Rumor has it that the POTUS himself spotted one of these garments on a Secret Service Agent and insisted on one of his own - complete with a presidential seal.
My BS meter went off on that one. The Secret Service isn't likely to allow "non-issue" gear with all of the other stuff they gotta be concerned with, like where to stow the Uzi and still look non-chalant... Take note... in contrast to his predecessor, this prez is rarely, if ever, seen wearing the presidential seal on his clothing. Not taking a partisan side here so can the flames... I just watch the news a lot.
...having people double check a project from the ground up will almost always find the problems...
Then you double check the checkers, and so on... that's the point of the article... humans will err... Like Demming said... "you can't inspect quality into a process."
According to the book "Big Blue," the unnofficial corporate biography of IBM, the IBM PHBs were at a loss as to what to load on to the upcoming IBM PC... Paul Allen, who knew Bill Gates mother from their work on charity boards, asked "What about Mary Gates boy? I hear he works with these things." The rest is history. Gates first contribution was a port of an (open source?) version of Basic from paper tape to mag disc. And in letting Gates keep the rights to his borrowed and stolen programs, IBM committed one of the most noteworthy corporate blunders in business history.
"HALF OF THE WORKING-AGE POPULATION IS NOT EMPLOYED FULL-TIME."
Alarmist Bull Puckey. About half of the "working age" population are women, so subtract the stay-at-home moms and the working moms who choose to be home when the kids get home from school, and the picture looks a little less severe. Then subtract the maternity leave population. Then subtract the full and part-time students who work part time out of necessity. Then subtract the early retirees. Then subtract the seasonal workers who hunker down off-season. Then subtract the already known floating population of the temporarily unemployed. Then subtract the self employed small business people. Get the picture?
Your world where 100% of the working age population must slave away at a full time day job to keep the economy going exists only in the propaganda of liberal left wing social engineers.
It's not just about speed and massively parallel
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To be considered a "supercomputer," it also needs enough CONTIGUOUS MEMORY SPACE to hold the massive amounts of data associated with true "supercomputing." So far, no cluster has met that requirement.
"Let's think about this for a moment: ALL SOFTWARE IS INSECURE. Microsoft is just the biggest player, so they are targeted the most often." Let's test that theory with logic. I guess one way would be to examine the competition and the aftermarket players, say, the Symantics, the IBMs, the AutoDesks, Apple - even the open source players. If we look at security complaints against all of them, proportionally speaking, your argument is just munchkin chatter.
whoever wrote this virus has never been to a computer show or convention and gotten a good long gander at the average cyber-god/godess. Otherwise the virus would hunt down webcams and kill them.
"If you're suggesting that there's any age, sex, race, religious disposition, disability etc that procludes someone from being a terrorist trying to get onto a plane then I'd like to see your evidence."
Especially those elderly female Caucasian Mormons with prosthetic limbs. We can never be too careful.
A game called Age of Empires 2 offended the Saudi Arabian authorities because it showed victorious Muslim armies turning churches into mosques. The game was withdrawn from sale in the kingdom
Their knowledge of geography might be flawed, but their knowledge of history seems to be spot on. Mosques built over top of razed Christian churches is a very common thing in the middle east.
watching the google PTBs vainly trying to relive/recreate the dot.com stock market bubble with their inflated price and number of shares. Who amoung us standing on the sidelines didn't see this coming?
"I thought it was stupid that they landed Robert Patrick to play one of the marines in the pilot, but then he was killed off in the same episode. When I saw him, I thought he was going to be a regular. That would have been awesome."
Yep. I was disappointed to see him killed off. But with about 40 years of sci fi consumption under my belt - it was refreshing that somebody finally came up with actual scary bad guys in "The Wraith." It would be interesting if - as life sucking immortal monsters - they were also a vampire race, and Patrick came back as one of them.
So they turned the McGuyver action hero character central to the SG theme into a desk jockey.... Yeah.. that'll boost ratings as they replace his anger fed machine gun sprees with angst fed stapler accidents.
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Rumor has it that the POTUS himself spotted one of these garments on a Secret Service Agent and insisted on one of his own - complete with a presidential seal.
My BS meter went off on that one. The Secret Service isn't likely to allow "non-issue" gear with all of the other stuff they gotta be concerned with, like where to stow the Uzi and still look non-chalant... Take note... in contrast to his predecessor, this prez is rarely, if ever, seen wearing the presidential seal on his clothing. Not taking a partisan side here so can the flames... I just watch the news a lot.
I submitted this story yesterday, but it was rejected. Happens to me all the time... I have yet to get one in. Obviously they know who we are.
he'll beat that $210,000 fare if he uses that PriceLine thingy he works for....
Then you double check the checkers, and so on... that's the point of the article... humans will err... Like Demming said... "you can't inspect quality into a process."
I think $500 is the price point where the purchaser will refuse to admit that he made a mistake.
According to the book "Big Blue," the unnofficial corporate biography of IBM, the IBM PHBs were at a loss as to what to load on to the upcoming IBM PC... Paul Allen, who knew Bill Gates mother from their work on charity boards, asked "What about Mary Gates boy? I hear he works with these things." The rest is history. Gates first contribution was a port of an (open source?) version of Basic from paper tape to mag disc. And in letting Gates keep the rights to his borrowed and stolen programs, IBM committed one of the most noteworthy corporate blunders in business history.
Alarmist Bull Puckey. About half of the "working age" population are women, so subtract the stay-at-home moms and the working moms who choose to be home when the kids get home from school, and the picture looks a little less severe. Then subtract the maternity leave population. Then subtract the full and part-time students who work part time out of necessity. Then subtract the early retirees. Then subtract the seasonal workers who hunker down off-season. Then subtract the already known floating population of the temporarily unemployed. Then subtract the self employed small business people. Get the picture?
Your world where 100% of the working age population must slave away at a full time day job to keep the economy going exists only in the propaganda of liberal left wing social engineers.
Wasn't Microsoft supposed to solve the Desktop Search problem with their upcoming Longhorn?
Dude... Bush and Kerry both went to Yale, both belonged to S & B...
So much for being an informed voter.
SSFTs are now units of energy?
Isn't this how "The Andromeda Strain" did it's dastardly work? Turning the blood into a solid crystaline polymer?
a bag of "Hot Cubes" to keep the coffee warm.
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To be considered a "supercomputer," it also needs enough CONTIGUOUS MEMORY SPACE to hold the massive amounts of data associated with true "supercomputing." So far, no cluster has met that requirement.
"Let's think about this for a moment: ALL SOFTWARE IS INSECURE. Microsoft is just the biggest player, so they are targeted the most often."
Let's test that theory with logic. I guess one way would be to examine the competition and the aftermarket players, say, the Symantics, the IBMs, the AutoDesks, Apple - even the open source players. If we look at security complaints against all of them, proportionally speaking, your argument is just munchkin chatter.
When they can't improve the engine, just add more chrome and offer new colors.
You may have hit on a use for the new Win XP Lite crippleware version beng foisted off on the Third World.
If you read the RTFA, you'd know the answer... 10 ounces.
Especially those elderly female Caucasian Mormons with prosthetic limbs. We can never be too careful.
Their knowledge of geography might be flawed, but their knowledge of history seems to be spot on. Mosques built over top of razed Christian churches is a very common thing in the middle east.
watching the google PTBs vainly trying to relive/recreate the dot.com stock market bubble with their inflated price and number of shares. Who amoung us standing on the sidelines didn't see this coming?
What's a "Backdoor Pop-up?"
Yep. I was disappointed to see him killed off. But with about 40 years of sci fi consumption under my belt - it was refreshing that somebody finally came up with actual scary bad guys in "The Wraith." It would be interesting if - as life sucking immortal monsters - they were also a vampire race, and Patrick came back as one of them.
So they turned the McGuyver action hero character central to the SG theme into a desk jockey.... Yeah.. that'll boost ratings as they replace his anger fed machine gun sprees with angst fed stapler accidents.