Not sure what you're remembering. Netscape 3 was obviously better than IE3; the only thing IE3 offered was a browser good enough to be described as clearly worse than Netscape 3. It was IE4 that was marginally better than Netscape 4, and IE5 where it was obvious that IE was the leading browser because Netscape/Mozilla decided to just completely shit the bed with evolving the whole communicator suite.
Why go all the way across the pond to Europe when Canada (which only riots over the Stanley Cup) has both and is doing fine, fiscally? Or at least, much better than the U.S.
because that universal health care and banking regulations are working out so well in the EU.
Thanks for noticing that UHC and banking regulations have worked out quite well in the EU, and that the issue isn't their cost, it's that the financial coalition joining southern European countries to northern is structurally problematic, not the cost of entitlements.
He speaks for enough of you that you have elected officials standing in the way of a lot of useful, obvious, common sense solutions that have been demonstrated to work elsewhere, such as universal health care and decent banking regulations.
That's what I thought, but HFShadow is the one who seems to think that suggesting an SLR is an absurd leap into technical sophistication. My point (and Stewbacca's) is that entry-level DSLRs are extremely accessible both technically and price-wise.
He was recommending a DSLR, not an SLR (i.e., digital, not film). Canon/Nikon entry level DSLRs offer an immediate jump in image quality because they have far better lenses than any point and shoot, and you don't ever have to take them off their automatic mode that's as point-and-shoot as anything smaller.
Are you sure that the only samples left in existence are those in government fridges, or that it's impossible for a new outbreak to occur from some natural reservoir?
Bwahahahah! Oh you sweet, benighted thing, if you think Obama is the most corrupt presidency in U.S. history. This doesn't even scratch the fucking surface, dude. Look up Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, or Reagan.
Hell, Cheney's relationships with KBR and Haliburton alone stand as a high water mark in corruption.
You just captured, in 7 words, the basic blind spot of/.ers. For any given task, that's not an impediment. When you have a hundred of those tasks lined up to do today, you start to crave simple (or "just works" or any of a hundred other reasons to use Windows or OSX over Linux).
It's funded social security in the U.S. for more than 75 years, and will continue doing so as a net positive to the U.S. budget for another twenty five if they don't change the levels of the payroll tax or the benefits.
Credit Unions typically join networks of other credit unions just to establish presence and services outside of their area. It's something to check on if you're considering joining one, but the issue you identify isn't likely to be one if you're just a bit careful looking at what's actually offered.
And frankly, choosing monthly rape by a nationwide bank like BoA, vs. occasional inconvenience because someone hands you a check... doesn't seem that difficult a choice to me.
How much have you actually pulled out in dollars or gold? i.e., converted to a stable currency that's reasonably guaranteed to hold its value steadily instead of fluctuating a lot. Assuming that bitcoin mining is a good investment, bitcoin's volatility makes it a poor store of value over the longer term.
When you see a list like RMS's, read it as a list of things that have gone wrong in the past and that he wants to avoid in the future. At some point in the past, someone heard he likes parrots, and bought him one as a gift to give him when he showed up, not knowing what a tremendous responsibility parrots are.
Why do you think that illegals don't pay taxes? Day laborers working for cash make up a small proportion of illegals in the U.S. Most work jobs with fake SSNs, and pay into Social Security that they'll never collect, along with income tax being deducted and sales tax on everything they buy. Then, when they need to police, they don't call because they're scared of getting discovered, so there's more money saved.
The government wants to replace humans with video tapes, and when the teachers protest, this is somehow viewed as self-interested whining? Why aren't parents up in arms about their kids being supervised by a DVD?
You're right, we only want teachers who do it for the love of the job, the children, the teaching. And, pace Kant, the only way to be sure of that is to not pay them. After all, if you don't love teaching enough to work a second job at night to pay the bills, you obviously don't love children.
Seriously, why the fuck shouldn't they care about job security?
My wife is a high school teacher involved in a job action right now, and the sticking point of negotiations isn't money, it's class sizes. They're contractually capped at 30 students per classroom, but somehow she always has 35, and the government is looking to increase that actual cap. Remind me again how useless and self-interested unions are when your kid is sitting with 34 peers, wondering why the teacher never has time to answer his questions.
Doubtful. Besides the fact that the military hasn't given much of a shit about collateral damage and mistaken targets so far, to confess that their war machines aren't actually under their control would do far more damage than to simply say "yup, we hit a schoolbus full of children."
Remember, during the Yugoslavian action, they "accidentally" bombed the Chinese embassy. They don't seem to have a problem with making mistakes and then saying "what are you going to do about it?"
I'm the CTO for a tech startup. We've been operating for almost a year on angel funds. We're well along and getting traction with large customers, and everything looks good.
But here's the thing: while we're stretching "laptop powered knowledge workers" as far as we can by being very flexible with skilled people working from home and whatnot, there's still a tremendous amount of office work to be done. We've been successful so far in large part because the CEO and the sales guy have been kicking in doors and following leads and that means a lot of phone calls and discussions and whiteboards. We have a project manager running the ticket system. Our CFO runs budget meetings. We're constantly getting together to talk things out. This is normal for a business, and nothing about "business 2.0" has changed that.
The fantasy of a laptop-enabled knowledge worker being a techno-nomad was always a fantasy. If you want to build a real business, it just involves a lot of the unglamorous work that doesn't seem so sexy in a Starbucks.
I worked at RSA Security for several years, during the period in which they outsourced several of their minor products (e.g., ClearTrust) to HCL Enterprises. I worked directly with their teams on occasion, and they were fast and correct. It wasn't particularly cheap, though likely somewhat cheaper than a North American dev center.
Have a chatty phone conversation or a drinking lunch with a consultant who's between gigs. Let him tell war stories. Organize according to some metaphor drawn from a widely known but poorly understood work of literature. Beat deadline, knock off early.
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Not sure what you're remembering. Netscape 3 was obviously better than IE3; the only thing IE3 offered was a browser good enough to be described as clearly worse than Netscape 3. It was IE4 that was marginally better than Netscape 4, and IE5 where it was obvious that IE was the leading browser because Netscape/Mozilla decided to just completely shit the bed with evolving the whole communicator suite.
Why go all the way across the pond to Europe when Canada (which only riots over the Stanley Cup) has both and is doing fine, fiscally? Or at least, much better than the U.S.
because that universal health care and banking regulations are working out so well in the EU.
Thanks for noticing that UHC and banking regulations have worked out quite well in the EU, and that the issue isn't their cost, it's that the financial coalition joining southern European countries to northern is structurally problematic, not the cost of entitlements.
Says the AC...
He speaks for enough of you that you have elected officials standing in the way of a lot of useful, obvious, common sense solutions that have been demonstrated to work elsewhere, such as universal health care and decent banking regulations.
That's what I thought, but HFShadow is the one who seems to think that suggesting an SLR is an absurd leap into technical sophistication. My point (and Stewbacca's) is that entry-level DSLRs are extremely accessible both technically and price-wise.
He was recommending a DSLR, not an SLR (i.e., digital, not film). Canon/Nikon entry level DSLRs offer an immediate jump in image quality because they have far better lenses than any point and shoot, and you don't ever have to take them off their automatic mode that's as point-and-shoot as anything smaller.
Because Siga is the only company offering such a drug. It's hard not to sole source something when there's only a sole source.
Are you sure that the only samples left in existence are those in government fridges, or that it's impossible for a new outbreak to occur from some natural reservoir?
Bwahahahah! Oh you sweet, benighted thing, if you think Obama is the most corrupt presidency in U.S. history. This doesn't even scratch the fucking surface, dude. Look up Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, or Reagan.
Hell, Cheney's relationships with KBR and Haliburton alone stand as a high water mark in corruption.
It's not necessarily simple but it's do-able.
You just captured, in 7 words, the basic blind spot of /.ers. For any given task, that's not an impediment. When you have a hundred of those tasks lined up to do today, you start to crave simple (or "just works" or any of a hundred other reasons to use Windows or OSX over Linux).
It's funded social security in the U.S. for more than 75 years, and will continue doing so as a net positive to the U.S. budget for another twenty five if they don't change the levels of the payroll tax or the benefits.
Credit Unions typically join networks of other credit unions just to establish presence and services outside of their area. It's something to check on if you're considering joining one, but the issue you identify isn't likely to be one if you're just a bit careful looking at what's actually offered.
And frankly, choosing monthly rape by a nationwide bank like BoA, vs. occasional inconvenience because someone hands you a check... doesn't seem that difficult a choice to me.
How much have you actually pulled out in dollars or gold? i.e., converted to a stable currency that's reasonably guaranteed to hold its value steadily instead of fluctuating a lot. Assuming that bitcoin mining is a good investment, bitcoin's volatility makes it a poor store of value over the longer term.
How did your company make a few million (dollars, I assume) from bitcoin?
When you see a list like RMS's, read it as a list of things that have gone wrong in the past and that he wants to avoid in the future. At some point in the past, someone heard he likes parrots, and bought him one as a gift to give him when he showed up, not knowing what a tremendous responsibility parrots are.
c.f. Any /. thread on Hans Reiser, especially after he led that police to Nina's body.
Why do you think that illegals don't pay taxes? Day laborers working for cash make up a small proportion of illegals in the U.S. Most work jobs with fake SSNs, and pay into Social Security that they'll never collect, along with income tax being deducted and sales tax on everything they buy. Then, when they need to police, they don't call because they're scared of getting discovered, so there's more money saved.
The government wants to replace humans with video tapes, and when the teachers protest, this is somehow viewed as self-interested whining? Why aren't parents up in arms about their kids being supervised by a DVD?
You're right, we only want teachers who do it for the love of the job, the children, the teaching. And, pace Kant, the only way to be sure of that is to not pay them. After all, if you don't love teaching enough to work a second job at night to pay the bills, you obviously don't love children.
Seriously, why the fuck shouldn't they care about job security?
My wife is a high school teacher involved in a job action right now, and the sticking point of negotiations isn't money, it's class sizes. They're contractually capped at 30 students per classroom, but somehow she always has 35, and the government is looking to increase that actual cap. Remind me again how useless and self-interested unions are when your kid is sitting with 34 peers, wondering why the teacher never has time to answer his questions.
No kidding. "Okay, phase one in the project involves training a bunch of Ada programmers..."
Doubtful. Besides the fact that the military hasn't given much of a shit about collateral damage and mistaken targets so far, to confess that their war machines aren't actually under their control would do far more damage than to simply say "yup, we hit a schoolbus full of children."
Remember, during the Yugoslavian action, they "accidentally" bombed the Chinese embassy. They don't seem to have a problem with making mistakes and then saying "what are you going to do about it?"
I'm the CTO for a tech startup. We've been operating for almost a year on angel funds. We're well along and getting traction with large customers, and everything looks good.
But here's the thing: while we're stretching "laptop powered knowledge workers" as far as we can by being very flexible with skilled people working from home and whatnot, there's still a tremendous amount of office work to be done. We've been successful so far in large part because the CEO and the sales guy have been kicking in doors and following leads and that means a lot of phone calls and discussions and whiteboards. We have a project manager running the ticket system. Our CFO runs budget meetings. We're constantly getting together to talk things out. This is normal for a business, and nothing about "business 2.0" has changed that.
The fantasy of a laptop-enabled knowledge worker being a techno-nomad was always a fantasy. If you want to build a real business, it just involves a lot of the unglamorous work that doesn't seem so sexy in a Starbucks.
I worked at RSA Security for several years, during the period in which they outsourced several of their minor products (e.g., ClearTrust) to HCL Enterprises. I worked directly with their teams on occasion, and they were fast and correct. It wasn't particularly cheap, though likely somewhat cheaper than a North American dev center.
Have a chatty phone conversation or a drinking lunch with a consultant who's between gigs. Let him tell war stories. Organize according to some metaphor drawn from a widely known but poorly understood work of literature. Beat deadline, knock off early.
Referring to floppy disks threw me off. I was all "what does my coffee cup coaster have to do with it?"