Damn English, not having grammatically correct genderless singular pronouns)...
The best compromise usage is replacing "his or her" with "their". Try it, it works. The implied plural works for an either|or situation because there is more than one option.
To recast: "...more sense than the candidate getting most of their money from a smaller number of..."
Guys, listen up. There is no event in the progress of science that does not pass through a human's imagination first. Imagination is important. If you think otherwise well, you're in the wrong blog. Go study accounting.
So you've boiled down the entire American government, the election process, a HUGE section of the tech sector and looked at it as it applies you your email. Forest through the trees anyone?
Better than a forest of dead trees. I'd prefer hot air from email to hot air from poor carbon sequestration practices. You young whippersnappers have no idea how disturbing it was to watch whole floors filled with pallets of copier paper in every office building, just to feed the copiers. This is back when "spam" meant "processed spiced meat in a tin" only. The Haloid process was planet-killing technology, and was only mitigated when email came out to slow the wholesale slaughter of forests. I love email.
Mind you, I've got some pretty sophisticated filters...
wish they would stop releasing new stuff and simply improve the existing stuff
Hear hear!
I understand the origin of their new gadget culture was in a quote Bill G. made years ago -- "If we don't obsolete our own stuff, someone else will". I think it became a mandate for chaos, which manifests itself whenever they come out with a release with a funny name.
Beware of Microsoft operating systems that have clever names instead of "Windows" + qualifier. It's clear they were driven by marketing flacks marking the hydrant instead of engineers. Vista, Bob, Me, were there any others?
Dekki Wiki appliance. You download it, run up the VMWare program that comes with it, and point it to the virtual image. All well documented, and great online help. Omitting the download time, you're up and running in 2 minutes. Dekki is an Apache+Mono+MySQL app running on a Debian instance inside VMWare. Quick and reliable, and you back it up by taking a copy of the VM file. Recommended.
This is what I've learned from having to capture information before it all ran away. A large road infrastructure firm had just outsourced operations, staff got big payouts and were happy, a few got bonuses to stay on through the transition. The mandate I had was to grab all the information I could before the entire (large) infrastructure team evaporated. I chose a "gather fast, organise later" approach and picked up a few tools fairly quickly. They were (in no particular order):
(a) Dekki Wiki appliance, run on the free VMWare platform. A bit clunky in spots, but extremely quick to get running. Looked at Mediawiki appliance, but I didn't have time to dork around with tuning it to accept images. Dekki just worked, was fast enough, and did the job.
(b) MindJet Mind Manager (Lite) 7. Price of a good tech book, and I could download it. Great mind-map documentation tool, use it for architecture work now. I wish more software worked like this package.
(c) Visio, which was part of our consultant's SOE.
(d) Non-confrontational attitude. "Hi I'm here to document all the great work you've done so you won't have to".
(e) BMC software "Remedy" for issue tracking. Think this was really the only high ticket item, but we just costed it into the transition.
I got a fairly nice commendation and will make my bonus this year, so I'm pretty happy with the combination and how it all worked out. I can heartily recommend all of the above, but if you need a real long-term industrial strength wiki and you're not quite as constrained for time, I'd go the full Mediawiki kit. Ymmv.
Whups memory did fail. In no way do I wish to trivialise the loss of life, nor diminish the honour of those who served. I will now retreat into the land of ohmygod I wish I hadn't posted that.
Ok someone correct me here, but didn't a small launch (as in "motor boat") filled with explosives detonate against one of our CVA's back in the middle east a few years ago? I think someone was trying the equivalent of a water-borne car bomb. If my memory serves there was significant damage to a layer of paint at the point of impact.
Thank you! But geez this thread has triggered some memories. Like the interpreting card punches -- forget the number, but can't forget the diesel chic' of those things. They were massive -- iron and crinkle-tone grey monsters and not a little bit noisy. One place where I worked (may have been XDS) had a half-dozen of them in a room. They did not all run at the same speed; at least one was out by about 0.05Hz due to difference in the motor speed. When they ran a pair of them, about twice a minute they would come back into phase and the floor would shake, hard. Sounded like a laundromat full of off-balance loads. Punched about one and a bit cards per second at 80 bytes per.
Oh and btw JPL Pasadena had Univac comps in 1976 and that's where I encountered the 90-column round punch cards. They were hard to fit in one's pocket; the best note cards were IBM 5081's taken from the middle of a submission deck from somebody you didn't like. You walked around with them just behind the pocket protector.
Do you mean the standard 029 or do you mean the verifier? Ahh, US Government form 5081. I used to punch * $$ EOJ into the tab card that was my phone bill and sent it on.
For extra special bonus points, tell me what shape the Univac card punch holes were, and how many there were per card.
Is this via support calls or just little modal dialog boxes that people are tired of clicking "send" on? Or are they filtering out things they've already encountered in XP? Statistics are a great aid to the common lie.
A trebuchet is powered by a counterweight, this thing is powered by some sort of mechanical actuators meaning that it certainly is not a trebuchet. As for slings, the Roman onager used slings despite being driven by torsion rather than counterweights. Of course back then a catapult was defined as a sinew torsion based crossbow that that fired a spear. A ballista was similar but fired rocks instead, though these days we call an onager a catapult, a catapult a ballista and don't really have a name for a ballista.
There were non-counterweight trebuchets as well, called "traction" trebuchets. Instead of a counterweight you had a number of people tugging on ropes. I had one based on this model built for me for SCA combat as the result of a siege engine competition (Stormhold) some years ago. 60-90 metre throws with a cargo of softballs was customary with a 6 metre composite rattan arm. One advantage of a traction trebuchet is it's more mobile as you don't need to score or drag a tonne or so of counterweight along to the launch site.
So to stay on topic, I think you could call the robot arm a form of trebuchet. I've not seen onagers with slings in my researches though, will look for that. Onagers btw were so named because of the bucking motion they make, mitigated by curved ends of their foundation rails. Onager = Donkey in Latin. They were also called "rocking donkeys".
And another name for Ballista could be "ZOMG Look at the size of that effing crossbow!". They didn't always use rocks, some of them used mucking great iron bolts.
There is certainly better software for accountants, but I'd take strong exception to your statement, having worked in a very major bank that ran it's managed funds basis on Excel plus macros plus VBA. The idea was you could wrap the spreadsheet around a rock and throw it anywhere (it's a metaphor, guys! A metaphor!). You can survey 10 different accounting firms and get 10 different accounting packages, but they all recognise the spreadsheet. What I think we need is a spreadsheet front end to a decent transactional relational database, such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 or something equally transaction-oriented. I wouldn't spec MySQL up front because I'm not aware of it's transactional atomicity characteristics.
The Max Planck Insitute for Meteorology disagrees with you
My information is old and anecdotal, so I will happily walk the planck on this one. I will have to pat myself on the back for catalysing the correct response (yes, I do work in pre-sales, why do you ask?)
Booting the little thing into a thin hypervisor and running Linux and Windows virtualised? Sure, it'll swap, but you could keep the context as you did and you wouldn't have to reboot to switch.
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The best compromise usage is replacing "his or her" with "their". Try it, it works. The implied plural works for an either|or situation because there is more than one option.
To recast: "...more sense than the candidate getting most of their money from a smaller number of..."
Guys, listen up. There is no event in the progress of science that does not pass through a human's imagination first. Imagination is important. If you think otherwise well, you're in the wrong blog. Go study accounting.
It happened when LIFE Magazine closed its doors and Chesley Bonestell laid down his brushes.
Better than a forest of dead trees. I'd prefer hot air from email to hot air from poor carbon sequestration practices. You young whippersnappers have no idea how disturbing it was to watch whole floors filled with pallets of copier paper in every office building, just to feed the copiers. This is back when "spam" meant "processed spiced meat in a tin" only. The Haloid process was planet-killing technology, and was only mitigated when email came out to slow the wholesale slaughter of forests. I love email.
Mind you, I've got some pretty sophisticated filters...
Are you paying penance for sins in your past life or something?
Sounds like he wants someone else to pay for sins in their past life...
That is just horribly, horribly egregiously disturbingly bad. And take that ring off your little hobbit!
Hear hear!
I understand the origin of their new gadget culture was in a quote Bill G. made years ago -- "If we don't obsolete our own stuff, someone else will". I think it became a mandate for chaos, which manifests itself whenever they come out with a release with a funny name.
To misquote the fictitious but very wise Samuel Vimes, "If you start censoring for good reasons, pretty soon you'll be censoring them for bad ones".
Beware of Microsoft operating systems that have clever names instead of "Windows" + qualifier. It's clear they were driven by marketing flacks marking the hydrant instead of engineers. Vista, Bob, Me, were there any others?
Dekki Wiki appliance. You download it, run up the VMWare program that comes with it, and point it to the virtual image. All well documented, and great online help. Omitting the download time, you're up and running in 2 minutes. Dekki is an Apache+Mono+MySQL app running on a Debian instance inside VMWare. Quick and reliable, and you back it up by taking a copy of the VM file. Recommended.
(a) Dekki Wiki appliance, run on the free VMWare platform. A bit clunky in spots, but extremely quick to get running. Looked at Mediawiki appliance, but I didn't have time to dork around with tuning it to accept images. Dekki just worked, was fast enough, and did the job.
(b) MindJet Mind Manager (Lite) 7. Price of a good tech book, and I could download it. Great mind-map documentation tool, use it for architecture work now. I wish more software worked like this package.
(c) Visio, which was part of our consultant's SOE.
(d) Non-confrontational attitude. "Hi I'm here to document all the great work you've done so you won't have to".
(e) BMC software "Remedy" for issue tracking. Think this was really the only high ticket item, but we just costed it into the transition.
I got a fairly nice commendation and will make my bonus this year, so I'm pretty happy with the combination and how it all worked out. I can heartily recommend all of the above, but if you need a real long-term industrial strength wiki and you're not quite as constrained for time, I'd go the full Mediawiki kit. Ymmv.
Whups memory did fail. In no way do I wish to trivialise the loss of life, nor diminish the honour of those who served. I will now retreat into the land of ohmygod I wish I hadn't posted that.
Ok someone correct me here, but didn't a small launch (as in "motor boat") filled with explosives detonate against one of our CVA's back in the middle east a few years ago? I think someone was trying the equivalent of a water-borne car bomb. If my memory serves there was significant damage to a layer of paint at the point of impact.
Oh and btw JPL Pasadena had Univac comps in 1976 and that's where I encountered the 90-column round punch cards. They were hard to fit in one's pocket; the best note cards were IBM 5081's taken from the middle of a submission deck from somebody you didn't like. You walked around with them just behind the pocket protector.
Do you mean the standard 029 or do you mean the verifier? Ahh, US Government form 5081. I used to punch * $$ EOJ into the tab card that was my phone bill and sent it on.
For extra special bonus points, tell me what shape the Univac card punch holes were, and how many there were per card.
I warned you not to play on my lawn.
Is this via support calls or just little modal dialog boxes that people are tired of clicking "send" on? Or are they filtering out things they've already encountered in XP? Statistics are a great aid to the common lie.
That's not entirely true. There's one snake (Pailsus pailsei) here that isn't poisonous. Mind you, it survives by imitating a Brown Snake, which is.
Why did it have to be rats?
There's definitely mold of some sort involved, anyway. Mycology knows better than to give in.
...chain gun on my Lunar Rover or will that be a quested item?
There were non-counterweight trebuchets as well, called "traction" trebuchets. Instead of a counterweight you had a number of people tugging on ropes. I had one based on this model built for me for SCA combat as the result of a siege engine competition (Stormhold) some years ago. 60-90 metre throws with a cargo of softballs was customary with a 6 metre composite rattan arm. One advantage of a traction trebuchet is it's more mobile as you don't need to score or drag a tonne or so of counterweight along to the launch site.
So to stay on topic, I think you could call the robot arm a form of trebuchet. I've not seen onagers with slings in my researches though, will look for that. Onagers btw were so named because of the bucking motion they make, mitigated by curved ends of their foundation rails. Onager = Donkey in Latin. They were also called "rocking donkeys".
And another name for Ballista could be "ZOMG Look at the size of that effing crossbow!". They didn't always use rocks, some of them used mucking great iron bolts.
Absolutely correct.
Even most accountants no longer use spreadsheets
There is certainly better software for accountants, but I'd take strong exception to your statement, having worked in a very major bank that ran it's managed funds basis on Excel plus macros plus VBA. The idea was you could wrap the spreadsheet around a rock and throw it anywhere (it's a metaphor, guys! A metaphor!). You can survey 10 different accounting firms and get 10 different accounting packages, but they all recognise the spreadsheet. What I think we need is a spreadsheet front end to a decent transactional relational database, such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 or something equally transaction-oriented. I wouldn't spec MySQL up front because I'm not aware of it's transactional atomicity characteristics.
Actually the disks make excellent drop spindle wheels, if you're into spinning thread the old fashioned way. I have friends who do this.
My information is old and anecdotal, so I will happily walk the planck on this one. I will have to pat myself on the back for catalysing the correct response (yes, I do work in pre-sales, why do you ask?)
Booting the little thing into a thin hypervisor and running Linux and Windows virtualised? Sure, it'll swap, but you could keep the context as you did and you wouldn't have to reboot to switch.