With ammo being 5x more expensive, the cheapest AR costing $400ish vs a decent 22 for half that or less, plus increased noise, increased safety issues, etc. your uncle would probably be still using the same 22lr rifle he'd been using way back when, unless it broke. Even then he'd more likely spend $200 on a new 10/22 than $400+ on an AR15.
That said, I know of several farmers that DO use AR-15s (and other evil scary black rifles) around the farm, but they are animal farmers/ranchers, not crop farmers, and they are protecting their cows, sheep, goats, and horses from coyotes, not picking off rabbits that have gotten into the bean crop....
Single shot isn't a requirement. Neither is a serial, although a serial is recommended just to save hassles with range fudds who think they know the law (I have 4 guns w/o serials, serials weren't required on rifles/shotguns until 1968) and cops. And with the cops, you'll beat the rap but you never beat the ride....
As a counter point, I know the place I work spent more on half high fancy cloth partition walls for 2 cubes than sufficient 2x4s and drywall would've cost. Re-use nice industrial steel and glass doors that they removed as part of the renovation.
Instead, we've had infighting, risks of FERPA violations, had to close off a faculty lab to move a team there, our office space for 8 cubicles has 3 people working in it, and 3 more in a former lab space that has most of their cubicles set up in it.
Since the fall out of all of that also got a department head to quit and it isn't likely they will replace that position for a year or so, I guess it is saving some money - whatever that salary was....
So I guess one of my favorite statements you made in "Revolution OS" is no longer quite accurate then, huh?
"Now if you're like just a guy on the net who's not doing this for a job at all and you sort of write a manifesto and it spreads out through the world and a year later the vice-president of Microsoft is talking about it you'd think you were on drugs wouldn't you?"
That's OK - I still like it:)
For those bashing Bruce over this, or pointing out that he's Somebody and so "its different", I'd like to remind them that there are other Somebody's that post here, or reddit, or on fark, or on specific forums (like a Porsche one I'm part of - Jerry S. is a member, but the user named "Jerry S." is someone else - or a gun forum where Keanu Reeves may be hanging out) who DO want to be relatively anonymous, and just be a Regular Joe for a little part of their lives.
I agree, I really liked my "slim" version. One of the best MS products I've ever used. And likely the only one I'd actually pay for for myself to use (using Office365 at work doesn't count in my book)
I remember in a old Dragon magazine a comic, maybe Phil Foglio did it, about the Tolkien estate coming after them. "The phone is circular metal band-ing - can someone answer it?!"
Huh. I don't use Uber, but if I did, it would be nice knowing my driver has a CCW permit. This means that he/she has undergone a true background investigation, with finger prints run, etc. Did you know that here in the US CCW permit holders tend to be more law abiding than even police officers?
Or since the desktop OS hasn't been the "killer app" of Microsoft (Office is, or the server products) and since Office365 runs fine on Chrome under Linux....
OK, I understand what a journal is and why they are there - after all a somewhat centralized publishing system for scientific papers makes sense. And I can see someone submitting a paper, just so it will be distributed to their peers.
But with the Internet being part of academia, etc. for several decades now, how is that NEW journals are starting up? Do these brilliant scientific minds, researchers, etc. not know how to "Export to PDF" and upload to a web server? Do the institutions and corporations these people work for not have some help desk flunky that can do it for them?
There is no/minimal review of submissions (I've seen quite a few "spoof paper published by..." articles here on/.), they cost teh subscribers a lot, etc. What is the upside for NEW stuff? Again, I somewhat understand older journals that have extensive pre-electronic archives, etc.
Or is this just a self correcting problem, and once the luddites die or retire out things will be all web based and relatively freely accessible? Just think, in 30 years people will be flopping back and forth between JournalSpace and InstaArticle and FaceJournal, with a few hold outs posting on a simple webserver
Cheap cafeteria grade metal forks/knives/spoons are cheap when bought in larger quantities (50-75cents each). Raise the price of a meal by $1, and either offer $1 when the utensil is returned later that day or a $1 discount if the patron brought their own.
Hrm... my dad taught speech/language development and was actively researching "baby talk" (on the baby's side, not the parent's side), bilingual environments, and developments of speech impediments (stuttering, etc)... so there is at least one use case for someone with a PhD in Linguistics to deal wtih "goo goo gah gah" type language:)
While there is fiber strung right in front of my house, it is coming from the wrong phone exchange. I'm lucky that I get 6mb down/1lb up DSL...
WIth the kids simply streaming youtube/netflix/etc and not accessing anything internal to the house network except a printer the pi is certainly fast enough for what I need/want it to do.
I'm double NAT-ing/routing my kids traffic (only way I can do any kind of traffic control to reserve me some bandwidth for my school work and job) with a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian, handles that load fine. Wonder when we'll see something similar meant for routing and wifi AP setup, etc.
If you don't care about power consumption, then an older PC and a few network cards and your preferred flavor of Linux or one of the BSDs.
In the mean time, double ++ to a decent piece of commodity hardware and a Free OS to run on it.
This. My kids handle MATE just fine, my youngest started at about 5 to being able to log in and launch chrome, which had her home page set to her favorite cartoon-branded web game of the day|week|month
Icons are good and easy - for the youngest set, simply put shortcuts to everything on the desktop and make teh desktop directory read-only (prevent accidental deletion)
Especially since Linus himself answered the question during the filming of RevolutionOS -
Interviewer: -If some people asked you to describe this GNU/Linux, I mean, whatâ(TM)s your thought about this, does that justify, orâ¦
Linus Torvalds: -Well, I think itâ(TM)s justified, but itâ(TM)s justified if you actually make a GNU distribution on Linux. The same way that I think that Red Hat Linux is fine, or SuSE Linux, or Debian Linux, because if you actually make your own distribution of Linux, you get to name the thing. But calling Linux in general GNU/Linux, I think itâ(TM)s just ridiculous.
And since I run my own domain, I can give each company their own address. This way I know who sells off that bit of info (or got hacked) and if I try to unsubscribe and it isn't honored I can kill off that address.
Rare? On the technical and programming stacks, probably. But remember there are things like "inter personal relations" stacks now. And the few times I've seen an interesting question I head to the hills when I see things like "accepted pronouns:...." at the end of a post - no matter what those pronouns are.
Me too. But now I'm chasing that piece of paper so I can move up in the world. This time next week I'll have taken 3 more finals, then just 4 more classes to go for a BS in software dev. Then on to find a masters of some sort, thinking of something project management related....
Why? Well, I work at a college and teach as an adjunct but what I can teach is limited to certificate/AS only - anything that would be accepted by a university I have to have a BS/BA plus be working on a masters, and must have masters to start tenure track (I'll retire out by then...)
But also the days of having only experience and no degree and making it past HR to someone who can really evaluate your skills are over for the most part.
Not sure about Real Unix (I've only played with the BSDs a little as CLI-only vms) but the differences between OS X and Linux when you hit the command line are pretty interesting - and annoying. Things like "user preference directories for Firefox and VirtualBox and... are possibly in 3 different places, with no consistency". My Linux workstation died last December, I grabbed a nice older iMac (mid-2011) with 16gb ram and tried using OS X for 2 weeks, using my normal applications since they are all cross platform or have drop in near identical replacements. Wiped the drive,installed Debian, restored my ~/ and haven't looked back. Nice hardware. LOVE the monitor, and I'm afraid to look at the new ones the graphics guys down the hall have (I can't afford to go buy one....). The OS though is just Too Different for me to deal with when I'm busy with trying to get back to being productive at work.
Indeed. Physical plant stuff (building maintenance, grounds, janitorial, etc) is seen as part of infrastructure. But most of IT (except telephones I would guess) is seen as a cost center, when it should be considered core infrastructure just like your physical buildings.
I work in education with online and reduced seat time classes. I pointed out to the Provost that with the number of "seats" and sections we offer, and the number of employees we have, the licensing and support costs of the software we use, we break even on all costs due to $10/credit "distance learning fee" (on the other hand, we can't charge lab fees, etc - it works out about the same). To build a building to house a similar number of students/enrollments/courses/sections/etc would run about $5mil plus annual maintenance costs, electric/water usage, more folks for janitorial services, etc.
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Ummm... No.
With ammo being 5x more expensive, the cheapest AR costing $400ish vs a decent 22 for half that or less, plus increased noise, increased safety issues, etc. your uncle would probably be still using the same 22lr rifle he'd been using way back when, unless it broke. Even then he'd more likely spend $200 on a new 10/22 than $400+ on an AR15.
That said, I know of several farmers that DO use AR-15s (and other evil scary black rifles) around the farm, but they are animal farmers/ranchers, not crop farmers, and they are protecting their cows, sheep, goats, and horses from coyotes, not picking off rabbits that have gotten into the bean crop....
Single shot isn't a requirement. Neither is a serial, although a serial is recommended just to save hassles with range fudds who think they know the law (I have 4 guns w/o serials, serials weren't required on rifles/shotguns until 1968) and cops. And with the cops, you'll beat the rap but you never beat the ride....
As a counter point, I know the place I work spent more on half high fancy cloth partition walls for 2 cubes than sufficient 2x4s and drywall would've cost. Re-use nice industrial steel and glass doors that they removed as part of the renovation.
Instead, we've had infighting, risks of FERPA violations, had to close off a faculty lab to move a team there, our office space for 8 cubicles has 3 people working in it, and 3 more in a former lab space that has most of their cubicles set up in it.
Since the fall out of all of that also got a department head to quit and it isn't likely they will replace that position for a year or so, I guess it is saving some money - whatever that salary was....
So I guess one of my favorite statements you made in "Revolution OS" is no longer quite accurate then, huh?
"Now if you're like just a guy on the net who's not doing this for a job at all and you sort of write a manifesto and it spreads out through the
world and a year later the vice-president of Microsoft is talking about it you'd think you were on drugs wouldn't you?"
That's OK - I still like it :)
For those bashing Bruce over this, or pointing out that he's Somebody and so "its different", I'd like to remind them that there are other Somebody's that post here, or reddit, or on fark, or on specific forums (like a Porsche one I'm part of - Jerry S. is a member, but the user named "Jerry S." is someone else - or a gun forum where Keanu Reeves may be hanging out) who DO want to be relatively anonymous, and just be a Regular Joe for a little part of their lives.
I agree, I really liked my "slim" version. One of the best MS products I've ever used. And likely the only one I'd actually pay for for myself to use (using Office365 at work doesn't count in my book)
Isn't Type 1 what most kids who are diabetic have?
Won't someone think of the children?!?
seems quite appropriate here.
I remember in a old Dragon magazine a comic, maybe Phil Foglio did it, about the Tolkien estate coming after them. "The phone is circular metal band-ing - can someone answer it?!"
I was gonna ask if this is the typically "we pulled 300m in box office sales first weekend but only made 63 cents" Hollywood accounting...
Huh. I don't use Uber, but if I did, it would be nice knowing my driver has a CCW permit. This means that he/she has undergone a true background investigation, with finger prints run, etc. Did you know that here in the US CCW permit holders tend to be more law abiding than even police officers?
Or since the desktop OS hasn't been the "killer app" of Microsoft (Office is, or the server products) and since Office365 runs fine on Chrome under Linux....
OK, I understand what a journal is and why they are there - after all a somewhat centralized publishing system for scientific papers makes sense. And I can see someone submitting a paper, just so it will be distributed to their peers.
But with the Internet being part of academia, etc. for several decades now, how is that NEW journals are starting up? Do these brilliant scientific minds, researchers, etc. not know how to "Export to PDF" and upload to a web server? Do the institutions and corporations these people work for not have some help desk flunky that can do it for them?
There is no/minimal review of submissions (I've seen quite a few "spoof paper published by ..." articles here on /.), they cost teh subscribers a lot, etc. What is the upside for NEW stuff? Again, I somewhat understand older journals that have extensive pre-electronic archives, etc.
Or is this just a self correcting problem, and once the luddites die or retire out things will be all web based and relatively freely accessible? Just think, in 30 years people will be flopping back and forth between JournalSpace and InstaArticle and FaceJournal, with a few hold outs posting on a simple webserver
Cheap cafeteria grade metal forks/knives/spoons are cheap when bought in larger quantities (50-75cents each). Raise the price of a meal by $1, and either offer $1 when the utensil is returned later that day or a $1 discount if the patron brought their own.
Hrm... my dad taught speech/language development and was actively researching "baby talk" (on the baby's side, not the parent's side), bilingual environments, and developments of speech impediments (stuttering, etc)... so there is at least one use case for someone with a PhD in Linguistics to deal wtih "goo goo gah gah" type language :)
While there is fiber strung right in front of my house, it is coming from the wrong phone exchange. I'm lucky that I get 6mb down/1lb up DSL...
WIth the kids simply streaming youtube/netflix/etc and not accessing anything internal to the house network except a printer the pi is certainly fast enough for what I need/want it to do.
I'm double NAT-ing/routing my kids traffic (only way I can do any kind of traffic control to reserve me some bandwidth for my school work and job) with a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian, handles that load fine. Wonder when we'll see something similar meant for routing and wifi AP setup, etc.
If you don't care about power consumption, then an older PC and a few network cards and your preferred flavor of Linux or one of the BSDs.
In the mean time, double ++ to a decent piece of commodity hardware and a Free OS to run on it.
This. My kids handle MATE just fine, my youngest started at about 5 to being able to log in and launch chrome, which had her home page set to her favorite cartoon-branded web game of the day|week|month
Icons are good and easy - for the youngest set, simply put shortcuts to everything on the desktop and make teh desktop directory read-only (prevent accidental deletion)
Especially since Linus himself answered the question during the filming of RevolutionOS -
And since I run my own domain, I can give each company their own address. This way I know who sells off that bit of info (or got hacked) and if I try to unsubscribe and it isn't honored I can kill off that address.
Rare? On the technical and programming stacks, probably. But remember there are things like "inter personal relations" stacks now. And the few times I've seen an interesting question I head to the hills when I see things like "accepted pronouns: ...." at the end of a post - no matter what those pronouns are.
Me too. But now I'm chasing that piece of paper so I can move up in the world. This time next week I'll have taken 3 more finals, then just 4 more classes to go for a BS in software dev. Then on to find a masters of some sort, thinking of something project management related....
Why? Well, I work at a college and teach as an adjunct but what I can teach is limited to certificate/AS only - anything that would be accepted by a university I have to have a BS/BA plus be working on a masters, and must have masters to start tenure track (I'll retire out by then...)
But also the days of having only experience and no degree and making it past HR to someone who can really evaluate your skills are over for the most part.
Mostly with restoring settings/profile data from my Linux system for the same apps under OS X - like Firefox, Thunderbird, Geany, Netbeans, etc
Not sure about Real Unix (I've only played with the BSDs a little as CLI-only vms) but the differences between OS X and Linux when you hit the command line are pretty interesting - and annoying. Things like "user preference directories for Firefox and VirtualBox and ... are possibly in 3 different places, with no consistency". My Linux workstation died last December, I grabbed a nice older iMac (mid-2011) with 16gb ram and tried using OS X for 2 weeks, using my normal applications since they are all cross platform or have drop in near identical replacements. Wiped the drive,installed Debian, restored my ~/ and haven't looked back. Nice hardware. LOVE the monitor, and I'm afraid to look at the new ones the graphics guys down the hall have (I can't afford to go buy one....). The OS though is just Too Different for me to deal with when I'm busy with trying to get back to being productive at work.
Indeed. Physical plant stuff (building maintenance, grounds, janitorial, etc) is seen as part of infrastructure. But most of IT (except telephones I would guess) is seen as a cost center, when it should be considered core infrastructure just like your physical buildings.
I work in education with online and reduced seat time classes. I pointed out to the Provost that with the number of "seats" and sections we offer, and the number of employees we have, the licensing and support costs of the software we use, we break even on all costs due to $10/credit "distance learning fee" (on the other hand, we can't charge lab fees, etc - it works out about the same). To build a building to house a similar number of students/enrollments/courses/sections/etc would run about $5mil plus annual maintenance costs, electric/water usage, more folks for janitorial services, etc.
Guess that is the cue to mention the coelacanth