On January 27, 1967 the crew of the first piloted Apollo mission -- veterans Gus Grissom and Ed White, along with rookie Roger Chaffee -- perished when a flash fire swept through the sealed cabin of their Apollo 1 command module. NASA's investigation of the tragedy revealed numerous technical flaws in the craft's design, including the need for a quick-opening hatch and fireproof materials in the cabin. The fire would ultimately delay the Apollo program for more than 20 months.
If memory serves, most of my text books were written by faculty members somewhere. Just a thought.
And today they just happen to be written by the professor teaching the class, requiring a new version nearly every year forcing students to purchase grossly overpriced new books instead of the meerly overpriced used books.
Yeah, b/c we all know its the faculty members and all of the adjuncts that steal our money away...interesting that my books cost more than half of what my tution did this fall...
How many of those books were written by faculty members?
Probably Nov 2004, right around when they're likely to release the extended version on DVD...3 months after the theatrical version on DVD...10 months after it first hits the threaters.
Ummm, why would you put a monitor on a UPS, let alone two of them?
Maybe because he wants to be able to see what he was working on when the power goes out so he can save his work and shut the machine down before the UPS shuts things off.
Select and buy your favorite combination of solar, wind, gas generators, or whatever else your locale will support. Call the power company and tell them to disconnect you, and would they PLEASE get their damn wires and poles off your property.
It's definately something we've considered. Based on where our house is and living in the Pacific NW wind seems like may be our best option, fortunately windmills are getting more efficient all the time.
I think I'll just leave PSE's wires in the ground and disconnect them at the box though. If they came to dig them up they'd sever my cable, phone and water lines for sure.:)
Unfortunately today marketing drives almost all of the product cycle, from what features go into the design to when it has to be shoved out the door.
Why is this unfortunately? Do you want engineers who don't know neither who his customers are, nor how customers use the product, to define what features go into the design?
Do you want marketing who doesn't know how stable a product is or when it's code complete and tested to define when a product is released to the customer?
You think it's right that marketing and not development/QA should determine when a product is shipped to customers? You conviently left out 1/2 the argument against marketing driving the development cycle.
In the CRM market it's not software sales that generate profit, or not much of it. Selling service contracts to customers is where the money is. Service contracts can be customizations, product support or whatever the sales team works into the contract, but in this market sales only make up about 20-30% of the income.
Ben Franklin was a raging fag and noone cares what some idiot with a mop on his head six hundred years ago.
What a terrific example of ignorance. Ben Franklin died 213 years ago. You do realize he was one of the people who signed the The Declaration of Independence, you do have some dim glimmer of the importance of that document, right? Does the year 1776 mean anything to you?
The problem isn't stupid PO Employees, its the fact that PO employees are so bound down by beurocratic rules and regulations that they can't do anything outside of exactly what they're supposted to do. It's not stupid employees per se, it's stupid people at the top making the rules
Maybe, but stupid people at the top wouldn't explain why the bozo who actually delivers (or tries to) our mail can't get the mail into the correct mailbox even after he's written the address on the inside of the door so he can't miss it.
I would just as soon have intelligent mail carriers as intelligent mail. The genius who works our route can't get the mail into the right mail box even after he's written the address on the inside of the mailbox door.
So what if it's prepared by the CIA is that supposed to automatically make it true? The CIA has a history of distorting or making up facts. Why should we belive that this time it's the truth simply because they put it in a book?
I guess my propaganda was thrown out by an unreliable group... the CIA [cia.gov] Silly, gullable me.
That would be the same orgainzation who totally missed that the Soviet Union was about to collapse until it was reported on CNN, and who just recently exagerated, or outright lied, to the President about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that lead to the US attacking them. Those weapons may still be discovered but if the CIA had proof of their existance before the war started they should have been able to find them by now.
If you want to access/. from your office, your best strategy should be to convince The Man that you need to stay up to date on the technology world and that reading/. is a good way to accomplish this goal.
Or get the IS dept to open, or leave open, the ports for Terminal Server or your remote desktop package of choice, and do the browsing from your home machine.
Yes, exactly. And the more Linux vendors that jump on board with this initiative, the more foolish and stupid SCO will look. And when that happens, SCO will be no more.
Not if SCO is right in a legal sense. I don't know one way or another, but if according to the law they are in the right IBM, Redhat etc stand to lose. SCO might lose some respect in the Linux/Unix community but if they come out with a billion dollar settlement I'm sure they'll be satisfied.
According to the RIAA's own figures, over the last two years the US music industry has produced 25% fewer CDs.
The peak of production was in 1999 when 38,900 individual titles were released. But by 2001 this was down to 27,000. Releases grew again in 2002 but were still below the previous high.
So they release 30% fewer titles and wonder why they produced 25% fewer CD's?
Duh, hello RIAA if you churn out less new mucic you sell less.
A second interesting thing is why just this particular bug is getting the publicity. There's been no shortage of remote exploits for that product line, old or new, this year. Is it part of the new marketing campaign that's just kicking in?
It's possible that the reason this bug is getting publicity by the Dept of Homeland Security and others didn't is simply because they know about this one. Yes, other security problems are out there and "known" but maybe not by the people at HS. Remember even though it's a large government agency the bottem line is it's still run by people who may not have all the facts.
If the police showed up while your computer was off and unused (however often that may be) and you had your key hidden, a judge could simply order you to present it.
Key what key? It was on the machine when the police took it, I have no idea what happend it after that your honor.
Alrighty, pretty significant penaltys for not voting then. That would get the voter participation up. If we did that in the US maybe we could get more than 25% to the polls.
You're allowed to shoot someone for breaking in to your house, even without being threatend.
So what? Someone breaks in they're commiting at least one crime and likely breaking several laws. Why should I have to wait until you threaten me before shooting you? My safety and the safety of my family takes precidence over the life of some lowlife breaking into my house. Don't want to get shot? Don't break into someones home.
Voting in Brazil is mandatory and most part of the population is in voting age.
How do they enforce mandatory voting? What are the consequences for NOT voting? Fines, jail? What kind of records do they keep to ensure that everyone votes?
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And today they just happen to be written by the professor teaching the class, requiring a new version nearly every year forcing students to purchase grossly overpriced new books instead of the meerly overpriced used books.
How many of those books were written by faculty members?
Probably Nov 2004, right around when they're likely to release the extended version on DVD...3 months after the theatrical version on DVD...10 months after it first hits the threaters.
Maybe because he wants to be able to see what he was working on when the power goes out so he can save his work and shut the machine down before the UPS shuts things off.
It's definately something we've considered. Based on where our house is and living in the Pacific NW wind seems like may be our best option, fortunately windmills are getting more efficient all the time.
I think I'll just leave PSE's wires in the ground and disconnect them at the box though. If they came to dig them up they'd sever my cable, phone and water lines for sure. :)
Just send that personal check for several hundred billion dollars to:
U.S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20585
It's part of the resource kit not a standard W2K install.
Why is this unfortunately? Do you want engineers who don't know neither who his customers are, nor how customers use the product, to define what features go into the design?
Do you want marketing who doesn't know how stable a product is or when it's code complete and tested to define when a product is released to the customer?
You think it's right that marketing and not development/QA should determine when a product is shipped to customers? You conviently left out 1/2 the argument against marketing driving the development cycle.
In the CRM market it's not software sales that generate profit, or not much of it. Selling service contracts to customers is where the money is. Service contracts can be customizations, product support or whatever the sales team works into the contract, but in this market sales only make up about 20-30% of the income.
Unfortunately today marketing drives almost all of the product cycle, from what features go into the design to when it has to be shoved out the door.
After that they go to the customer and present arguments why they need to buy the product that has feature XYZ.
What a terrific example of ignorance. Ben Franklin died 213 years ago. You do realize he was one of the people who signed the The Declaration of Independence, you do have some dim glimmer of the importance of that document, right? Does the year 1776 mean anything to you?
Maybe, but stupid people at the top wouldn't explain why the bozo who actually delivers (or tries to) our mail can't get the mail into the correct mailbox even after he's written the address on the inside of the door so he can't miss it.
I would just as soon have intelligent mail carriers as intelligent mail. The genius who works our route can't get the mail into the right mail box even after he's written the address on the inside of the mailbox door.
So what if it's prepared by the CIA is that supposed to automatically make it true? The CIA has a history of distorting or making up facts. Why should we belive that this time it's the truth simply because they put it in a book?
That would be the same orgainzation who totally missed that the Soviet Union was about to collapse until it was reported on CNN, and who just recently exagerated, or outright lied, to the President about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that lead to the US attacking them. Those weapons may still be discovered but if the CIA had proof of their existance before the war started they should have been able to find them by now.
Or get the IS dept to open, or leave open, the ports for Terminal Server or your remote desktop package of choice, and do the browsing from your home machine.
Government is supposed to be an extension of the peoples will but anyone with a clue knows it isn't.
Do you know anyone who wants their taxes raised? No? Still happens though, doens't it.
Did you vote to raise the salaries of senators and give them a pension for life for serving one term? No? Still happened.
In Seattle the people voted against building a new stadium. The elected officials raised taxes and did it anyway.
There is little evidence that government is any kind of extension of the people. An extension of business yes, but the people? No.
Not if SCO is right in a legal sense. I don't know one way or another, but if according to the law they are in the right IBM, Redhat etc stand to lose. SCO might lose some respect in the Linux/Unix community but if they come out with a billion dollar settlement I'm sure they'll be satisfied.
The peak of production was in 1999 when 38,900 individual titles were released. But by 2001 this was down to 27,000. Releases grew again in 2002 but were still below the previous high.
So they release 30% fewer titles and wonder why they produced 25% fewer CD's?
Duh, hello RIAA if you churn out less new mucic you sell less.
It's possible that the reason this bug is getting publicity by the Dept of Homeland Security and others didn't is simply because they know about this one. Yes, other security problems are out there and "known" but maybe not by the people at HS. Remember even though it's a large government agency the bottem line is it's still run by people who may not have all the facts.
Key what key? It was on the machine when the police took it, I have no idea what happend it after that your honor.
Alrighty, pretty significant penaltys for not voting then. That would get the voter participation up. If we did that in the US maybe we could get more than 25% to the polls.
So what? Someone breaks in they're commiting at least one crime and likely breaking several laws. Why should I have to wait until you threaten me before shooting you? My safety and the safety of my family takes precidence over the life of some lowlife breaking into my house. Don't want to get shot? Don't break into someones home.
How do they enforce mandatory voting? What are the consequences for NOT voting? Fines, jail? What kind of records do they keep to ensure that everyone votes?