As long as China is getting fat on international trade, I'm not really worried about them launching missiles at their biggest customers. I'm no economist and I'm certainly no foreign relations expert, but it seems like nations get a bit less crazy when they're doing business. Maybe that could happen for Afghanistan? Here's to hoping.
Yeah but given your experience purchasing drives in quantity I'm sure you've noticed that while these rates change pretty wildly between manufacturers, more importantly they vary quite a bit between models and revisions. Google's drive failure report (now a bit dated, but I'd guess still relevant) was pretty informative:
I'm gunna go out on a limb and guess this new suicide breed will not overtake the existing non-suicidal flies in the process of natural selection. Call me Nostradamus.;)
I'd certainly be more into car design, since it would cost me nearly nothing to prototype and eventually fabricate and the labor would be a virtually non-issue. And we've seen a similar scenario played out before. Star trek.
When everyone has everything they need to survive and status isn't about the absurd things you can manage to purchase, you excel in more meaningful ways. Some design and build vehicles and some join Starfleet.:)
Nearly all things in life and politics have imperfect answers that lie somewhere in the area between black and white.
Total lack of regulation, as you rightly pointed out, is a fast track to disaster. On the other hand tight regulation can stifle economies altogether. In addition, at least here in the US, we're pretty sensitive when it comes to the idea of "freedom". Hell, we (somewhat falsely)[1] used it as an argument to form an independent nation in the first place. While that fervor has eroded somewhat, I think we're unusually open to the idea of suffering some of the negative consequences in exchange for less government regulation. I am not qualified to suggest what degree of this is sane.;)
[1] We were unusually independent to begin with. See "The Radicalism of the American Revolution", Wood
Eh, this whole conversation really begins and ends with, "Not enough information".
What parts did you do before they hired you. Did you release that under GPL? Obviously the stuff you did for them belongs to them, but there may be limitations on their ability to distribute it. Is it worth creating another example of "poisoning" code with the GPL virus? It may well be spun that way.
Maybe your code just isn't worth a black eye or even the cost of a court battle? Too little info all around.
To evaluate this idea, one only needs to drive on an expressway where everyone could safely and expediently make it to their destination, if only everyone would be reasonable and cooperate in very simple ways. We are all in control of our own vehicles and have the ability to decide the outcome. How well does it ever work out?
I keep 5 small rings and take the rings I need when I need them.
Home Key + Outer door Key + Garage Fob Motorcycle key + Fork lock key...on hand grenade ring:) Parents home keys + Sisters home keys Car Key + Speedpass Work Keys
If I take the motorcycle out, obviously I take the bike keys and put the home keys in my pocket. Headed to work... home keys, work keys, vehicle keys. When I get to work my home keys stay in the car, as I won't need them in the office. Works out pretty well. I usually have 2 sets of keys on me at any given time but each ring has only 2 or 3 keys on it. I'm sure some day I'll convert everything to read an rfid chip in my hand.:)
Agreed, I'm sure they'll prevent wash-outs. Besides... I can could blind you with a sufficiently bright flashlight TONIGHT... and yet there doesn't seem to be a huge problem with people running around blinding drivers at night.
Yes. This article is about Cub Scouts, but Boy Scouts may earn Rifle, Shotgun and Archery merit badges.
As an Eagle Scout and competitive marksman, I can tell you that marksmanship skills learned from each (especially rifle) translate directly to any military rifle. A scout who earns these badges knows the various basic components and mechanics of firearms and how to operate them safely. Given 10 seconds of orientation on the basic operation of nearly any given military rifle, a scout should be able to apply all his training from a smaller caliber bolt rifle with great effect. Also, many scouts are outdoorsmen outside and after scouting, during which many will expand their repertoire of firearm familiarity on their own.
And of course they're all survivalists and medics, to some degree. So when the zombie apocalypse comes look for an Eagle Scout. He'll probably keep you alive longer than your average soldier.
You can blame us Chicagoland morons for reinventing that sort of stupidity.
We have absurd tax rates and tolls, and yet we have horrible roads and even worse public transportation. The schools are downright scary when they're not just embarrassing, and we have violent crime problems so bad that in '08 there was real talk of brining in the National Guard for help. Yet we keep electing the same f'ing politicians over and over again until they go to jail and we can't vote for them anymore.
Or solve the problem another way... don't let people pilot dangerous flying things at all.
I say we face the fact that we aren't great at competently piloting multi-ton vehicles at speeds faster than we can run... even on the ground. Let's just let computers do the work for us. With all the redundancy and safety protocols we could build in, I sincerely doubt a well designed system would do worse than your average ass-hat on [his/her] phone holding the dinner on the passenger seat with one hand and 3 screaming brats in the back throwing shit at the driver.
We just need vehicles that can safely manoeuvre at a certain spec or greater, are in good condition, have certain fallback safety mechanisms, and will enforce certain local flight requirements, like weighing itself before take-off, checking that flaps aren't frozen, making sure you've got working bi-directional communication with the grid, etc. When preflight checks are a go, pass your destination request and vehicle control over to the grid. It then controls travel taking the safest route for you, the people below you and fellow flying vehicles.
Yeah, it depends entirely on the environment and what you're used to. It's amazing what people will do when they think it's normal.
I used to work 40-50 hr weeks just writing code. Mostly web applications like the op does. All day, no facebook or web browsing, all billable hours with two project managers behind me that just had to look forward to see what I was doing. I had two 10 minute breaks (one morning, one evening) and 30 minutes (iirc) for lunch. I worked in a converted warehouse with no natural light, no windows (to stare out of and waste time daydreaming). You learn to do it because that's what's expected of you and what the people around you do. Now I work IT and program for a different company, and I can hardly fathom how I used to do that... or why.
Fuck that old job and fuck that employer... it wasn't worth it. When I went to leave they offered me another 15k to stay... that's how bad I was being raped all along. Obviously I told them no. I know it wasn't sweatshop labor or anything, I was able to quit and it wasn't particularly hot in there, but reasonably smart people that study and learn a usable skill shouldn't have to live like that. Not in the US.
The iPhone suits a high percentage of smartphone users, because we expect relatively little of our phones.
The iPad sucks it because the expectations are higher for tablet devices. The iPad is a large iPhone, so anyone expecting a tablet computer or "the ultimate web surfing device" will be disappointed when they realise they can't do things. For instance, chat and browse the web at the same time. I wouldn't call that a geeky requirement... seems to me everyone runs an IM client. Or maybe the first time they go to look up a word they just read in a newspaper article and it means that they have to close one app, wait for the other to open, then close that app and wait for the first to reopen. Or maybe the first time they try to view a link their friend sent, only to find out it requires flash and they have to reply, "sorry I couldn't watch it, I'm on my iPad:( ".
Maybe it's fine for some, but not for me, and certainly not for as many people as the iPhone.
Agreed, the laser idea is stupid. What if I'm sleeping?
Here in Chicagoland we use sirens for dangerous natural events. Sirens are cheap, work day and night, and are hard to misinterpret. In a worst case scenario, you know to turn on the TV or radio and find out what's wrong. Also, I'd expect they're particularly useful in a place where everyone lives in a tin hut or plywood shack.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah or my servers, which stay online when the grid fails.
*hasn't, not has, preview,preview,preview!
Facepalm.
As long as China is getting fat on international trade, I'm not really worried about them launching missiles at their biggest customers. I'm no economist and I'm certainly no foreign relations expert, but it seems like nations get a bit less crazy when they're doing business. Maybe that could happen for Afghanistan? Here's to hoping.
Negative. They'll all complain that their computer and internet tubes are too slow. Then they'll buy new, faster computers.
Yeah but given your experience purchasing drives in quantity I'm sure you've noticed that while these rates change pretty wildly between manufacturers, more importantly they vary quite a bit between models and revisions. Google's drive failure report (now a bit dated, but I'd guess still relevant) was pretty informative:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/massive-google-hard-drive-survey-turns-up-very-interesting-thing/
I'm gunna go out on a limb and guess this new suicide breed will not overtake the existing non-suicidal flies in the process of natural selection. Call me Nostradamus. ;)
Which they do because cell phones and cell networks SUCK. Woot, I just shifted the blame to large corporations! Slashdot win.
I'd certainly be more into car design, since it would cost me nearly nothing to prototype and eventually fabricate and the labor would be a virtually non-issue. And we've seen a similar scenario played out before. Star trek.
When everyone has everything they need to survive and status isn't about the absurd things you can manage to purchase, you excel in more meaningful ways. Some design and build vehicles and some join Starfleet. :)
I love this kind of ranting... like it's this new conspiracy.
Commerce and power influence government?! GTFO!!
Seriously, what exactly do you people think has changed over the last 10,000 years?
No. I didn't suggest any of that.
What I said was that the idea that the colonies were unusually servile to the crown was blown out of proportion for propaganda reasons.
I think SpaceShip Two coasts back to earth to land like the shuttle.... no?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IytjSl6voP0
Nearly all things in life and politics have imperfect answers that lie somewhere in the area between black and white.
Total lack of regulation, as you rightly pointed out, is a fast track to disaster. On the other hand tight regulation can stifle economies altogether. In addition, at least here in the US, we're pretty sensitive when it comes to the idea of "freedom". Hell, we (somewhat falsely)[1] used it as an argument to form an independent nation in the first place. While that fervor has eroded somewhat, I think we're unusually open to the idea of suffering some of the negative consequences in exchange for less government regulation. I am not qualified to suggest what degree of this is sane. ;)
[1] We were unusually independent to begin with. See "The Radicalism of the American Revolution", Wood
Eh, this whole conversation really begins and ends with, "Not enough information".
What parts did you do before they hired you. Did you release that under GPL? Obviously the stuff you did for them belongs to them, but there may be limitations on their ability to distribute it. Is it worth creating another example of "poisoning" code with the GPL virus? It may well be spun that way.
Maybe your code just isn't worth a black eye or even the cost of a court battle? Too little info all around.
To evaluate this idea, one only needs to drive on an expressway where everyone could safely and expediently make it to their destination, if only everyone would be reasonable and cooperate in very simple ways. We are all in control of our own vehicles and have the ability to decide the outcome. How well does it ever work out?
I keep 5 small rings and take the rings I need when I need them.
Home Key + Outer door Key + Garage Fob ...on hand grenade ring :)
Motorcycle key + Fork lock key
Parents home keys + Sisters home keys
Car Key + Speedpass
Work Keys
If I take the motorcycle out, obviously I take the bike keys and put the home keys in my pocket. Headed to work... home keys, work keys, vehicle keys. When I get to work my home keys stay in the car, as I won't need them in the office. Works out pretty well. I usually have 2 sets of keys on me at any given time but each ring has only 2 or 3 keys on it. I'm sure some day I'll convert everything to read an rfid chip in my hand. :)
Agreed, I'm sure they'll prevent wash-outs. Besides... I can could blind you with a sufficiently bright flashlight TONIGHT... and yet there doesn't seem to be a huge problem with people running around blinding drivers at night.
Yes. This article is about Cub Scouts, but Boy Scouts may earn Rifle, Shotgun and Archery merit badges.
As an Eagle Scout and competitive marksman, I can tell you that marksmanship skills learned from each (especially rifle) translate directly to any military rifle. A scout who earns these badges knows the various basic components and mechanics of firearms and how to operate them safely. Given 10 seconds of orientation on the basic operation of nearly any given military rifle, a scout should be able to apply all his training from a smaller caliber bolt rifle with great effect. Also, many scouts are outdoorsmen outside and after scouting, during which many will expand their repertoire of firearm familiarity on their own.
And of course they're all survivalists and medics, to some degree. So when the zombie apocalypse comes look for an Eagle Scout. He'll probably keep you alive longer than your average soldier.
You can blame us Chicagoland morons for reinventing that sort of stupidity.
We have absurd tax rates and tolls, and yet we have horrible roads and even worse public transportation. The schools are downright scary when they're not just embarrassing, and we have violent crime problems so bad that in '08 there was real talk of brining in the National Guard for help. Yet we keep electing the same f'ing politicians over and over again until they go to jail and we can't vote for them anymore.
WTF.
Or solve the problem another way... don't let people pilot dangerous flying things at all.
I say we face the fact that we aren't great at competently piloting multi-ton vehicles at speeds faster than we can run... even on the ground. Let's just let computers do the work for us. With all the redundancy and safety protocols we could build in, I sincerely doubt a well designed system would do worse than your average ass-hat on [his/her] phone holding the dinner on the passenger seat with one hand and 3 screaming brats in the back throwing shit at the driver.
We just need vehicles that can safely manoeuvre at a certain spec or greater, are in good condition, have certain fallback safety mechanisms, and will enforce certain local flight requirements, like weighing itself before take-off, checking that flaps aren't frozen, making sure you've got working bi-directional communication with the grid, etc. When preflight checks are a go, pass your destination request and vehicle control over to the grid. It then controls travel taking the safest route for you, the people below you and fellow flying vehicles.
I can't see it working any other way.
Let's not make excuses for the fact that Blackboard SUCKS in every conceivable way, as it has since schools first started using it.
If there's any problem at all with some staff member's abilities, it manifest itself in the decision to license that pile of trash in the first place.
Yeah, it depends entirely on the environment and what you're used to. It's amazing what people will do when they think it's normal.
I used to work 40-50 hr weeks just writing code. Mostly web applications like the op does. All day, no facebook or web browsing, all billable hours with two project managers behind me that just had to look forward to see what I was doing. I had two 10 minute breaks (one morning, one evening) and 30 minutes (iirc) for lunch. I worked in a converted warehouse with no natural light, no windows (to stare out of and waste time daydreaming). You learn to do it because that's what's expected of you and what the people around you do. Now I work IT and program for a different company, and I can hardly fathom how I used to do that... or why.
Fuck that old job and fuck that employer... it wasn't worth it. When I went to leave they offered me another 15k to stay... that's how bad I was being raped all along. Obviously I told them no. I know it wasn't sweatshop labor or anything, I was able to quit and it wasn't particularly hot in there, but reasonably smart people that study and learn a usable skill shouldn't have to live like that. Not in the US.
I can write apps for android on ANY platform.
The iPhone suits a high percentage of smartphone users, because we expect relatively little of our phones.
The iPad sucks it because the expectations are higher for tablet devices. The iPad is a large iPhone, so anyone expecting a tablet computer or "the ultimate web surfing device" will be disappointed when they realise they can't do things. For instance, chat and browse the web at the same time. I wouldn't call that a geeky requirement... seems to me everyone runs an IM client. Or maybe the first time they go to look up a word they just read in a newspaper article and it means that they have to close one app, wait for the other to open, then close that app and wait for the first to reopen. Or maybe the first time they try to view a link their friend sent, only to find out it requires flash and they have to reply, "sorry I couldn't watch it, I'm on my iPad :( ".
Maybe it's fine for some, but not for me, and certainly not for as many people as the iPhone.
Agreed, the laser idea is stupid. What if I'm sleeping?
Here in Chicagoland we use sirens for dangerous natural events. Sirens are cheap, work day and night, and are hard to misinterpret. In a worst case scenario, you know to turn on the TV or radio and find out what's wrong. Also, I'd expect they're particularly useful in a place where everyone lives in a tin hut or plywood shack.
Sometimes old tech just makes more sense.
Your 95 year old friend is not "the rest of humanity". The average user often has more than one thing open at a time.
iPad fail.