So far, I've got 6 beefs with the new laptops: 1) MacBook Pro? That's what you're calling it? 2) Remote - cool (if of limited use); no cleverly designed place to stow it on/in the laptop - not cool (it will get quickly misplaced) 3) No FW800? I thought this was the pro model? 4) No PC card slot, just ExpressCard? (see #6) 5) No S-Vid out? I have to buy an additional adapter? 6) No modem?? I have to buy the external USB modem. I can't even use a PC card.
It isn't just for novices. I work almost exclusively on the command line for mysql (it is so much faster than the GUI or phpMyAdmin). I am in the habit of typing my where statement immediately after I type 'delete' or 'update' and then going back and filling in the table name and update fields just so I don't accidentally blow away a table. However, on one occasion, I had typed "delete where field='foo';" and then, as is my habit, went back and typed in the table name. Unfortunately, I happened to type a semicolon after the table name, so instead of "delete from tablename where field='foo';" I entered "delete from tablename; where field='foo';" This promptly blew away my table and then returned a quick syntax on my unintended 2nd statement.
Ever since that 1 mistake, I have mysql aliased to "mysql --i-am-a-dummy" (not "mysql --safe-update") just so I don't do that again.
Our 1st level tech support forwarded a call to me because the woman couldn't figure out her password. When I talked to the woman, she said, "The woman I was just talking to told me my password started with an 'X' as in 'Zebra'. What should I type?"
More a reply to the subject, than the content iteself, but O'Reilly has continued to develop and put out new versions of their CD bookshelves long after Safari started so I don't think this is the end.
I am hoping the next step will be the convergence of the two. Select x books that you would like to have on a CD (or just on your hard drive), the system generates a tarball with those books which you can then download and burn to your own CD. They may not be able to do the master index of all books on the fly, but I would be willing to forgo that feature, especially if a search engine is included with each custom bookshelf (as it is now). Price the books ~60% off the price for the dead tree versions.
O'Reilly, feel free to use this idea at no cost beyond a 20 book credit when the system is deployed.
IANAI (I am not an Indian), but I'm going to have to agree that I just don't seem the point. The article claims it may foster more national pride and whatnot, but surely that $82.5 million could foster national pride by going more directly to the citizens. Granted it would amount to, what, 80 cents per person, but can't there be something done with that? Can't they show scientific and intellectual prowess by doing something that hasn't already been done and/or would directly benefit people?
"Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?" -Ronald Reagan - This was the quote at the bottom of the page when I read the comments. Heh.
Though I haven't had the toilet experience, the best sink I've seen was in the McDonalds just outside the Tower of London. The sink was a concave half-sphere set into the wall. You stuck your hands in and the water turned on, then the soap, then nothing so you could lather up, then more water for rinsing, then the hot air. Nothing to touch - all automatic.
I'm not sure they are more present, they just make the news more because of high profile actions such as this. If someone were to post the entire contents of the Bible, Torah, or Koran, I don't think any Christians, Jews, or Muslims would be offended. In fact, it has already been done countless times.
IMO, the other 'religions' that you refer to actually want people to read their texts to find out more about them. As a Christian, critical thinking is an imperitive part of my belief system and theology. I am passionate about wanting to know the truth. If I hear something in one of my pastor's sermons that I disagree with, I ask him about it. Usually I come to understand his POV, though I still may disagree. He is absolutely fine with my disagreeing. In fact, I would wager that he would be a bit sketical of anyone who agreed 100% with absolutely everything he said.
On a different note, isn't there some way to put Scientology, Microsoft and RIAA against each other? Maybe Microsoft could distribute a pirated song that lambasts Scientology? At least then they could keep each other's legal departments busy for a while?
* Servers are named after soft drinks. (e.g. - "Our databases run on Dr. Pepper.") * Workstations are named for cities within our state (the more obscure the better) * I've always named my personal computers after one of the severn dwarfs (sure, it limits me to 7 personal computers, but that hasn't been a problem...yet)
I'll join the chorus and say that, generally, I prefer dead-tree as well. The 1 exception to this that I have found is CD Bookshelf series Oreilly has put out. I have a couple of the bookshelfs and most of the included dead-tree versions of the books in those bookshelves. I like the ability to search multiple related texts at once, and the ability to copy the content to my web server so I can access from whatever computer I happen to be at (password protected for personal use only, of course). I can also make any changes and add my one notes to the text once it is copied to the web server. If only there were the option to compile your own CD Bookshelf...
As for topics:
* 1 more vote for Mono
* Zeus web server
* 1 more vote for Win for UNIX people
* Web application testing procedures
* SOAP, XML-RPC, Mono/.NET CLR, and other ways to get different languages to work together
* 1 more vote for cookbooks
* Web application & software usability
I find no motivation to study the failures and misconceptions which were so widely purveyed and deployed.
IANAMBA, but I actually find it to be very important to study failures, and it seems to be an aspect of business that is not so much overlooked as avoided. The key is how you study the failures. It is not enough to say "Here is a failure. What can we learn?" You have to say "Here is a failure. What was the underlying problem that caused it? What was the 'fatal flaw'?" Lack of revenue is not an underlying problem. When studying failure, we must abstract the problems further than that.
I was just wondering what others thought of the "evidence" they have found in the rental car and the luggage that didn't make the connection flight - things like a copy of the Koran and Arabic flight training materials. As coordinated and planned as this attack was, I find it hard to believe that the attackers would leave such obvious clues behind. Maybe, just maybe, they would leave stuff behind that would point where many want to look anyway, regardless of if it actually was indicative of who they actually are?
Although the overall growth looks similar, there are a few important differences between now and then and some things to keep in mind:
The stock market crash did not cause the Great Depression - they were both the result of greater economic problems
Right now the economy is very strong and the stock market is mirroring that (even if it is exaggerated). In 1929, the economy was already in a recession before the GD, the stock market just ignore it until it came crashing down.
The Fed, now, is raising interest rates to moderate growth. Then, the Fed mistakingly did the opposite and lowered them, accelerating the problems at hand.
This is not to say the market will keep going and going, there will be a correction, but it will not be 1929 all over again.
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So far, I've got 6 beefs with the new laptops:
1) MacBook Pro? That's what you're calling it?
2) Remote - cool (if of limited use); no cleverly designed place to stow it on/in the laptop - not cool (it will get quickly misplaced)
3) No FW800? I thought this was the pro model?
4) No PC card slot, just ExpressCard? (see #6)
5) No S-Vid out? I have to buy an additional adapter?
6) No modem?? I have to buy the external USB modem. I can't even use a PC card.
It isn't just for novices. I work almost exclusively on the command line for mysql (it is so much faster than the GUI or phpMyAdmin). I am in the habit of typing my where statement immediately after I type 'delete' or 'update' and then going back and filling in the table name and update fields just so I don't accidentally blow away a table. However, on one occasion, I had typed "delete where field='foo';" and then, as is my habit, went back and typed in the table name. Unfortunately, I happened to type a semicolon after the table name, so instead of "delete from tablename where field='foo';" I entered "delete from tablename; where field='foo';" This promptly blew away my table and then returned a quick syntax on my unintended 2nd statement.
Ever since that 1 mistake, I have mysql aliased to "mysql --i-am-a-dummy" (not "mysql --safe-update") just so I don't do that again.
Our 1st level tech support forwarded a call to me because the woman couldn't figure out her password. When I talked to the woman, she said, "The woman I was just talking to told me my password started with an 'X' as in 'Zebra'. What should I type?"
More a reply to the subject, than the content iteself, but O'Reilly has continued to develop and put out new versions of their CD bookshelves long after Safari started so I don't think this is the end.
I am hoping the next step will be the convergence of the two. Select x books that you would like to have on a CD (or just on your hard drive), the system generates a tarball with those books which you can then download and burn to your own CD. They may not be able to do the master index of all books on the fly, but I would be willing to forgo that feature, especially if a search engine is included with each custom bookshelf (as it is now). Price the books ~60% off the price for the dead tree versions.
O'Reilly, feel free to use this idea at no cost beyond a 20 book credit when the system is deployed.
IANAI (I am not an Indian), but I'm going to have to agree that I just don't seem the point. The article claims it may foster more national pride and whatnot, but surely that $82.5 million could foster national pride by going more directly to the citizens. Granted it would amount to, what, 80 cents per person, but can't there be something done with that? Can't they show scientific and intellectual prowess by doing something that hasn't already been done and/or would directly benefit people?
"Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?" -Ronald Reagan
- This was the quote at the bottom of the page when I read the comments. Heh.
Though I haven't had the toilet experience, the best sink I've seen was in the McDonalds just outside the Tower of London. The sink was a concave half-sphere set into the wall. You stuck your hands in and the water turned on, then the soap, then nothing so you could lather up, then more water for rinsing, then the hot air. Nothing to touch - all automatic.
I'm not sure they are more present, they just make the news more because of high profile actions such as this. If someone were to post the entire contents of the Bible, Torah, or Koran, I don't think any Christians, Jews, or Muslims would be offended. In fact, it has already been done countless times.
IMO, the other 'religions' that you refer to actually want people to read their texts to find out more about them. As a Christian, critical thinking is an imperitive part of my belief system and theology. I am passionate about wanting to know the truth. If I hear something in one of my pastor's sermons that I disagree with, I ask him about it. Usually I come to understand his POV, though I still may disagree. He is absolutely fine with my disagreeing. In fact, I would wager that he would be a bit sketical of anyone who agreed 100% with absolutely everything he said.
On a different note, isn't there some way to put Scientology, Microsoft and RIAA against each other? Maybe Microsoft could distribute a pirated song that lambasts Scientology? At least then they could keep each other's legal departments busy for a while?
We do themes here, as well.
* Servers are named after soft drinks. (e.g. - "Our databases run on Dr. Pepper.")
* Workstations are named for cities within our state (the more obscure the better)
* I've always named my personal computers after one of the severn dwarfs (sure, it limits me to 7 personal computers, but that hasn't been a problem...yet)
I'll join the chorus and say that, generally, I prefer dead-tree as well. The 1 exception to this that I have found is CD Bookshelf series Oreilly has put out. I have a couple of the bookshelfs and most of the included dead-tree versions of the books in those bookshelves. I like the ability to search multiple related texts at once, and the ability to copy the content to my web server so I can access from whatever computer I happen to be at (password protected for personal use only, of course). I can also make any changes and add my one notes to the text once it is copied to the web server. If only there were the option to compile your own CD Bookshelf...
As for topics:
* 1 more vote for Mono
* Zeus web server
* 1 more vote for Win for UNIX people
* Web application testing procedures
* SOAP, XML-RPC, Mono/.NET CLR, and other ways to get different languages to work together
* 1 more vote for cookbooks
* Web application & software usability
Or...
Q: "Did you pack your luggage yourself?"
A: "Yes" (Thinking: "I made the bomb, too.")
I find no motivation to study the failures and misconceptions which were so widely purveyed and deployed.
IANAMBA, but I actually find it to be very important to study failures, and it seems to be an aspect of business that is not so much overlooked as avoided. The key is how you study the failures. It is not enough to say "Here is a failure. What can we learn?" You have to say "Here is a failure. What was the underlying problem that caused it? What was the 'fatal flaw'?" Lack of revenue is not an underlying problem. When studying failure, we must abstract the problems further than that.
I was just wondering what others thought of the "evidence" they have found in the rental car and the luggage that didn't make the connection flight - things like a copy of the Koran and Arabic flight training materials. As coordinated and planned as this attack was, I find it hard to believe that the attackers would leave such obvious clues behind. Maybe, just maybe, they would leave stuff behind that would point where many want to look anyway, regardless of if it actually was indicative of who they actually are?
Although the overall growth looks similar, there are a few important differences between now and then and some things to keep in mind:
This is not to say the market will keep going and going, there will be a correction, but it will not be 1929 all over again.
...didn't anyone else learn that zero is neither odd nor even?