I wonder what the market cap of linux-based devices is.... You know, all those routers, phones, and widgets that run linux. Aren't ARM CPUs outselling everything else by about 10:1? And a lot of those end up running some variant of linux.....
The whole idea of linux is choice. I run xfce4; once in a fit of stupidy I suggested my wife log in using KDE as it was closer to Windows and not as sparse as XFCE. Bad idea.... Turns out some people (4 for 4 in my family) prefer the sparseness of XFCE to any complicated desktop. I know this will bring forth an avalanche of "What about Ratpoison, Windowmaker, etc, etc, etc?"
Exactly. Run what you like and let the pundits amuse themselves.
Absolutely. And while I don't personally claim to know whether President Obama was born in the U.S., I think the birthers make good points.
Hehe. I grew up under Communism. And I lived in Japan. And I did business with the Koreans and the Chinese. So my opinion is not based on a brain fart but on a fairly decent amount of knowledge of the culture and the politics.
Given the long standing animosity between the Japanese and the Chinese, and the Chinese Gov't's total control of information, now much of this is true and how much is PR to smear Japan?
My personal guess is that it has just enough truth in it to be irrefutable but little basis in actual fact. The chinese immigration goons could just have been told to grab 2 passengers at random and tell them they're contaminated and haul them off to the gulag^W hospital.
It also ignores Nokia's steady market drop. If you take the intersection of WP7 market trends and Nokia's market trends, they will intersect somewhere near 0 in about 2013.
Hehe.... I used to live in Japan. Sometimes Japanese was the only common language I had with other foreigners. It would get some strange looks from the Japanese as well; there's a strong mindset that all foreigners speak English.
OK, content is based on location and user preferences.... Maybe if I'm Japanese I want content in Japanese and not in Swahili? How exactly is this "splintering" the net?
The hardware works just fine, as the upheavals in North Africa have proven.
Catchy name, just made for some pseudo babble in the Sunday papers, but content-free.
Yeah, that worries me. I pay a relatively small amount for 4 phones. Under AT&T's rate plans, I can see my rates go through the roof.
Also, T-Mobile will unlock your phone on request. Lastly, I really like T-Mobile's customer service. They are polite and professional.
The only time I had a billing issue they fixed it, no problem. I've been with them 8 years, and I can see that under this deal I am going to get raped.
I pay $125 a month including all fees. The closest plan I can find with AT&T will cost me $110 plus fees just for the 4 phones. Unlimited messaging is $30, up from T-Mobile's $25. I can expect my cost to go up to about $150/month.... Add to that AT&T's renowned customer service, and I'm one happy customer. Way to go, good deal for the consumer.
Well, I'd say that since Mr. Zuckerberg has made a fortune using other people's work and disrespecting their privacy, turnabout is fair play.... If Facebook rules are good for everyone, then they should be good for everyone. Oh wait, the ordinary rules don't apply to the rich and famous, I forgot.
Really? Do you want your girlfriend to know that you had lunch with that 30-something stunning blonde in the next cube? And that she invited you to have some drinks after "that important meeting"?
I've been married 27 years and I hope that my wife doesn't find out half the things I do. And I am equally sure I don't want to know half the things she does with her own time. Ditto for my kids. Not because we do things that are bad, immoral, or evil. But because they are private.
Privacy is essential to a functioning society. We all have things we want private. Even innocent things, things that don't mean anything except in the context of a suspicious mind.
What you're talking about is a complete sea change in how people interact. Can you give up all jealousy, fear, uncertainty about all your relationships? Maybe I could, because I don't have very strong emotions. But I've known people who are very tightly bound by their emotions and this sort of thing would destroy them.
Yeah... If the college wants you to go, they should pony up for the fare. I had a paper accepted as an undergraduate in Vienna, and my university sprang for the plane ticket (from New Jersey).
It's a good thing for the college, too - you're spreading their name out there.
Page 1. Look at the plots on page 1. Total comp from State & local is $10/hr more than private or Civilian.
If you actually read that report (ie went beyond the pictures):
Compensation cost levels in state and local government should not be directly compared with levels in private industry. Differences between these sectors stem from factors such as variation in work activities and occupational structures. Manufacturing and sales, for example, make up a large part of private industry work activities but are rare in state and local government. Management, professional, and administrative support occupations (including teachers) account for two-thirds of the state and local government workforce, compared with two-fifths of private industry.
Second, according to a recent study at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, education level is higher among government workers than peer private sector, so your comment of "government jobs are good for people in relatively low-skilled jobs" makes me think you're either making everything up or worse, people in government are reaching for jobs not to their ability yet wanting to be paid like they are working to their ability.
Actually it's the opposite. A lot of government workers have education and experience beyond the level required for the job, and while using it aren't getting compensated for it. We get people with masters degrees applying for technician jobs that require an associates or 2 years experience.
Anyway, government jobs are cushy in a recession, and crap in boom times. If government jobs are so well paid and so great, go ahead and apply for one. In a year or so, there will be plenty of openings that no one will want because private sector will pay more.
Before you spout, do your homework. While government jobs are good for people in relatively low-skilled jobs, most government workers are paid less than equivalent civil sector workers. The divergence grows as you get more experience and seniority. Show me one job in the civil sector where you run a department or bureau with 500 employees and make less than $150K.
I'm not especially pro-union, but without unions government workers would be subject to the whim of every politician out there.
Lastly, union activity is typically specifically allowed on government networks provided it is outside of work hours. So it's legal on lunch breaks, before and after work, etc. Union organizers are allowed to use government networks to disseminate information essential to the union members.
Governments also have strict limits on curtailing speech.
So it's a dick move, that violates employer-employee trust, and most likely the first amendment and union agreements.
I use a small local ISP. When my server got blocked because it was in a block of IPs normally assigned as dynamic, I called them, explained the situation, and they assigned me a fixed IP from another block.
Sure, I could save $20/month by using comcast, but I talk to a real engineer who sits at a desk 60 miles from me. What's more they actually understand what I'm talking about. When one of their routers took a dump, and I traced my failure to it, they took my traceroutes seriously and dispatched a crew.
YMMV but I get better service, support a local business, and I get the services I pay for.
So your kid knows that if they want to visit the latest "hot site" they have to go to a friend's house.
Quit kidding yourself; computers are legion, and all they need is an ipod, and a visit to the local coffee shop and they've completely circumvented your logger.
Except that that the boy scouts won't prepare you for being gay....
Otherwise I agree with you mostly. Prepare your kids, tell them there are bad corners on the internet, use OpenDNS to block access to the really bad places, and keep communication going.
Praise your kids for doing the right thing, and punish them for screwing up. (No, I don't mean beat them; make sure they know that mistakes have consequences.)
But a keylogger won't help. We have kids who come to our house to update their facebook page because their parents won't let them access facebook. Kids will treat censorship as damage, and route around it. Unless the chief is advocating keylogging every computer your child may come in contact with, it will not work.
And no, I'm not a childless geek; I've got two right now who are doing pretty well, who make decisions themselves and strive to do the right thing, and aren't afraid to talk to us.
Over time the homosexual is no different than women. At first they enjoy sex, then they learn that they are able to use sex to get what they want, then they find that they get stuck in situations where they no longer wish to have sex with someone (or feel obligated to be directed to have sex with someone else), but they need to continue to do it because their director/partner has significant control over their social and financial lives.
Yeah, that. And it's the UI on the smartphones; most of them just plain suck for anything but texts and maybe checking the weather. OK, playing games. Maybe if you have little fingers like my kids; but an older guy that's got big hands - the smartphones are just a big exercise in frustration.
I have 4 dumb phones in the family for $100/mo. I can't even get a single smart phone for that.
It's bad, and no one knows what's in it. We should not be injecting stuff into the ground, period. And I say this as someone with 25 years experience in water resources engineering.
At what cost? That method involves breaking rock under high pressure, by using gas, water, sometimes mixed with chemicals.
I'm sorry, but I don't think that we should be cracking rock and injecting crap into the ground, especially in a region that's already critically short of groundwater.
The fractured rock creates new pathways for water to migrate, and for pollutants to get around, and in general to fuck up acquifers in a region that may well be uninhabitable due to a lack of water in the near future.
You're going for funny, but the women were mostly treated like crap by the military brass once the war ended. Look up the history of the female test pilots and trainers. They were typically given the worst jobs, many died on the job, and at the end of the war they got a pink slip and no recognition or benefits. The men OTOH were given parades, VA benefits, pensions, you name it.
It's a pretty shitty part of US history and I'm glad that someone is finally recognizing the role of women in early technology.
Stable? At the last election, government forces killed some 36 people demonstrating against vote fraud.
That's not the mark of a stable government; that's a mark of a totalitarian regime that will kill to stay in power.
That's why it's bad when they get nukes.
I for one believe that trade is the best binder; sooner or later we won't be able to go to war against China because we simply won't have the industrial base to support ourselves (and I'm not talking weapons but shoes. How long would a US president last if the voters couldn't buy shoes? )
Let's bind Iran in a web of trade so they can't go to war with us. The problem is that we really don't have anything they want....
Usually the key question is about the "offering" not about the "doing". The complaint seems to hinge on the idea that the quality of work presented could have been done by an engineer, but was not. Therefore, the regulators could be misled into believing that it was done by an engineer. Too bad. Nothing in the law says that Joe can't do work that's equal in quality to an engineer; it just says that Joe can't call himself an engineer and offer to sell engineering services to the public. The law is usually very clear on that.
Now if Mr. Cox said, "I'm a licensed engineer, I'll do the analysis" that would be different, but that's not what I read in the article.
If he said, "I know network theory and congestion theory, and I can do the analysis" that's OK.
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I wonder what the market cap of linux-based devices is.... You know, all those routers, phones, and widgets that run linux. Aren't ARM CPUs outselling everything else by about 10:1? And a lot of those end up running some variant of linux.....
The whole idea of linux is choice. I run xfce4; once in a fit of stupidy I suggested my wife log in using KDE as it was closer to Windows and not as sparse as XFCE. Bad idea.... Turns out some people (4 for 4 in my family) prefer the sparseness of XFCE to any complicated desktop. I know this will bring forth an avalanche of "What about Ratpoison, Windowmaker, etc, etc, etc?"
Exactly. Run what you like and let the pundits amuse themselves.
Absolutely. And while I don't personally claim to know whether President Obama was born in the U.S., I think the birthers make good points.
Hehe. I grew up under Communism. And I lived in Japan. And I did business with the Koreans and the Chinese. So my opinion is not based on a brain fart but on a fairly decent amount of knowledge of the culture and the politics.
Given the long standing animosity between the Japanese and the Chinese, and the Chinese Gov't's total control of information, now much of this is true and how much is PR to smear Japan?
My personal guess is that it has just enough truth in it to be irrefutable but little basis in actual fact. The chinese immigration goons could just have been told to grab 2 passengers at random and tell them they're contaminated and haul them off to the gulag^W hospital.
It also ignores Nokia's steady market drop. If you take the intersection of WP7 market trends and Nokia's market trends, they will intersect somewhere near 0 in about 2013.
Hehe.... I used to live in Japan. Sometimes Japanese was the only common language I had with other foreigners. It would get some strange looks from the Japanese as well; there's a strong mindset that all foreigners speak English.
The guy's confusing content with hardware....
OK, content is based on location and user preferences.... Maybe if I'm Japanese I want content in Japanese and not in Swahili? How exactly is this "splintering" the net?
The hardware works just fine, as the upheavals in North Africa have proven.
Catchy name, just made for some pseudo babble in the Sunday papers, but content-free.
So quit whining on ./ and send email to the FCC. Don't forget to include name address, and phone #.
Include hard numbers, quoting rate plans and service levels.
http://www.fcc.gov/contacts.html
Yeah, that worries me. I pay a relatively small amount for 4 phones. Under AT&T's rate plans, I can see my rates go through the roof.
Also, T-Mobile will unlock your phone on request. Lastly, I really like T-Mobile's customer service. They are polite and professional.
The only time I had a billing issue they fixed it, no problem. I've been with them 8 years, and I can see that under this deal I am going to get raped.
I pay $125 a month including all fees. The closest plan I can find with AT&T will cost me $110 plus fees just for the 4 phones. Unlimited messaging is $30, up from T-Mobile's $25. I can expect my cost to go up to about $150/month.... Add to that AT&T's renowned customer service, and I'm one happy customer. Way to go, good deal for the consumer.
Well, I'd say that since Mr. Zuckerberg has made a fortune using other people's work and disrespecting their privacy, turnabout is fair play.... If Facebook rules are good for everyone, then they should be good for everyone. Oh wait, the ordinary rules don't apply to the rich and famous, I forgot.
Really? Do you want your girlfriend to know that you had lunch with that 30-something stunning blonde in the next cube? And that she invited you to have some drinks after "that important meeting"?
I've been married 27 years and I hope that my wife doesn't find out half the things I do. And I am equally sure I don't want to know half the things she does with her own time. Ditto for my kids. Not because we do things that are bad, immoral, or evil. But because they are private.
Privacy is essential to a functioning society. We all have things we want private. Even innocent things, things that don't mean anything except in the context of a suspicious mind.
What you're talking about is a complete sea change in how people interact. Can you give up all jealousy, fear, uncertainty about all your relationships? Maybe I could, because I don't have very strong emotions. But I've known people who are very tightly bound by their emotions and this sort of thing would destroy them.
Yeah... If the college wants you to go, they should pony up for the fare. I had a paper accepted as an undergraduate in Vienna, and my university sprang for the plane ticket (from New Jersey).
It's a good thing for the college, too - you're spreading their name out there.
"most government workers are paid less than equivalent civil sector workers"
Bull. Shit.
Do your own homework. Why let facts get in the way of your lie?
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf
Page 1. Look at the plots on page 1. Total comp from State & local is $10/hr more than private or Civilian.
If you actually read that report (ie went beyond the pictures):
Compensation cost levels in state and local government should not be directly compared with levels in
private industry. Differences between these sectors stem from factors such as variation in work
activities and occupational structures. Manufacturing and sales, for example, make up a large part of
private industry work activities but are rare in state and local government. Management, professional,
and administrative support occupations (including teachers) account for two-thirds of the state and local
government workforce, compared with two-fifths of private industry.
Second, according to a recent study at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, education level is higher among government workers than peer private sector, so your comment of "government jobs are good for people in relatively low-skilled jobs" makes me think you're either making everything up or worse, people in government are reaching for jobs not to their ability yet wanting to be paid like they are working to their ability.
Actually it's the opposite. A lot of government workers have education and experience beyond the level required for the job, and while using it aren't getting compensated for it. We get people with masters degrees applying for technician jobs that require an associates or 2 years experience.
Anyway, government jobs are cushy in a recession, and crap in boom times. If government jobs are so well paid and so great, go ahead and apply for one. In a year or so, there will be plenty of openings that no one will want because private sector will pay more.
Before you spout, do your homework. While government jobs are good for people in relatively low-skilled jobs, most government workers are paid less than equivalent civil sector workers. The divergence grows as you get more experience and seniority. Show me one job in the civil sector where you run a department or bureau with 500 employees and make less than $150K.
I'm not especially pro-union, but without unions government workers would be subject to the whim of every politician out there.
Lastly, union activity is typically specifically allowed on government networks provided it is outside of work hours. So it's legal on lunch breaks, before and after work, etc. Union organizers are allowed to use government networks to disseminate information essential to the union members.
Governments also have strict limits on curtailing speech.
So it's a dick move, that violates employer-employee trust, and most likely the first amendment and union agreements.
I use a small local ISP. When my server got blocked because it was in a block of IPs normally assigned as dynamic, I called them, explained the situation, and they assigned me a fixed IP from another block.
Sure, I could save $20/month by using comcast, but I talk to a real engineer who sits at a desk 60 miles from me. What's more they actually understand what I'm talking about. When one of their routers took a dump, and I traced my failure to it, they took my traceroutes seriously and dispatched a crew.
YMMV but I get better service, support a local business, and I get the services I pay for.
So your kid knows that if they want to visit the latest "hot site" they have to go to a friend's house.
Quit kidding yourself; computers are legion, and all they need is an ipod, and a visit to the local coffee shop and they've completely circumvented your logger.
Except that that the boy scouts won't prepare you for being gay....
Otherwise I agree with you mostly. Prepare your kids, tell them there are bad corners on the internet, use OpenDNS to block access to the really bad places, and keep communication going.
Praise your kids for doing the right thing, and punish them for screwing up. (No, I don't mean beat them; make sure they know that mistakes have consequences.)
But a keylogger won't help. We have kids who come to our house to update their facebook page because their parents won't let them access facebook. Kids will treat censorship as damage, and route around it. Unless the chief is advocating keylogging every computer your child may come in contact with, it will not work.
And no, I'm not a childless geek; I've got two right now who are doing pretty well, who make decisions themselves and strive to do the right thing, and aren't afraid to talk to us.
Over time the homosexual is no different than women. At first they enjoy sex, then they learn that they are able to use sex to get what they want, then they find that they get stuck in situations where they no longer wish to have sex with someone (or feel obligated to be directed to have sex with someone else), but they need to continue to do it because their director/partner has significant control over their social and financial lives.
Damn I sure wish your mom had been celibate.
I'd be happy if Google let me filter my stuff through OpenDNS. If I have blocked there, I don't want to hit it in my searches.
Yeah, that. And it's the UI on the smartphones; most of them just plain suck for anything but texts and maybe checking the weather. OK, playing games. Maybe if you have little fingers like my kids; but an older guy that's got big hands - the smartphones are just a big exercise in frustration.
I have 4 dumb phones in the family for $100/mo. I can't even get a single smart phone for that.
Did you actually read that wikipedia article?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing#Environmental_and_health_effects
It's bad, and no one knows what's in it. We should not be injecting stuff into the ground, period. And I say this as someone with 25 years experience in water resources engineering.
At what cost? That method involves breaking rock under high pressure, by using gas, water, sometimes mixed with chemicals.
I'm sorry, but I don't think that we should be cracking rock and injecting crap into the ground, especially in a region that's already critically short of groundwater.
The fractured rock creates new pathways for water to migrate, and for pollutants to get around, and in general to fuck up acquifers in a region that may well be uninhabitable due to a lack of water in the near future.
You're going for funny, but the women were mostly treated like crap by the military brass once the war ended. Look up the history of the female test pilots and trainers. They were typically given the worst jobs, many died on the job, and at the end of the war they got a pink slip and no recognition or benefits. The men OTOH were given parades, VA benefits, pensions, you name it.
It's a pretty shitty part of US history and I'm glad that someone is finally recognizing the role of women in early technology.
Stable? At the last election, government forces killed some 36 people demonstrating against vote fraud.
That's not the mark of a stable government; that's a mark of a totalitarian regime that will kill to stay in power.
That's why it's bad when they get nukes.
I for one believe that trade is the best binder; sooner or later we won't be able to go to war against China because we simply won't have the industrial base to support ourselves (and I'm not talking weapons but shoes. How long would a US president last if the voters couldn't buy shoes? )
Let's bind Iran in a web of trade so they can't go to war with us. The problem is that we really don't have anything they want....
Usually the key question is about the "offering" not about the "doing". The complaint seems to hinge on the idea that the quality of work presented could have been done by an engineer, but was not. Therefore, the regulators could be misled into believing that it was done by an engineer. Too bad. Nothing in the law says that Joe can't do work that's equal in quality to an engineer; it just says that Joe can't call himself an engineer and offer to sell engineering services to the public. The law is usually very clear on that.
Now if Mr. Cox said, "I'm a licensed engineer, I'll do the analysis" that would be different, but that's not what I read in the article.
If he said, "I know network theory and congestion theory, and I can do the analysis" that's OK.