In "real life" your customer would never come back and would tell anyone who would listen how ill mannered the service is. The customers would regularly complain to management and eventually it would be posted in the newspaper review section.
In the first example his complaint would be the food sucks. A person who regularly eats a variety of steak well done would still be able to spot the bad product you started with.
People often complain about customer service calls being answered from India. Maybe this is partly to blame?
My question is other than bones, what is the proof he is absolutely a new species. Could this specimen have a genetic disorder? Aren't "mini-me" and Shaq the same species? How do you know that Australopithecus evolved into modern man and that that line didn't die out? I'm not saying that evolution doesn't exist. But damn you have to do better than that to call it "proof". I would call it evidence exhibit x.
Ported to every unix under the sun. Can handle an 80000 line text files with syntax high lighting for almost every known language with no noticeable decrease in speed. Quanta chokes on a 1000 line javascript file. Eclipse for me slows to a craw at 1200 lines, taking 2-3 seconds for characters to appear. Nedit is the quickest most efficient editor with a GUI of ever used.
I love the fact I can get away from behind my desk! I write software, everything from not so simple perl scripts, ajax web apps using php & javascript to a couple of cross platform multi-media apps written in java. I also design & build linux clusters for satellite data systems for nasa. And I am the main systems admin for our small company of 25 employees, consisting of mostly physicists who program in IDL & Fortran. It's a great job, definately not boring!
If it had been at least looking more than 6 months old I wouldn't have mentioned it. And I didn't mention that it was a 2 seater that said Kompressor on the back. Could you get me one for $480!
HUD Aid To Dependent Children No Child Left Behind 20 Trillion spent so far on fighting inner city poverty (how's that going by the way? I still here about those poor folk in New Orleans) The war on drugs The War on Terrorism FEMA
Medicare
Social Security (might not be worried about that if congress had not borrowed money from it.)
The Space Shuttle
Funny you should mention WIC, I have witnessed people buy Milk and cheese with WIC and load it into a Mercedes Benz, is that what congress had in mind?
Considering the majority of immigrants are Muslim, I fail to see how religion could be a basis for an infrastructure of discrimination. I have never seen anyone refused entry into a store or any public place because they were Christian. The government certainly doesn't support other religions, hence churches are banned, but not on the level of personal discrimination that you allude to.
You are aware that many workers are banned from entry because of their religion or lack of. Athiest, Jews, Bahai's are not allowed into Saudi Arabia. If a christian is allowed entry he cannot bring in a bible. If you are a muslim who converted to another religion you will be killed. Workers from darker races such as those from the Sudan do not live in the the same condiitions as "lighter" races. Workers "compounds" vary greatly, I suppose it's just coincedence that the compounds composed of darker races were inferior to those of Indians, Philipino and US workers.
No race has ever been refused service as long as they had the financial oomph to back it up. In fact there are a good deal of immigrants, Pakistanis, Indians, Egyptians, and Sudanese who lead very comfortable lives on par with the Saudis.
Rich blacks in the US during the 40's and 50's didn't face many of the conditions that poor blacks did either.
I agree that there are sex divisions in the country, but you fail to take into account that it's a two way street. There are several activities that men are banned from because it's considered woman or family oriented. In fact most restaurants have "singles" (AKA men only) and "family" sections. The family sections are nearly always better equipped, larger, and cleaner than the men only areas.
On March 11, 2002 the Mutaween prevented schoolgirls from escaping from their burning school in Mecca because the girls were not wearing headscarves and abayas (black robes). Fifteen girls died and 50 were injured as a result. -- from WikipediaYeah, there was but not in the way you think. In fact I would say that Westerners living in Saudi Arabia, until recently were more privileged then even the average Saudi. There were many exclusive clubs, compounds, and even stores that catered only to Westerners allowing them access to products that were banned in the rest of the country. I remember being forced to show my US passport to go play baseball at one place.
I agree whole heartedly. The problem with importing cheap labor, and in our case, turning a blind eye to unchecked illegal immigration is four fold.
1) The immigrant is taken advantage of and comes to resent it.
2) The job replaced is not a throw away job. Yes a citizen might want more money, but if the job is needed it will be paid and the cost past on. Americans have done manual work for years just look at miners in West Virginia, the idea that they are doing work citizens won't is stupid.
3) Many illegals send their money back to their own country, causing that countries economy to expect US money and not provide incentives to help their own. Mexico would have an economic meltdown if we required proof of citizenship for wire transfers of cash out of the US.
4) Illegal immigrants are many times, criminals in their own country. Mexico doesn't tolerate unchecked immigration at their southern border for this reason. Illegal immigrants don't intregrate themselves into american society, as such they don't learn english, remain uneducated and this has created a bad gang problem. Europe has had the same problem with legal immigrants not integrating into European society.
The United States is a country built by immigrants, but unfortunately the trend today is to be a hyphenated american. I'm not blindly patriotic, but I find much of what I read here by posters other than yourself blatantly offensive. I'm tired of the my governments so much better than yours argument. Most governments are full of corrupt people looking for money, power and status at taxpayer expense. Also, my description of Saudi Arabia doesn't begin to describe my surprise. The issues weren't really class issues as you suggest, the separation was race, sex and religion based. The Jim Crow laws the US South used to have before I was born is a better description.
Governments and corporations are using us worldwide for their interests. I have no respect for them though, sorry..
I think you hit the nail on the head with that one. I'm not enamoured with my own, let alone most other governments. The difference being at least I have some say here. Not much, since most voters are lemmings. Corporations can be much much worse.
The key thing to do here is to economically approach such countries. Up their living standards and educate the population.
And how has this money changed the Saudis? Osama Bin Laden was born into billions. I spent a lot of time in Saudi Arabia. What I saw was a 5 years old boy crashing and dying while driving an expensive Toyota Land Cruiser because mom wasn't allowed to drive. I saw a very classy shopping mall that only Saudis could shop in, the indentured slaves had to shop in the slum district. I saw an american women who claimed she was being held prisoner because her husband tricked her into leaving the US. And I saw people scoping out the Air Force barracks and speed away in an old white chevy when the military police came. I also saw the barracks get blown up on TV just three weeks after I left. 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudi. Why should we trade with them at all? Mexico has lots of oil and has supposedly discovered more. If this is true, I would be for giving Mexico all our business. I think that discovering new energy sources that make economies based on oil exports unsustainable, is the way to go. In fact, I'm so tired of how everyone hates the US. I would like to see US citizens being more like the Germans and refuse to by foriegn goods when US goods are available. Everytime there is a post on./ the Anti - US trolls come out. I'm so tired of all the worlds problems being blamed on the US. I wish we could just close our borders, declare neutrality like the swiss, keep the billions sent overseas and watch the rest of the world implode. But then that would be our fault too. Let China be the super power awhile, that should go over real well.
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Your right, I never noticed it. I stopped using gnome terminal about 4 years ago. The main reason I didn't see it right off is it's not readily apparent. Konsole opens the first window in a tab and has a easily spotted new tab button. The gnome one I have on FC4 has a tab menu item. I either would have to click File->Open Tab->Default or Shift+Ctrl+T. I don't any clear superiority in either terminal. I'm a KDE user, I use my computer all day so I like to have control over every single aspect. Especially the look and where button's are placed etc. I also like konqueror over nautilus but to each his own. Viva la difference!
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Konsole's tabs rock. I regularly use cisco vpn with several ssh sessions going on with different nodes of a 45 node cluster. The tabs make managing the sessions much easier for me.
1) Design a battery 100 times more efficient than current Lead Acid Batteries
2) Clean cheap energy, ala zero point energy, cold fusion
3) Develop transporter / inter-dimensional worm hole technology
4) Profit, Ascend ?
I have 3 dns servers are NAT'd on the private lan and allow recursion, the public one outside doesn't. I'm not a DNS expert but I haven't had any issues from users or attacks.
The USB drive issue is highly distro specific. My Fedora Core 4 can't automatically mount a usb device in KDE but does fine in gnome. My laptop has had both opensuse 10 & pclinuxos they both handle USB drives fine.
I'm on a iMac. And I agree I've never tried it, I have an iPod already. The only way I know of on my mac is to burn them to cd and rip the resulting cd. That would take forever and I'm not sure on the quality. How do I convert 1000+ songs to wave in batch job on an iMac?
Any player that doesn't support Fairplay and AAC is out for me. I've owned 2 generations of iPod and have way too much purchased music to change. No I don't want to convert all those songs to Ogg or mp3 unless someone knows a way to do it in a batch job with no loss of quality.
No way near the same at my alma-matter. In the CS department the IS guys had a complete lab with discarded pc's from the library with Mandrake Linux installed. The students had to install apache, configure ftp, create a web address book using MySQL and the language of their choice. They also had to do a complete wipe and re-install of the OS at the end of the semester. The java class configured Tomcat and created servlets to do a "to do list". I was a CS major but took the two tcp administration courses for electives.
This is a college who has money to build dorms, arts centers, new gymnasiums, glorious statues or fountains and tributes to wealthy contributors with a multi-million dollar hole in their pocket and the vanity to match. And a very Saddam Hussien-esque statue of the college president. Walking on the grass was punisheable by death! But the non liberal arts departments had to recycle printer paper, beg, borrow and steal chem lab supplies. I suspect soon all non liberal arts majors to soon have to wear large yellow patches like the Star of David one used by the Nazi's
In the CS department open source, especially gcc and emacs/vi/nedit are the norm!
Even if they manage a good algorithm, that's only part of the equation.
Microsoft won't be able to resist the temptation to:
1: Game search results and charge companies to make them appear first.
2: Make ads for Microsoft Products, come up 1st, appear slightly larger etc.
3: Use flash ads and or other distractions.
4: Cram as many ads in as possible, making stealth links that seem like answers but really always take you some service that is paying MS. Ala http://www.experts-exchange.com/
5: Use their bundled search engine that Vista will assuredly be hard coded to use, to apply pressure on companies who have paid for #1 to only work with Windows, or in the case of tech journals, promote MS FUD, Maket MS Crap, do their dirty work.
It's in their DNA , it starts with the view that the unwashed masses are all below them and are only good for getting money from.
Not really it's not actively jamming the signal or dumpting chaff in the atmosphere. But, the first time a Doctor cannot be paged and a patient dies or someone dies because they couldn't call 911 in time, you will start seeing a flood of lawsuits.
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In the first example his complaint would be the food sucks. A person who regularly eats a variety of steak well done would still be able to spot the bad product you started with.
People often complain about customer service calls being answered from India. Maybe this is partly to blame?
My question is other than bones, what is the proof he is absolutely a new species. Could this specimen have a genetic disorder? Aren't "mini-me" and Shaq the same species? How do you know that Australopithecus evolved into modern man and that that line didn't die out? I'm not saying that evolution doesn't exist. But damn you have to do better than that to call it "proof". I would call it evidence exhibit x.
Ported to every unix under the sun. Can handle an 80000 line text files with syntax high lighting for almost every known language with no noticeable decrease in speed. Quanta chokes on a 1000 line javascript file. Eclipse for me slows to a craw at 1200 lines, taking 2-3 seconds for characters to appear. Nedit is the quickest most efficient editor with a GUI of ever used.
I love the fact I can get away from behind my desk! I write software, everything from not so simple perl scripts, ajax web apps using php & javascript to a couple of cross platform multi-media apps written in java. I also design & build linux clusters for satellite data systems for nasa. And I am the main systems admin for our small company of 25 employees, consisting of mostly physicists who program in IDL & Fortran. It's a great job, definately not boring!
If it had been at least looking more than 6 months old I wouldn't have mentioned it. And I didn't mention that it was a 2 seater that said Kompressor on the back. Could you get me one for $480!
Really gnu has made a lot of great sofware. But GNU does not own all the software in a modern distribution.
HUD
Aid To Dependent Children
No Child Left Behind
20 Trillion spent so far on fighting inner city poverty (how's that going by the way? I still here about those poor folk in New Orleans)
The war on drugs
The War on Terrorism
FEMA
Medicare
Social Security (might not be worried about that if congress had not borrowed money from it.)
The Space Shuttle
Funny you should mention WIC, I have witnessed people buy Milk and cheese with WIC and load it into a Mercedes Benz, is that what congress had in mind?
A question both Jobs & Gates may soon be wondering.
I think an auto reply "this is a dupe" might be in order. Along the same lines as "reply to selected text", which seems to be working fine here.
You are aware that many workers are banned from entry because of their religion or lack of. Athiest, Jews, Bahai's are not allowed into Saudi Arabia. If a christian is allowed entry he cannot bring in a bible. If you are a muslim who converted to another religion you will be killed. Workers from darker races such as those from the Sudan do not live in the the same condiitions as "lighter" races. Workers "compounds" vary greatly, I suppose it's just coincedence that the compounds composed of darker races were inferior to those of Indians, Philipino and US workers.
No race has ever been refused service as long as they had the financial oomph to back it up. In fact there are a good deal of immigrants, Pakistanis, Indians, Egyptians, and Sudanese who lead very comfortable lives on par with the Saudis.
Rich blacks in the US during the 40's and 50's didn't face many of the conditions that poor blacks did either.
I agree that there are sex divisions in the country, but you fail to take into account that it's a two way street. There are several activities that men are banned from because it's considered woman or family oriented. In fact most restaurants have "singles" (AKA men only) and "family" sections. The family sections are nearly always better equipped, larger, and cleaner than the men only areas.
On March 11, 2002 the Mutaween prevented schoolgirls from escaping from their burning school in Mecca because the girls were not wearing headscarves and abayas (black robes). Fifteen girls died and 50 were injured as a result. -- from Wikipedia Yeah, there was but not in the way you think. In fact I would say that Westerners living in Saudi Arabia, until recently were more privileged then even the average Saudi. There were many exclusive clubs, compounds, and even stores that catered only to Westerners allowing them access to products that were banned in the rest of the country. I remember being forced to show my US passport to go play baseball at one place.
It's called segregation.
1) The immigrant is taken advantage of and comes to resent it.
2) The job replaced is not a throw away job. Yes a citizen might want more money, but if the job is needed it will be paid and the cost past on. Americans have done manual work for years just look at miners in West Virginia, the idea that they are doing work citizens won't is stupid.
3) Many illegals send their money back to their own country, causing that countries economy to expect US money and not provide incentives to help their own. Mexico would have an economic meltdown if we required proof of citizenship for wire transfers of cash out of the US.
4) Illegal immigrants are many times, criminals in their own country. Mexico doesn't tolerate unchecked immigration at their southern border for this reason. Illegal immigrants don't intregrate themselves into american society, as such they don't learn english, remain uneducated and this has created a bad gang problem. Europe has had the same problem with legal immigrants not integrating into European society.
The United States is a country built by immigrants, but unfortunately the trend today is to be a hyphenated american. I'm not blindly patriotic, but I find much of what I read here by posters other than yourself blatantly offensive. I'm tired of the my governments so much better than yours argument. Most governments are full of corrupt people looking for money, power and status at taxpayer expense. Also, my description of Saudi Arabia doesn't begin to describe my surprise. The issues weren't really class issues as you suggest, the separation was race, sex and religion based. The Jim Crow laws the US South used to have before I was born is a better description.
Governments and corporations are using us worldwide for their interests. I have no respect for them though, sorry..
I think you hit the nail on the head with that one. I'm not enamoured with my own, let alone most other governments. The difference being at least I have some say here. Not much, since most voters are lemmings. Corporations can be much much worse.
And how has this money changed the Saudis? Osama Bin Laden was born into billions. I spent a lot of time in Saudi Arabia. What I saw was a 5 years old boy crashing and dying while driving an expensive Toyota Land Cruiser because mom wasn't allowed to drive. I saw a very classy shopping mall that only Saudis could shop in, the indentured slaves had to shop in the slum district. I saw an american women who claimed she was being held prisoner because her husband tricked her into leaving the US. And I saw people scoping out the Air Force barracks and speed away in an old white chevy when the military police came. I also saw the barracks get blown up on TV just three weeks after I left. 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudi. Why should we trade with them at all? Mexico has lots of oil and has supposedly discovered more. If this is true, I would be for giving Mexico all our business. I think that discovering new energy sources that make economies based on oil exports unsustainable, is the way to go. In fact, I'm so tired of how everyone hates the US. I would like to see US citizens being more like the Germans and refuse to by foriegn goods when US goods are available. Everytime there is a post on ./ the Anti - US trolls come out. I'm so tired of all the worlds problems being blamed on the US. I wish we could just close our borders, declare neutrality like the swiss, keep the billions sent overseas and watch the rest of the world implode. But then that would be our fault too. Let China be the super power awhile, that should go over real well.
Your right, I never noticed it. I stopped using gnome terminal about 4 years ago. The main reason I didn't see it right off is it's not readily apparent. Konsole opens the first window in a tab and has a easily spotted new tab button. The gnome one I have on FC4 has a tab menu item. I either would have to click File->Open Tab->Default or Shift+Ctrl+T. I don't any clear superiority in either terminal. I'm a KDE user, I use my computer all day so I like to have control over every single aspect. Especially the look and where button's are placed etc. I also like konqueror over nautilus but to each his own. Viva la difference!
Konsole's tabs rock. I regularly use cisco vpn with several ssh sessions going on with different nodes of a 45 node cluster. The tabs make managing the sessions much easier for me.
1) Design a battery 100 times more efficient than current Lead Acid Batteries 2) Clean cheap energy, ala zero point energy, cold fusion 3) Develop transporter / inter-dimensional worm hole technology 4) Profit, Ascend ?
I have 3 dns servers are NAT'd on the private lan and allow recursion, the public one outside doesn't. I'm not a DNS expert but I haven't had any issues from users or attacks.
The USB drive issue is highly distro specific. My Fedora Core 4 can't automatically mount a usb device in KDE but does fine in gnome. My laptop has had both opensuse 10 & pclinuxos they both handle USB drives fine.
This was already a plot of the show numb3rs, they modeled social interactions to find a terrorist.
I'm on a iMac. And I agree I've never tried it, I have an iPod already. The only way I know of on my mac is to burn them to cd and rip the resulting cd. That would take forever and I'm not sure on the quality. How do I convert 1000+ songs to wave in batch job on an iMac?
Any player that doesn't support Fairplay and AAC is out for me. I've owned 2 generations of iPod and have way too much purchased music to change. No I don't want to convert all those songs to Ogg or mp3 unless someone knows a way to do it in a batch job with no loss of quality.
Until you posted this tidbit on slashdot.
This is a college who has money to build dorms, arts centers, new gymnasiums, glorious statues or fountains and tributes to wealthy contributors with a multi-million dollar hole in their pocket and the vanity to match. And a very Saddam Hussien-esque statue of the college president. Walking on the grass was punisheable by death! But the non liberal arts departments had to recycle printer paper, beg, borrow and steal chem lab supplies. I suspect soon all non liberal arts majors to soon have to wear large yellow patches like the Star of David one used by the Nazi's
In the CS department open source, especially gcc and emacs/vi/nedit are the norm!
1: Game search results and charge companies to make them appear first.
2: Make ads for Microsoft Products, come up 1st, appear slightly larger etc.
3: Use flash ads and or other distractions.
4: Cram as many ads in as possible, making stealth links that seem like answers but really always take you some service that is paying MS. Ala http://www.experts-exchange.com/
5: Use their bundled search engine that Vista will assuredly be hard coded to use, to apply pressure on companies who have paid for #1 to only work with Windows, or in the case of tech journals, promote MS FUD, Maket MS Crap, do their dirty work.
It's in their DNA , it starts with the view that the unwashed masses are all below them and are only good for getting money from.
The slashdote code base is too old but, there closest competitor uses it! According to this digg has almost the same traffic as slashdot.
Not really it's not actively jamming the signal or dumpting chaff in the atmosphere. But, the first time a Doctor cannot be paged and a patient dies or someone dies because they couldn't call 911 in time, you will start seeing a flood of lawsuits.