putting yourself at great personal risk by going above and beyond the call of duty to accomplish the mission.
I think you need to add that you are putting yourself at that great personal risk "for the sake of another person". Going above and beyond, putting yourself at great personal risk, while building a skyscraper is brave, maybe, but not heroic. Running out on a beam 150 ft. in the air and grabbing your co-worker by his yellow suspenders when he slips on his bologna sandwich...that is heroic.
Maybe the same as every other mainstream American media outlet, but there is a hell of lot of news they don't report on.
You mean Fox doesn't report on Selby miners or teenage murderes? Wow, what a surprise, a US news agency reporting primarily on US-centric news. I did check the headlines of numerous European newspapers online and, from my limited language skills, determined they all seem to be reporting on the same things as Fox News...Arafat, Iraq, and the US Election.
I won't deny that they, and most every other commercial and non-commercial news agency, are politically slanted. But to suggest that they ignore, rather than just spin, the news according to their biases is foolish.
Um, I took the comment "I'd rather see more of these things applied to infants" as a joke that the person would like to have an infantCam view of the world...especially during feeding times..wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more.
Look for the humor in everything first. You'll live longer.
They suggest the Athlon 64 3500+ over the P4 560 for "balancing price and performance".
Naturally, I didn't RTFA, but doesn't this suggest that I, as a geek who doesn't care about the value of my money, would get better performance with the Intel? Otherwise, they would just come right out and say that the AMD is the fastest of all processors, wouldn't they? I mean, I know that I would choose a DLP HDTV for "balancing price and performance", but that LCD is just so damn cool. Hell, I don't know, maybe I'll go read the article, but this sounds like some of that marketing speak we were recently warned about.
Calvin: I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now, it's something you do. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language.
Hobbes: Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.
Jesus and Moses are playing golf one Saturday with an old friend. Moses tees up first, and hits his ball straight at the water hazard. He lifts his driver up and immediately the waters part, the ground dries up, and his ball rolls right to the green, mere feet from the cup
Jesus is up next. He takes his shot and, again, the ball heads straight for the water. Jesus calmly raises his hand and the ball skims smoothly across the surface of the water and rolls onto the green, just inches from the hole.
Finally, the old man is up. He takes his drive and, sure enough, his ball heads straight for the water hazard. The old man calmly nods his head and a trout jumps out of the water, grabs his ball in its mouth, and splashes back into the water. At that moment a bald eagle swoops down on the trout and snatches him out of the water. The eagle streaks into midair, where he is struck by lightning, dropping the trout onto the green, where the ball pops out of its mouth and rolls into the cup.
Jesus turns to the old man and says, "Nice shot, dad."
Randy, get that finger out of your nose, you don't know where it's been. Sitting there in your scooby doo pajamas rooting around in your nose like that...you should be ashamed.
Also, please move your Camry. it is blocking my view of your third story apartment.
Yes, and I was one of those who downloaded it. And it turned out to be buggy. And I uninstalled it. However, nobody collects stats on uninstallations, just downloads. I'm sure people will use those statistics to say how popular Firefox is. I'd rather see some statistics from popular websites that capture the type of browser accessing them.
You mean it will be interesting for the people whose houses are more than 10 years old. The satellite photos on the public databases are so dated it's ridiculous. Wow look, I got a magazine with a picture of a corn field on the cover!
Microsoft software (XP) has an option to buy music from a Microsoft Site, and it uses a Microsoft product (IE) to connect to that site...this is bad, evil, monopolistic.
Apple software (iTunes) has an option to buy music from an Apple site ("Music Store"), and it uses an Apple software (iTunes) to connect, and not my default browser (IE)
You seem to have gotten lost somewhere along the way--updates are manual for a reason
This just goes to show how little experience most Linux desktop (not server) admins have in the real world. End users can not be trusted to update their machines. Yes, updates should be done manually to test for potential problems...in a lab environment. After they have been tested and approved in the lab, they should be rolled automatically to the end user. It is simply ludicrous to assume that one admin, or even a team of them, is going to manually install patches to 50,000 workstations every couple months.
(What he decides to do about that is a separate issue, imo).
Now you're making the tricky statements. You're implying that it is ok to subject a child to any social situation, regardless of its moral value, and leave it up to each child to make their own distinction on whether that situation is correct or incorrect. This implies that morality is not a learned trait, but an in-born one. I can guarantee that a baby born into a community of criminals and never introduced to any other examples of social behavior, will commonly become a criminal himself. In those instances where he does not, it is usually because of a mentor or some other positive moral example. My wife and I are only one small positive model for our child to emulate. Any other positive example of morality (especially when they are as cool as Elmo) can only improve the morality of a child and, by learning what is right and wrong, that child will be more successful in socializing with his peers.
Actually, I have a lot of vbscripts in that folder that perform many functions that assist in my everyday job. However, I thought the simple examples would better serve my point. If you like, I can include some code and describe what they are doing. I didn't really feel that I need to justify my argument with examples, in that most people who bother to understand an example before deriding it would know that there are many, many command line options available in Windows to assist the user (resource kits, support tools, etc.). I'm not going to get into a debate over which OS is better, as that is nearly a religous debate. I'm simply trying to educate the regular slashdot crowd who do not use the advanced features of Windows and judge it only by Internet Explorer or Windows 95 or some other application.
Dim strInfo,oArgs
set oArgs=wscript.Arguments
strComputer = oArgs(0)
strVolume = oArgs(1)
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colComputer = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select DeviceID,Size,FreeSpace from Win32_LogicalDisk Where DeviceID='" & strVolume & "'")
Save as DS.vbs. Run command line "DS.vbs servername volume:" Now, if someone asks me how full their drive is on their server in Asia, I can quickly give them an answer. No messy GUI over the slow connection.
I get so tired of this assumption that just because a person reads a lot, they are automatically more intelligent. I happen to read quite a bit, but I know people who spend way more time than most people watching TV, yet are very intelligent. Specifically, I know of a college professor that could out debate anyone on Crossfire, and does nothing all evening but watch History and PBS.
Also, what's with the assumption that any reading material is automatically more valuable than any television show? I can learn more watching 30 minutes of TLC, Discovery, A&E, Biography, History Channel, or PBS than I can in spending three hours reading whatever trash Oprah is recommending this week. I do agree that reading increases vocabulary, but I would also argue that television is much more conducive to other areas of learning, as it delivers its message via sight and sound.
As for the social aspect, many of us are forced into social situations all day long. We do not need to spend our times outside of the office, carpool, school, college, whatever to increase our social skills. However, we do need "alone time" so that we can regroup and prepare for the next day.
I would much rather my child take his cues on how to act socially from Clifford or Sesame Street than from the community in which I live. I have seen him interact with many children of different ethnicities and disabilities, and have never been embarassed by some social gaffe. I owe this to the fact that his mother and I never pointed out that being black or asian is any different than being blond or tall, and also to the fact that Barney, Big Bird, and the like always had mixed racial friends. If it was left up to my "village" to raise my "child", I have no doubt he would be an ignorant, bigoted redneck like the rest of them.
Watching television does not reduce the sociability of a person. It can teach them how to be a reponsible citizen. I'd rather my child be in front of a TV watching Caillou than being social with the other kids while chucking rocks at the Mexican kids.
No, it is not coincidence that the television shows I listed are on PBS
With OS X, as with most other *nix implementations, I can have the best of both worlds.
I run Windows XP, and almost everything I do is done via a command. Create a folder called c:\shortcuts. Copy shortcuts to your favorite apps, vbscripts, whatever to this folder and name them whatever you want. Add C:\shortcuts to your PATH env variable. Now all I do is hit Windows+R (Same as start run), type in my new command, and hit enter. What used to take many seconds of menus, right mouse clicks, and options, now takes less than 2 seconds. I want to start Microsoft Word, I type "word". If I want to start iTunes, I type "itunes". If I want to start device manager and connect to a remote machine, I type "mg computername".
Not all Windows users are GUI freaks...some of us are pretty proficient with our workstations without the pretty pictures.
You may find a few so-so books turned into decent movies. And you may find an adaptation that makes you look at something differently. But you will never find a good or great book that is surpassed by a movie version.
Shawshank Redemption. From the short story "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King. A very good story, but surpassed by the movie. The movie added richness that imagination could not, as most of us can't imagine the inside of a prison.
If a email can do all kinds of bad stuff to your computer, it is the fault of the one who wrote the email software, period.
Yeah, right, let's not blame the crook who wrote the worm. If I break into a house with all the doors unlocked, the front porch light on, the security system off, and all the valuables laying in the middle of the living room floor, does that mean I should not be arrested?
There are three perpetrators here. The writer of the email software, the writer of the worm, and the end user. Each has to take partial responsibility for this invasion. To blame it all on the email software is just plain stupid. I would lay the blame more like this:
Maybe we can throw a percentage or two at the IT manager who chose the email software, as well. But let's not forget who the criminal is here, and who is merely guilty of making software with crappy security.
Hello. I'm fairly new to slashdot, and I have all of these moderator points I don't know what to do with. I would like to mod down the post I just read as -1 Troll. It was posted by Cliff and titled "Experiences w/ Drive Imaging Software?". Thanks for the help.
C'mon. Stainless steel, brushed metal, etc. have been the rave in *everything* for the past 5 years or so. To insinuate MS stole it from Apple is ludicrous. Might as well say Apple stole it from Amana, as I have had my brushed metal refrigerator since well before OSX 10.3 was released. Next thing you know, you'll be claiming MS stole the color blue from IBM.
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putting yourself at great personal risk by going above and beyond the call of duty to accomplish the mission.
I think you need to add that you are putting yourself at that great personal risk "for the sake of another person". Going above and beyond, putting yourself at great personal risk, while building a skyscraper is brave, maybe, but not heroic. Running out on a beam 150 ft. in the air and grabbing your co-worker by his yellow suspenders when he slips on his bologna sandwich...that is heroic.
Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies, but one of these days, you'll get a big surprise.
My favorite part was the OJ and the chocolate milk coming out of her finger.
Maybe the same as every other mainstream American media outlet, but there is a hell of lot of news they don't report on.
You mean Fox doesn't report on Selby miners or teenage murderes? Wow, what a surprise, a US news agency reporting primarily on US-centric news. I did check the headlines of numerous European newspapers online and, from my limited language skills, determined they all seem to be reporting on the same things as Fox News...Arafat, Iraq, and the US Election.
I won't deny that they, and most every other commercial and non-commercial news agency, are politically slanted. But to suggest that they ignore, rather than just spin, the news according to their biases is foolish.
Um, I took the comment "I'd rather see more of these things applied to infants" as a joke that the person would like to have an infantCam view of the world...especially during feeding times..wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more.
Look for the humor in everything first. You'll live longer.
They suggest the Athlon 64 3500+ over the P4 560 for "balancing price and performance".
Naturally, I didn't RTFA, but doesn't this suggest that I, as a geek who doesn't care about the value of my money, would get better performance with the Intel? Otherwise, they would just come right out and say that the AMD is the fastest of all processors, wouldn't they? I mean, I know that I would choose a DLP HDTV for "balancing price and performance", but that LCD is just so damn cool. Hell, I don't know, maybe I'll go read the article, but this sounds like some of that marketing speak we were recently warned about.
Calvin: I like to verb words.
Hobbes: What?
Calvin: I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now, it's something you do. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language.
Hobbes: Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.
Jesus and Moses are playing golf one Saturday with an old friend. Moses tees up first, and hits his ball straight at the water hazard. He lifts his driver up and immediately the waters part, the ground dries up, and his ball rolls right to the green, mere feet from the cup
Jesus is up next. He takes his shot and, again, the ball heads straight for the water. Jesus calmly raises his hand and the ball skims smoothly across the surface of the water and rolls onto the green, just inches from the hole.
Finally, the old man is up. He takes his drive and, sure enough, his ball heads straight for the water hazard. The old man calmly nods his head and a trout jumps out of the water, grabs his ball in its mouth, and splashes back into the water. At that moment a bald eagle swoops down on the trout and snatches him out of the water. The eagle streaks into midair, where he is struck by lightning, dropping the trout onto the green, where the ball pops out of its mouth and rolls into the cup.
Jesus turns to the old man and says, "Nice shot, dad."
Q: Why couldn't the ESR scientist ever get a date?
A: Because he was such a Bohr! (explanation)
Oh, you didn't mean Electron Spin Resonance? Sorry.
most expensive universal remotes seem to cost $250
Nope.
Randy, get that finger out of your nose, you don't know where it's been. Sitting there in your scooby doo pajamas rooting around in your nose like that...you should be ashamed.
Also, please move your Camry. it is blocking my view of your third story apartment.
Yes, and I was one of those who downloaded it. And it turned out to be buggy. And I uninstalled it. However, nobody collects stats on uninstallations, just downloads. I'm sure people will use those statistics to say how popular Firefox is. I'd rather see some statistics from popular websites that capture the type of browser accessing them.
You mean it will be interesting for the people whose houses are more than 10 years old. The satellite photos on the public databases are so dated it's ridiculous. Wow look, I got a magazine with a picture of a corn field on the cover!
Microsoft software (XP) has an option to buy music from a Microsoft Site, and it uses a Microsoft product (IE) to connect to that site...this is bad, evil, monopolistic.
Apple software (iTunes) has an option to buy music from an Apple site ("Music Store"), and it uses an Apple software (iTunes) to connect, and not my default browser (IE)
This is different how?
This just goes to show how little experience most Linux desktop (not server) admins have in the real world. End users can not be trusted to update their machines. Yes, updates should be done manually to test for potential problems...in a lab environment. After they have been tested and approved in the lab, they should be rolled automatically to the end user. It is simply ludicrous to assume that one admin, or even a team of them, is going to manually install patches to 50,000 workstations every couple months.
Now you're making the tricky statements. You're implying that it is ok to subject a child to any social situation, regardless of its moral value, and leave it up to each child to make their own distinction on whether that situation is correct or incorrect. This implies that morality is not a learned trait, but an in-born one. I can guarantee that a baby born into a community of criminals and never introduced to any other examples of social behavior, will commonly become a criminal himself. In those instances where he does not, it is usually because of a mentor or some other positive moral example. My wife and I are only one small positive model for our child to emulate. Any other positive example of morality (especially when they are as cool as Elmo) can only improve the morality of a child and, by learning what is right and wrong, that child will be more successful in socializing with his peers.
Actually, I have a lot of vbscripts in that folder that perform many functions that assist in my everyday job. However, I thought the simple examples would better serve my point. If you like, I can include some code and describe what they are doing. I didn't really feel that I need to justify my argument with examples, in that most people who bother to understand an example before deriding it would know that there are many, many command line options available in Windows to assist the user (resource kits, support tools, etc.). I'm not going to get into a debate over which OS is better, as that is nearly a religous debate. I'm simply trying to educate the regular slashdot crowd who do not use the advanced features of Windows and judge it only by Internet Explorer or Windows 95 or some other application.
Save as DS.vbs. Run command line "DS.vbs servername volume:" Now, if someone asks me how full their drive is on their server in Asia, I can quickly give them an answer. No messy GUI over the slow connection.
I get so tired of this assumption that just because a person reads a lot, they are automatically more intelligent. I happen to read quite a bit, but I know people who spend way more time than most people watching TV, yet are very intelligent. Specifically, I know of a college professor that could out debate anyone on Crossfire, and does nothing all evening but watch History and PBS.
Also, what's with the assumption that any reading material is automatically more valuable than any television show? I can learn more watching 30 minutes of TLC, Discovery, A&E, Biography, History Channel, or PBS than I can in spending three hours reading whatever trash Oprah is recommending this week. I do agree that reading increases vocabulary, but I would also argue that television is much more conducive to other areas of learning, as it delivers its message via sight and sound.
As for the social aspect, many of us are forced into social situations all day long. We do not need to spend our times outside of the office, carpool, school, college, whatever to increase our social skills. However, we do need "alone time" so that we can regroup and prepare for the next day.
Watching television does not reduce the sociability of a person. It can teach them how to be a reponsible citizen. I'd rather my child be in front of a TV watching Caillou than being social with the other kids while chucking rocks at the Mexican kids.
No, it is not coincidence that the television shows I listed are on PBS
I run Windows XP, and almost everything I do is done via a command. Create a folder called c:\shortcuts. Copy shortcuts to your favorite apps, vbscripts, whatever to this folder and name them whatever you want. Add C:\shortcuts to your PATH env variable. Now all I do is hit Windows+R (Same as start run), type in my new command, and hit enter. What used to take many seconds of menus, right mouse clicks, and options, now takes less than 2 seconds. I want to start Microsoft Word, I type "word". If I want to start iTunes, I type "itunes". If I want to start device manager and connect to a remote machine, I type "mg computername".
Not all Windows users are GUI freaks...some of us are pretty proficient with our workstations without the pretty pictures.
Shawshank Redemption. From the short story "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King. A very good story, but surpassed by the movie. The movie added richness that imagination could not, as most of us can't imagine the inside of a prison.
Yeah, right, let's not blame the crook who wrote the worm. If I break into a house with all the doors unlocked, the front porch light on, the security system off, and all the valuables laying in the middle of the living room floor, does that mean I should not be arrested?
There are three perpetrators here. The writer of the email software, the writer of the worm, and the end user. Each has to take partial responsibility for this invasion. To blame it all on the email software is just plain stupid. I would lay the blame more like this:
Email software: 49% Worm writer: 49% Email user: 2%
Maybe we can throw a percentage or two at the IT manager who chose the email software, as well. But let's not forget who the criminal is here, and who is merely guilty of making software with crappy security.
Hello. I'm fairly new to slashdot, and I have all of these moderator points I don't know what to do with. I would like to mod down the post I just read as -1 Troll. It was posted by Cliff and titled "Experiences w/ Drive Imaging Software?". Thanks for the help.
C'mon. Stainless steel, brushed metal, etc. have been the rave in *everything* for the past 5 years or so. To insinuate MS stole it from Apple is ludicrous. Might as well say Apple stole it from Amana, as I have had my brushed metal refrigerator since well before OSX 10.3 was released. Next thing you know, you'll be claiming MS stole the color blue from IBM.
Enter Steve Ballmer standing in front of a black background:
"Windows Server 2003...It's how the last place you'd go for an OS will be come the first."
Arrgh! That's twice. I'm gonna have to start reading at the bottom of the page so I can catch the references to other articles.