I do not believe it to be an ignorant assertion to suggest that we have limited time and space in our life to worry about things, and therefore one must aggressively prioritize those issues based on relevance and probability. I also do not believe it to be ignorant to suggest that this is the fundamental difference between 'child' and 'man'.
You have correctly identified that the chance of such events as noted above are nearly zero. The fact that they are nonzero is notable but irrelevant. It doesn't change the calculus.
We are free to be unconcerned about real issues and to worry about things that do not have relevance to us when we are children. When we take on the onus of manhood, we must prioritize, and these are way below the radar for me. There are people who depend on me for livelihood (ironically, above someone made reference to not having a girlfriend, in fact I have an ex-wife, a girlfriend and 2 children aged 14 and 11), and I would be letting them down if I were paying too much attention to stupid stuff that has no relevance. I need to make money and make sure they are all living well.
Only children think in terms of the worst things that could happen to them. Every day, when I leave my house, I could get run over by a bus. I could get ass raped in a jail after being unfairly imprisoned by a cop for a crime I didn't commit. My house could be robbed. My person could be robbed. My car could have a molotov cocktail thrown at it. I could catch some nasty disease from a toilet seat.
Note I spend about zero time thinking about these things because the chances of them happening to me are about nil. Ditto having my laptop searched. What are they going to find, my porn stash? WTF do I care, really. It's not worth a moment of my life to worry about.
I retort: Maybe you should grow up and worry about things that are important, like where your next meal is coming from. I hear that it's growing fashionable now.
Yes, because it remained a lowball offer and would have resulted in the mass flight of whatever good employees Yahoo had anyway. Also, becoming part of Microsoft is not real high on the list of independent organizations' ambitions. Ask Bungie, for instance.
Did you ever use it? I ran it for 9 months. Short answer: it's slow. Very slow. Performance is lousy, and if an operating system's performance is that much slower than a previous version, it sucks. I am not concerned about the DRM issues so much, just performance.
There were some good points: graphically it was nice, and I liked some of the UI enhancements, but balancing this out was the incompatibility with some software that I need, such as TFTP servers. Also, certain games (intended for XP, not talking ancient 9x software here) that work on XP will not work on Vista, period.
I reformatted the system as an XP box with the same software and it's a peppy performer now - Core Duo laptop with 2GB RAM, fyi.
It wasn't a driver issue or a crapware issue, pretty much apples to apples.
Their policy has been to further customer lock-in as they can. Vista accomplishes this better than XP did with its activation scheme. Hence, they want to push Vista. Making XP look like it is dead furthers their goal.
They're cutting off XP because Vista sucks. That is obvious. This is an attempt to force conversions to Vista by putting an air of inevitability on it. However, the truth is that if people don't use Vista, they can't can XP. No company can afford to kill their source of revenue.
If the OEMs can't sell with XP then companies will start pirating it with VLK versions anyway so... I don't see where Microsoft has any leverage here.
I agree with these comments, working in the same field with a twist.
In addition, you may find poor Ku coverage and issues with host nation agreements in Africa. X band seems to be 'of choice' there, since C band is so crowded.
I'm wondering who is going to be swapping out bucs and LNBs, fixing motors, etc. Hell, getting a good shot in is not unskilled labor.
This doesn't work for one reason. A window unit is always in dehumidification mode. It will suck the moisture out of the room till it is bone dry. However, you really don't want a bone dry server room. Static...
Of course, if the window unit is inadequate, it'll never do the job of dehumidifying, but it also won't cool the room either.
Incidentally, the gold standard here are Liebert units. You'll find them all over. Interestingly enough, the issue for AC in server rooms often revolves around heat transfer. Your window AC unit uses a condenser coil that does simple transfer of the heat to the outside air. This doesn't work in a typical server room. Most quality server room AC units will use chilled water to transfer heat, usually from a water tower.
Totally insensitive to the actual reprecussions of their actions, some GS weenie, probably balding and fat and fearful of doing anything constructive to solve problems because it might screw up his/her next stepping increase in the future, consigns thousands of people to being offline.
This hot air will be used to generate power to directly alleviate our energy crisis. Some of our more lecherous politicians could use their repetitive motion to also generate energy.
The most likely things, I think, would go along the lines of asbestos-related illnesses. It's a foreign substance being added to the body that in many cases is inorganic or not biologically active. Yes, it could cause harm. Maybe it doesn't. Who knows, without research? Why worry if you don't know the result?
If we made every new product go through a massive testing regimen before it was deployed, we'd see no new products for many years. This is one reason why, even with fast tracking the drugs in question, there was no treatment for AIDS for a good 10 years after it was well known to exist and killing people. I suspect that many people died who could have benefitted while the current cocktail of drugs was going through its trials. Applying that level of scrutiny to anything new would result in a veritable dark age where the costs of developing new products became astronomical and the speed of innovation ground to a sluggish crawl.
It sounds less forced than any alternative phrase. Warfighters tend to prefer that to 'troops' or outdated terms from past wars. The obvious ones, like calling Navy personnel 'soldiers', will also make you look stupid.
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I think we've reached that point. Also, the music industry is making money off this. I thought we hated the RIAA?
I do not believe it to be an ignorant assertion to suggest that we have limited time and space in our life to worry about things, and therefore one must aggressively prioritize those issues based on relevance and probability. I also do not believe it to be ignorant to suggest that this is the fundamental difference between 'child' and 'man'.
You have correctly identified that the chance of such events as noted above are nearly zero. The fact that they are nonzero is notable but irrelevant. It doesn't change the calculus.
We are free to be unconcerned about real issues and to worry about things that do not have relevance to us when we are children. When we take on the onus of manhood, we must prioritize, and these are way below the radar for me. There are people who depend on me for livelihood (ironically, above someone made reference to not having a girlfriend, in fact I have an ex-wife, a girlfriend and 2 children aged 14 and 11), and I would be letting them down if I were paying too much attention to stupid stuff that has no relevance. I need to make money and make sure they are all living well.
Only children think in terms of the worst things that could happen to them. Every day, when I leave my house, I could get run over by a bus. I could get ass raped in a jail after being unfairly imprisoned by a cop for a crime I didn't commit. My house could be robbed. My person could be robbed. My car could have a molotov cocktail thrown at it. I could catch some nasty disease from a toilet seat.
Note I spend about zero time thinking about these things because the chances of them happening to me are about nil. Ditto having my laptop searched. What are they going to find, my porn stash? WTF do I care, really. It's not worth a moment of my life to worry about.
I retort: Maybe you should grow up and worry about things that are important, like where your next meal is coming from. I hear that it's growing fashionable now.
OK, i'm not AC and I can tell you that they don't have time to check out laptops at most international airports beyond the aforementioned bomb check.
Yes, i've passed into and out of the country several times during the last year. No search.
SNMP remotes?
Hypocrisy only counts if the media calls you on it.
You're right, but people aren't going to want to recognize it.
AMDs irrelevance will become clear in about a generation of chips, though.
Any software released by the government and not otherwise classified is in the public domain.
Yes, because it remained a lowball offer and would have resulted in the mass flight of whatever good employees Yahoo had anyway. Also, becoming part of Microsoft is not real high on the list of independent organizations' ambitions. Ask Bungie, for instance.
Actually, that's incorrect. That player type is a parasite, but a necessary one. Without the griefers, things are boring.
Did you ever use it? I ran it for 9 months. Short answer: it's slow. Very slow. Performance is lousy, and if an operating system's performance is that much slower than a previous version, it sucks. I am not concerned about the DRM issues so much, just performance.
There were some good points: graphically it was nice, and I liked some of the UI enhancements, but balancing this out was the incompatibility with some software that I need, such as TFTP servers. Also, certain games (intended for XP, not talking ancient 9x software here) that work on XP will not work on Vista, period.
I reformatted the system as an XP box with the same software and it's a peppy performer now - Core Duo laptop with 2GB RAM, fyi.
It wasn't a driver issue or a crapware issue, pretty much apples to apples.
Their policy has been to further customer lock-in as they can. Vista accomplishes this better than XP did with its activation scheme. Hence, they want to push Vista. Making XP look like it is dead furthers their goal.
They're cutting off XP because Vista sucks. That is obvious. This is an attempt to force conversions to Vista by putting an air of inevitability on it. However, the truth is that if people don't use Vista, they can't can XP. No company can afford to kill their source of revenue.
If the OEMs can't sell with XP then companies will start pirating it with VLK versions anyway so... I don't see where Microsoft has any leverage here.
The DoD isn't the NSA.
Not even close.
I agree with these comments, working in the same field with a twist.
In addition, you may find poor Ku coverage and issues with host nation agreements in Africa. X band seems to be 'of choice' there, since C band is so crowded.
I'm wondering who is going to be swapping out bucs and LNBs, fixing motors, etc. Hell, getting a good shot in is not unskilled labor.
You have to admit, it did look kinda dangerous if removed...
This doesn't work for one reason. A window unit is always in dehumidification mode. It will suck the moisture out of the room till it is bone dry. However, you really don't want a bone dry server room. Static...
Of course, if the window unit is inadequate, it'll never do the job of dehumidifying, but it also won't cool the room either.
Incidentally, the gold standard here are Liebert units. You'll find them all over. Interestingly enough, the issue for AC in server rooms often revolves around heat transfer. Your window AC unit uses a condenser coil that does simple transfer of the heat to the outside air. This doesn't work in a typical server room. Most quality server room AC units will use chilled water to transfer heat, usually from a water tower.
Totally insensitive to the actual reprecussions of their actions, some GS weenie, probably balding and fat and fearful of doing anything constructive to solve problems because it might screw up his/her next stepping increase in the future, consigns thousands of people to being offline.
Government just doesn't really work.
Just asking... being "willfully stupid, unable to grasp nuance" was pretty much trademarked by that generation.
If your objective is to appeal to the stupid, remember that Bush won the 2004 election.
This hot air will be used to generate power to directly alleviate our energy crisis. Some of our more lecherous politicians could use their repetitive motion to also generate energy.
Let them do their part.
So many rules, but still buggy.
The problem is not market forces, it is the government.
Public services *always* suck because the customer is some amorphous state entity rather than those receiving the services.
The most likely things, I think, would go along the lines of asbestos-related illnesses. It's a foreign substance being added to the body that in many cases is inorganic or not biologically active. Yes, it could cause harm. Maybe it doesn't. Who knows, without research? Why worry if you don't know the result?
If we made every new product go through a massive testing regimen before it was deployed, we'd see no new products for many years. This is one reason why, even with fast tracking the drugs in question, there was no treatment for AIDS for a good 10 years after it was well known to exist and killing people. I suspect that many people died who could have benefitted while the current cocktail of drugs was going through its trials. Applying that level of scrutiny to anything new would result in a veritable dark age where the costs of developing new products became astronomical and the speed of innovation ground to a sluggish crawl.
Show me some research. Otherwise this is a bunch of pointless worrying, which is what it is at this point.
It sounds less forced than any alternative phrase. Warfighters tend to prefer that to 'troops' or outdated terms from past wars. The obvious ones, like calling Navy personnel 'soldiers', will also make you look stupid.