Ice-9 was also the record publishing company for The Grateful Dead.
And don't forget the Quadium Bomb from Leonard Wibberly's "Mouse that Roared", in which the Duchy of Grand Fenwick declared war on the United States so they could refresh their economy with the inevitable post-war repair largesse. Unfortunately, they won...
But how the hell do you spend $928,000 spent on software and $661,000 on hardware?
And how long have you been in the IT industry? That is absolutely not difficult to do. For SI's that's small potatoes, you could do that in one rack with a few CPU's running Oracle applications, perhaps a bit of EAI middleware and a BI app, in a blade server array. Not difficult at all.
So if your internet at home went down, would you wither up and die?? Or just a little inside?
No, but considering the fact that I live over 1,500 miles from the office where I work, it is not merely a luxury that I telecommute. If I can't have broadband Internet, I'll need to quit my job and...
It's interesting to note throughout the advance of civilisation the passage of things from the category of luxuries to the category of necessities. This is not an attutudinal shift, but a real one. To entertain further, the idea of "getting back to basics" such as hunting your own food (a good idea in certain rural areas, not so good in Chicago) turns out to be more of a luxury than a necessity, in an inversion of the trend. It's often seen that people confuse the two categories (these people are often identifiable by their red flannel shirts and funny hats) much to the delight of critics and Democrats.
You do know that women (especially younger ones) really like cute small cars, right? Sports cars are toys for boys that never grew up, big sedans and SUVs are for fat middle-aged people.
Yes or no, has Steve Balmer stopped beating his wife?
Yes, I asked her last night -- he stopped around mid-June.
Please, it's a simple yes or no question. We don't need details or explanations, if the witness would just stick to the facts we could move forward.
Farmer Joe decided his injuries from the accident were serious enough to take
the trucking company (responsible for the accident) to court. In court, the
trucking company's fancy lawyer was questioning farmer Joe. "Didn't you
say, at the scene of the accident, 'I'm fine'?" said the lawyer. Farmer Joe
responded, "Well, I'll tell you what happened. I had just loaded my
favorite mule Bessie into the......." "I didn't ask for any
details," the lawyer interrupted, "just answer the question. Did you
not say, at the scene of the accident, 'I'm fine!'" Farmer Joe said,
"Well, I had just got Bessie into the trailer and I was driving down the
road..." The lawyer interrupted again and said, "Judge, I am trying to
establish the fact that, at the scene of the accident, this man told the Highway
Patrolman on the scene that he was just fine. Now several weeks after the
accident he is trying to sue my client. I believe he is a fraud. Please tell him
to simply answer the question."
By this time the Judge was fairly interested in Farmer Joe's answer and said to
the lawyer, "I'd like to hear what he has to say about his favorite mule
Bessie." Joe thanked the Judge and proceeded, "Well, as I was saying,
I had just loaded Bessie, my favorite mule, into the trailer and was driving her
down the highway when this huge semi-truck and trailer ran the stop sign and
smacked my truck right in the side. I was thrown into one ditch and Bessie was
thrown into the other. I was hurting real bad and didn't want to move. However,
I could hear ole Bessie moaning and groaning. I knew she was in terrible shape
just by her groans. Shortly after the accident a Highway Patrolman came on the
scene. He could hear Bessie moaning and groaning so he went over to her. After
he looked at her he took out his gun and shot her between the eyes. Then the
Patrolman came across the road with his gun in his hand and looked at me.
He said, "Your mule was in such bad shape I had to shoot her - how are you
feeling?"
I'd give the attribution but I forgot where I found this. Apologies to the author, wherever you are.
Yep half-way through with me, then I began to struggle a bit with the predicate calculus, which is boring. But you can get through it if you mind your P's and Q's.
Considering that much of philosophy involves establishing a framework for reality, it's interesting how we seem to have developed this corroborating mechanistic analogue for the logical principles established so long ago. What I find intriguing is how the drift in philosophy echoed George Boole and his joining of mathematics with stepwise logic, rather than the more difficult (yet apparently easier) inferential path followed by the classic philosophers.
Put another way, it's interesting how important the careful establishment of the question has become to determining the right answer. Validate the question first, then the answer follows more easily. Semantics are easier that way. So, now, we're developing a segment of the world's population who are being trained in logical -- and rational -- thinking. That, by itself, can only be good.
space has a cold side? what would that be - the vacuum? like what you have for a fucking brain?
Ignoring your manners for a moment, yes it can be said that space has a cold side. If you have an object facing a source of heat (the Sun, for example) then you will have roughly half the object in shadow. The shadow-side surface will be receiving no incident heat from radiation, yet will be able to exhibit cooling by thermal radiation. Thus, a "cold side".
Now, go back to your day job, which no doubt involves waiting under a bridge and shaking down travellers for coins.
If there were enough of a temperature differential you could use the difference itself to power the data centre, or a substantial part of it. You've already got a deep heat sink for cooling plus that hot Arizona air in the summer. There are large commercial Stirling cycle cogeneration engines available that might suddenly make economic sense, given that the expensive capital outlay of digging the rather large hole in the ground such a thing would require is already spent. I would suspect that the surrounding continental rock has sufficient thermal mass that it would be a very long time before saturation would be reached. Free non-nuclear, non-wind, non-hydrocarbon electricity, in bulk.
I suspect it would ultimately be a hybrid CTO/CIO.
Not entirely sure about that. I think a more technical focus would be needed -- the US needs a technology focus, not another information focus. For CIO you have CIA. For CTO you have -- well, nothing really, since DARPA evaporated. I'd prefer a more civil approach, like the cabinet office suggested earlier. Science and technology; if you created a national CIO it would be in danger of turning into just another security agency. The name aligns with the focus of effort. Keep that "T" in there.
$3600. About $3100 of that was wasted, as I purchased a block of 36 introductions and only used 5.
Yes, most things you spend on toward a wedding are a ripoff, anyway. I bought two dozen oysters for our wedding night and at least three of them didn't work.
Which is exactly why you do not want a CTO at a government level
Disagree.
The national CTO will need to be a leader, not a manager. This is all technology not just IT. And it's not too far a stretch to presume this administration will demand a certain amount of transparency in the role, including an insistence on divestiture of share holdings in case of conflict of interest, but that's no matter -- what matters is not whether there's another Halliburton effect (there won't be) but whether or not the USA invests in technology at the appropriate scale.
There's a huge amount of infrastructure rebuild required, and far better than the three-man-and-a-shovel New Deal jobs are going to be out there to do. It's not going to be enough to repair or replace civil engineered structures such as bridges with old technology, ways will need to be found to do the job better, cheaper, more reliably, and smarter. You won't get that without leadership at the national level.
Think of the highway infrastructure projects of the Eisenhower era and what it did to help growth -- yes, it caused it's own set of problems but it also relieved communications choke-points that would have put a major dampener on the economic health of the nation. You can't see a national CTO as a limited position, at all -- that would be too small a picture. This is of Cabinet level importance.
Many economic markets are what are termed "market failures". This does not mean the kind of failure like we saw with the banks last month; it means a market that, when completely unfettered, does not allocate resources efficiently.
Sort of like a car engine without a flywheel or RPM limiter and a deaf fool at the throttle.
Plus you have to admit that Obama is a charismatic individual with enormous powers of persuasion at his disposal.
And there you have the key difference between a manager and a leader. People want to work in the direction pointed to by a persuasive lead, and will work against leaders who do not persuade. Don't face the mule when you want him to move. If the top office is occupied by a good manager with no leadership qualities, do not expect magnetic alignment of the particles of populace; without a clear and believable direction people will work against the flow. Considering the motivation for change that now exists, we can only hope the new President will continue to embrace the noble and inclusive ideals he espoused during the campaign. He's got energy and IQ and the ability to lead, so I remain hopeful.
Remember, all good leaders throughout history were persuasive orators. You just have to hope the direction is running toward the right star on the horizon.
Unfortunately, I don't think any state besides California has a vexatious litigant status.
We have such laws in Australia. In this case, the action deemed most appropriate would probably be the standard two-syllable filing: "Shurrup (+elbow to teeth)"
However, most Australians slowly build up a tolerance to Iocaine powder prior to discussing open network initiatives with members of the Rudd government.
while I agree that gamers as a subculture are far from a coherent political force, to say they have no societal impact is naive.
Agree in part. In one game alone (World of Warcraft) there is a community of 10 million people with something in common to talk about. Now 10 million is a very small fraction of 6 billion, but still it's an example of large numbers of people talking to each other, forming groups -- not just the "duo" up to "raid" parties, but the various chat channels. I'm an Australian, and I found myself having a good long conversation with someone in Florida with whom I share a common medical affliction, but who is diametrically opposite me politically (My main is Horde, his Alliance -- but it goes deeper than that;P ). During the time we were arguing politics (and happily living too far away for fisticuffs) we were helping each other along the leveling path and becoming, as a completely unexpected side effect, close friends.
Think about it -- two people in different countries, radically different in certain core philosophies, becoming friends. Now multiply this friendship by however many sub groups, similar to this one, are likely happening across a 10 million strong group of players grouped by non-geographic boundaries ("Realms", individual servers). People who are gradually coming to the understanding that all borders are necessarily arbitrary and can be crossed.
I think that's a good argument that there's a lot of societal impact. This is a new medium, available only in the last few years. Writing, then newspapers, then radio, then television, then email, then YouTube and games. As the world grows, communications evolves -- must evolve -- in order to provide some coherence to society. And at its base, the economy itself depends on communications. If you don't believe that, spare a moment to think of the enormous battle for your eye space that goes on.
Be sure you set protection on the BOC. You really don't want the zombies able to access the cleavers. If you do, before you know it they'll be asking for the vote.
How do you manage config changes to shut-down VMs?
It's part of the competitive landscape in the virtual server world to support this. Here's an answer from Microsoft (reduced to TinyURL from Google Cache in self-defense) http://tinyurl.com/5uxxrv
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It's The Hook for you, mate.
Ice-9 was also the record publishing company for The Grateful Dead.
And don't forget the Quadium Bomb from Leonard Wibberly's "Mouse that Roared", in which the Duchy of Grand Fenwick declared war on the United States so they could refresh their economy with the inevitable post-war repair largesse. Unfortunately, they won...
Which is closer, New York or by Train?
the rich simply don't play by the same rules as the working class in most societies.
Perhaps that's how they get rich?
F.Scott Fitzgerald: "The rich are different."
Ernest Hemingway: "Yes, they have more money."
But how the hell do you spend $928,000 spent on software and $661,000 on hardware?
And how long have you been in the IT industry? That is absolutely not difficult to do. For SI's that's small potatoes, you could do that in one rack with a few CPU's running Oracle applications, perhaps a bit of EAI middleware and a BI app, in a blade server array. Not difficult at all.
So if your internet at home went down, would you wither up and die?? Or just a little inside?
No, but considering the fact that I live over 1,500 miles from the office where I work, it is not merely a luxury that I telecommute. If I can't have broadband Internet, I'll need to quit my job and...
It's interesting to note throughout the advance of civilisation the passage of things from the category of luxuries to the category of necessities. This is not an attutudinal shift, but a real one. To entertain further, the idea of "getting back to basics" such as hunting your own food (a good idea in certain rural areas, not so good in Chicago) turns out to be more of a luxury than a necessity, in an inversion of the trend. It's often seen that people confuse the two categories (these people are often identifiable by their red flannel shirts and funny hats) much to the delight of critics and Democrats.
The stirling is DEAD. Has been for 100+ years.
P|-|33R teh Undead Stirling! RAWR!
You do know that women (especially younger ones) really like cute small cars, right? Sports cars are toys for boys that never grew up, big sedans and SUVs are for fat middle-aged people.
I drive a Nissan Patrol, you insensitive clod!
Oh, wait...
Yes or no, has Steve Balmer stopped beating his wife?
Yes, I asked her last night -- he stopped around mid-June.
Please, it's a simple yes or no question. We don't need details or explanations, if the witness would just stick to the facts we could move forward.
Farmer Joe decided his injuries from the accident were serious enough to take the trucking company (responsible for the accident) to court. In court, the trucking company's fancy lawyer was questioning farmer Joe. "Didn't you say, at the scene of the accident, 'I'm fine'?" said the lawyer. Farmer Joe responded, "Well, I'll tell you what happened. I had just loaded my favorite mule Bessie into the......." "I didn't ask for any details," the lawyer interrupted, "just answer the question. Did you not say, at the scene of the accident, 'I'm fine!'" Farmer Joe said, "Well, I had just got Bessie into the trailer and I was driving down the road..." The lawyer interrupted again and said, "Judge, I am trying to establish the fact that, at the scene of the accident, this man told the Highway Patrolman on the scene that he was just fine. Now several weeks after the accident he is trying to sue my client. I believe he is a fraud. Please tell him to simply answer the question."
By this time the Judge was fairly interested in Farmer Joe's answer and said to the lawyer, "I'd like to hear what he has to say about his favorite mule Bessie." Joe thanked the Judge and proceeded, "Well, as I was saying, I had just loaded Bessie, my favorite mule, into the trailer and was driving her down the highway when this huge semi-truck and trailer ran the stop sign and smacked my truck right in the side. I was thrown into one ditch and Bessie was thrown into the other. I was hurting real bad and didn't want to move. However, I could hear ole Bessie moaning and groaning. I knew she was in terrible shape just by her groans. Shortly after the accident a Highway Patrolman came on the scene. He could hear Bessie moaning and groaning so he went over to her. After he looked at her he took out his gun and shot her between the eyes. Then the Patrolman came across the road with his gun in his hand and looked at me. He said, "Your mule was in such bad shape I had to shoot her - how are you feeling?"
I'd give the attribution but I forgot where I found this. Apologies to the author, wherever you are.
Yep half-way through with me, then I began to struggle a bit with the predicate calculus, which is boring. But you can get through it if you mind your P's and Q's.
Considering that much of philosophy involves establishing a framework for reality, it's interesting how we seem to have developed this corroborating mechanistic analogue for the logical principles established so long ago. What I find intriguing is how the drift in philosophy echoed George Boole and his joining of mathematics with stepwise logic, rather than the more difficult (yet apparently easier) inferential path followed by the classic philosophers.
Put another way, it's interesting how important the careful establishment of the question has become to determining the right answer. Validate the question first, then the answer follows more easily. Semantics are easier that way. So, now, we're developing a segment of the world's population who are being trained in logical -- and rational -- thinking. That, by itself, can only be good.
space has a cold side? what would that be - the vacuum? like what you have for a fucking brain?
Ignoring your manners for a moment, yes it can be said that space has a cold side. If you have an object facing a source of heat (the Sun, for example) then you will have roughly half the object in shadow. The shadow-side surface will be receiving no incident heat from radiation, yet will be able to exhibit cooling by thermal radiation. Thus, a "cold side".
Now, go back to your day job, which no doubt involves waiting under a bridge and shaking down travellers for coins.
If there were enough of a temperature differential you could use the difference itself to power the data centre, or a substantial part of it. You've already got a deep heat sink for cooling plus that hot Arizona air in the summer. There are large commercial Stirling cycle cogeneration engines available that might suddenly make economic sense, given that the expensive capital outlay of digging the rather large hole in the ground such a thing would require is already spent. I would suspect that the surrounding continental rock has sufficient thermal mass that it would be a very long time before saturation would be reached. Free non-nuclear, non-wind, non-hydrocarbon electricity, in bulk.
Although I think he should get a promotion for the national CTO job, don't you? Commodore Taco at least.
I suspect it would ultimately be a hybrid CTO/CIO.
Not entirely sure about that. I think a more technical focus would be needed -- the US needs a technology focus, not another information focus. For CIO you have CIA. For CTO you have -- well, nothing really, since DARPA evaporated. I'd prefer a more civil approach, like the cabinet office suggested earlier. Science and technology; if you created a national CIO it would be in danger of turning into just another security agency. The name aligns with the focus of effort. Keep that "T" in there.
(a) a leader who knows how to spend money on technical infrastructure (not just IT but all technical infrastructure),
(b) an uber-geek who knows how to find out if the money is worth spending on something, and
(c) a re-activated ARPA to spend it.
Why do we even bother classifying domain names anymore? Google has replaced DNS in the hearts and minds of the user.
$3600. About $3100 of that was wasted, as I purchased a block of 36 introductions and only used 5.
Yes, most things you spend on toward a wedding are a ripoff, anyway. I bought two dozen oysters for our wedding night and at least three of them didn't work.
Which is exactly why you do not want a CTO at a government level
Disagree.
The national CTO will need to be a leader, not a manager. This is all technology not just IT. And it's not too far a stretch to presume this administration will demand a certain amount of transparency in the role, including an insistence on divestiture of share holdings in case of conflict of interest, but that's no matter -- what matters is not whether there's another Halliburton effect (there won't be) but whether or not the USA invests in technology at the appropriate scale.
There's a huge amount of infrastructure rebuild required, and far better than the three-man-and-a-shovel New Deal jobs are going to be out there to do. It's not going to be enough to repair or replace civil engineered structures such as bridges with old technology, ways will need to be found to do the job better, cheaper, more reliably, and smarter. You won't get that without leadership at the national level.
Think of the highway infrastructure projects of the Eisenhower era and what it did to help growth -- yes, it caused it's own set of problems but it also relieved communications choke-points that would have put a major dampener on the economic health of the nation. You can't see a national CTO as a limited position, at all -- that would be too small a picture. This is of Cabinet level importance.
Many economic markets are what are termed "market failures". This does not mean the kind of failure like we saw with the banks last month; it means a market that, when completely unfettered, does not allocate resources efficiently.
Sort of like a car engine without a flywheel or RPM limiter and a deaf fool at the throttle.
Plus you have to admit that Obama is a charismatic individual with enormous powers of persuasion at his disposal.
And there you have the key difference between a manager and a leader. People want to work in the direction pointed to by a persuasive lead, and will work against leaders who do not persuade. Don't face the mule when you want him to move. If the top office is occupied by a good manager with no leadership qualities, do not expect magnetic alignment of the particles of populace; without a clear and believable direction people will work against the flow. Considering the motivation for change that now exists, we can only hope the new President will continue to embrace the noble and inclusive ideals he espoused during the campaign. He's got energy and IQ and the ability to lead, so I remain hopeful.
Remember, all good leaders throughout history were persuasive orators. You just have to hope the direction is running toward the right star on the horizon.
Unfortunately, I don't think any state besides California has a vexatious litigant status.
We have such laws in Australia. In this case, the action deemed most appropriate would probably be the standard two-syllable filing: "Shurrup (+elbow to teeth)"
However, most Australians slowly build up a tolerance to Iocaine powder prior to discussing open network initiatives with members of the Rudd government.
while I agree that gamers as a subculture are far from a coherent political force, to say they have no societal impact is naive.
Agree in part. In one game alone (World of Warcraft) there is a community of 10 million people with something in common to talk about. Now 10 million is a very small fraction of 6 billion, but still it's an example of large numbers of people talking to each other, forming groups -- not just the "duo" up to "raid" parties, but the various chat channels. I'm an Australian, and I found myself having a good long conversation with someone in Florida with whom I share a common medical affliction, but who is diametrically opposite me politically (My main is Horde, his Alliance -- but it goes deeper than that ;P ). During the time we were arguing politics (and happily living too far away for fisticuffs) we were helping each other along the leveling path and becoming, as a completely unexpected side effect, close friends.
Think about it -- two people in different countries, radically different in certain core philosophies, becoming friends. Now multiply this friendship by however many sub groups, similar to this one, are likely happening across a 10 million strong group of players grouped by non-geographic boundaries ("Realms", individual servers). People who are gradually coming to the understanding that all borders are necessarily arbitrary and can be crossed.
I think that's a good argument that there's a lot of societal impact. This is a new medium, available only in the last few years. Writing, then newspapers, then radio, then television, then email, then YouTube and games. As the world grows, communications evolves -- must evolve -- in order to provide some coherence to society. And at its base, the economy itself depends on communications. If you don't believe that, spare a moment to think of the enormous battle for your eye space that goes on.
I suggest a box full of cleavers
Be sure you set protection on the BOC. You really don't want the zombies able to access the cleavers. If you do, before you know it they'll be asking for the vote.
How do you manage config changes to shut-down VMs?
It's part of the competitive landscape in the virtual server world to support this. Here's an answer from Microsoft (reduced to TinyURL from Google Cache in self-defense) http://tinyurl.com/5uxxrv