The nacent civil rights movement was seeking to end dissimilar treatment of people based on something outside of their control (ie, race).
This group was seeking to use both violence and systemic structure to perpetuate and even increase the dissimilar treatment of people based on something outside of the control of the targeted people.
Judge people for their actions, their choices. How people behave and who they freely associate with are actions and choices.
There's a difference between having a 'streak' and paying dues and participating in rank-structure in an organization that has actively engaged in bloodshed against other people.
Those with whom we choose to associate say a lot about our character and about our choices. Choices are one thing that an employee can be judged-on. I see no reason for any employer to be compelled to retain anyone that is affiliated with an organization like this.
As to your point about dialogue, that only works when the group being addressed is either well enough organized or small enough to be cohesive and for its members to operate as a single voice. Look at the fragmentation of the IRA during The Troubles, there were an uncountable number of splinter groups such that establishing a dialogue with one was no sure means to deal with all, an if anything could incite violence by the others.
She did leave HP a mess. She was the one to cause a lot of their top engineering talent to walk, she tried to shift HP to a products company with the Compaq acquisition which was a huge boondoggle in the end, and hp's stock price fell 55% under her watch. You don't get fired for doing a good job.
I think that a big part of the problem was not that HP got Compaq's customers and market share, but that it got Compaq's quality and the hamstrung business practices that made it available for takeover in the first place.
I can see a real reason for a professional-services and professional-hardware company to purchase a commodity-hardware company; commodity hardware can sell like crazy and for a long time Compaq did a half-decent job using their consumer-grade products as test-platforms before integrating the technology into their commercial computing platforms. They had two lines of laptop. They had several lines of desktop. They had servers. Tech didn't usually make it into the workstation-grade laptops and desktops immediately, the kinks were worked out in the consumer lines first. Their servers might have not been high end, but they were workable on a budget.
I don't know what the actual problem is, but I wonder if the negatives of Compaq were somehow seen as positives from a financial perspective, and those negatives were rolled into HP to break it.
Why are you shutting it off? There are suspend and hibernate functions for that. Hell, the Apple laptop that I'm writing this on went the better part of a year without shutting down before system updates got to it.
Only reason I even attempted was I was trying to build a multihead box (ie, four monitors, four keyboards, four mice, and four sound cards for four separate users on one physical box) and at the time it looked like it had promise. That the sound doesn't work at all while I at least got two heads running with K/V/M says something.
Heh. My main Linux box's sound is still screwed up. I haven't bothered to fix it because I use it predominately as a server anyway, but I had intended it to be my powerhouse workstation as well.
You can be self-sufficient without growing your own food, shooting your own burglars, and building your own roads.
Okay, I'll bite... how?
One can make the argument that any time a group of people come together and pool resources to achieve a goal like a road or like collective security it's a form of government. A Homeowners Association is a form of self-imposed government. A town is a form of self-imposed government, at least at its initial charter by the people that lived in an unincorporated area and chose to incorporate it.
Wouldn't the best approach be to use the kernel firewalling capabilities to block everything that isn't needed for the function of the daemons running on the box, including configuring the box for out-of-band management, so that the only thing that can be touched from the user-side is the particular set of daemons necessary for its function? That would allow you to update that particular application without having to restart the computer every time, and would ensure that outside users can't reach any potential vulnerabilities that may be discovered in any other subsystems.
System boot time is only important if the system is booting frequently.
I've got end-user boxes with GUIs with uptimes over two months, a couple of servers at five months (last time generator didn't kick-in) and one that's at 731 days. I'm sure that there are others here that can claim significantly longer uptimes than that.
Boot-time is also relatively unimportant on high-availability clusters, as there should be fault-tolerance and redundancy in the cluster so ensure that even if a box is taking its sweet time reloading, the rest of the cluster handles the duties.
What I do find important is the ability to administer the box through a text interface, including manipulating configuration files by hand. I had to make some changes to a virtualbox VM and it was handy being able to edit the well-structured XML file that it uses for its configuration. Not quite as nice as other configs, but it was at least human-readable and writeable.
What I find funny is how the ability of the State to attempt to be the all-seeing eye of 1984 meshes so well with the gluttony of pleasures of Brave New World so well. One wouldn't think that either would be compatible but they are proving to be, and shows like Big Brother take it a step further, integrating the all-seeing eye into the fundamental nature of the entertainment.
But undergraduate mathematics is essentailly set-in-stone. There isn't much new being added to undergrad math since all of the new stuff is a function of graduate work on the advancement of math. Stuff at this level isn't changing so the only changes to the textbooks that actually make sense are those that make learning the curriculum easier, but even that is subject to both interpretation and to the particular way that a given student learns. That's also why there's a teacher there, because otherwise subjects like mathematics at this level could be learned through self-study, and sometimes that human guidance helps clarify things when the book doesn't provide the answers in a way that students understand.
Macroeconomics, while partially math-based, is also a lot of the discussion of evolving schools of thought. It's not settled, and the to and fro of collective opinion on what functions best or what model represents reality best is always being debated, and crosses into politics at times, and new Economic theories that impact undergrad studies appear at least a little more often than new undergrad math concepts.
Makes me wonder if it would be possible to use a atmospheric temperature gradient to generate electricity in the same fashion that one uses a geothermal loop. Built a big enough hollow tower that it heats up and basically draws air from the ground up and through turbines without really needing much in the way of parts.
Yep. The only voice control that I use is the one to search addresses on Google Maps. It's safer and easier to do while driving than trying to type it in, and since I'm already sending that data to Google anyway it's not a big deal. I don't use it for anything else though.
This is only true when the people working the counter or the scales or other forms of receiving have a financial stake in the company. When they do, they're willing to bend company procedures. Sometimes it's because they know something is actually worth more than its scrap value or because it has real sentimental value and should be preserved rather than junked, and sometimes it's because the owner or partner actually has a heart and is willing to take less than the completely-parted-out value for something in order to sell it whole to someone that wants the whole thing.
My experience is mostly with automotive wrecking yards. The big recyclers aren't much fun to deal with, the staff doesn't care and just goes through the motions. The small private wrecking yards usually have the owner right there in the office, and sometimes one can buy whole cars with title for much less than he'd get if he's willing to sit on it for a couple of years to part it out, as he likes cars too and actually does restore them and values others that do the same.
Unfortunately there are less and less owner-operator types anymore.
As for this particular man, I don't have a problem with him making some real money selling the rover back to NASA or some other government agency. He's arguably the first person to care about it for quite some time, and it's not his problem that NASA and the other intermediate owners didn't value it at the time as much as he does now. If I were in his shoes I'd be tempted to restore it myself, just to be able to claim that I did, if no one was willing to come to a price I was willing to agree to.
Maybe because Google is used to enforcing the terms of its Service Level Agreements against its providers when those providers do it wrong, they are also, at the moment, willing to do what it takes to make amends for their own violation of their SLAs to their customers.
Companies or divisions of companies that primarily provide consumer-grade service aren't accustomed to SLAs in my experience. I've had both DSL and Cablemodem service personally, and I've had to deal with Metro Optical networks from the same companies, and while the phone company understood its obligations and would proactively call me when the MOE network had a fault, the other company, that started out life as a cable company and then a cable Internet company, basically requires me to call them when a MOE circuit is down. They do not meet their SLAs but getting that addressed has been like pulling teeth.
One of the most helpful things that the Start Menu has that is gone is the quick ability to reopen a frequently used document or application without having to hunt through a screenful of things to find it. The Start Menu was good because it was small, hierarchical, and concise. Now that it's a full screen with scrolling, or several pages of scrolling, it is not concise or hierarchical.
I don't even think it's that complicated. For kids to do a given thing, that thing either needs to be fun, or they need some form of reward for their success, or some combination thereof. I started playing with BASIC when I was ten or so and line numbers were still required. shortly thereafter I played with batch files. Then I played with rudimentary bash scripting. Then the TI calculator, then some light instruction in C and C++, and now I do some intermediate bash scripting incidentally when I do my non-programming admin job.
I don't think it's wrong to use languages like BASIC for the very earliest exposure so long as the curriculum migrates off of BASIC very quickly and also works to avoid emphasizing language-specific methods that truly are dead-ends. Once the concept of programming is understood, then it's time to introduce other languages.
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The nacent civil rights movement was seeking to end dissimilar treatment of people based on something outside of their control (ie, race).
This group was seeking to use both violence and systemic structure to perpetuate and even increase the dissimilar treatment of people based on something outside of the control of the targeted people.
Judge people for their actions, their choices. How people behave and who they freely associate with are actions and choices.
There's a difference between having a 'streak' and paying dues and participating in rank-structure in an organization that has actively engaged in bloodshed against other people.
What are the odds that those published will end up losing their jobs and such? You think that will end up causing more problems?
This might be a better way to deal with things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Those with whom we choose to associate say a lot about our character and about our choices. Choices are one thing that an employee can be judged-on. I see no reason for any employer to be compelled to retain anyone that is affiliated with an organization like this.
As to your point about dialogue, that only works when the group being addressed is either well enough organized or small enough to be cohesive and for its members to operate as a single voice. Look at the fragmentation of the IRA during The Troubles, there were an uncountable number of splinter groups such that establishing a dialogue with one was no sure means to deal with all, an if anything could incite violence by the others.
She did leave HP a mess. She was the one to cause a lot of their top engineering talent to walk, she tried to shift HP to a products company with the Compaq acquisition which was a huge boondoggle in the end, and hp's stock price fell 55% under her watch. You don't get fired for doing a good job.
I think that a big part of the problem was not that HP got Compaq's customers and market share, but that it got Compaq's quality and the hamstrung business practices that made it available for takeover in the first place.
I can see a real reason for a professional-services and professional-hardware company to purchase a commodity-hardware company; commodity hardware can sell like crazy and for a long time Compaq did a half-decent job using their consumer-grade products as test-platforms before integrating the technology into their commercial computing platforms. They had two lines of laptop. They had several lines of desktop. They had servers. Tech didn't usually make it into the workstation-grade laptops and desktops immediately, the kinks were worked out in the consumer lines first. Their servers might have not been high end, but they were workable on a budget.
I don't know what the actual problem is, but I wonder if the negatives of Compaq were somehow seen as positives from a financial perspective, and those negatives were rolled into HP to break it.
That's because they weren't actually GNU tools. They were the UNIX tools on which the GNU tools were based.
Upside of HPUX, it's stable and its development is very tightly controlled.
Downside of HPUX, it is very slow to adopt new technologies or even basic improvements, and the hardware that it runs on is extremely limited.
Why are you shutting it off? There are suspend and hibernate functions for that. Hell, the Apple laptop that I'm writing this on went the better part of a year without shutting down before system updates got to it.
Only reason I even attempted was I was trying to build a multihead box (ie, four monitors, four keyboards, four mice, and four sound cards for four separate users on one physical box) and at the time it looked like it had promise. That the sound doesn't work at all while I at least got two heads running with K/V/M says something.
So they mean that they need the organized efforts of others. Got it.
Starting to sound like government again, at least in some aspects...
Heh. My main Linux box's sound is still screwed up. I haven't bothered to fix it because I use it predominately as a server anyway, but I had intended it to be my powerhouse workstation as well.
You can be self-sufficient without growing your own food, shooting your own burglars, and building your own roads.
Okay, I'll bite... how?
One can make the argument that any time a group of people come together and pool resources to achieve a goal like a road or like collective security it's a form of government. A Homeowners Association is a form of self-imposed government. A town is a form of self-imposed government, at least at its initial charter by the people that lived in an unincorporated area and chose to incorporate it.
Why are you having to reboot so often?
Wouldn't the best approach be to use the kernel firewalling capabilities to block everything that isn't needed for the function of the daemons running on the box, including configuring the box for out-of-band management, so that the only thing that can be touched from the user-side is the particular set of daemons necessary for its function? That would allow you to update that particular application without having to restart the computer every time, and would ensure that outside users can't reach any potential vulnerabilities that may be discovered in any other subsystems.
Look at where systemd originated, from someone that worked on a user-level sound daemon.
I know! Just like syslog and logging in general, right?
System boot time is only important if the system is booting frequently.
I've got end-user boxes with GUIs with uptimes over two months, a couple of servers at five months (last time generator didn't kick-in) and one that's at 731 days. I'm sure that there are others here that can claim significantly longer uptimes than that.
Boot-time is also relatively unimportant on high-availability clusters, as there should be fault-tolerance and redundancy in the cluster so ensure that even if a box is taking its sweet time reloading, the rest of the cluster handles the duties.
What I do find important is the ability to administer the box through a text interface, including manipulating configuration files by hand. I had to make some changes to a virtualbox VM and it was handy being able to edit the well-structured XML file that it uses for its configuration. Not quite as nice as other configs, but it was at least human-readable and writeable.
What I find funny is how the ability of the State to attempt to be the all-seeing eye of 1984 meshes so well with the gluttony of pleasures of Brave New World so well. One wouldn't think that either would be compatible but they are proving to be, and shows like Big Brother take it a step further, integrating the all-seeing eye into the fundamental nature of the entertainment.
But undergraduate mathematics is essentailly set-in-stone. There isn't much new being added to undergrad math since all of the new stuff is a function of graduate work on the advancement of math. Stuff at this level isn't changing so the only changes to the textbooks that actually make sense are those that make learning the curriculum easier, but even that is subject to both interpretation and to the particular way that a given student learns. That's also why there's a teacher there, because otherwise subjects like mathematics at this level could be learned through self-study, and sometimes that human guidance helps clarify things when the book doesn't provide the answers in a way that students understand.
Macroeconomics, while partially math-based, is also a lot of the discussion of evolving schools of thought. It's not settled, and the to and fro of collective opinion on what functions best or what model represents reality best is always being debated, and crosses into politics at times, and new Economic theories that impact undergrad studies appear at least a little more often than new undergrad math concepts.
The United States wasn't the birthplace that inspired Eric Blair to write under the penname of George Orwell...
Makes me wonder if it would be possible to use a atmospheric temperature gradient to generate electricity in the same fashion that one uses a geothermal loop. Built a big enough hollow tower that it heats up and basically draws air from the ground up and through turbines without really needing much in the way of parts.
Yep. The only voice control that I use is the one to search addresses on Google Maps. It's safer and easier to do while driving than trying to type it in, and since I'm already sending that data to Google anyway it's not a big deal. I don't use it for anything else though.
This is only true when the people working the counter or the scales or other forms of receiving have a financial stake in the company. When they do, they're willing to bend company procedures. Sometimes it's because they know something is actually worth more than its scrap value or because it has real sentimental value and should be preserved rather than junked, and sometimes it's because the owner or partner actually has a heart and is willing to take less than the completely-parted-out value for something in order to sell it whole to someone that wants the whole thing.
My experience is mostly with automotive wrecking yards. The big recyclers aren't much fun to deal with, the staff doesn't care and just goes through the motions. The small private wrecking yards usually have the owner right there in the office, and sometimes one can buy whole cars with title for much less than he'd get if he's willing to sit on it for a couple of years to part it out, as he likes cars too and actually does restore them and values others that do the same.
Unfortunately there are less and less owner-operator types anymore.
As for this particular man, I don't have a problem with him making some real money selling the rover back to NASA or some other government agency. He's arguably the first person to care about it for quite some time, and it's not his problem that NASA and the other intermediate owners didn't value it at the time as much as he does now. If I were in his shoes I'd be tempted to restore it myself, just to be able to claim that I did, if no one was willing to come to a price I was willing to agree to.
Maybe because Google is used to enforcing the terms of its Service Level Agreements against its providers when those providers do it wrong, they are also, at the moment, willing to do what it takes to make amends for their own violation of their SLAs to their customers.
Companies or divisions of companies that primarily provide consumer-grade service aren't accustomed to SLAs in my experience. I've had both DSL and Cablemodem service personally, and I've had to deal with Metro Optical networks from the same companies, and while the phone company understood its obligations and would proactively call me when the MOE network had a fault, the other company, that started out life as a cable company and then a cable Internet company, basically requires me to call them when a MOE circuit is down. They do not meet their SLAs but getting that addressed has been like pulling teeth.
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One of the most helpful things that the Start Menu has that is gone is the quick ability to reopen a frequently used document or application without having to hunt through a screenful of things to find it. The Start Menu was good because it was small, hierarchical, and concise. Now that it's a full screen with scrolling, or several pages of scrolling, it is not concise or hierarchical.
I don't even think it's that complicated. For kids to do a given thing, that thing either needs to be fun, or they need some form of reward for their success, or some combination thereof. I started playing with BASIC when I was ten or so and line numbers were still required. shortly thereafter I played with batch files. Then I played with rudimentary bash scripting. Then the TI calculator, then some light instruction in C and C++, and now I do some intermediate bash scripting incidentally when I do my non-programming admin job.
I don't think it's wrong to use languages like BASIC for the very earliest exposure so long as the curriculum migrates off of BASIC very quickly and also works to avoid emphasizing language-specific methods that truly are dead-ends. Once the concept of programming is understood, then it's time to introduce other languages.
Yep. proofs aren't going to generate configuration templates for me based on a set of conditions I need to have satisfied.
Well my HS wardrobe would be *very* hipster today.
Oh. My. God. You just went on to be Hipster by claiming you were Hipster before it was hip to be Hipster...