certain spark about her. There was something that seemed like being in front of that TI all over again - something wonderful, inspiring, and exciting. It started as a tryst on my home machine. A friend introduced us and I took her for a spin. She was intelligent, sleek, and seemed to do everything right. She never manipulated me for some other purpose; never lied to me. I forgot what it was like to deal with someone who was more concerned about my needs than the next big deal.
I felt young again. She rekindled my early love and I faced the day anew, energized by the freedom and power of our new relationship. I didn't realize it at the time, but we were definately going places together. She would see me through some troubled times in the years to come. With her support, I've been able to do things I'd never dreamed of when I was slumming around with you.
I just want you to know that I regret every moment of our time together, and I will never go back.
By collapsing Linux into Red Hat, Sun now has a clear target. It can hammer away at a company, as opposed to waging the impossible task of fighting a social movement.
Dear Red Hat,
I bet the decision to abandon the social movement (Bluecurve, Fedora) and become a "clear target" looks a little different from where you stand now, doesn't it?
Lucas is quoted as saying that he never intends to re-release the original 3 movies in the first CNN link.
Lucas wants to save the "originals" special edition set release until after episode 3.
However, he mentions that due to piracy concerns the profits are being eaten up and there might not be a market for the films at that time.
Lucas needs to release the "New Coke" edition early enough for the release of the originals to make a marketing splash, again, after episode 3. Since he has resisted DVD technology from the beginning, and has been dragged kicking and screaming into releasing his films on non-disposable digital media format by consumers, he is going to take a parting shot at "piracy" to mask his desire to generate the "release of the originals" hype twice and make the same money over again after Episode 3 comes out.
A large ordinance detonation used to make the world fear their nuclear power.
Not likely. If it was a real nuke, our sats would have picked up the gamma burst and we would have picked up the distinctive seismic signature. Those in power know as of right now whether or not it was a nuke, the question is - what will they tell us?
I know it seems to be the number one recommended method here on Slashdot, but it really has some serious flaws that everyone seems to conveniently overlook. Following your advice leads to sloppiness and "good enough"-ness. Not exactly skills that will endear you to an employer.
I guess that depends on your personal work ethic. I'm kind of proud of my home system, and I didn't need a suit in front of a whiteboard to help me set it up, expand it over the years, and carefully maintain it.
In fact, given that the people who write Linux generally do so in conditions much more similar to my home network than a cube farm or a datacenter, it's no surprise that the personal, individual pursuit of computing know-how is the single most important reason as to "why things are the way they are" in the Linux/Free software world.
Instead of all this whining and bitching about outsourcing, wouldn't it just be easier to actualy justify your pay?
The market is unfair, so making myself more marketable is not a good idea, even if it were an ethical suggestion. Unless I can outsource my mortgage payment and the portion of my expenses that goes to CEO bonuses, the market conditions are not equitable, or to put it another way, we don't have a free market.
You are correct, but the implied suggestion is that if it hurts the political process, we should do something about it. In the context not only of "campaign finance reform", but also of this very campaign, the idea of doing something about it is not very far from the public consciousness.
if MS makes the more appropriate solution, you damn better well pick them, for your own server-monkey sake
If you are a server monkey, you aren't picking anything. None of the people I know who have to keep Microsoft shit running ever got to pick it, so it seems that IT in general tends to work even when the decision of what to use is divorced from the execution of actually using and maintaining it. As incredible as it may seem, I've even heard rumors of sysadmins keeping things running after some really stupid choices on the part of CIOs and CTOs.
here's a good point to remember: use the right tool for the job. it's as simple as that.
Nice idea. The reality is: this is what we have, make it work. People have been making it work ever since they pulled out their mainframes and put in PC servers with M$ shit on them. People Chose Microsoft because it was cheaper than mainframes. Microsoft will lose to Linux for the same reason. This idea you are suggesting of the all-important Choice really doesn't much matter. If it was ever about picking the right system, Microsoft would never have replaced mainframes. It has been and will always be about making it work for less money. No amount of marketing, not even astroturfing, will ever change that.
...one has to wonder whether airing such a controvercial movie on the eve of an election helps or hurts the political process by influencing the vote with last-minute emotions rather than thoroughly contemplation.
I hate Moore and everything he stands for, but it seems to me that the right of free speech precludes us from even asking this question. It is free speech, no matter what you think of its social value.
Star Trek isn't going to die in the context of the current entertainment industry. I think it will outlive it. I believe that television entertainment, as we have known it, will give way to what is currently known as fan fiction. This may seem like a pretty far-fetched almost absurdly technophilic idea, and it does nauseate me somewhat to suggest it, but the reason I think this may happen is that the current entertainment industry is operating in mortal terror of digital recording, storage, and playback. MP3s and Tivo completely turned their world upside down, and this has created a barrier between the industry and popular online works such as RvB and strongbad that I believe will become the walls of its casket.
I've seen several Star Trek themed fan fiction pieces, and they are all based in TOS timeline and feature very good writing, excellent special effects, and reasonably good acting. I think this will be where the soul of Star Trek lives on.
The lowest inclination available without a performance hit is approximately 28 deg. Anything else requires turning the rocket in flight in the equivalent of an orbit plane change maneuver, which costs delta-v that could have been used to loft payload mass.
The first part of this statement is technically correct, but the second part doesn't seem right, unless you consider pitching over to a heading of 72 degrees rather than 90 as a "turn". (which, I guess it is in a coriolis sort of way)
This is not the case, because inclination is measured relative to the equatorial plane (which does not change relative to the Earth), not the ecliptic plane.
I am indeed talking about inclination relative to the ecliptic plane. I spend too much time thinking about going to places like Mars. Good catch and thanks for the clarification. In LEO and geostationary orbits, the equatorial plane is what matters, so you are right in that regard.
The lowest inclination available (given by a due east launch) out of Kennedy is ~28 deg.
I had to check my facts on this one, but it is wrong as well. You can get lower inclinations than that at certain times of the day/year with a 90 degree launch heading. Consider, for example, launching at dawn on July 21.
As previously mentioned, (and so I won't look like a screaming karma whore) you don't have to launch to a heading of 90 degrees. You can turn the pad on the ground rather than the rocket in the air.
(mods - if you mod this up, mod this redundant. Thanks and apologies)
You can go lower, but that involves turning the launch vehicle in flight, thereby sacrificing payload mass.
No, it doesn't. You can change your launch heading by simply not nosing over to a 90 degree heading in the first place. Turning a rocket on the pad is somewhat easier than in the air.
So, by your example, capitalism leads to a U.S. economy consisiting of the uber-rich on one hand and professional data butlers (aka domestic tech support) on the other, while true middle-class development and engineering (related to manufacturing) jobs go to China and India, respectively.
That's what a service economy means! Thanks for clearing that up.
The "bitch" translation error was due to the fact that the same word means "woman" in some regional dialects and "bitch" in others. This is clearly a forgiveable mistake.
I mean, what kind of culture actually uses the terms "woman" and "bitch" interchangeably?
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Nice try, AC. Olympia Snowe helped push the telecommunications act of 1996. E-rate was the unconstitutional tax levied by the FCC as a result of a loophole in the law. In summary, E-rate is not and was never an act of legislation.
So it's okay for the FCC to create a new tax without congressional oversight, but if they ever decide to get rid of that same tax, there's an uproar?
I actually worked on an E-rate project in a large urban area. Graft and corruption do not begin to describe the money sucking machine that was E-rate. So I speak with some authority on the subject when I say that we are all better off without it.
I've always hated you. There, I said it. I mean, sure, there was that childlike wonder in the 3.0 days when I was all "ooo... icons", but even then, you were fat, clumsy, and held me back from truly enjoying what I was really after.
The computer - that sweet hotness that took my breath away from the very beginning when I first saw my friend's TI99-4A. O how I pine for the days of the bliss of programming in basic! And then came DOS, and GAMES! We had some wild nights back in the day.
But you were always there, the computer's ugly friend who I had to accomodate and pretend to like. The only time I really ever began to think of you as anything more than an obstacle to my happiness is when I stopped using BBS services and discovered the Internet. But for that, I needed winsock and Netscape 1.0. You did the job poorly, but what choice did I have? You became not only my seetheart's ugly sister, but the ugly sister who had a car. If I wanted to see Dupree's Iguana cam, I had to hitch a ride from you. And so it went.
Then came Windows95. You went from fat, annoying, and in the way to outright mean. You deliberately made my life difficult with your constant registry needs and inexplicable crashes. You harassed my customers and friends, and sucked away years of my life toiling in utter futility to find some way to get along with you without the situation becoming abusive. I knew there were places I could go to escape what was clearly an unhealthy relationship, like Linux, but I felt trapped. I had become so numb to the constant cycle of learning and relearning what would ultimately be useless information about how you went about your business and how best to work with you, wading through so much heartache and lies, that I let myself think that everyone was like you. I thought that getting to know someone like Linux would be just as futile as it was to live with you, and so I never sought escape. I thought it would be so hard to start new with someone else, and so I never did.
98 came and went, as did 99, the year we all focused on WindowsME (selfish bitch). By 2000, I had forgotten why I started doing any of this in the first place. The wonder at the freedom to sit down in front of my C64 and create my own world was lost in a cacophony of blue screens, conflicting dlls, and product license key dialog boxes. I thought of ending it all. I thought of choosing another career, maybe working on cars for a living, because I just couldn't take it anymore.
Then, off in the distance, I saw Linux again. She had changed since I'd seen her last. She was so much more open and welcoming. She didn't have your sophistication and clout, at least in those days, but there was a certain spark about her. There was something that seemed like being in front of that TI all over again - something wonderful, inspiring, and exciting. It started as a tryst on my home machine. A friend introduced us and I took her for a spin. She was intelligent, sleek, and seemed to do everything right. She never manipulated me for some other purpose; never lied to me. I forgot what it was like to deal with someone who was more concerned about my needs than the next big deal.
I felt young again. She rekindled my early love and I faced the day anew, energized by the freedom and power of our new relationship. I didn't realize it at the time, but we were definately going places together. She would see me through some troubled times in the years to come. With her support, I've been able to do things I'd never dreamed of when I was slumming around with you.
I just want you to know that I regret every moment of our time together, and I will never go back.
Just hang out in the Florida Supreme Court building. Keep an eye on them, and everything should be just fine.
By collapsing Linux into Red Hat, Sun now has a clear target. It can hammer away at a company, as opposed to waging the impossible task of fighting a social movement.
Dear Red Hat,
I bet the decision to abandon the social movement (Bluecurve, Fedora) and become a "clear target" looks a little different from where you stand now, doesn't it?
Lucas is quoted as saying that he never intends to re-release the original 3 movies in the first CNN link.
Lucas wants to save the "originals" special edition set release until after episode 3.
However, he mentions that due to piracy concerns the profits are being eaten up and there might not be a market for the films at that time.
Lucas needs to release the "New Coke" edition early enough for the release of the originals to make a marketing splash, again, after episode 3. Since he has resisted DVD technology from the beginning, and has been dragged kicking and screaming into releasing his films on non-disposable digital media format by consumers, he is going to take a parting shot at "piracy" to mask his desire to generate the "release of the originals" hype twice and make the same money over again after Episode 3 comes out.
Untill I see a nice satellite image, or photo of the cloud or something concrete, I'm skeptical.
If it was a nuke, I doubt you'll find much of anything concrete.
Clinton and the democrats safely contained these crazy dictators.
From his pants to the plans to the W88 nuclear warhead, Clinton did not do a very good job of containing anything.
A large ordinance detonation used to make the world fear their nuclear power.
Not likely. If it was a real nuke, our sats would have picked up the gamma burst and we would have picked up the distinctive seismic signature. Those in power know as of right now whether or not it was a nuke, the question is - what will they tell us?
I know it seems to be the number one recommended method here on Slashdot, but it really has some serious flaws that everyone seems to conveniently overlook. Following your advice leads to sloppiness and "good enough"-ness. Not exactly skills that will endear you to an employer.
I guess that depends on your personal work ethic. I'm kind of proud of my home system, and I didn't need a suit in front of a whiteboard to help me set it up, expand it over the years, and carefully maintain it.
In fact, given that the people who write Linux generally do so in conditions much more similar to my home network than a cube farm or a datacenter, it's no surprise that the personal, individual pursuit of computing know-how is the single most important reason as to "why things are the way they are" in the Linux/Free software world.
Instead of all this whining and bitching about outsourcing, wouldn't it just be easier to actualy justify your pay?
The market is unfair, so making myself more marketable is not a good idea, even if it were an ethical suggestion. Unless I can outsource my mortgage payment and the portion of my expenses that goes to CEO bonuses, the market conditions are not equitable, or to put it another way, we don't have a free market.
You are correct, but the implied suggestion is that if it hurts the political process, we should do something about it. In the context not only of "campaign finance reform", but also of this very campaign, the idea of doing something about it is not very far from the public consciousness.
if MS makes the more appropriate solution, you damn better well pick them, for your own server-monkey sake
If you are a server monkey, you aren't picking anything. None of the people I know who have to keep Microsoft shit running ever got to pick it, so it seems that IT in general tends to work even when the decision of what to use is divorced from the execution of actually using and maintaining it. As incredible as it may seem, I've even heard rumors of sysadmins keeping things running after some really stupid choices on the part of CIOs and CTOs.
here's a good point to remember: use the right tool for the job. it's as simple as that.
Nice idea. The reality is: this is what we have, make it work. People have been making it work ever since they pulled out their mainframes and put in PC servers with M$ shit on them. People Chose Microsoft because it was cheaper than mainframes. Microsoft will lose to Linux for the same reason. This idea you are suggesting of the all-important Choice really doesn't much matter. If it was ever about picking the right system, Microsoft would never have replaced mainframes. It has been and will always be about making it work for less money. No amount of marketing, not even astroturfing, will ever change that.
...one has to wonder whether airing such a controvercial movie on the eve of an election helps or hurts the political process by influencing the vote with last-minute emotions rather than thoroughly contemplation.
I hate Moore and everything he stands for, but it seems to me that the right of free speech precludes us from even asking this question. It is free speech, no matter what you think of its social value.
Star Trek isn't going to die in the context of the current entertainment industry. I think it will outlive it. I believe that television entertainment, as we have known it, will give way to what is currently known as fan fiction. This may seem like a pretty far-fetched almost absurdly technophilic idea, and it does nauseate me somewhat to suggest it, but the reason I think this may happen is that the current entertainment industry is operating in mortal terror of digital recording, storage, and playback. MP3s and Tivo completely turned their world upside down, and this has created a barrier between the industry and popular online works such as RvB and strongbad that I believe will become the walls of its casket.
I've seen several Star Trek themed fan fiction pieces, and they are all based in TOS timeline and feature very good writing, excellent special effects, and reasonably good acting. I think this will be where the soul of Star Trek lives on.
shit, you're right. I am still thinking in terms of an ecliptic reference.
The lowest inclination available without a performance hit is approximately 28 deg. Anything else requires turning the rocket in flight in the equivalent of an orbit plane change maneuver, which costs delta-v that could have been used to loft payload mass.
The first part of this statement is technically correct, but the second part doesn't seem right, unless you consider pitching over to a heading of 72 degrees rather than 90 as a "turn". (which, I guess it is in a coriolis sort of way)
This is not the case, because inclination is measured relative to the equatorial plane (which does not change relative to the Earth), not the ecliptic plane.
I am indeed talking about inclination relative to the ecliptic plane. I spend too much time thinking about going to places like Mars. Good catch and thanks for the clarification. In LEO and geostationary orbits, the equatorial plane is what matters, so you are right in that regard.
The lowest inclination available (given by a due east launch) out of Kennedy is ~28 deg.
I had to check my facts on this one, but it is wrong as well. You can get lower inclinations than that at certain times of the day/year with a 90 degree launch heading. Consider, for example, launching at dawn on July 21.
As previously mentioned, (and so I won't look like a screaming karma whore) you don't have to launch to a heading of 90 degrees. You can turn the pad on the ground rather than the rocket in the air.
(mods - if you mod this up, mod this redundant. Thanks and apologies)
You can go lower, but that involves turning the launch vehicle in flight, thereby sacrificing payload mass.
No, it doesn't. You can change your launch heading by simply not nosing over to a 90 degree heading in the first place. Turning a rocket on the pad is somewhat easier than in the air.
Yeah, really. They should totally use aluminum mesh instead of copper. Too heavy. Duh.
When you fly it?
The most recent version of the apollo spacecraft add-on (NASSP 5) has a partial working AGC built into the navigation system.
So, by your example, capitalism leads to a U.S. economy consisiting of the uber-rich on one hand and professional data butlers (aka domestic tech support) on the other, while true middle-class development and engineering (related to manufacturing) jobs go to China and India, respectively.
That's what a service economy means! Thanks for clearing that up.
Maybe I'm the only one who is confused, by why is a request for ideas on how to store content in violation of the law a news item on slashdot?
Maybe I'm confused, but the last time I checked, I could store content any damn way I pleased.
The "bitch" translation error was due to the fact that the same word means "woman" in some regional dialects and "bitch" in others. This is clearly a forgiveable mistake.
I mean, what kind of culture actually uses the terms "woman" and "bitch" interchangeably?
Oh, wait...