What parent said. WYSE terminals aren't that bad, given that a lot of the medical data industry got it start from what is now known as VistA. By some strange coincidence, the name of its predecessor was DHCP. Anyway, it worked on dirt-old VAX systems and output to text-only terminals over serial lines. Worked just fine.
Having worked for a federal department in the past, the GP is absolutely correct.
Every budget is padded by 15-20% with the expectation that it would be slashed by 15-20%, leaving them with close to what they wanted in the first place. I'd guess that higher-profile departments (DHS, Defense), get what they want by just asking.
Fortunately I haven't had to describe the Internet to anyone in a long long time.
Information superhighway (or just comparing to the US road system) is pretty good:
You start with the major highways, which get progressively smaller and smaller as you get to state then town roads, then someone's house (their PC). Different kinds of traffic can flow on those roads at the same time - trucks, cars, minivans, etc. Some areas you can't easily get into or are limited (gated communities, private property, etc.).
In 2001, it was $1.42 to the pound. Now it's $2. It's not as bad as Carter, but it's not much better ($.70 for Carter, $.58 for Bush, Clinton was -$.43!). Throw in the fact that currency markets are starting to leave the dollar and switch to Euro or other currency and it doesn't really help Bush all that much.
You don't think the tax revenue from the capitol gains cut and the roth IRA conversion which was temporary had anything to do with this do you?
$521 Billion+ worth? No, I don't think so. Remember that this doesn't count the emergency spending on Iraq.
You don't think this had anything to do with the oil embargo do you? Or could it be the government price controls that lead people to believe tankers were waiting just outside US waters waiting on the government to increase the market cap?
To be fair, the current runup in prices is a lack of capacity at the refineries. Too bad oil/gas isn't a competitive market.
Could this be because Reagan ended up outspending the russians and with his famous MAD scenario, took the only real leverage the Russians had off the table?
We're back to 'overspending is good' I see.
Could this pass be also because Clinton started the spying on the Internet and the programs only matured under Bush? Green lantern?
We're talking Bush and Carter. Clinton deserves blame for that, and I do remember making some disparaging remarks about the subject and later found out there were NSA members in the audience. Though I don't remember him threatening to put reporters in jail over his spying, which may or may not have actually followed the FISA court.
well, To be truthful, I don't have any questions here, just some clarifications. Leaking of wilson's name or more precisely his wife, PLame was done by Richard Armatage, a democrat and the special council knew this from the very beginning of his investigation. But more importantly, The land deal was a direct result of Carters policy and the collapse of the savings and loans along with the loss of farms too.
To be honest, I don't have the time or inclination to refute your ramble about farm subsidies. Hey, I said I was being honest. Tho...
Unfortunately, All this good stuff could have been avoided with a little more government oversight and some limits imposed on the banks concerning the investment properties. IT should have works on paper but failed miserably in practice. If you are old enough to remember how life was back then, you will know that it is much better today is and how wrong of a statement losing money on a failed land deal look almost..innocent. is. If your not old enough to remember, I urge you to ask you parents if they were or maybe even your grandparents.
Given the recent scandals, those of Reagan, and my historical reading of past presidents, Whitewater is pretty innocent in comparison. Even the eventual Lewinsky scandal is (again, in comparison) rather minor.
Carter was more in the "Religious Right's" pocket than Bush ever will be. Were visiting dignitaries allowed a glass of wine with dinner while visiting the White House in 1978? Nope! Alcohol was banned in the White House by Carter.
Oh noes!! Bring religious and being in the "religious right's" pocket are two different things. I don't think Carter is going around telling people that God came down to the White House and told him 'no more booze'.
Average mortgage rates during the Carter administration were over 15%! I don't even pay credit cards 15%!!!
Give it time.
Inflation was through the roof (12%).
Strong Fed has been keeping it low. Yay.
Unemployment was high (7%).
Unemployment is measured differently now than then. It's possible that unemployment now using the same measurements would be the same or higher.
Deficit spending went through the roof (the deficit for the fiscal year 1979 totaled $27.7 billion, and that for 1980 was nearly $59 billion).
What is it now? Oh right $521 Billion. And that's after having balanced the budget in the late '90s. So going from 0 to $521B is a bit more impressive.
Devaluation of the dollar.
$2 gets you a pound
Gas shortages.
Not sure why this hasn't happened yet. But $4/gal gas, here we come!
Iranian hostage crisis. Failure to rescue Iranian hostages.
Funny how that ended just as Reagan took office. And how a later scandal was called Iran/Contra. Huh.
Demoralization and dismantling of the US military
Yea, the day after Bush blames Democrats for keeping the troops in Iraq longer than they should, Gates says all tours get extended from 12 months to 15 months.
Canceled the B1-B program as well as the MBT-70. (Both badly needed to compete with our enemy of the time... the Soviets who had the T-72 and the Tu-160 BLACKJACK)
We still beat the Russians, right?
Need I go on?
Oh, please do. I don't see anything about Carter tortuing American citizens, or spying on their telephone or banking records. The Internets wasn't quite the same now as then, so I'll give Bush a pass on spying on that, at least in comparing to Carter. Maybe Carter is to blame for Walter Reed, or K Street, or leaking Wilson's name, or any of the collection of other scandals we've seen in the past 6 years that makes losing money on a failed land deal look almost..innocent.
Shotguns can have a slower rate of fire and hold fewer shells than the 9mm (and 22) that apparently held far more than 9 bullets. If you're looking at a raw amount of damage to a small number of targets at very close range, yea, shotgun > handgun. In this situation, I'd say that a handgun would be able to injure more people in a shorter amount of time than a shotgun.
My Alpine (aftermarket, but I got everything for under $200), both an iPod connector and line-in. I use the line-in to hook up my Sirus radio. I'm annoyed that few cars have even line-in, but then again, my truck was made in 1998, so MP3 players were still pretty new then.
Now think about this - what does hitting the space bar an extra time every time you hit a period have to do with RSI? Maybe increases the potential as it is an unnecessary additional motion?
I learned both at the same time - how to have the correct 'posture' to prevent (or at least delay) RSI, and that a period is followed by two spaces.
You must really hate the web then, though, because most browsers automatically compress extra white space into a single space, unless you type an & nbsp;
All right, I'll admit it's not *that* annoying. My issues with the web go beyond double spaces. Find me on another thread when a completely off-topic comment starts me ranting about "content vs. presentation". Now get off my lawn!:)
I also found those double spaces annoying as anything. I'm happy they're gone, except by those hold overs that refuse to change.
I'd say the same about people who put only one space after periods. I learned it this way on a typewriter nearly 20 years ago while taking an actual typing class. I'm not sure if they teach typing that way anymore, but it's hard to break a habit like this. Then again, I'm glad I took the class as I can touch type pretty fast and don't have RSI. If I had the choice of making you annoyed or having braces on my wrists, I can tell you which I'd choose:).
By Generals, you meant Renegade, right? Generals restored my faith in the C&C franchise after playing Renegade. Even the behind-the-scenes videos that come with C&C: The First Decade barely mention renegade.
Hands down favorite for the year. Then again, I don't own a PS2/3 or Wii, and my DS Lite fell out of my car just before Thanksgiving (that being said, New Super Mario sucked, and Metroid Hunters was unplayable, but Big Brain Academy and Brain age were good).
Stock prices alone are not directly related to a company's strenght & health.
No, they're directly related to the *perception* of a company's strength and health. If it's believed that the company will do better over the next $TIME, then people will buy it since everyone else will buy it. The demand will raise the price and thus give a profit.
Err..It's a 32 bit OS, 32 bit application. The fact that the CPU supports 64 bit has nothing to do with it (or else the single core chip I had in previously would have had problems as well).
Huh. Flatout 2 (great game!) had a problem on my dual core Athlon 64. When I downloaded and installed the AMD drivers for the CPU, the problems went away. I haven't tried HL2/Episode 1 yet on that CPU, but everything else I have works fine.
I'd be rather wary of what an Oracle Linux would look like, even if it is based on RHEL. Bleah! I'd be much more nervous for Red Hat if MySQL were to do this.
Slashdot Mirror
With Dingo and the Baby?
Exactly. Let me know when you're done, newbie.
Err...actually...you can RTFM on how to write documentation. I should know - I wrote one:
LDP Author Guide
What parent said. WYSE terminals aren't that bad, given that a lot of the medical data industry got it start from what is now known as VistA. By some strange coincidence, the name of its predecessor was DHCP. Anyway, it worked on dirt-old VAX systems and output to text-only terminals over serial lines. Worked just fine.
Having worked for a federal department in the past, the GP is absolutely correct.
Every budget is padded by 15-20% with the expectation that it would be slashed by 15-20%, leaving them with close to what they wanted in the first place. I'd guess that higher-profile departments (DHS, Defense), get what they want by just asking.
Fortunately I haven't had to describe the Internet to anyone in a long long time.
Information superhighway (or just comparing to the US road system) is pretty good:
You start with the major highways, which get progressively smaller and smaller as you get to state then town roads, then someone's house (their PC). Different kinds of traffic can flow on those roads at the same time - trucks, cars, minivans, etc. Some areas you can't easily get into or are limited (gated communities, private property, etc.).
In 2001, it was $1.42 to the pound. Now it's $2. It's not as bad as Carter, but it's not much better ($.70 for Carter, $.58 for Bush, Clinton was -$.43!). Throw in the fact that currency markets are starting to leave the dollar and switch to Euro or other currency and it doesn't really help Bush all that much.
$521 Billion+ worth? No, I don't think so. Remember that this doesn't count the emergency spending on Iraq.
To be fair, the current runup in prices is a lack of capacity at the refineries. Too bad oil/gas isn't a competitive market.
We're back to 'overspending is good' I see.
We're talking Bush and Carter. Clinton deserves blame for that, and I do remember making some disparaging remarks about the subject and later found out there were NSA members in the audience. Though I don't remember him threatening to put reporters in jail over his spying, which may or may not have actually followed the FISA court.
To be honest, I don't have the time or inclination to refute your ramble about farm subsidies. Hey, I said I was being honest. Tho...
Given the recent scandals, those of Reagan, and my historical reading of past presidents, Whitewater is pretty innocent in comparison. Even the eventual Lewinsky scandal is (again, in comparison) rather minor.
Carter was more in the "Religious Right's" pocket than Bush ever will be. Were visiting dignitaries allowed a glass of wine with dinner while visiting the White House in 1978? Nope! Alcohol was banned in the White House by Carter.
Oh noes!! Bring religious and being in the "religious right's" pocket are two different things. I don't think Carter is going around telling people that God came down to the White House and told him 'no more booze'.
Average mortgage rates during the Carter administration were over 15%! I don't even pay credit cards 15%!!!
Give it time.
Inflation was through the roof (12%).
Strong Fed has been keeping it low. Yay.
Unemployment was high (7%).
Unemployment is measured differently now than then. It's possible that unemployment now using the same measurements would be the same or higher.
Deficit spending went through the roof (the deficit for the fiscal year 1979 totaled $27.7 billion, and that for 1980 was nearly $59 billion).
What is it now? Oh right $521 Billion. And that's after having balanced the budget in the late '90s. So going from 0 to $521B is a bit more impressive.
Devaluation of the dollar.
$2 gets you a pound
Gas shortages.
Not sure why this hasn't happened yet. But $4/gal gas, here we come!
Iranian hostage crisis.
Failure to rescue Iranian hostages.
Funny how that ended just as Reagan took office. And how a later scandal was called Iran/Contra. Huh.
Demoralization and dismantling of the US military
Yea, the day after Bush blames Democrats for keeping the troops in Iraq longer than they should, Gates says all tours get extended from 12 months to 15 months.
Canceled the B1-B program as well as the MBT-70. (Both badly needed to compete with our enemy of the time... the Soviets who had the T-72 and the Tu-160 BLACKJACK)
We still beat the Russians, right?
Need I go on?
Oh, please do. I don't see anything about Carter tortuing American citizens, or spying on their telephone or banking records. The Internets wasn't quite the same now as then, so I'll give Bush a pass on spying on that, at least in comparing to Carter. Maybe Carter is to blame for Walter Reed, or K Street, or leaking Wilson's name, or any of the collection of other scandals we've seen in the past 6 years that makes losing money on a failed land deal look almost..innocent.
But you go on.
We do?
Shotguns can have a slower rate of fire and hold fewer shells than the 9mm (and 22) that apparently held far more than 9 bullets. If you're looking at a raw amount of damage to a small number of targets at very close range, yea, shotgun > handgun. In this situation, I'd say that a handgun would be able to injure more people in a shorter amount of time than a shotgun.
I just call them virtual desktops and switch between them when I need to.
the Keithies. Current voting is in the "Stuff That You Missed on the TVs that the Internets Made Famous" category.
The James Bond Box Set (I really can't see that selling to many copies at $180)
It was selling on Amazon for $125 yesterday. That deal's done, but I'm sure the sales at $125/ea were enough to push its rank up.
My Alpine (aftermarket, but I got everything for under $200), both an iPod connector and line-in. I use the line-in to hook up my Sirus radio. I'm annoyed that few cars have even line-in, but then again, my truck was made in 1998, so MP3 players were still pretty new then.
Now think about this - what does hitting the space bar an extra time every time you hit a period have to do with RSI? Maybe increases the potential as it is an unnecessary additional motion?
:)
I learned both at the same time - how to have the correct 'posture' to prevent (or at least delay) RSI, and that a period is followed by two spaces.
You must really hate the web then, though, because most browsers automatically compress extra white space into a single space, unless you type an & nbsp;
All right, I'll admit it's not *that* annoying. My issues with the web go beyond double spaces. Find me on another thread when a completely off-topic comment starts me ranting about "content vs. presentation". Now get off my lawn!
I also found those double spaces annoying as anything. I'm happy they're gone, except by those hold overs that refuse to change.
:).
I'd say the same about people who put only one space after periods. I learned it this way on a typewriter nearly 20 years ago while taking an actual typing class. I'm not sure if they teach typing that way anymore, but it's hard to break a habit like this. Then again, I'm glad I took the class as I can touch type pretty fast and don't have RSI. If I had the choice of making you annoyed or having braces on my wrists, I can tell you which I'd choose
By Generals, you meant Renegade, right? Generals restored my faith in the C&C franchise after playing Renegade. Even the behind-the-scenes videos that come with C&C: The First Decade barely mention renegade.
Yea! Suck it, neocons! The liberal media is spreading and there's nothing you can do about it now! Bwah Bwah Bwah!
Retard.
Rather see a return of the Fairness Doctrine.
Hands down favorite for the year. Then again, I don't own a PS2/3 or Wii, and my DS Lite fell out of my car just before Thanksgiving (that being said, New Super Mario sucked, and Metroid Hunters was unplayable, but Big Brain Academy and Brain age were good).
Stock prices alone are not directly related to a company's strenght & health.
No, they're directly related to the *perception* of a company's strength and health. If it's believed that the company will do better over the next $TIME, then people will buy it since everyone else will buy it. The demand will raise the price and thus give a profit.
..the same people standing in line for a week to get a PS3 can't find the time to vote. If you did, good for you.
Err..It's a 32 bit OS, 32 bit application. The fact that the CPU supports 64 bit has nothing to do with it (or else the single core chip I had in previously would have had problems as well).
Huh. Flatout 2 (great game!) had a problem on my dual core Athlon 64. When I downloaded and installed the AMD drivers for the CPU, the problems went away. I haven't tried HL2/Episode 1 yet on that CPU, but everything else I have works fine.
I'd be rather wary of what an Oracle Linux would look like, even if it is based on RHEL. Bleah! I'd be much more nervous for Red Hat if MySQL were to do this.