Don't forget all of their gleefully racist WW2 propaganda cartoons
Oh, I dunno - I'll forgive them for their war effort cartoons. Sure they were racist, but they were targetting enemy troops pretty much exclusively, unless they made some 'japanese spy' toons I'm not aware of. I'd actually like to get my hands on some of the european theatre proaganda toons- seeing Goerring salute and a skunk walk by is priceless.
Company ABC invests X money into developing product. They estimate sales of Y quantity. Divide X by Y to get a per-item cost, mark it up for profit and a support allowance, then sell it.
You've got it backwards - Company ABC forecasts a market for product Z and determines Y sales at N pricepoint. If N * Y is less than the projected costs of development and support (plus a decent margin), then the product is built.
When people learn to take just compensation for their efforts, and give up the "fight" for riches, we'll wonder how we ever survived through capitalism.
We tried communism (sort of) and it doesn't work. A product is worth what people are willing to pay for it. If we tried to only charge a just amount, we'd miss out on the potential huge profits from trying something new and stop creating new stuff so quickly.
Does a pot calling a kettle black make the kettle somehow less black? Does a stupid reference to an old pop culture classic may the wisdom somehow less?
I'll take the chance, as wisdom wrapped in idiocy is much less common than idiocy wrapped in idiocy.
THe query would hang the listener every once in a while and then no connections could be made to the DB over that listner, the only solution was to bounce the DB all together.
This is why workstations should be workstations and servers should be servers. Allowing users in a client-server environment to share resources from their workstations is bad network design/policy.
Maybe it is on a server, but a lot of critical stuff depends on what's under his public_html dir.
Really, what's so hard about memorizing a few dozen passwords?
It's hard when you only use the password once every few months. I can remember my passwords for normal stuff easily, but simpler stuff that I touch 4 times a year I keep forgetting.
Look, physicists have this notion of a vacuum state. It's the lowest energy state a system can occupy. You can't extract energy from a vacuum state because then it would be left in a lower state contradicting the fact that it's a vacuum state.
Why not? Is there a fundamental limit to our ability to extract virtual particles from vacuum, or is it an engineering problem?
You are truly ignorant if you think you're specifically immune to any terrorist attack.
I prefer the threat of terrorist attack to the current admin's reaction to it. Basically, they whip up a frenzy, piss us off for no reason, and constrain our rights, all with no end in sight. I live in Seattle, come bomb the bus tunnel or something.
Compared to many major cities, just how well are you protected?
I'm in Seattle.
You think a redneck attitude is going to keep you safe from people who have no clue what it means to be a redneck?
I'm a city boy with brass balls, thank you very much.
You're sorely mistaken and next in line for a Darwin Award for not thinking rationally and weighing your chances.
Did that. Bush and his stooges are a worse threat to my way of life than some yahoo with a pack of C4.
I've already been made aware of threats against me for wanting to send them back to the stone age with EMP bombs, and all of that thru my "protected friends-only" LJ posts.
Um, yeah. Can't bomb Afghanistan back to the stone age, that was last week. EMP bombs don't mean much to someone who showers when it rains. Fact is, the them are widely dispersed and not particularly discriminate in their targets. On the other hand, they aren't a real threat - their body count is dwarfed by accidental deaths due to water.
If you want to stop terror, stop making new terrorists. That simple.
That's why when I had a $164 bill I knew insurance should pay I paid it - I got a refund months later.
Or you call the doctor and tell them that this should be covered by insurance. If they ding you for the insurance company's screwup, then dispute the item in writing and it should disappear.
Collection agencies have absolutely NO teeth at all, they only thing they can do is send you scary looking letter and perhaps a few threatening phone calls.... But what are they gonna go send "Forget about it" sam's croneys over to break your kneecaps?
They can sue you, get a judgement, and garnish your wages. In extreme cases, they can force bankruptcy.
Disposable mobile phones that aren't attached to anyone's personal information sound like they'd be superb for terrorists. I hate acting like the alarmist, hypersensitive newsmedia, but it's true. A communications device which cannot be traced back to a person and can also be used as a very handy little detonator...
So what? Who gives a damn what is useful to terrorists? I don't - spazzing out over what terrorists could do is the most batshit crazy thing you could do. While you're banning things left and right, making a mockery of the USA, all those bad guys are running around totally unfettered. I'd rather have one city a month bombed, just like london, than deal with the TSA and the homeland security bullshit.
That's handy. It saves time when you finally decide to drive over it.
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Images of screwing a pager fill my head. Shocking, really.
"An urban legend come true. You complete the jigsaw puzzle to discover it is a picture of yourself, finishing that same puzzle. A mad, green-eyed killer behind you."
Wow...you'd qualify someone with what they'd put out on their resume without verifying it? You're either very naive, or haven't had much experience with interviewing.
He's listed patents and publications that span 20 years. Fuck yes, I would. I'd verify the pubs, of course, but the interview would be more along the lines of 'what do you want to do here' instead of 'prove your worthiness'
Example question, since I know you're curious: You have triple redundant storage of certain critical data. Write a subroutine that takes three 32 bit integers and produces a result where each bit is "voted on" by the corresponding bit in the three inputs.
There are probably simple solutions involving binary algebra, but the thing that comes to mind is a lookup table - 0,1 1s ->0, else 1
And how many times have/.'ers complained about somebody who had great credentials but didn't actually know anything. There are some PhD's earned their degree by being handheld by a professor and just following what he says. They may know what they researched well, but the insight needed to expand just isn't there.
So talk to the guy and find out how he thinks - once you're an established expert in the field, you are above stupid proficiency tests.
How nice for you that you don't work at a company that has an email retention policy that is automatically enforced. Many large companies do today. If I leave an email in any folder for more than 60 days, it's automatically deleted.
Then it's probably not your problem. If your company gets a no-shred policy and they don't disable the policies you describe, you really have no way to comply, so it probably won't come down on your head.
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Don't forget all of their gleefully racist WW2 propaganda cartoons
Oh, I dunno - I'll forgive them for their war effort cartoons. Sure they were racist, but they were targetting enemy troops pretty much exclusively, unless they made some 'japanese spy' toons I'm not aware of. I'd actually like to get my hands on some of the european theatre proaganda toons- seeing Goerring salute and a skunk walk by is priceless.
Not everybody can afford to take care of yet another child.
Go buy some condoms, ya cheap bastard.
Company ABC invests X money into developing product. They estimate sales of Y quantity. Divide X by Y to get a per-item cost, mark it up for profit and a support allowance, then sell it.
You've got it backwards - Company ABC forecasts a market for product Z and determines Y sales at N pricepoint. If N * Y is less than the projected costs of development and support (plus a decent margin), then the product is built.
When people learn to take just compensation for their efforts, and give up the "fight" for riches, we'll wonder how we ever survived through capitalism.
We tried communism (sort of) and it doesn't work. A product is worth what people are willing to pay for it. If we tried to only charge a just amount, we'd miss out on the potential huge profits from trying something new and stop creating new stuff so quickly.
Does a pot calling a kettle black make the kettle somehow less black? Does a stupid reference to an old pop culture classic may the wisdom somehow less?
I'll take the chance, as wisdom wrapped in idiocy is much less common than idiocy wrapped in idiocy.
They need to take a lesson from Princes Leia
The more you quote star wars to make a serious point, the more I ignore you.
THe query would hang the listener every once in a while and then no connections could be made to the DB over that listner, the only solution was to bounce the DB all together.
Why not just bounce the listener?
This is why workstations should be workstations and servers should be servers. Allowing users in a client-server environment to share resources from their workstations is bad network design/policy.
Maybe it is on a server, but a lot of critical stuff depends on what's under his public_html dir.
It has to be fast enough that it blurs, and they think it's just air.
Why? Birds are pretty stupid - they fly into large turbines, windows, buildings, trees...
Really, what's so hard about memorizing a few dozen passwords?
It's hard when you only use the password once every few months. I can remember my passwords for normal stuff easily, but simpler stuff that I touch 4 times a year I keep forgetting.
It seems like everything else the Church is supposed to do springs from those two commands.
Unfortunately, they seem to pay their mission statement as much heed as most large companies.
why would a positron smash into an electron, shouldn't they just orbit each other?
They have the same spin. QM doesn't act like classical mechanics. I have no idea exactly what a positron and a neutron would do, though.
Look, physicists have this notion of a vacuum state. It's the lowest energy state a system can occupy. You can't extract energy from a vacuum state because then it would be left in a lower state contradicting the fact that it's a vacuum state.
Why not? Is there a fundamental limit to our ability to extract virtual particles from vacuum, or is it an engineering problem?
For $12, they just ding your credit. It can stop a mortgage from closing until it's dealt with.
You are truly ignorant if you think you're specifically immune to any terrorist attack.
I prefer the threat of terrorist attack to the current admin's reaction to it. Basically, they whip up a frenzy, piss us off for no reason, and constrain our rights, all with no end in sight. I live in Seattle, come bomb the bus tunnel or something.
Compared to many major cities, just how well are you protected?
I'm in Seattle.
You think a redneck attitude is going to keep you safe from people who have no clue what it means to be a redneck?
I'm a city boy with brass balls, thank you very much.
You're sorely mistaken and next in line for a Darwin Award for not thinking rationally and weighing your chances.
Did that. Bush and his stooges are a worse threat to my way of life than some yahoo with a pack of C4.
I've already been made aware of threats against me for wanting to send them back to the stone age with EMP bombs, and all of that thru my "protected friends-only" LJ posts.
Um, yeah. Can't bomb Afghanistan back to the stone age, that was last week. EMP bombs don't mean much to someone who showers when it rains. Fact is, the them are widely dispersed and not particularly discriminate in their targets. On the other hand, they aren't a real threat - their body count is dwarfed by accidental deaths due to water.
If you want to stop terror, stop making new terrorists. That simple.
That's why when I had a $164 bill I knew insurance should pay I paid it - I got a refund months later.
Or you call the doctor and tell them that this should be covered by insurance. If they ding you for the insurance company's screwup, then dispute the item in writing and it should disappear.
Collection agencies have absolutely NO teeth at all, they only thing they can do is send you scary looking letter and perhaps a few threatening phone calls.... But what are they gonna go send "Forget about it" sam's croneys over to break your kneecaps?
They can sue you, get a judgement, and garnish your wages. In extreme cases, they can force bankruptcy.
The spam claims to provide 10 pounds of Hershey's chocolate in exchange for who knows what.
Do they offer any good chocolate?
/spoiled by Lindt
Disposable mobile phones that aren't attached to anyone's personal information sound like they'd be superb for terrorists. I hate acting like the alarmist, hypersensitive newsmedia, but it's true. A communications device which cannot be traced back to a person and can also be used as a very handy little detonator...
So what? Who gives a damn what is useful to terrorists? I don't - spazzing out over what terrorists could do is the most batshit crazy thing you could do. While you're banning things left and right, making a mockery of the USA, all those bad guys are running around totally unfettered. I'd rather have one city a month bombed, just like london, than deal with the TSA and the homeland security bullshit.
Iain Banks-pretty much anything he writes is top shelf.
Seconded. The Bridge was a bit odd, and I couldn't get through Wasp Factory, but all his stuff is high quality.
I think it's still in the car ... ah, yes.
That's handy. It saves time when you finally decide to drive over it.
Images of screwing a pager fill my head. Shocking, really.
"An urban legend come true. You complete the jigsaw puzzle to discover it is a picture of yourself, finishing that same puzzle. A mad, green-eyed killer behind you."
Wow...you'd qualify someone with what they'd put out on their resume without verifying it? You're either very naive, or haven't had much experience with interviewing.
He's listed patents and publications that span 20 years. Fuck yes, I would. I'd verify the pubs, of course, but the interview would be more along the lines of 'what do you want to do here' instead of 'prove your worthiness'
Example question, since I know you're curious: You have triple redundant storage of certain critical data. Write a subroutine that takes three 32 bit integers and produces a result where each bit is "voted on" by the corresponding bit in the three inputs.
There are probably simple solutions involving binary algebra, but the thing that comes to mind is a lookup table - 0,1 1s ->0, else 1
And how many times have /.'ers complained about somebody who had great credentials but didn't actually know anything. There are some PhD's earned their degree by being handheld by a professor and just following what he says. They may know what they researched well, but the insight needed to expand just isn't there.
So talk to the guy and find out how he thinks - once you're an established expert in the field, you are above stupid proficiency tests.
How nice for you that you don't work at a company that has an email retention policy that is automatically enforced. Many large companies do today. If I leave an email in any folder for more than 60 days, it's automatically deleted.
Then it's probably not your problem. If your company gets a no-shred policy and they don't disable the policies you describe, you really have no way to comply, so it probably won't come down on your head.