I will bite on this one... sure, we are fine with giving out credentials to someone who only partly knows the material and the application thereof. Well, until your life depends on said individual.
As far as knowledge of 70% of the material versus 30% and so on might go in argument, I prefer to know that a student can apply the knowledge in a practical situation. I have often performed much better in subjects in which I had to provide practical examples of application and analysis versus regurgitation of provided fact and detail. If you learn how to apply, the fact and detail simply fall into place; and I have seen this numerous times in my own education, observation of education (especially against these damned standardized tests,) and while tutoring.
If dodgy politicians cannot be held accountable, why should we expect anyone else? If the upcoming generation does not get held personally accountable for its own failures, shortcomings, ineptitudes, or behavior, then they will not be disappointed when the current and former generations skip out on accountability for the same.
If you teach the newcomers that "bad" things happen to victims, then when you get caught stealing millions, you either did it because you were victimized by someone, or the whole process of accountability victimizes you. Either way, it is a win-win situation in which you will be forgiven.
"There is no try..." I have failed more than once in my life, and then ultimately succeeded or discovered that perhaps I was not cut out for what I was failing to accomplish. I have enjoyed my successes much more after having failed. And my poor self-esteem only suffered a minor bruising.
"Bones heal, chicks dig scars, pain is temporary and pride is forever" and other such "nonsense." You fall, you get up, brush yourself off, and you keep going. Yeah, if you wanna cry a little do it, but keep your ass moving forward.
So, at what point do we just start handing out diplomas and degrees to newborns? I mean, we would not want them to try and fail at an education; that might scar their delicate self-esteem. At some point in the near future, mediocrity becomes the standard, and there is no initiative to achieve or strive for excellence, because doing so makes you a show-off, elitist, or you take more than your fair share of the accolades.
Timmy got an F, you got an A. Well, let us just average that together and you both get a C+. OMFG.
You know, I have to wonder if all these stupid putzes that pass rules like this ever had problems succeeding as children and are trying to make up for some neurotic after-effects of a childhood of low achievement, or if perhaps they excelled and feel guilty for having done so and this is some kind of catharsis for their academic guilt.
Either way, it is pretty fucked up. More and more I lean towards home-schooling when I finally find a woman who will have sex with me and, $_DEITY willing, bear a child to me that looks suspiciously like the bag-boy at the local Publix.
I can imagine that good server equipment is much more sturdy than the average rack-geek thinks. That is, of course, unless you're using $299 desktops with server operating systems.
Got a Dimension GX260 running your business of 50 people with the same single IDE hard drive you bought with the system? Leave it inside! Oh, you mean you put a couple of 10k RPM drives with a RAID controller in that box which barely has enough airflow for the base system? Yeah, sure... DON'T cool it and see what happens.
I admire your success and find that one point in particular strikes a chord with myself.
I parallel your programming experience to a degree. In that I started when I was six in TI BASIC and TMS-9900 assembly, then moved forward to other BASIC dialects, 6502 assembly, Pascal, C/++, COBOL, RPG-II, with some PHP and Perl along the way, while most recently picking up a course in Java. However, my past 10 years have not seen me programming professionally other than just what I needed to do here or there, even playing in languages which I only spot-learned (like analyzing ColdFusion code because a customer needed some changes, or poking around VBScript to make system-relevant changes.)
While the mention of that kind of experience impresses some, it often evokes a visceral reaction from others who hold a position "higher" than you, such as teachers, instructors, supervisors, and some management types.
In an interview at a Radio Shack about 15 years ago I related with glee my programming and electronics experience, which I thought relevant to the job, up to that point to the store manager interviewing me. This apparently ruffled him as he asked me what the F1 key does in WordPerfect. I told him, honestly, that I did not know because the WordPerfect I was accustomed to using was mouse-driven.
After he told me F1 was for help, he told me that I was trying to bullshit my way through the interview. I do not know if my follow up reaction was ballsy or careless, but I told him that he was the type of person I would not work for and that MY computer had a REAL "Help" key, then promptly walked out of his office.
I would have appreciated being told that my experiences did not match what he was looking for, but to be told that all I loved and enjoyed learning and doing to that point was bullshit was too far.
Now, I did walk away from that having learned something valuable about other platforms. That I would need to learn more about PCs and Macs and software, and I set about to do so.
On my way out I decided that I would go ahead and pick up a couple of transistors I needed for a project (I do not recall now if it was the RS-232 interface for my Commodore or something else.) I asked the floor manager and he seemed confused, then started asking me what I thought about the Compaq (or whatever brand they were flogging back then) currently on display.
I also learned that some operations do not want employees who know about the technicals of what is being sold, but someone who will just sell.
Today I posses both technical and sales KSAs. (Though I feel like a dirty whore when I have to use buzz-words.)
I use my own bank's bill-pay system, because they take all responsibility. If it says a check is to be to my electric company by the 15th and it isn't, THE BANK calls the electric company and explains the situation, then deposits any late fees into my account.
In the past using my billers' systems has been a nightmare or two.
One double-billed me one month and would not refund the second billing because my next bill would be due by the time the return would process. The bank could not reverse the charge because the payment came in with my authorization.
I've had more than one bill me too early.
And recently my cell phone bill was over $500 in error two months in a row because of a missing billing code on my data plan. All sorts of fecal matter would have hit the fan if those payments had been automatically debited.
And other incidents of which I cannot recall the details.
Unless the biller is willing to take responsibility for errors on its end and IMMEDIATELY return money taken in error, as well as cover whatever fees or damages are incurred due to the error, payments come via bank bill-pay only. And if that is not acceptable, then the account gets closed and I move on.
It is interesting to me how when one politician changes his stance due to recognition of the will of the people, he is vilified as a panderer or "flip-flopper." Yet it is called evolutionary when the other does the same thing.
Could we not just as easily say that both are listening to the people who would put them in office? Or at least letting us think they are listening to us.
I am not ready to give up just yet. I still love my country and believe in for what it stands (or once stood, anyway.) We can restore our human rights, it just might take a while, and possibly not within my lifetime.
It really does not matter. If the reason for seizing my personal property indefinitely without reasonable suspicion was the "war on drugs," the "war on terror," or the "war on sweaty ass cracks," my reasoning still stands.
Normally I would put together a verbose, and perhaps even eloquent, response to such information. But I can only think of two words.
Bull shit.
We are losing, people. We are losing our rights and there will be more to come. That our own personal property can be seized "to fight terrorism" on the terms presented is absolute, unadulterated, pure and uncut bull shit.
I recall reading in Texas Instruments' programming manuals for the TI-99/4A a table of color combinations which were bad contrast. As well I read some third-party Apple ][ book which listed the same.
Of course, that would be 80s technology video generation using CRTs. Interesting, none the less.
These boxes work very well. You can set either your EVDO/GPRS(EDGE) card as the primary or the backup. Unlimited plans (even if capped at 5GB) are generally anywhere from $20 to $60 a month. If you're okay with paying that as a backup, you should do fine.
From what I have read, OpenWRT supports these devices and would allow you to use either EVDO or a GPRS/EDGE card. Otherwise, you are stuck with the limited support set in a single device per technology. That is, the -ST is EVDO (Sprint) and the -AT is GPRS/3G (AT&T.) The hardware is identical in both, with the exception of the firmware loader which looks for specific headers. There are hacks to make both firmwares work on a single device, if you like hacks.
For load-balancing, there are a number of dual-WAN routers on the market. I am familiar with a couple of Netopia units which allow both WAN fail-over and balancing. The links are not bound, which means your download speed is limited by the capacity of whichever pipe gets your download.
Load-balancing and fail-over can be a problem if you are expecting incoming traffic (web serving, etc.), as each pipe will have a different IP address. It may be possible to mitigate this using a dynamic DNS approach, but you are still bound to run into issues, even if only temporary.
Then there is always dial-up. Nine times out of 10, a DSL outage does not mean the POTS is down. So if you are okay cruising at 56k on a good USRobotics Courier until DSL comes back up, you will be hard pressed to find a modern consumer-grade OTS router which supports this. Several of the WRT54G models have provisions for a serial port, but I have not been able to determine if any open source router firmware supports dial-out.
I have been using my trusty SMC Barricade 7008ABR for many years now over DSL (and cable for a VERY short time -- I despise ComCast) with a 56k dial-up for fail-over. I tested it with a Sony Ericsson T637 (GPRS) over serial connection, but the cable (or the phone) is apparently missing a signal the Barricade requires (CTS, perhaps, I never dug into this) and refuses to dial. The biggest draw-back to this particular setup is the required use of TZO's dynamic DNS service, which is $25/yr, rather than a free or custom DNS service like DynDNS.
Read that as "60 yr old tech instructor without a sense of humor." Seriously, these "offensive" folks really step out too far.
I knew a quad who tried to apply for a license plate "CRIPPLE". They refused saying someone might be offended. Seriously, HE wasn't offended!
None the less, if we keep eliminating useful combinations of letter because it is an offensive acronym, we might just take down the whole damn system by assigning some offensive verbage to everything we see.
So there are 20% of Americans who wonder why in the world Hormel would be sending canned ham to people, and still complain about the amount of junk mail they receive via the USPS.
Gotta go along with this one. RDA is not looking as old as he is, so I think he could easily pull it off.
Although, I am concerned that his inventions will be limited to pulleys and other non-explosive, non-projectile type doohickeys since any of those could be a formula for a terrorist plot. Shyt, even a laser pointer can be a weapon any more.::shakes head::
You insensitive clod... you beat me to the mullet. heheh I was watching the DVDs a while back, first time in years, and it suddenly hit me, as well as the disbelief that it had not already:
MacGyver had a mullet!!
But, of course, if anyone could pull it off, it would be MacGyver. Imagine SG-1 if Richard sported the MacGyver trademark. BOY HOWDY!
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The Commodore 64 version of "Ghostbusters" was pretty good, as I recall. I might have a working disk around here somewhere... time to play again!
All sides have dirty hands in that, from the very beginning.
This meltdown has nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans failing us. It has to do with the black-box government as a whole failing us.
Perhaps our representatives could, at some point, get back to the job of representing us.
AmiDock. It's been around for a LOOOOONG time.
http://aminet.net/search.php?query=amidock
I will bite on this one... sure, we are fine with giving out credentials to someone who only partly knows the material and the application thereof. Well, until your life depends on said individual.
As far as knowledge of 70% of the material versus 30% and so on might go in argument, I prefer to know that a student can apply the knowledge in a practical situation. I have often performed much better in subjects in which I had to provide practical examples of application and analysis versus regurgitation of provided fact and detail. If you learn how to apply, the fact and detail simply fall into place; and I have seen this numerous times in my own education, observation of education (especially against these damned standardized tests,) and while tutoring.
If dodgy politicians cannot be held accountable, why should we expect anyone else? If the upcoming generation does not get held personally accountable for its own failures, shortcomings, ineptitudes, or behavior, then they will not be disappointed when the current and former generations skip out on accountability for the same.
If you teach the newcomers that "bad" things happen to victims, then when you get caught stealing millions, you either did it because you were victimized by someone, or the whole process of accountability victimizes you. Either way, it is a win-win situation in which you will be forgiven.
"There is no try..." I have failed more than once in my life, and then ultimately succeeded or discovered that perhaps I was not cut out for what I was failing to accomplish. I have enjoyed my successes much more after having failed. And my poor self-esteem only suffered a minor bruising.
"Bones heal, chicks dig scars, pain is temporary and pride is forever" and other such "nonsense." You fall, you get up, brush yourself off, and you keep going. Yeah, if you wanna cry a little do it, but keep your ass moving forward.
Pansy.
And some start paying to be paddled.
So, at what point do we just start handing out diplomas and degrees to newborns? I mean, we would not want them to try and fail at an education; that might scar their delicate self-esteem. At some point in the near future, mediocrity becomes the standard, and there is no initiative to achieve or strive for excellence, because doing so makes you a show-off, elitist, or you take more than your fair share of the accolades.
Timmy got an F, you got an A. Well, let us just average that together and you both get a C+. OMFG.
You know, I have to wonder if all these stupid putzes that pass rules like this ever had problems succeeding as children and are trying to make up for some neurotic after-effects of a childhood of low achievement, or if perhaps they excelled and feel guilty for having done so and this is some kind of catharsis for their academic guilt.
Either way, it is pretty fucked up. More and more I lean towards home-schooling when I finally find a woman who will have sex with me and, $_DEITY willing, bear a child to me that looks suspiciously like the bag-boy at the local Publix.
I can imagine that good server equipment is much more sturdy than the average rack-geek thinks. That is, of course, unless you're using $299 desktops with server operating systems.
Got a Dimension GX260 running your business of 50 people with the same single IDE hard drive you bought with the system? Leave it inside! Oh, you mean you put a couple of 10k RPM drives with a RAID controller in that box which barely has enough airflow for the base system? Yeah, sure... DON'T cool it and see what happens.
I admire your success and find that one point in particular strikes a chord with myself.
I parallel your programming experience to a degree. In that I started when I was six in TI BASIC and TMS-9900 assembly, then moved forward to other BASIC dialects, 6502 assembly, Pascal, C/++, COBOL, RPG-II, with some PHP and Perl along the way, while most recently picking up a course in Java. However, my past 10 years have not seen me programming professionally other than just what I needed to do here or there, even playing in languages which I only spot-learned (like analyzing ColdFusion code because a customer needed some changes, or poking around VBScript to make system-relevant changes.)
While the mention of that kind of experience impresses some, it often evokes a visceral reaction from others who hold a position "higher" than you, such as teachers, instructors, supervisors, and some management types.
In an interview at a Radio Shack about 15 years ago I related with glee my programming and electronics experience, which I thought relevant to the job, up to that point to the store manager interviewing me. This apparently ruffled him as he asked me what the F1 key does in WordPerfect. I told him, honestly, that I did not know because the WordPerfect I was accustomed to using was mouse-driven.
After he told me F1 was for help, he told me that I was trying to bullshit my way through the interview. I do not know if my follow up reaction was ballsy or careless, but I told him that he was the type of person I would not work for and that MY computer had a REAL "Help" key, then promptly walked out of his office.
I would have appreciated being told that my experiences did not match what he was looking for, but to be told that all I loved and enjoyed learning and doing to that point was bullshit was too far.
Now, I did walk away from that having learned something valuable about other platforms. That I would need to learn more about PCs and Macs and software, and I set about to do so.
On my way out I decided that I would go ahead and pick up a couple of transistors I needed for a project (I do not recall now if it was the RS-232 interface for my Commodore or something else.) I asked the floor manager and he seemed confused, then started asking me what I thought about the Compaq (or whatever brand they were flogging back then) currently on display.
I also learned that some operations do not want employees who know about the technicals of what is being sold, but someone who will just sell.
Today I posses both technical and sales KSAs. (Though I feel like a dirty whore when I have to use buzz-words.)
I use my own bank's bill-pay system, because they take all responsibility. If it says a check is to be to my electric company by the 15th and it isn't, THE BANK calls the electric company and explains the situation, then deposits any late fees into my account.
In the past using my billers' systems has been a nightmare or two.
One double-billed me one month and would not refund the second billing because my next bill would be due by the time the return would process. The bank could not reverse the charge because the payment came in with my authorization.
I've had more than one bill me too early.
And recently my cell phone bill was over $500 in error two months in a row because of a missing billing code on my data plan. All sorts of fecal matter would have hit the fan if those payments had been automatically debited.
And other incidents of which I cannot recall the details.
Unless the biller is willing to take responsibility for errors on its end and IMMEDIATELY return money taken in error, as well as cover whatever fees or damages are incurred due to the error, payments come via bank bill-pay only. And if that is not acceptable, then the account gets closed and I move on.
It is interesting to me how when one politician changes his stance due to recognition of the will of the people, he is vilified as a panderer or "flip-flopper." Yet it is called evolutionary when the other does the same thing.
Could we not just as easily say that both are listening to the people who would put them in office? Or at least letting us think they are listening to us.
I think he meant $2, $02, 0x2, 0x02, or >0002. I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt.
While I'm not getting laid.
His name isn't guy, pal!
'unnecessary inconvenience for both the customer and the cashier'
Because the last thing we should be doing is communicating with each other.
I am not ready to give up just yet. I still love my country and believe in for what it stands (or once stood, anyway.) We can restore our human rights, it just might take a while, and possibly not within my lifetime.
It really does not matter. If the reason for seizing my personal property indefinitely without reasonable suspicion was the "war on drugs," the "war on terror," or the "war on sweaty ass cracks," my reasoning still stands.
Normally I would put together a verbose, and perhaps even eloquent, response to such information. But I can only think of two words.
Bull shit.
We are losing, people. We are losing our rights and there will be more to come. That our own personal property can be seized "to fight terrorism" on the terms presented is absolute, unadulterated, pure and uncut bull shit.
I recall reading in Texas Instruments' programming manuals for the TI-99/4A a table of color combinations which were bad contrast. As well I read some third-party Apple ][ book which listed the same.
Of course, that would be 80s technology video generation using CRTs. Interesting, none the less.
These boxes work very well. You can set either your EVDO/GPRS(EDGE) card as the primary or the backup. Unlimited plans (even if capped at 5GB) are generally anywhere from $20 to $60 a month. If you're okay with paying that as a backup, you should do fine.
From what I have read, OpenWRT supports these devices and would allow you to use either EVDO or a GPRS/EDGE card. Otherwise, you are stuck with the limited support set in a single device per technology. That is, the -ST is EVDO (Sprint) and the -AT is GPRS/3G (AT&T.) The hardware is identical in both, with the exception of the firmware loader which looks for specific headers. There are hacks to make both firmwares work on a single device, if you like hacks.
For load-balancing, there are a number of dual-WAN routers on the market. I am familiar with a couple of Netopia units which allow both WAN fail-over and balancing. The links are not bound, which means your download speed is limited by the capacity of whichever pipe gets your download.
Load-balancing and fail-over can be a problem if you are expecting incoming traffic (web serving, etc.), as each pipe will have a different IP address. It may be possible to mitigate this using a dynamic DNS approach, but you are still bound to run into issues, even if only temporary.
Then there is always dial-up. Nine times out of 10, a DSL outage does not mean the POTS is down. So if you are okay cruising at 56k on a good USRobotics Courier until DSL comes back up, you will be hard pressed to find a modern consumer-grade OTS router which supports this. Several of the WRT54G models have provisions for a serial port, but I have not been able to determine if any open source router firmware supports dial-out.
I have been using my trusty SMC Barricade 7008ABR for many years now over DSL (and cable for a VERY short time -- I despise ComCast) with a 56k dial-up for fail-over. I tested it with a Sony Ericsson T637 (GPRS) over serial connection, but the cable (or the phone) is apparently missing a signal the Barricade requires (CTS, perhaps, I never dug into this) and refuses to dial. The biggest draw-back to this particular setup is the required use of TZO's dynamic DNS service, which is $25/yr, rather than a free or custom DNS service like DynDNS.
Right, then. That is all I have.
Read that as "60 yr old tech instructor without a sense of humor." Seriously, these "offensive" folks really step out too far.
I knew a quad who tried to apply for a license plate "CRIPPLE". They refused saying someone might be offended. Seriously, HE wasn't offended!
None the less, if we keep eliminating useful combinations of letter because it is an offensive acronym, we might just take down the whole damn system by assigning some offensive verbage to everything we see.
Darnit, I am going to have to RTFA. I want to know if they send and receive text messages.
So there are 20% of Americans who wonder why in the world Hormel would be sending canned ham to people, and still complain about the amount of junk mail they receive via the USPS.
Amazing.
Gotta go along with this one. RDA is not looking as old as he is, so I think he could easily pull it off.
::shakes head::
Although, I am concerned that his inventions will be limited to pulleys and other non-explosive, non-projectile type doohickeys since any of those could be a formula for a terrorist plot. Shyt, even a laser pointer can be a weapon any more.
You insensitive clod... you beat me to the mullet. heheh I was watching the DVDs a while back, first time in years, and it suddenly hit me, as well as the disbelief that it had not already:
MacGyver had a mullet!!
But, of course, if anyone could pull it off, it would be MacGyver. Imagine SG-1 if Richard sported the MacGyver trademark. BOY HOWDY!