So the jist of the historical argument is the PUBLIC education was created to create sheeple. (In spite of the fact that private schools were FAR more effective, until effectively outlawed)
Hmmm. I would have to say it was totally successful.
Quote: by Lemmy Caution (8378) Alter Relationship on Sunday November 19, @02:48PM (#16905990) (http://localhost/) People don't make major choices about their broad vocations simply on money. Temperament and aptitude is more important. Now, within those broad vocational parameters, money matters. Someone may become an oncologist, a general practitioner, or a pediatrician based on various trade-offs between pay, workload, etc. But they aren't going to choose between software engineer and doctor - considering the vicissitudes of the labor market, it would be foolish for them to.
I'd say "You must be new here", but that's so beautifully written, almost believable, you must be in fact a very skilled troll, or HP PR guy. My hats off to you.
Lemme see... Real world comparison:
Engineer, PhD, ~90 hrs week, salary, maybe occasional pitiful bonuses, competing with H1Bs for whatever he can get... Drives a 5 year old Volvo. Hopes to avoid the next round of layoffs.
Doctor, specialist, ~40 Hrs a week, no competiiton, regular repeat customers, Golf on Friday. Drives a new SLK, keeps the Porsche in the 3 car garage for weekends.
Does anyone have any experience with peak power on these laser diodes?
I recall from working with similar units ages ago that it's far less than average power, but still pretty significant.
(A LED is basically thermally limited, so at a low duty cycle your peak can approach achieve many times the "rated" power...
Laser diodes used in pulsed mode are nowhere near that, it's a power vs area thing, basically the point at which they blow their tiny mirrors/facets off...)
I want to blow little pits (~150 micron) in iron cylinders for oil retention/friction reduction, or perhaps on piston rings. Enough power?
No company is going to actually install Vista on ANYTHING until THEY validate it works with all their apps and plays well in their LAN/WAN environment. Monts, perhaps years. Maybe.
(Posting from a Win2K box at work, not looking forwards to rumored XP upgrade next year.)
RE: Easy to break (Score:2) by Have Blue (616) Alter Relationship on Monday October 30, @02:28PM (#16646417) (http://www.seizurerobots.com/) It sounds like it would be very easy for the networks to degrade the accuracy of the filter by introducing commercial-break-like elements into the regular programming.
SciFi channel does this, or at least appears to. Dark(as in image brightness) shows like BSG, even Buffy etc also tended to confuse Myths commercial detection.(or at least used to)
Oddly, I installed the Mandriva 2007 via a FREE (as in beer) Mandriva ONE CD, and it installed the NVidia driver for me, just as a retail version of 2007 would. (You are comparing retail versions, right?)
Once online, the updates (easy urpmi is your friend) downloaded and installed the latest version. The 3D tools worked flawlessly.
Installing Windows from scratch is a long, drawn out PITA, for anyone. Especially compared to ANY modern commercial Linux distro.
I can't really tell if you're trolling or not, but I'll go for it and assume you are serious.
What kind of problems do you have?
Cut and paste? C`mon, you must be trolling there.
I keep a spare 8G partition just to try stuff out.
Last weekend, fought with getting Ubuntu working as I want it to. (No Mythtv, no cookie. V.18 does NOT count)
Mandriva 2007.0 installed in 11 minutes. It got FASTER, somehow. It is ALMOST perfect without effort, and is now default.
Tonight it's KnoppMyth on the old partition, assuming they have upgraded mythtv to v.20a. (That installs almost faster than you can make a pot of coffee)
IMHO, the $average Linux disrto seems to make improvements roughly equivalent to the difference between win98 >XP every 6 months>1 year.
If you haven't tried it LATELY, you haven't tried it.
Zurtle said: "...I guess you haven't installed an operating system before while being the owner of a sole computer on dialup. Some people just don't have internet access during the installation process."
That's something of a feature.
Imagine what would happen to Windows installs if the machine had to be exposed during install.
The only "safe" Win install involves pulling down all the updates with a Knoppix disc, putting them on a USB key or such, and then typing "knx2hd".
Is a 4.2 quake ~ right for a small nuke, or did they just stuff some fertilizer and fuel oil in a mineshaft to make a negotiating point that's hard to absolutely confirm or deny w/o someone inside?
"Looking at my gmail account it shows a little *BETA* under the Google mail logo.
Call me stupid but using beta grade software for real world stuff could be asking for trouble by the many people using the gmail service..."...Never stopped Microsoft. (Obligatory)
As much as I disagree with the Good Senator on many issues, she has a copy of the report, and the... Sorry... Balls to put it online if they piss her off.
(Bit of a hippocrite---Her position on handgun control for instance. Vocal anti gun shill... but _She_ packs a concealed weapon...)
Madriva's old news (Score:2, Insightful) by Fyre2012 (762907) Alter Relationship on Monday September 11, @01:43AM (#16079082) (Last Journal: Sunday January 16, @01:15AM) Do people even stull use this distro? Everything it does, Ubuntu does better. Personally, I prefer Gentoo, but for what Mandrake^H^H^Hiva is supposed to be, is there really a userbase for it anymore?
I realize I'm feeding a troll, tempting to just mod you into oblivion... But...
Install MythTv on Ubuntu, then get back to us.
Mandriva is a nice, solid distro with ~bleeding edge package versioning. It also has an excellent package manager in urpmi. (IMHO, at least the equal of apt and friends)
I ran Slackware, RH for ages (pre-Fedora), and ran Debian for a long while. I have also REPEATEDLY tried Ubuntu, due to the hype--- I just don't see what the Ubuntu fanboys are raving about.
Privacy invasion cameras every 100 yards in the US will never catch on, as they would suffer greatly from another long standing US tradition, the "right to bear arms"...
At traffic lights? Most people realize they probably do some good.
Anywhere else they had better be armored like an M-1 tank, and have paint proof optics. (especially paint proof optics...)
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So the jist of the historical argument is the PUBLIC education was created to create sheeple.
(In spite of the fact that private schools were FAR more effective, until effectively outlawed)
Hmmm. I would have to say it was totally successful.
OK, after venting a bit, I think I see what he was getting at.
Economically, it's probably idiocy to do much else.
BUT---Not everyone SHOULD be a medical doctor.
I have met PhDs in several disciplines that shouldn't be allowed near anything.
Quote: by Lemmy Caution (8378) Alter Relationship on Sunday November 19, @02:48PM (#16905990)
(http://localhost/)
People don't make major choices about their broad vocations simply on money. Temperament and aptitude is more important. Now, within those broad vocational parameters, money matters. Someone may become an oncologist, a general practitioner, or a pediatrician based on various trade-offs between pay, workload, etc. But they aren't going to choose between software engineer and doctor - considering the vicissitudes of the labor market, it would be foolish for them to.
I'd say "You must be new here", but that's so beautifully written, almost believable, you must be in fact a very skilled troll, or HP PR guy. My hats off to you.
Lemme see... Real world comparison:
Engineer, PhD, ~90 hrs week, salary, maybe occasional pitiful bonuses, competing with H1Bs for whatever he can get... Drives a 5 year old Volvo. Hopes to avoid the next round of layoffs.
Doctor, specialist, ~40 Hrs a week, no competiiton, regular repeat customers, Golf on Friday.
Drives a new SLK, keeps the Porsche in the 3 car garage for weekends.
Where would this be illegal?
Does anyone have any experience with peak power on these laser diodes?
I recall from working with similar units ages ago that it's far less than average power, but still pretty significant.
(A LED is basically thermally limited, so at a low duty cycle your peak can approach achieve many times the "rated" power...
Laser diodes used in pulsed mode are nowhere near that, it's a power vs area thing, basically the point at which they blow their tiny mirrors/facets off...)
I want to blow little pits (~150 micron) in iron cylinders for oil retention/friction reduction, or perhaps on piston rings. Enough power?
To reduce the damage.
No company is going to actually install Vista on ANYTHING until THEY validate it works with all their apps and plays well in their LAN/WAN environment. Monts, perhaps years. Maybe.
(Posting from a Win2K box at work, not looking forwards to rumored XP upgrade next year.)
Contracturally obligated to ship on that date.
RE:
Easy to break
(Score:2)
by Have Blue (616) Alter Relationship on Monday October 30, @02:28PM (#16646417)
(http://www.seizurerobots.com/)
It sounds like it would be very easy for the networks to degrade the accuracy of the filter by introducing commercial-break-like elements into the regular programming.
SciFi channel does this, or at least appears to.
Dark(as in image brightness) shows like BSG, even Buffy etc also tended to confuse Myths commercial detection.(or at least used to)
I admit, I haven't tried it in v.20.
I dount a modern dicing saw would have issues with hex die.
Layout software and steppers OTOH...
Oddly, I installed the Mandriva 2007 via a FREE (as in beer) Mandriva ONE CD, and it installed the NVidia driver for me, just as a retail version of 2007 would.
(You are comparing retail versions, right?)
Once online, the updates (easy urpmi is your friend) downloaded and installed the latest version.
The 3D tools worked flawlessly.
Installing Windows from scratch is a long, drawn out PITA, for anyone.
Especially compared to ANY modern commercial Linux distro.
Saying it isn't does not make it so.
It seems the most LOGICAL use of tags would be to allow "moderation" of ARTICLES, something that has been long asked for.
New tags?:
-5 flamebait
+2 anime
etc.
Browsing at a "tag threshold" would then be a killer feature.
The Classic iPod killer...
Car Keys.
I can't really tell if you're trolling or not, but I'll go for it and assume you are serious.
What kind of problems do you have?
Cut and paste?
C`mon, you must be trolling there.
I keep a spare 8G partition just to try stuff out.
Last weekend, fought with getting Ubuntu working as I want it to.
(No Mythtv, no cookie. V.18 does NOT count)
Mandriva 2007.0 installed in 11 minutes. It got FASTER, somehow.
It is ALMOST perfect without effort, and is now default.
Tonight it's KnoppMyth on the old partition, assuming they have upgraded mythtv to v.20a.
(That installs almost faster than you can make a pot of coffee)
IMHO, the $average Linux disrto seems to make improvements roughly equivalent to the difference between win98 >XP every 6 months>1 year.
If you haven't tried it LATELY, you haven't tried it.
Zurtle said:
"...I guess you haven't installed an operating system before while being the owner of a sole computer on dialup. Some people just don't have internet access during the installation process."
That's something of a feature.
Imagine what would happen to Windows installs if the machine had to be exposed during install.
The only "safe" Win install involves pulling down all the updates with a Knoppix disc, putting them on a USB key or such, and then typing "knx2hd".
SOMETHING blew up.
Is a 4.2 quake ~ right for a small nuke, or did they just stuff some fertilizer and fuel oil in a mineshaft to make a negotiating point that's hard to absolutely confirm or deny w/o someone inside?
""analsysts"
heh. for a second there i thought you said "anal cysts"
Question for the group: which is more annoying: analysts or anal cysts?"
Based on utility, I'd say it's about a dead heat.
gstoddart said:
;-)
"A TV station is presumably more complex than setting up a myth TV machine."
You have obviously never set up a MythTV box
(I semi-kid... With Knoppmyth, anyone can do it in ~20 minutes)
Martin (1336) said:
...Never stopped Microsoft.
;-)
"Looking at my gmail account it shows a little *BETA* under the Google mail logo.
Call me stupid but using beta grade software for real world stuff could be asking for trouble by the many people using the gmail service..."
(Obligatory)
Where did you buy that 4 digit UID?
http://www.alphadogweb.com/firearms/Diane_Feinstei n.htm
Bit of work. 1st hit on google, "diane feinstein gun"
Assuming this works, everyone would have some of their own stem cells harvested when young, for use in the future.
(Sorta like inoculations, only requiring a communal cryogenic freezer)
As much as I disagree with the Good Senator on many issues, she has a copy of the report, and the ...
Sorry... Balls to put it online if they piss her off.
(Bit of a hippocrite---Her position on handgun control for instance. Vocal anti gun shill... but _She_ packs a concealed weapon...)
Madriva's old news
(Score:2, Insightful)
by Fyre2012 (762907) Alter Relationship on Monday September 11, @01:43AM (#16079082)
(Last Journal: Sunday January 16, @01:15AM)
Do people even stull use this distro? Everything it does, Ubuntu does better.
Personally, I prefer Gentoo, but for what Mandrake^H^H^Hiva is supposed to be, is there really a userbase for it anymore?
I realize I'm feeding a troll, tempting to just mod you into oblivion...
But...
Install MythTv on Ubuntu, then get back to us.
Mandriva is a nice, solid distro with ~bleeding edge package versioning.
It also has an excellent package manager in urpmi.
(IMHO, at least the equal of apt and friends)
I ran Slackware, RH for ages (pre-Fedora), and ran Debian for a long while.
I have also REPEATEDLY tried Ubuntu, due to the hype---
I just don't see what the Ubuntu fanboys are raving about.
Mandriva simply works better for me.
The quality of the recent Nanos isn't helping matters---
My Grandaughter has has seen FIVE dead Nanos this MONTH.
(All battery related)
In Apples defense, they admit there is an issue, and have handled it well.
Contact cleaner can damage many types of plastic...
Esp clear plastics.
They usually don't melt, just get real brittle and/or crack up.
(Craze)
Privacy invasion cameras every 100 yards in the US will never catch on,
as they would suffer greatly from another long standing US tradition,
the "right to bear arms"...
At traffic lights? Most people realize they probably do some good.
Anywhere else they had better be armored like an M-1 tank, and have paint proof optics.
(especially paint proof optics...)
Once they have MythTv integrated, I'll give it a try again.
It's my "Killer app I can't live without"