Don't take any tech analysis from Fedex seriously. These guys have no clue about technology. Their answer to every problem is just to throw ridiculous amounts of money away on huge sun systems for the smallest problems.
On the worker side, everything important that gets done gets done by contractors because the tech employess who are capable, competent, and arent lazy are few and far between.
Fedex has used its "high tech" image basically as a bluff to its pilots to keep them from unionizing. They have threatened in the past that if their pilots unionize they would quit delivering packages and be a tech company. However, the truth of the matter is that as a tech computer they would sink faster than any dot bomb. The pilots however, fell for it.
They're asking grant requesters to leave controversial topics out of grant requests to keep from having to answer questions like "did my tax money go to fund a study or whores?" or "did my tax money go to study buttsex?".
If you look at the NYT article, it seems there is really no censorship going on. They are simple asking for discretion on the part of people requesting grants.
Hey no offense, but crummy installs were cute in 1995. As someone who spent entirely too much of his life doing installs already, I do not care for long drawn out installs which require too much documentation.
It isnt designed for amateur install. You are right. Of course, it isnt designed for professional install either. Saying their install is "designed" is attributing too much already.
So, I haven't really used Solaris much since the 2.5 days. I decided to give Solaris 9 a go on my Sun Ultra2 box.
Guys, installing and setting up Solaris once will teach how far Linux has come. The fancy "webstart" install starts with an xterm with a text based disk partition tool. I haven't seen something like that since on Linux since 1999 (and the distro that did it was acknowledged pure crapola).
Package selection during install was horrible. Not to mention it let me remove something that cuased kernel panics so I had to reinstall with a default package set.
Once you get it installed, you got get it up to date. Of course, Sun's main update system is the "look around on our web site and pray what you download is for your version" like Windows and MacOS had 10 years ago.
There is also a utility called patchpro with withh automagically download patches and apply them to your system. Of course, it comes in a tarball, requires you to alter your path, and finds weak excuses not to install patches thus requiring you to do a bunch of research to find out the reason.
Installing patches on Solaris could only get better if they sent them to you on 9 track tape. Seriously, I was a big user of AIX, Solaris, and HPUX back in the mid nineties and I am sad to say that for Solaris not much has changed.
I downloaded the Sun branded gnome2 for Solaris 9. Ich! Ximian really fleeced these guys. You get a clunky dual-toolbar desktop thats actually not much better than CDE. Someone sould have told Sun that gnome was all about the apps.
In short, I still think of Linux sometimes as the distro I first installed by picking kernels with the correct CD driver to make boot floppies with back in 94. However, Linux has gotten to the point where its install and administration are superior to windows! However, the big Unixes are still behind the curve and wondering why they're losing market share.
The term "engineer" has already been besmirched by Novell and Microsoft. Lets not water it down futher. The answer is simple. Someone with a computer engineering degree from a 4 year university is an accredited engineer.
Someone with an IS, IT, MIS, ITM degree is _not_ an engineer. Sorry but if you wanted to be an engineer, you should have studied engineering.
Someone who drops out of college and learns VB or perl or something is not an engineer. The term engineer implies some form of accreditation.
I applaud Florida who makes it illegal to expand the term "MCSE" on a resume or in a business letter unless you are an actual engineer.
Mr. Newton was a scientist so I am sure he would appreciate the following about the battle of armageddon from "An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds and
Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
" (jref.sawco.com):
"Although commonly used as a designation for the end of the world, this name actually applies to a real geographical location in Israel near Mt. Carmel, about five miles from the coastal city of Haifa. It was the site of several important battles in ancient history.
According to the predictions of St. John in Apocalypse, a battle between good and evil will take place there at some unspecified time, producing a river of human blood "to the height of a horse's bridle'' for a distance of 200 miles. Assuming that (a) all the blood were to be drained from each victim's body at the same moment, that (b) the "river'' is only ten feet wide, and it does not flow at all, that (c) the horse is rather small, it would mean that some 360,000,000 persons would have to be slaughtered during this battle, all simultaneously. Since the area cannot itself hold that number of persons standing should-to-shoulder, it appears that St. John's figures are poorly arrived at. But perhaps that is one of the properties of a miracle. "
"Good god, what do you think "infringe" means? "Look up my bookstore records, FBI guy! It's all fine by me!" "Put a tail on me 24/7! Take plenty of pictures!" "Feel free to bug my house, feds! Be sure to get a camera in the bedroom!" "I'm jeramybsmith, and I don't want any civil liberties!" "
Here is your tinfoil hat. Thanks for demonstrating my point.
What part of the patriot act lets them search bookstore records warrantless outside of a terror threat again?
I worked at web hosting facility once and it was victimized by several DDOS attacks.
I can tell you, the FBI people will work with you if you file a report. However, if you don't give them a big hassle when they want to check something, they are much nicer to work with when you are the one needing the help.
So, it doesn't surprise me that Ebay bends over backwards to help these guys since they probably have had major breakin attempts and probably have had some ddos attacks also.
Let me be frank with you people, John Ashcroft could care less what you read. There is no clerk in the government right now fishing book sales records looking for the enemy within. Now, you can bet your ass that when they arrested the buffalo 6 they tried to find out what books they checked out from their local library or bought from a local book store. Why? The answer is of course, DUH.
If they bought a bunch of books on chemistry that had information that could be used to make bombs, then they had better start busting their asses to figure ot if any had been made and where they went.
Meanwhile, you and I have not had our civil liberties infringed one single bit. This is pure scaremongering on the parts of some groups and ignorant fear on the part of others.
Ponder this, you have expose a terror cell and don't capture one of them. You find out at the local book store they were buying books on flying small aircraft. Ah ha! You have a lead!
The level of paranoia some people have about patriot really perturbs me. Most of the patriot act was an excuse to update federal surveillance and evidence gathering to account for the computer age and also to close various loopholes that kept them from doing some no-brainer stuff.
As a customer though, I feel good that a bookstore will toss my records. That is between them and me. However, I feel government should be able to access the records that are there if there is an imperative national security interest.
Most of you would agree with that statement, and lo and behold that is what patriot does.
But Clinton played into this rich versus poor thing at one time and made up some silly rules about executives who make more than 1 million in salary. The result? People like Jobs who have to earn their salary through rental of a jet. The result is also that many executives' salaries were reduced to 1 million and instead paid in stock and/or stock options. As you can imagne, this motivated many executives to do anything they could raise stock prices. Layoffs, shady accounting tricks, and companies incorporating in caribbean countries to get away from American government micromanagement is the result. (yes, the executives who did these things are of course ultimately responsible and not the person who motivated them to do it)
Now, I am not slamming Clinton, he didn't have a crystal ball at the time to see the result. I do however thinks its none of anyone's business but the stockholders how much the executives make.
I remember back in 95/96 when Java was the bold new revolutionary programming language that all programming would be done in by 2000. Back then the corporate IT nazis at several large corps decided to enforce "java only" policies at the corps.
I was a real case of hype not being lived up to. Back in 95/96, your average IT desktop was too slow for Java. Not only that, you couldnt find any programmers. Soon I started seeing job ads for "java programmer, 10 years experience". The PHBs didn't "get it" obviously.
Cross-platform is the biggest non-issue I have ever seen when it comes to the arguement for Java apps.Write once, run anywhere _never_ worked. Either your jvm was too old, too new, your platform didn't have one, or some other excuse.
Also frustrating to me was that at the time there were tools that let you write once for their own api, and would platform specific code for windows/x11/macos. In other words, java offered you the choice of writing once and having the same crappy app on all platforms versus using an IDE that would produce apps in the native platforms toolkits.
Still waiting for client-side JAVA apps? You might as well wait on Duke Nukem Forever. Or for Sylvia Browne to answer the JREF challenge.
read peter benchley's shark trouble, he has a good example about overfishing of coastal sharks.
basically, if you kill all the coastal sharks, the octopi lose a predator and then your lobsters dissappear as the new octopi eat more of them.
DMCA fighting aside, I saw some serious FUD from the EFF about the patriot act and other legislation. I would like to see a less political group to send my money to. I want my money to go to good causes and not red herrings.
The book is pretty much self explanatory. The majoroity of the content is _not_ in dispute. The critics of the book that I found most provocative were is a skeptic magazine. I read them and Lomborg's response. Most critics can only find a few cases in the book where they challenge Lomborg's methods.
In other words, just read the fricken book. If someone does faulty research, and someone else points it out, then someone else points out that person who pointed out said errors didnt consider another study, doesn't make the study in question any less faulty.
The Skeptical Environmentalist has been debated in Skeptic magazines and the author of the book was allowed to respond to the critiques. Simply put, the detractors of this book point out very few flaws and don't debate the majority of the content. We have to fight pseudo-science and outright lies in the name of science where they occur. The Skeptical Environmentalist does this. The author however, is not a scientist per se but a statistician and it seems that has ruffled some feathers.
If you are wondering what all the hubbub is about, read the book and make up your mind for yourself.
I like to talk on "Skeptics" forums. A surprising number of "skeptics" will put their blinders on when they want. Scott Adams was right, we're all weasels.
These are gun controls proposed by people who don't understand guns.
The biggest example of this is "trigger locks". Trigger locks are effectively useless. A kid can pry one off with a screwdriver. Not only that, it is _very_ easy to discharge a firearm with one on.
With freedom comes responsibility, I beleive we should require mandatory education to buy a gun and prosecute those who have guns stolen out of their cars or if one is stolen out of their home and they didn't bother having a safe or a full locking mechanism.
One of the earliest and most popular? I give you the first part. If they were really that popular though I doubt they would be bought by Metro. The reason they are so buyable is in fact because they were a dismal failure. Popular in the Linux press maybe.
This means HP has found an economical way to dispose of waste that they think would give them a competitive advantage over their competitors if they were all forced to pay disposal fees.
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On the worker side, everything important that gets done gets done by contractors because the tech employess who are capable, competent, and arent lazy are few and far between.
Fedex has used its "high tech" image basically as a bluff to its pilots to keep them from unionizing. They have threatened in the past that if their pilots unionize they would quit delivering packages and be a tech company. However, the truth of the matter is that as a tech computer they would sink faster than any dot bomb. The pilots however, fell for it.
They're asking grant requesters to leave controversial topics out of grant requests to keep from having to answer questions like "did my tax money go to fund a study or whores?" or "did my tax money go to study buttsex?". If you look at the NYT article, it seems there is really no censorship going on. They are simple asking for discretion on the part of people requesting grants.
Too bad its not really FUD if you agree with it. Remember, FUD is only FUD is Microsoft or John Ashcroft are the author.
It was slow, and depending on which JAVA VM you used depended on how long it would go before crashing.
It will be remembered as one of the many wasted efforts from the java-craze years.
Hey no offense, but crummy installs were cute in 1995. As someone who spent entirely too much of his life doing installs already, I do not care for long drawn out installs which require too much documentation. It isnt designed for amateur install. You are right. Of course, it isnt designed for professional install either. Saying their install is "designed" is attributing too much already.
So, I haven't really used Solaris much since the 2.5 days. I decided to give Solaris 9 a go on my Sun Ultra2 box. Guys, installing and setting up Solaris once will teach how far Linux has come. The fancy "webstart" install starts with an xterm with a text based disk partition tool. I haven't seen something like that since on Linux since 1999 (and the distro that did it was acknowledged pure crapola). Package selection during install was horrible. Not to mention it let me remove something that cuased kernel panics so I had to reinstall with a default package set. Once you get it installed, you got get it up to date. Of course, Sun's main update system is the "look around on our web site and pray what you download is for your version" like Windows and MacOS had 10 years ago. There is also a utility called patchpro with withh automagically download patches and apply them to your system. Of course, it comes in a tarball, requires you to alter your path, and finds weak excuses not to install patches thus requiring you to do a bunch of research to find out the reason. Installing patches on Solaris could only get better if they sent them to you on 9 track tape. Seriously, I was a big user of AIX, Solaris, and HPUX back in the mid nineties and I am sad to say that for Solaris not much has changed. I downloaded the Sun branded gnome2 for Solaris 9. Ich! Ximian really fleeced these guys. You get a clunky dual-toolbar desktop thats actually not much better than CDE. Someone sould have told Sun that gnome was all about the apps. In short, I still think of Linux sometimes as the distro I first installed by picking kernels with the correct CD driver to make boot floppies with back in 94. However, Linux has gotten to the point where its install and administration are superior to windows! However, the big Unixes are still behind the curve and wondering why they're losing market share.
The term "engineer" has already been besmirched by Novell and Microsoft. Lets not water it down futher. The answer is simple. Someone with a computer engineering degree from a 4 year university is an accredited engineer. Someone with an IS, IT, MIS, ITM degree is _not_ an engineer. Sorry but if you wanted to be an engineer, you should have studied engineering. Someone who drops out of college and learns VB or perl or something is not an engineer. The term engineer implies some form of accreditation. I applaud Florida who makes it illegal to expand the term "MCSE" on a resume or in a business letter unless you are an actual engineer.
I have been to linux conferences where the collective BO was peeling the paint off the walls. I didn't see a single booth bunny who was happy.
Mr. Newton was a scientist so I am sure he would appreciate the following about the battle of armageddon from "An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural " (jref.sawco.com):
"Although commonly used as a designation for the end of the world, this name actually applies to a real geographical location in Israel near Mt. Carmel, about five miles from the coastal city of Haifa. It was the site of several important battles in ancient history.
According to the predictions of St. John in Apocalypse, a battle between good and evil will take place there at some unspecified time, producing a river of human blood "to the height of a horse's bridle'' for a distance of 200 miles. Assuming that (a) all the blood were to be drained from each victim's body at the same moment, that (b) the "river'' is only ten feet wide, and it does not flow at all, that (c) the horse is rather small, it would mean that some 360,000,000 persons would have to be slaughtered during this battle, all simultaneously. Since the area cannot itself hold that number of persons standing should-to-shoulder, it appears that St. John's figures are poorly arrived at. But perhaps that is one of the properties of a miracle. "
"Good god, what do you think "infringe" means? "Look up my bookstore records, FBI guy! It's all fine by me!" "Put a tail on me 24/7! Take plenty of pictures!" "Feel free to bug my house, feds! Be sure to get a camera in the bedroom!" "I'm jeramybsmith, and I don't want any civil liberties!" " Here is your tinfoil hat. Thanks for demonstrating my point. What part of the patriot act lets them search bookstore records warrantless outside of a terror threat again?
I worked at web hosting facility once and it was victimized by several DDOS attacks. I can tell you, the FBI people will work with you if you file a report. However, if you don't give them a big hassle when they want to check something, they are much nicer to work with when you are the one needing the help. So, it doesn't surprise me that Ebay bends over backwards to help these guys since they probably have had major breakin attempts and probably have had some ddos attacks also.
Let me be frank with you people, John Ashcroft could care less what you read. There is no clerk in the government right now fishing book sales records looking for the enemy within. Now, you can bet your ass that when they arrested the buffalo 6 they tried to find out what books they checked out from their local library or bought from a local book store. Why? The answer is of course, DUH. If they bought a bunch of books on chemistry that had information that could be used to make bombs, then they had better start busting their asses to figure ot if any had been made and where they went. Meanwhile, you and I have not had our civil liberties infringed one single bit. This is pure scaremongering on the parts of some groups and ignorant fear on the part of others. Ponder this, you have expose a terror cell and don't capture one of them. You find out at the local book store they were buying books on flying small aircraft. Ah ha! You have a lead! The level of paranoia some people have about patriot really perturbs me. Most of the patriot act was an excuse to update federal surveillance and evidence gathering to account for the computer age and also to close various loopholes that kept them from doing some no-brainer stuff. As a customer though, I feel good that a bookstore will toss my records. That is between them and me. However, I feel government should be able to access the records that are there if there is an imperative national security interest. Most of you would agree with that statement, and lo and behold that is what patriot does.
But Clinton played into this rich versus poor thing at one time and made up some silly rules about executives who make more than 1 million in salary. The result? People like Jobs who have to earn their salary through rental of a jet. The result is also that many executives' salaries were reduced to 1 million and instead paid in stock and/or stock options. As you can imagne, this motivated many executives to do anything they could raise stock prices. Layoffs, shady accounting tricks, and companies incorporating in caribbean countries to get away from American government micromanagement is the result. (yes, the executives who did these things are of course ultimately responsible and not the person who motivated them to do it) Now, I am not slamming Clinton, he didn't have a crystal ball at the time to see the result. I do however thinks its none of anyone's business but the stockholders how much the executives make.
I remember back in 95/96 when Java was the bold new revolutionary programming language that all programming would be done in by 2000. Back then the corporate IT nazis at several large corps decided to enforce "java only" policies at the corps. I was a real case of hype not being lived up to. Back in 95/96, your average IT desktop was too slow for Java. Not only that, you couldnt find any programmers. Soon I started seeing job ads for "java programmer, 10 years experience". The PHBs didn't "get it" obviously. Cross-platform is the biggest non-issue I have ever seen when it comes to the arguement for Java apps.Write once, run anywhere _never_ worked. Either your jvm was too old, too new, your platform didn't have one, or some other excuse. Also frustrating to me was that at the time there were tools that let you write once for their own api, and would platform specific code for windows/x11/macos. In other words, java offered you the choice of writing once and having the same crappy app on all platforms versus using an IDE that would produce apps in the native platforms toolkits. Still waiting for client-side JAVA apps? You might as well wait on Duke Nukem Forever. Or for Sylvia Browne to answer the JREF challenge.
read peter benchley's shark trouble, he has a good example about overfishing of coastal sharks. basically, if you kill all the coastal sharks, the octopi lose a predator and then your lobsters dissappear as the new octopi eat more of them.
As a conservationist and an avid scuba diver, I am wondering if their data collection methods could be incorrect. 75 percent seems a bit much.
DMCA fighting aside, I saw some serious FUD from the EFF about the patriot act and other legislation. I would like to see a less political group to send my money to. I want my money to go to good causes and not red herrings.
The book is pretty much self explanatory. The majoroity of the content is _not_ in dispute. The critics of the book that I found most provocative were is a skeptic magazine. I read them and Lomborg's response. Most critics can only find a few cases in the book where they challenge Lomborg's methods. In other words, just read the fricken book. If someone does faulty research, and someone else points it out, then someone else points out that person who pointed out said errors didnt consider another study, doesn't make the study in question any less faulty.
The Skeptical Environmentalist has been debated in Skeptic magazines and the author of the book was allowed to respond to the critiques. Simply put, the detractors of this book point out very few flaws and don't debate the majority of the content. We have to fight pseudo-science and outright lies in the name of science where they occur. The Skeptical Environmentalist does this. The author however, is not a scientist per se but a statistician and it seems that has ruffled some feathers. If you are wondering what all the hubbub is about, read the book and make up your mind for yourself.
Jaguar, 128MB ram required Jaguar + X11, 256MB ram recommended And now Openoffice? Yeesh.
I like to talk on "Skeptics" forums. A surprising number of "skeptics" will put their blinders on when they want. Scott Adams was right, we're all weasels.
These are gun controls proposed by people who don't understand guns. The biggest example of this is "trigger locks". Trigger locks are effectively useless. A kid can pry one off with a screwdriver. Not only that, it is _very_ easy to discharge a firearm with one on. With freedom comes responsibility, I beleive we should require mandatory education to buy a gun and prosecute those who have guns stolen out of their cars or if one is stolen out of their home and they didn't bother having a safe or a full locking mechanism.
Not to mention the aforementioned Team Fortress 2: Brothers in Arms
One of the earliest and most popular? I give you the first part. If they were really that popular though I doubt they would be bought by Metro. The reason they are so buyable is in fact because they were a dismal failure. Popular in the Linux press maybe.
This means HP has found an economical way to dispose of waste that they think would give them a competitive advantage over their competitors if they were all forced to pay disposal fees.