Doesn't it chill your blood to imagine that you could very suddenly be in a situation where every single person you know who gets a new computer is going to need you to set it up? They will be totally and completely helpless without Internet explorer, they won't be able to burn it to a CD or put it on a flash drive without your detailed instructions.
And then it won't work. And it won't be what they're used to be because FireFox/chrome/IE 8 isn't IE 6.
Maybe you should start getting every single person you know familiar with FireFox/chrome (yes, I left off IE 8) now? In fact, why haven't you already?
She is actually quite cute. I saw a photo of her in an article that she submitted to Linux Journal a few months ago. She discussed how to use USB and Linux to monitor a model rocket.
because after BIND 10 is done all the distributors must package it for their specific customers. This includes appliance vendors that utilize BIND. Speaking of appliance vendors, the article mentions that DNSSEC could eventually be enabled by possibly clicking a single button in an interface but that will be dependent on the interfaces put on top of BIND. I guess if BIND 10 has its own interface then that could work well but appliance vendors put their own GUI on top of their implementations of BIND and it may not always be as simple as a single button click.
That's true of any other solution in the same manor as SharePoint. But at least the data is stored in a SQL database and not something proprietary like the MS Exchange information store.
Although the files are in a database you can change the view in the browser to be "explorer" and access the files using Windows File Sharing-like features (copy/paste) through the browser. This method of access though is an end-run around SharePoint's versioning system. New files can be uploaded in this manner as well. I presume that when you modify an existing document in this way that SharePoint just makes that version the newest one in the actual database. SharePoint is still no substitute for a properly standardized naming convention and folder structure. Yeah you can always do a SharePoint search for what you want but at work I never do searches because we have specific folders where we place stuff and I know that as long as people follow the standard then I can find what I'm looking for and so can everyone else. We don't have thousands of documents though so maybe with documents counted using 6 digits a standard naming convention is asking too much.
ever since TimeWarner RoadRunner no longer hosts their own usenet service. I went with NewsHosting because I get 12 connections, unlimited downloading, and my retention is about 250 days. That package was the middle ground between limited downloading and unlimited downloading that cost over $20. That package is only $15 a month. The $20 package costs more because it allows 20 connections and SSL which I don't need. I use the binary groups as well as text-only groups such as the linux, programming, windows, and home repair groups. It's been a year since I started with NewsHosting and I'm happy with them.
Engineering is in deep real world, with human nature and business requirements intervening all the time. Science (like religion) is in some sort of ideal world, vacuum, where all is simple and described by a formula. They are both trying to understand a problem - but from different angles. So different - or better say orthogonal - that they are guaranteed to cross only rarely.
Why does science have to be mutually exclusive with religion? Religion is the faith that someone possesses about reality. Science simply tries to achieve the same understanding that faith already provides someone and it does indeed occur from a different angle. But both science and religion have the same end in sight; they just reach the end through different means. In my mind, that doesn't make them mutually exclusively but instead members of both should cooperate to arrive at a final understanding of reality. The problem is that people of faith can't trust scientists (but they can trust science if the scientists could be trusted) and the scientists don't want to trust the people of faith because they are viewed as 2nd-tier humans due to their "crazy" faith. If scientists weren't so elitist they might just change their perspective from which they interpret evidence and also actually work with religion, instead of against it, in order to find the proof behind the truth. The truth is already known from the perspective of religion; science just has to catch up.
The article uses the number of meteors which hit the Earth every day however there are many more that do not turn into meteorites because they simply glance off the atmosphere or burn up in the atmosphere so the probability calculations must take these into account. I failed statistics because I never could figure out exactly which factors must be included and which are excluded when calculating probably. With that said, doesn't the probability of a plane and a meteor being in the same location both in space and time have to be factored in to the equation? The article discusses the probability of a meteor striking an area the size of a jet but not a specific area (identified, for example, by lat and long coordinates) at a specific time.
The device, which is less invasive than implants and more accurate that scalp electrodes, uses a grid of electrodes placed directly on the surface of the brain to monitor electrical activity.
How is having to put an entire grid of electrodes on the surface of the brain less invasive than an implant?
Pretend, for instance, that you get a perfect tracking device for your daughter. That sorta solves your problem...
Actually, the tracking device is a solution to his question but only workaround to the original problem of his child getting on the wrong bus. It isn't close to a solution at all because it doesn't change the probability of her getting on he wrong bus. He asked the wrong question to begin with.
You may want to check out monoprice.com if you want affordable HDMI cables (and others as well). A 10ft HDMI cable is under $5 and quantity discounts start at 2 rather than 10 or 50, etc.
On the other hand, the fact that a fair few Americans are more xenophobic than they are freedom-loving presents a golden opportunity...
I don't think that word means what you think it means. People aren't afraid of illegal immigrants just as heterosexuals aren't afraid of homosexuals so labeling legal U.S. citizens and heterosexuals as xenophobic/homophobic is simply an attempt at denigrating using a term that isn't even applicable. People don't like illegal immigrants because by definition those people are breaking the law. The side effect of that is they don't have to pay the taxes that all the rest of us complain about. There is no reason for them to break the law if they want to live here. They should be willing to deal with all the advantages *and* disadvantages of the United States if they wish to live here; the rest of us have to. This may be the land of opportunity but that doesn't mean it is bliss.
People aren't afraid of immigrants at all. The U.S. is basically a land of immigrants however, there are laws that must be followed. If you are going to blatantly disobey those laws then don't come here, otherwise we welcome you. That is a far cry from xenophobia but if it makes you feel better to call those who disagree with illegal immigration a xenophobe then go right ahead. Realize though that the term does not accurately portray those who oppose your view although, it may alter your portrayal of them in order to make it seem like their argument is less valid compared to yours. Homosexuals do this all the time when they wish to not tolerate the view of heterosexuals (and therefore call them homophobic) who do not agree with the homosexual lifestyle. Put simply, disagreement does not equal fear.
Just because it *may* be possible does not guarantee that it happened that way and there is no proof that it did. Yes, we are here but there is a huge leap between being here and *suggesting* the way it occurred. Without someone being present to witness the actual method used we can't say it was this method. It could have been any number of things from a scientist's perspective and no proof of any of them actually being used long, long time ago. I'm surprised this would be taken as sufficient proof given that there is none. It is the same thing as a Creationist saying how things were created with the evolutionist saying there is no proof for that particular method. I guess faith exists on both sides but only one is willing to admit it while the other ridicules them for it.
3) people will accept just about any conditions of employment.
Cause we're all slaves.
Yeah, to our families and our debtors. Damn them for making us work to pay for their food, shelter, and schooling. Not everyone has the luxury to choose where they work or who they work for.
from where I work. I have a car and a motorcycle. During bad weather I use the car (sporty car so still not great in snow despite being FWD) but when I can I use the motorcycle. I just recently moved here in February but I was only 10 minutes (7 miles) away before with the same job. I'd ride a bike to work if I could but I'd have to traverse a 2 lane US Route that converts to 4 lanes half way to work. It would be too dangerous and that is assuming I'd be allowed to have the bicycle on the road because there is no shoulder. If I lived in Florida instead of WV it would be easier to enjoy the motorcycle nearly all year round but alas that isn't possible in the nice winters here in WV. My 17.7 gallon tank in my car lasts about 3 weeks which includes about 40 miles of travel on weekends; more than 3 weeks if I use the motorcycle a lot to get to work. Because I still take trips I can't get rid of the car and the motorcycle is a toy (and paid off).
Hyperic is a company that makes a product called Hyperic HQ which is used to monitor applications/services/servers much like Nagios or HP OpenView Operations. It can monitor using SNMP or by an installed Hyperic HQ agent (java-based) on a server. The agents are capable of detecting, using platform-dependent APIs, the number of CPUs, hard drives, network interfaces, memory, network settings, etc. as well as certain enterprise-level applications such as databases, application servers, etc. If using the Hyperic agent, metrics about the system and its applications are sent to the Hyperic HQ server every 5 minutes. SNMP data is sent either by polling (configured interval) or by traps whose frequency is of course based on the device generating them. Historical views of a system's/application's status can then be viewed and alerts can be generated based on various thresholds (e.g. availability % drops below 99% for more than 2 minutes). The Hyperic site has already been updated. They have both a pay and a free version. Both are open source I believe. Go to their site for more info.
You wrote your post seemingly from a point of view that says science must be separate from religion. If that is true then I have to ask why you think that? For example, if the Holy Bible says there was a Great Flood then isn't it science's responsibility to prove it right or wrong? If not then I don't think there is any room to call Christians idiots for believing in something that can't be proven. Many of the events in the Bible can be proven but if science isn't going to take the time to do that then there is no reason to say they believe in something that can't be proven. They are simply believing in something that scientists don't want to take the time to prove, possibly because by proving what the Bible says would lend too much credence to it and start the downfall of other theories that go against the Bible.
When we do have some proof such as this that *could* indicate a Great Flood we then have other idiots who say that this is going to be taken as proof by Christians that the Bible is right and that it has been proven to a certain extent instead of just viewing it as proof that a tsunami hit New England a long time ago and nothing more.
So bottom line is that Christians are blamed for believing in something that really can be proven but no one wants to take the time to directly do so and when scientists uncover what could be proof w/o that being their intent and someone starts making a connection they are ridiculed for reading into it for more than what it is. Religion just can't win it seems but when some people don't want to maintain a level playing field what do you expect, right? Science could easily destroy religion if it thought it could based on disproving events and other facts in the Bible and other books but it does not make any direct attempt to do so nor does it attempt to make any religious connection when it uncovers other facts such a major aquatic event occurring in New England a long time ago. I'm sure some people would argue what is the point of disproving religion wrong when they already "know" it is wrong. That is faith, not proof, and a double standard that seems to be okay as long as it is maintained against religion. If you (in general) know it is wrong then simply disprove it with unbiased interpretation of evidence of direct facts mentioned in the Bible. It seems that people want to maintain a large distance between science and religion, and pretend they are mutually exclusive, for fear that science could too easily prove religion correct when viewed with unbiased eyes.
You bring up a good point. Why is a movie that can cost $100 million to make cost $25 on disc but a game that cost $15 million to make cost $50 on disc? Is the volume of DVD sales that much bigger to explain the large difference in retail price?
This is the next generation of a Beowulf cluster using the next-generation of hardware which is cooler, cheaper CPUs and solid-state storage and memory. Someone was bound to come up with this idea because it only makes sense. It is good to know that we have a proof of concept now so someone else can take the idea and modify it to come up with something even better. Eventually hardware manufacturers will take notice and release it as COTS hardware. For companies who want cooler and cheaper server hardware this would be a good fit once it has been packaged as a COTS product.
Why don't they just charge a simple fixed rate? This way you only pay for what you use. They could also have a limit above which you will be charged extra. This is how all the other utilities work; why should internet access be any different?
Many people are not against the idea of tiered pricing or even metered pricing although those who are against it are against it for good reason because it goes against the advertised "unlimited" usage. But it is the way that TWC has gone about setting the prices that is making people mad. Basically for many people their cost will go up because they would use more than the low tiers that TWC wanted to set. If the true problem is a top % of users hogging the bandwidth then they shouldn't be structuring the tiers so low to encompass more than that same % of users, whatever that % is. Because they haven't many people think that the reason for TWC rolling this out was to make people instead pay even more money to TWC for media content to their TV instead of getting it from someone else to their computer. The way the tiers were priced is bad enough but many people think there were ulterior motives as well. Besides, other utilities are indeed priced based on metered usage however those prices are very, very cheap so why are photons and electrons so expensive?
Kind of like creationism: "goddidit" 'explains' any observation, and therefore explains nothing.
No not quite. "goddidit" explains the who, sometimes the how, but science is responsible for determining the details as to how and possibly the why. Science is not separate from religion; it will merely prove what religion already says is out there and how it got here (to a point).
We sacrifice inessential liberties for safety all the time. We are required to get our cars registered and inspected (in some states), our buildings inspected, and our restaurants must conform to code. All of these things restrict our freedom, but also help to keep us safe and healthy. Do the folks who conform to these codes, and expect others to conform as well, deserve some kind of punishment for their willingness to sacrifice liberty?
I could be wrong but I think in many cases the money received by states for vehicle registration (and possibly inspections too) go towards paying for varies levies and funds, similar to the majority of a speeding ticket goes to pay for things for schools and only a small portion of your ticket is the real fine. But I do agree with you on the other items you listed.
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If we were going to go the bush way, we'd have to respond by attacking Brazil.
If we were going to go the obama way, we'd have to respond by buying Iran.
Doesn't it chill your blood to imagine that you could very suddenly be in a situation where every single person you know who gets a new computer is going to need you to set it up? They will be totally and completely helpless without Internet explorer, they won't be able to burn it to a CD or put it on a flash drive without your detailed instructions. And then it won't work. And it won't be what they're used to be because FireFox/chrome/IE 8 isn't IE 6.
Maybe you should start getting every single person you know familiar with FireFox/chrome (yes, I left off IE 8) now? In fact, why haven't you already?
I don't care what she looks like.
She is actually quite cute. I saw a photo of her in an article that she submitted to Linux Journal a few months ago. She discussed how to use USB and Linux to monitor a model rocket.
because after BIND 10 is done all the distributors must package it for their specific customers. This includes appliance vendors that utilize BIND. Speaking of appliance vendors, the article mentions that DNSSEC could eventually be enabled by possibly clicking a single button in an interface but that will be dependent on the interfaces put on top of BIND. I guess if BIND 10 has its own interface then that could work well but appliance vendors put their own GUI on top of their implementations of BIND and it may not always be as simple as a single button click.
That's true of any other solution in the same manor as SharePoint. But at least the data is stored in a SQL database and not something proprietary like the MS Exchange information store.
Although the files are in a database you can change the view in the browser to be "explorer" and access the files using Windows File Sharing-like features (copy/paste) through the browser. This method of access though is an end-run around SharePoint's versioning system. New files can be uploaded in this manner as well. I presume that when you modify an existing document in this way that SharePoint just makes that version the newest one in the actual database. SharePoint is still no substitute for a properly standardized naming convention and folder structure. Yeah you can always do a SharePoint search for what you want but at work I never do searches because we have specific folders where we place stuff and I know that as long as people follow the standard then I can find what I'm looking for and so can everyone else. We don't have thousands of documents though so maybe with documents counted using 6 digits a standard naming convention is asking too much.
ever since TimeWarner RoadRunner no longer hosts their own usenet service. I went with NewsHosting because I get 12 connections, unlimited downloading, and my retention is about 250 days. That package was the middle ground between limited downloading and unlimited downloading that cost over $20. That package is only $15 a month. The $20 package costs more because it allows 20 connections and SSL which I don't need. I use the binary groups as well as text-only groups such as the linux, programming, windows, and home repair groups. It's been a year since I started with NewsHosting and I'm happy with them.
Engineering is in deep real world, with human nature and business requirements intervening all the time. Science (like religion) is in some sort of ideal world, vacuum, where all is simple and described by a formula. They are both trying to understand a problem - but from different angles. So different - or better say orthogonal - that they are guaranteed to cross only rarely.
Why does science have to be mutually exclusive with religion? Religion is the faith that someone possesses about reality. Science simply tries to achieve the same understanding that faith already provides someone and it does indeed occur from a different angle. But both science and religion have the same end in sight; they just reach the end through different means. In my mind, that doesn't make them mutually exclusively but instead members of both should cooperate to arrive at a final understanding of reality. The problem is that people of faith can't trust scientists (but they can trust science if the scientists could be trusted) and the scientists don't want to trust the people of faith because they are viewed as 2nd-tier humans due to their "crazy" faith. If scientists weren't so elitist they might just change their perspective from which they interpret evidence and also actually work with religion, instead of against it, in order to find the proof behind the truth. The truth is already known from the perspective of religion; science just has to catch up.
The article uses the number of meteors which hit the Earth every day however there are many more that do not turn into meteorites because they simply glance off the atmosphere or burn up in the atmosphere so the probability calculations must take these into account. I failed statistics because I never could figure out exactly which factors must be included and which are excluded when calculating probably. With that said, doesn't the probability of a plane and a meteor being in the same location both in space and time have to be factored in to the equation? The article discusses the probability of a meteor striking an area the size of a jet but not a specific area (identified, for example, by lat and long coordinates) at a specific time.
The device, which is less invasive than implants and more accurate that scalp electrodes, uses a grid of electrodes placed directly on the surface of the brain to monitor electrical activity.
How is having to put an entire grid of electrodes on the surface of the brain less invasive than an implant?
Pretend, for instance, that you get a perfect tracking device for your daughter. That sorta solves your problem...
Actually, the tracking device is a solution to his question but only workaround to the original problem of his child getting on the wrong bus. It isn't close to a solution at all because it doesn't change the probability of her getting on he wrong bus. He asked the wrong question to begin with.
You may want to check out monoprice.com if you want affordable HDMI cables (and others as well). A 10ft HDMI cable is under $5 and quantity discounts start at 2 rather than 10 or 50, etc.
On the other hand, the fact that a fair few Americans are more xenophobic than they are freedom-loving presents a golden opportunity...
I don't think that word means what you think it means. People aren't afraid of illegal immigrants just as heterosexuals aren't afraid of homosexuals so labeling legal U.S. citizens and heterosexuals as xenophobic/homophobic is simply an attempt at denigrating using a term that isn't even applicable. People don't like illegal immigrants because by definition those people are breaking the law. The side effect of that is they don't have to pay the taxes that all the rest of us complain about. There is no reason for them to break the law if they want to live here. They should be willing to deal with all the advantages *and* disadvantages of the United States if they wish to live here; the rest of us have to. This may be the land of opportunity but that doesn't mean it is bliss.
People aren't afraid of immigrants at all. The U.S. is basically a land of immigrants however, there are laws that must be followed. If you are going to blatantly disobey those laws then don't come here, otherwise we welcome you. That is a far cry from xenophobia but if it makes you feel better to call those who disagree with illegal immigration a xenophobe then go right ahead. Realize though that the term does not accurately portray those who oppose your view although, it may alter your portrayal of them in order to make it seem like their argument is less valid compared to yours. Homosexuals do this all the time when they wish to not tolerate the view of heterosexuals (and therefore call them homophobic) who do not agree with the homosexual lifestyle. Put simply, disagreement does not equal fear.
Just because it *may* be possible does not guarantee that it happened that way and there is no proof that it did. Yes, we are here but there is a huge leap between being here and *suggesting* the way it occurred. Without someone being present to witness the actual method used we can't say it was this method. It could have been any number of things from a scientist's perspective and no proof of any of them actually being used long, long time ago. I'm surprised this would be taken as sufficient proof given that there is none. It is the same thing as a Creationist saying how things were created with the evolutionist saying there is no proof for that particular method. I guess faith exists on both sides but only one is willing to admit it while the other ridicules them for it.
3) people will accept just about any conditions of employment. Cause we're all slaves.
Yeah, to our families and our debtors. Damn them for making us work to pay for their food, shelter, and schooling. Not everyone has the luxury to choose where they work or who they work for.
Anakata's clever plan is called internet-avgift, internet-fee in English
Yes, I drive the one mile to work. Again, bicycling/walking is a bit dangerous w/o a bike trail along the main road.
This shock story will get web hits and the reporter will get a pat on the back.
Paid by the pun are we? ;)
from where I work. I have a car and a motorcycle. During bad weather I use the car (sporty car so still not great in snow despite being FWD) but when I can I use the motorcycle. I just recently moved here in February but I was only 10 minutes (7 miles) away before with the same job. I'd ride a bike to work if I could but I'd have to traverse a 2 lane US Route that converts to 4 lanes half way to work. It would be too dangerous and that is assuming I'd be allowed to have the bicycle on the road because there is no shoulder. If I lived in Florida instead of WV it would be easier to enjoy the motorcycle nearly all year round but alas that isn't possible in the nice winters here in WV. My 17.7 gallon tank in my car lasts about 3 weeks which includes about 40 miles of travel on weekends; more than 3 weeks if I use the motorcycle a lot to get to work. Because I still take trips I can't get rid of the car and the motorcycle is a toy (and paid off).
2. Who the hell is Hyberic?
Hyperic is a company that makes a product called Hyperic HQ which is used to monitor applications/services/servers much like Nagios or HP OpenView Operations. It can monitor using SNMP or by an installed Hyperic HQ agent (java-based) on a server. The agents are capable of detecting, using platform-dependent APIs, the number of CPUs, hard drives, network interfaces, memory, network settings, etc. as well as certain enterprise-level applications such as databases, application servers, etc. If using the Hyperic agent, metrics about the system and its applications are sent to the Hyperic HQ server every 5 minutes. SNMP data is sent either by polling (configured interval) or by traps whose frequency is of course based on the device generating them. Historical views of a system's/application's status can then be viewed and alerts can be generated based on various thresholds (e.g. availability % drops below 99% for more than 2 minutes). The Hyperic site has already been updated. They have both a pay and a free version. Both are open source I believe. Go to their site for more info.
You wrote your post seemingly from a point of view that says science must be separate from religion. If that is true then I have to ask why you think that? For example, if the Holy Bible says there was a Great Flood then isn't it science's responsibility to prove it right or wrong? If not then I don't think there is any room to call Christians idiots for believing in something that can't be proven. Many of the events in the Bible can be proven but if science isn't going to take the time to do that then there is no reason to say they believe in something that can't be proven. They are simply believing in something that scientists don't want to take the time to prove, possibly because by proving what the Bible says would lend too much credence to it and start the downfall of other theories that go against the Bible.
When we do have some proof such as this that *could* indicate a Great Flood we then have other idiots who say that this is going to be taken as proof by Christians that the Bible is right and that it has been proven to a certain extent instead of just viewing it as proof that a tsunami hit New England a long time ago and nothing more.
So bottom line is that Christians are blamed for believing in something that really can be proven but no one wants to take the time to directly do so and when scientists uncover what could be proof w/o that being their intent and someone starts making a connection they are ridiculed for reading into it for more than what it is. Religion just can't win it seems but when some people don't want to maintain a level playing field what do you expect, right? Science could easily destroy religion if it thought it could based on disproving events and other facts in the Bible and other books but it does not make any direct attempt to do so nor does it attempt to make any religious connection when it uncovers other facts such a major aquatic event occurring in New England a long time ago. I'm sure some people would argue what is the point of disproving religion wrong when they already "know" it is wrong. That is faith, not proof, and a double standard that seems to be okay as long as it is maintained against religion. If you (in general) know it is wrong then simply disprove it with unbiased interpretation of evidence of direct facts mentioned in the Bible. It seems that people want to maintain a large distance between science and religion, and pretend they are mutually exclusive, for fear that science could too easily prove religion correct when viewed with unbiased eyes.
You bring up a good point. Why is a movie that can cost $100 million to make cost $25 on disc but a game that cost $15 million to make cost $50 on disc? Is the volume of DVD sales that much bigger to explain the large difference in retail price?
This is the next generation of a Beowulf cluster using the next-generation of hardware which is cooler, cheaper CPUs and solid-state storage and memory. Someone was bound to come up with this idea because it only makes sense. It is good to know that we have a proof of concept now so someone else can take the idea and modify it to come up with something even better. Eventually hardware manufacturers will take notice and release it as COTS hardware. For companies who want cooler and cheaper server hardware this would be a good fit once it has been packaged as a COTS product.
Why don't they just charge a simple fixed rate? This way you only pay for what you use. They could also have a limit above which you will be charged extra. This is how all the other utilities work; why should internet access be any different?
Many people are not against the idea of tiered pricing or even metered pricing although those who are against it are against it for good reason because it goes against the advertised "unlimited" usage. But it is the way that TWC has gone about setting the prices that is making people mad. Basically for many people their cost will go up because they would use more than the low tiers that TWC wanted to set. If the true problem is a top % of users hogging the bandwidth then they shouldn't be structuring the tiers so low to encompass more than that same % of users, whatever that % is. Because they haven't many people think that the reason for TWC rolling this out was to make people instead pay even more money to TWC for media content to their TV instead of getting it from someone else to their computer. The way the tiers were priced is bad enough but many people think there were ulterior motives as well. Besides, other utilities are indeed priced based on metered usage however those prices are very, very cheap so why are photons and electrons so expensive?
Kind of like creationism: "goddidit" 'explains' any observation, and therefore explains nothing.
No not quite. "goddidit" explains the who, sometimes the how, but science is responsible for determining the details as to how and possibly the why. Science is not separate from religion; it will merely prove what religion already says is out there and how it got here (to a point).
We sacrifice inessential liberties for safety all the time. We are required to get our cars registered and inspected (in some states), our buildings inspected, and our restaurants must conform to code. All of these things restrict our freedom, but also help to keep us safe and healthy. Do the folks who conform to these codes, and expect others to conform as well, deserve some kind of punishment for their willingness to sacrifice liberty?
I could be wrong but I think in many cases the money received by states for vehicle registration (and possibly inspections too) go towards paying for varies levies and funds, similar to the majority of a speeding ticket goes to pay for things for schools and only a small portion of your ticket is the real fine. But I do agree with you on the other items you listed.