Facinating. Unfortunately, the video on the web site raised an error. Slashdot effect? If this technique were applied to other great works I wonder if any patterns might emerge?
Not surprising. My brother and his wife are both doctors. When she had a practice in California her office kept a much simpler database...ALL F***ING LAWYERS in the area. Her philosophy was it was cheaper to be sued for refusing to see a "new" patient then to actually try to practice medicine on them. This database was shared among other offices so that they could refuse the slime of society on the spot.
The International community will come to some agreement and the United States will go the way of which special interest group pays off our congress critters the most. In college all my engineering classes were taught in metric. Has the United States ever adopted the metric system? Noooooo. Will we ever do anything that that fosters cooperation with anybody? I doubt it.
I just bought a digital camera. Of course it had to work with Linux! Kodak uses a "proprietary" jpeg format, requires you to use their "proprietary" docking station and thier "proprietary" software on a certain flakey "proprietary" operating system. Hence, I bought a Sony. I plug it into my Linux machine and transfer my photos right over. No problem and no hassle. Kodak still needs to "get it" if they want a future.
Well, maybe I am a ray of hope. I teach college-level courses at night in programming (Java / C++) and Unix system administration. This term it looks like I will lose about half my class. A lot of people just try to slide by...except my school has backed every F I have given.
My brother has all his transcription done in India - he is a doctor...and I sent him this link:). He ships the information over at the end of his day and the next morning the transcription arrives via e-mail. I wonder if he uses PGP? I doubt it.
I had better tell my brother. He is a doctor and it would be funny to see him realize that all the time and money spent going to med school was a waste. I guess we will both have to become lawyers and sue our way to riches........
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Most people know when they are being "invited" to C.R. 1-B what the purpose is. Perhaps I am being a bit dramatic, but people must go straight out the door. It's ugly.
That's nice, but if you just lost your job you probably cannot afford to pay a lawyer enough to take on a large company with a legal staff.
A friend of mine lost his job and probably had an age discrimmination case - actually he did. The large company made it clear that would see to it that he lost everything in legal fees before it ever went to trial. His lawyer advised him to drop-it because he can't fight legal maneuvers. Has anybody heard of SCO? The legal system in America is by the rich and for the rich...just like government.
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I work in Pennsylvania. This is a "work at will" State meaning your employer can terminate you anytime without notice or reason. They are also not required to pay unused vacation. Basically, any action which may be interpreted as "non-conforming" will get you invited to conference room 1-B. This is the one next to the front door. You are not allowed to clean-out your office or take personal belongings including your coat with you as you leave. Security will go through your desk, decide what is yours and place a box outside the building at 6:00 PM for pick-up (hopefull by you). Five people were terminated earlier this week a couple of hours after their group director held a meeting telling them the rumors of more terminations were false. Employers have us right where they want us.
Stop going to school - it only enriches the schools. I have a University of CA engineering degree. I even got a P.E.license. All useless - every company I worked for failed or was bought out. So, I mastered in computer science. Now I am thinking that being an automobile mechanic might be a pretty good job. I am a bit of a motorhead and good with my hands...and I am more credentialed than the people who designed the cars in the first place.
I agree. Politicians can virtually take their votes for granted. The districts are so gerrymandered that it guarantees a select party will always take the seat. Also most people vote along party lines thinking that there is actually a difference. The rhetoric is different but the end result is the same: bigger government, higher taxes and less freedom.
I vote against all incumbants. I do not favor any particular party and I try to understand the issues. Unfortunately, we are given little choice at the polls since things are so highly controlled. I would like to see some other countries come in and monitor our "free elections" for a change. They are a joke and so are we. As long as the peasants put up with the status quo then I guess we will get what we deserve.
Perhaps when the American economy consists only of CEOs, Laywers and burger flippers people will get a clue...but I am not hopeful.
If we trust our congress critters to not screw-up anti-spam legislation why not sign them up for everything under the sun. In short order their e-mail will become useless to them and maybe they will just get it...or maybe increase outsourcing overseas...
I guess they will need to outsource this to India or the former Soviet Union. Let's see, they are better educated, have a better work ethic and cost less. So much for engineering in America...
You are sooooo right. Unfortunately, most people are complacent and just don't care. As long as they get their home equity loans to perpetuate their lifestyles they just don't care. It will all come crashing down one of these days.
Which proves what we have know all along. Madonna has brain damage but it is so severe that she speaks with a really poor British accent.
Which reminds me, I shall have to ring-up my British colleagues and let them in the fact that when an American suffers horrible trauma we run the risk of becoming like them. Oh, the fun I am going to have with this.....
I joined the Navy. As I anticipated, they put me on a ship and sent me all over the world. Since you are getting a computer engineering degree you may want to consider this as a career since you probably won't have one with anything related to computers or engineering. I have an engineering degree, a P.E. license and an M.S. in computers from Drexel (just down the road from you a bit) and I am considering buying a Rita's Water Ice:).
I switched between RedHat and Mandrake for a couple of years. After installing Mandrake 9.1 I won't consider anything else. It is a nicely refined distro for both the newbie and veteran Unix person. With respect to L.G. Mandrake followed the standard and L.G. did not. Mandrake went over and above to accomodate L.G. If the rest of you are a bit put-off by RedHat now is the time to make the move. You won't regret it and please support them.
I got rid of RedHat and installed Mandrake 9.1. I have been running it for 7 months now and have yet to run into something that did not work right from the base distro. I still compile my own apps, install them and I am always playing with the system. I have Linux terminals running off of it (ltsp.org). I have always bounced between RH and Mandrake and have always gone back to Mandrake because it is more polished and I spend less time fixing it. So long, RedHat you were my first Linux distro but not my last. I won't miss you a bit.
In the scheme of things, two buildings and 3000 people are not worth losing freedom over. In fact, when you compare us to the rest of the world you might say "welcome to the club." Bushkins over reacted and our congress critters went along. We have not secured out borders AT ALL. In fact illegal immigration is as strong as it ever was. We have done nothing but destroy the civil rights of those not (yet) terrorists. Just imagine if Bushkins would have been President during the bombing or Pearl Harbor. We would have all been put in internment camps - for our own protection!
I have been really happy with Mandrake 9.1. It blows the pants off my previous Red Hat distro. Everything works and it is rock-solid stable. It seemed to me that 9.2 was a minor upgrade when I review the packages so I was not too interested in installing it. Thank God! I will wait until 9.3, I guess:).
Back when I was a sys admin I had an Alpha machine. It was the most stable platform I had. The only time I ever shut it down was when a power cable was cut to our office building and my UPS was not going to hold it for a day:). It was a sweet machine. Solid and fast.
Just get through it and leave it behind. I am a 1987 graduate of UCSD. It is a reasonably prestigous school with fairly low cost. Put your time in and get out.
I moved from TurboTax to TaxCut last when all this B.S. broke out. I have to use my wife's computer since they don't make a standards-compliant version. Anyway, I thought it was a perfectly good program and I was quite satisfied with it. I will be buying it again for tax year 2003.
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Facinating. Unfortunately, the video on the web site raised an error. Slashdot effect? If this technique were applied to other great works I wonder if any patterns might emerge?
Not surprising. My brother and his wife are both doctors. When she had a practice in California her office kept a much simpler database...ALL F***ING LAWYERS in the area. Her philosophy was it was cheaper to be sued for refusing to see a "new" patient then to actually try to practice medicine on them. This database was shared among other offices so that they could refuse the slime of society on the spot.
The International community will come to some agreement and the United States will go the way of which special interest group pays off our congress critters the most. In college all my engineering classes were taught in metric. Has the United States ever adopted the metric system? Noooooo. Will we ever do anything that that fosters cooperation with anybody? I doubt it.
I just bought a digital camera. Of course it had to work with Linux! Kodak uses a "proprietary" jpeg format, requires you to use their "proprietary" docking station and thier "proprietary" software on a certain flakey "proprietary" operating system. Hence, I bought a Sony. I plug it into my Linux machine and transfer my photos right over. No problem and no hassle. Kodak still needs to "get it" if they want a future.
Well, maybe I am a ray of hope. I teach college-level courses at night in programming (Java / C++) and Unix system administration. This term it looks like I will lose about half my class. A lot of people just try to slide by...except my school has backed every F I have given.
My brother has all his transcription done in India - he is a doctor...and I sent him this link :). He ships the information over at the end of his day and the next morning the transcription arrives via e-mail. I wonder if he uses PGP? I doubt it.
I had better tell my brother. He is a doctor and it would be funny to see him realize that all the time and money spent going to med school was a waste. I guess we will both have to become lawyers and sue our way to riches........
Most people know when they are being "invited" to C.R. 1-B what the purpose is. Perhaps I am being a bit dramatic, but people must go straight out the door. It's ugly.
That's nice, but if you just lost your job you probably cannot afford to pay a lawyer enough to take on a large company with a legal staff. A friend of mine lost his job and probably had an age discrimmination case - actually he did. The large company made it clear that would see to it that he lost everything in legal fees before it ever went to trial. His lawyer advised him to drop-it because he can't fight legal maneuvers. Has anybody heard of SCO? The legal system in America is by the rich and for the rich...just like government.
I work in Pennsylvania. This is a "work at will" State meaning your employer can terminate you anytime without notice or reason. They are also not required to pay unused vacation. Basically, any action which may be interpreted as "non-conforming" will get you invited to conference room 1-B. This is the one next to the front door. You are not allowed to clean-out your office or take personal belongings including your coat with you as you leave. Security will go through your desk, decide what is yours and place a box outside the building at 6:00 PM for pick-up (hopefull by you). Five people were terminated earlier this week a couple of hours after their group director held a meeting telling them the rumors of more terminations were false. Employers have us right where they want us.
Stop going to school - it only enriches the schools. I have a University of CA engineering degree. I even got a P.E.license. All useless - every company I worked for failed or was bought out. So, I mastered in computer science. Now I am thinking that being an automobile mechanic might be a pretty good job. I am a bit of a motorhead and good with my hands...and I am more credentialed than the people who designed the cars in the first place.
I agree. Politicians can virtually take their votes for granted. The districts are so gerrymandered that it guarantees a select party will always take the seat. Also most people vote along party lines thinking that there is actually a difference. The rhetoric is different but the end result is the same: bigger government, higher taxes and less freedom. I vote against all incumbants. I do not favor any particular party and I try to understand the issues. Unfortunately, we are given little choice at the polls since things are so highly controlled. I would like to see some other countries come in and monitor our "free elections" for a change. They are a joke and so are we. As long as the peasants put up with the status quo then I guess we will get what we deserve. Perhaps when the American economy consists only of CEOs, Laywers and burger flippers people will get a clue...but I am not hopeful.
If we trust our congress critters to not screw-up anti-spam legislation why not sign them up for everything under the sun. In short order their e-mail will become useless to them and maybe they will just get it...or maybe increase outsourcing overseas...
I guess they will need to outsource this to India or the former Soviet Union. Let's see, they are better educated, have a better work ethic and cost less. So much for engineering in America...
Now if they would just retire Windows 2000 and Windows XP (Windows ME does not count).
You are sooooo right. Unfortunately, most people are complacent and just don't care. As long as they get their home equity loans to perpetuate their lifestyles they just don't care. It will all come crashing down one of these days.
Which proves what we have know all along. Madonna has brain damage but it is so severe that she speaks with a really poor British accent. Which reminds me, I shall have to ring-up my British colleagues and let them in the fact that when an American suffers horrible trauma we run the risk of becoming like them. Oh, the fun I am going to have with this.....
I joined the Navy. As I anticipated, they put me on a ship and sent me all over the world. Since you are getting a computer engineering degree you may want to consider this as a career since you probably won't have one with anything related to computers or engineering. I have an engineering degree, a P.E. license and an M.S. in computers from Drexel (just down the road from you a bit) and I am considering buying a Rita's Water Ice :).
I switched between RedHat and Mandrake for a couple of years. After installing Mandrake 9.1 I won't consider anything else. It is a nicely refined distro for both the newbie and veteran Unix person. With respect to L.G. Mandrake followed the standard and L.G. did not. Mandrake went over and above to accomodate L.G. If the rest of you are a bit put-off by RedHat now is the time to make the move. You won't regret it and please support them.
I got rid of RedHat and installed Mandrake 9.1. I have been running it for 7 months now and have yet to run into something that did not work right from the base distro. I still compile my own apps, install them and I am always playing with the system. I have Linux terminals running off of it (ltsp.org). I have always bounced between RH and Mandrake and have always gone back to Mandrake because it is more polished and I spend less time fixing it. So long, RedHat you were my first Linux distro but not my last. I won't miss you a bit.
In the scheme of things, two buildings and 3000 people are not worth losing freedom over. In fact, when you compare us to the rest of the world you might say "welcome to the club." Bushkins over reacted and our congress critters went along. We have not secured out borders AT ALL. In fact illegal immigration is as strong as it ever was. We have done nothing but destroy the civil rights of those not (yet) terrorists. Just imagine if Bushkins would have been President during the bombing or Pearl Harbor. We would have all been put in internment camps - for our own protection!
I have been really happy with Mandrake 9.1. It blows the pants off my previous Red Hat distro. Everything works and it is rock-solid stable. It seemed to me that 9.2 was a minor upgrade when I review the packages so I was not too interested in installing it. Thank God! I will wait until 9.3, I guess :).
Back when I was a sys admin I had an Alpha machine. It was the most stable platform I had. The only time I ever shut it down was when a power cable was cut to our office building and my UPS was not going to hold it for a day :). It was a sweet machine. Solid and fast.
Just get through it and leave it behind. I am a 1987 graduate of UCSD. It is a reasonably prestigous school with fairly low cost. Put your time in and get out.
I moved from TurboTax to TaxCut last when all this B.S. broke out. I have to use my wife's computer since they don't make a standards-compliant version. Anyway, I thought it was a perfectly good program and I was quite satisfied with it. I will be buying it again for tax year 2003.