Thing is, Windows systems do appear to accumulate clutter, no matter how you use it.
I've moved from Windows to Linux, Fedora in my case, and I think I know part of the reason for this. When you update Windows, it downloads the updates and installs them, leaving behind the download and any other files that were made obsolete. As time goes on, your system gets cluttered with more and more files you'll never need again (unless the disk cleanup utility knows to get rid of the downloads, and you remember to run it) and more and more old versions of programs/.dlls. With Linux, when you update a program, it downloads the update, installs it, deletes the download and, if appropriate, the old version of the file. My system has two kernels: the one I'm using, and the most recent kernel before that. When I update the kernel, the oldest one is automatically removed to free up the space. If Windows removed old versions when it updated, it wouldn't get so cluttered, but of course, that type of action was Not Invented Here, and Microsoft long lost its willingness to copy the best from everybody else.
My friend did his study in the mid-70s. I don't think the Peacekeeper was designed until later, so no, he wasn't mistaken. None of the ICBMs that were in use at the time were adaptable as an orbital lift vehicle.
Throwing the whole thing out in favor of a strictly local approach just means that in less educated areas of the country the dumb just get dumber and the smart kids get screwed.
And "No child gets left behind" ends up meaning "No child gets ahead." Congress is directly in control of education in the District of Columbia. When and if that school system is a shining beacon of progress, Congress will have reason to claim that they know how to run the schools. Don't hold your breath.
Local school systems usually know more about local conditions and what they need than bureaucrats inside the Beltway. Let them handle their own affairs, with oversight at the state level because the federal government has no Constitutional authority over education.
They can't learn until they can think. Knuth is a good start on that.
They can't learn what they can't follow, either. Knuth isn't written as a primer, it's written as a reference work for professionals and advanced students.
In junior high many kids think algebra and geometry are irrelevant to life, and things they'll never use.
And you think there's something new about that? I went to junior hi in the early '60s, and most of my classmates thought exactly the same thing. Almost all kids think that way at that age, because they haven't seen, yet, how useful algebra and geometry can be.
Just look at Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 attacks, minor attacks that launched major offensive strikes by the USA.
At Pearl Harbor, the Japanese damaged twenty three American ships, three of them unrepairable. Two of the ships lost were battleships. They were the only American battleships sunk during WW II. I don't call that a minor attack, I call it a major defeat!
any improvement to a rocket is an improvement to the death count of a potential weapon using that rocket.
Maybe not. A friend of mine spend a few weeks, long ago, studying the characteristics of various US ICBMs to see if they were usable as orbital launch vehicles. It didn't take him long to learn that they weren't, partially because none of them had adequate delta-V. I'd be the last person to claim that we've reached a dead end in the development of guided or ballistic missiles, but I don't think that the latest orbital advances are needed for that, either.
The problem is when you tell all sides equally you give equal credence to the lies.
Reporting known and provable lies is not part of telling all sides of the story, at least in my opinion. It consists of telling all the known facts as objectively as you can, both those that support your position and those that don't. Doing otherwise is dishonest, although most journalists think it's the right thing to do. Opinions, spin doctoring and other one-sided reporting belong in the editorials and columns, not on the front page.
Without balance, there is no truth. Balance is telling all sides of the story fairly, so that the audience can learn all about the story, rather than just the part of it that fits your political agenda. As a rather extreme example, a far left wing reporter might put out a story that President Bush has been communicating with members of the armed forces without going through the DoD, and make it sound like he's planning a coup to stay in office. A balanced report would explain that these communications are condolence letters to each and every service man or woman who's been injured in either Iraq or Afghanistan, or to their families if needed. (BTW, this is true.)
even if he was reading a 'smoking gun' regarding some sort of conspiracy he may have never known it.
I don't see any reason to believe there's a conspiracy here, but there's a point here you're missing. If there were a conspiracy, any incriminating emails, faxes or other documents would be extremely obvious to them. And, of course, it would only be natural for them to expect that anybody else who saw them would realize how important they were. Add to that the lack of understanding of what IT people really do that you can expect from your typical politician (I'm not being snide, here, just pointing out that IT expertise isn't part of a politician's job skills.) and you can see why any hypothetical conspirators would be worried about what he knew. Still, when all's said and done, going from that to the idea that he was murdered is a bit of a stretch. After all, I've not heard that there were any signs that he was considering spilling any beans, and as long as he kept his mouth shut, he wasn't exactly a threat to anybody.
It really makes me wonder where they're getting them.
One way to get them is to set up some sort of site that logically requires you to log in, let it become popular, then harvest the password file and use it in your attacks. Be sure to make the site geeky, though, to get good passwords and give it an attention-getting name. Something like "Slashdot."
The Sahara used to be a fairly fertile plain once.
Yes, it was right up until the Bedouins got control of it and turned it into the desert it is today, just as they'd already done to Egypt and Mesopotamia. They may be called "The Sons of the Desert," but in fact, they're its father, and take it with them wherever they go.
Agreed. But how fast is too fast, and how does that compare to the rate at which the climate is now changing? I don't know; do you?
Not everybody lives in moist temperate climates.
I certainly don't! I live slightly north of Los Angeles, in a semi-arid Mediterranean climate. Hotter probably means more brush fires, cooler means more floods. Either way, I'll need to adapt, but that's what life's all about, isn't it?
A hotter climate implies longer growing seasons, implying larger crops. It also implies that areas in the far North will become crop lands that aren't today. (Viking dairy farmers in Greenland a thousand years ago is a good example.) A cooler climate implies shorter growing seasons, crop failures and less farmland. (The Little Ice Age is a great example of exactly that.)
Yes, I'm treating it as an absolute; in a bureaucracy. And, such things as accounting departments are bureaucracies. They always get bigger, never smaller. If you disagree, provide a counter-example or be ignored.
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I've moved from Windows to Linux, Fedora in my case, and I think I know part of the reason for this. When you update Windows, it downloads the updates and installs them, leaving behind the download and any other files that were made obsolete. As time goes on, your system gets cluttered with more and more files you'll never need again (unless the disk cleanup utility knows to get rid of the downloads, and you remember to run it) and more and more old versions of programs/.dlls. With Linux, when you update a program, it downloads the update, installs it, deletes the download and, if appropriate, the old version of the file. My system has two kernels: the one I'm using, and the most recent kernel before that. When I update the kernel, the oldest one is automatically removed to free up the space. If Windows removed old versions when it updated, it wouldn't get so cluttered, but of course, that type of action was Not Invented Here, and Microsoft long lost its willingness to copy the best from everybody else.
Thank you. I'd never asked him for details, and had to guess a little. Also, at the time I knew him, the incident was already over a decade old.
My friend did his study in the mid-70s. I don't think the Peacekeeper was designed until later, so no, he wasn't mistaken. None of the ICBMs that were in use at the time were adaptable as an orbital lift vehicle.
I thought that it was English majors who ended up saying, "Do you want frys with that?"
And "No child gets left behind" ends up meaning "No child gets ahead." Congress is directly in control of education in the District of Columbia. When and if that school system is a shining beacon of progress, Congress will have reason to claim that they know how to run the schools. Don't hold your breath.
Local school systems usually know more about local conditions and what they need than bureaucrats inside the Beltway. Let them handle their own affairs, with oversight at the state level because the federal government has no Constitutional authority over education.
They can't learn what they can't follow, either. Knuth isn't written as a primer, it's written as a reference work for professionals and advanced students.
Neither do I. It should be abolished, and control of education should be allowed to devolve on the local School Districts, where it belongs.
And you think there's something new about that? I went to junior hi in the early '60s, and most of my classmates thought exactly the same thing. Almost all kids think that way at that age, because they haven't seen, yet, how useful algebra and geometry can be.
You do realize, don't you, that we're talking about K-12 here, not college?
At Pearl Harbor, the Japanese damaged twenty three American ships, three of them unrepairable. Two of the ships lost were battleships. They were the only American battleships sunk during WW II. I don't call that a minor attack, I call it a major defeat!
Maybe not. A friend of mine spend a few weeks, long ago, studying the characteristics of various US ICBMs to see if they were usable as orbital launch vehicles. It didn't take him long to learn that they weren't, partially because none of them had adequate delta-V. I'd be the last person to claim that we've reached a dead end in the development of guided or ballistic missiles, but I don't think that the latest orbital advances are needed for that, either.
Reporting known and provable lies is not part of telling all sides of the story, at least in my opinion. It consists of telling all the known facts as objectively as you can, both those that support your position and those that don't. Doing otherwise is dishonest, although most journalists think it's the right thing to do. Opinions, spin doctoring and other one-sided reporting belong in the editorials and columns, not on the front page.
Without balance, there is no truth. Balance is telling all sides of the story fairly, so that the audience can learn all about the story, rather than just the part of it that fits your political agenda. As a rather extreme example, a far left wing reporter might put out a story that President Bush has been communicating with members of the armed forces without going through the DoD, and make it sound like he's planning a coup to stay in office. A balanced report would explain that these communications are condolence letters to each and every service man or woman who's been injured in either Iraq or Afghanistan, or to their families if needed. (BTW, this is true.)
I don't see any reason to believe there's a conspiracy here, but there's a point here you're missing. If there were a conspiracy, any incriminating emails, faxes or other documents would be extremely obvious to them. And, of course, it would only be natural for them to expect that anybody else who saw them would realize how important they were. Add to that the lack of understanding of what IT people really do that you can expect from your typical politician (I'm not being snide, here, just pointing out that IT expertise isn't part of a politician's job skills.) and you can see why any hypothetical conspirators would be worried about what he knew. Still, when all's said and done, going from that to the idea that he was murdered is a bit of a stretch. After all, I've not heard that there were any signs that he was considering spilling any beans, and as long as he kept his mouth shut, he wasn't exactly a threat to anybody.
Here in America, Google watches you. In Soviet Russia, government watches Google. And, in Soviet China, government watches Google watch you!
You've missed my point: use the passwords on your site as a dictionary for your botnet's brute force attacks on other systems.
One way to get them is to set up some sort of site that logically requires you to log in, let it become popular, then harvest the password file and use it in your attacks. Be sure to make the site geeky, though, to get good passwords and give it an attention-getting name. Something like "Slashdot."
Here on Slashdot, we focus on breasts. In Soviet Russia, Breasts focus on you! (We should be so lucky!)
Yes, it was right up until the Bedouins got control of it and turned it into the desert it is today, just as they'd already done to Egypt and Mesopotamia. They may be called "The Sons of the Desert," but in fact, they're its father, and take it with them wherever they go.
Agreed. But how fast is too fast, and how does that compare to the rate at which the climate is now changing? I don't know; do you?
Not everybody lives in moist temperate climates.
I certainly don't! I live slightly north of Los Angeles, in a semi-arid Mediterranean climate. Hotter probably means more brush fires, cooler means more floods. Either way, I'll need to adapt, but that's what life's all about, isn't it?
A hotter climate implies longer growing seasons, implying larger crops. It also implies that areas in the far North will become crop lands that aren't today. (Viking dairy farmers in Greenland a thousand years ago is a good example.) A cooler climate implies shorter growing seasons, crop failures and less farmland. (The Little Ice Age is a great example of exactly that.)
Yes, and there appears to be a very good reason for that.
Not so much Evil as Ignorant and/or Stupid.
Because most of those jobs have been blue-collar workers, not accountants, professionals or middle managers, that's why.
Yes, I'm treating it as an absolute; in a bureaucracy. And, such things as accounting departments are bureaucracies. They always get bigger, never smaller. If you disagree, provide a counter-example or be ignored.