Contrast America of 1938 with America of 1968, and it's easy to see why Sci-Fi writers made the mistake of thinking that radical transformaiton of both technology and culture is to be expected in the span of a few decades.
Was 1938 really that different from 1968?
I don't think so. Sure, there were hippies and Rock n Roll, but the cities were still there, people still drove cars, went to church on Sunday, etc.
Seriously though -- considr that the US has an illiterate president. What kind of message does that send? He's the LEADER of the nation. And guess what -- people follow where he leads.
So, when we had a Rhodes Scholar as President, the USA had a culture that celebrated intelligence and vilified ignorance, and then instantly switched on 20-Jan-2001?
I don't think so...
The Haditha Massacre -- ain't Americans a brave, honorable bunch?
There are 220,000 active+reserve Marines.
In any such large population, there will always be those who do Bad Things.
It looks to me like China is whining because things didn't go their way.
The mind-blowingly stunning part is that Communists are complaining about someone else's monopoly...
he believes China's WAPI standard lost the ISO fast-track vote because the current WLAN market is dominated by Intel and voting for WAPI may hurt the interests of the monopoly group owning the existing technology.
It's perfectly reasonable for the secondary breadwinner to follow the primary breadwinner.
Not necessarily:
I said reasonable, not mandatory.
It all depends on the primary/secondary salary ratio. If that ratio is edging towards 1.0, then neither is the primary breadwinner.
OTOH, if one is a $90K aerospace engineer, and the other is a schoolteacher, there's not (much) problem, because schools are always looking for teachers.
Things get more complicated when the secondary is, for example a junior accountant in a mid-sized town who, while not yet raking in the big bucks, could very well do so after gaining seniority.
The bottom line, though, is that fly-commuting should be tossed out the window. Move, and she must find a new job, or stay.
Either way, someone is going to have to sacrifice something. But that's the nature of marriage...
I'm sure we all hate the English teacher who has us handwriting because word processors are a tool of Satan.
What planet are you from?
My teachers probably would have given an extra 5 points for papers that had been typed. That way, they wouldn't have to read boys' illegible chicken scratch.
We probably all think "But the word processor helps EVERYONE to write better, thus improving the writing capabilities of humanity as a whole!"
I'm pretty sure that write better is poor grammar, but don't hold me to it.
What the text editor does is allow you to easily rewrite what turns out to be poor phrases or malformed thoughts. Of course, you've got to give a rat's ass, and not be destroyed by IM-speak.
...introduced in x86-64 are... and b) default 32-bit pointers (no need to lug around 64-bits all the time).
In 64-bit mode, all pointers are 64 bits. Integers, though, are still 32 bit. The abbreviation is LP64: Longs and Pointers are 64 bits, integers 32 bits.
The point was that because it is so time-expensive to seek, It is very rare indeed that a tape would EVER be read. Especially since that seek-expense means that tape is essencially a backup medium, and the thing it's backing up is actually quite reliable. So any given tape will, in all liklihood, never be read.
Oh, um, ok.
Maybe the reason I took it seriously is because I occasionally have to restore databases from tape, and the operators are always pulling old files off tape.
Yes, I work in a 24x7 datacenter, complete with dinosaurs.
Sigh. yet more anti-RPM FUD. While dpkg is indeed a fine packaging system, it has little to make it superior to RPM. With dependency management handled by apt and yum, the two are broadly comparable these days. So let me ask you, what value do you see in dpkg, that isn't also present in RPM?
Upgrading a low-level package like glibc or X.
I don't know how yum, up2date, urpmi & pkg handle it, but with apt, upgrading glibc (know as libc6 in Debian) is trivial. Likewise, upgrading from XFree 4.3 to X.org 6.8, and likewise the upgrade from the "monolithic" X.org 6.9 to modular X.org 7.0 was equally simple.
(Back in the old Mandrake 8.0/8.1 days, such upgrades were impossible.)
OTOH, I've heard that people still reinstall FC when each new version is released. If true, that's pathetic.
911 wasn't a failure of surveillance. It was a failure of interpretation and commmunication.
And political correctness woven into policy. CIA & FBI weren't allowed to talk to each other. Might impose on some foreigner's civil rights. Damn you, Bill Clinton.
Over the years, political correctness and fear of bad press have woven their way into the bureaucracy of the FBI.
I suspect some netzis like China (Singapore?) would ban encrypted traffic if they could.
And England and Australia.
The Clinton administration floated a bill that would mandate that the Feds keep in escrow "only accessible by subpoena or warrant" (yeah, right) all crypto keys.
Your slashdot id is low enough that you remember the Clipper chip, right? (And the Republican who lead the political charge against it?)
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Contrast America of 1938 with America of 1968, and it's easy to see why Sci-Fi writers made the mistake of thinking that radical transformaiton of both technology and culture is to be expected in the span of a few decades.
Was 1938 really that different from 1968?
I don't think so. Sure, there were hippies and Rock n Roll, but the cities were still there, people still drove cars, went to church on Sunday, etc.
The way I heard it was:I was instantly disabused of any notion that women need Feminism and Equal Rights.
So, when we had a Rhodes Scholar as President, the USA had a culture that celebrated intelligence and vilified ignorance, and then instantly switched on 20-Jan-2001?
I don't think so...
The Haditha Massacre -- ain't Americans a brave, honorable bunch?
There are 220,000 active+reserve Marines.
In any such large population, there will always be those who do Bad Things.
The mind-blowingly stunning part is that Communists are complaining about someone else's monopoly...
All sex is paid for.
It all depends on the primary/secondary salary ratio. If that ratio is edging towards 1.0, then neither is the primary breadwinner.
OTOH, if one is a $90K aerospace engineer, and the other is a schoolteacher, there's not (much) problem, because schools are always looking for teachers.
Things get more complicated when the secondary is, for example a junior accountant in a mid-sized town who, while not yet raking in the big bucks, could very well do so after gaining seniority.
The bottom line, though, is that fly-commuting should be tossed out the window. Move, and she must find a new job, or stay.
Either way, someone is going to have to sacrifice something. But that's the nature of marriage...
It's summer, they aren't in school.
asking your spouse to find a different job seems cruel and unfair
It's perfectly reasonable for the secondary breadwinner to follow the primary breadwinner.
The real question should be:
To heck with pretty pink ones. Great men have been keeping journals since inexpensive paper came to Europe.
chose philosophy on purpose because I found that's where the logic courses were.
I thought modern philosophy was ephermeral, mindless crap.
Then apparantly Comcast in Michigan is considered a foreign country.
Well, it's got it's own militia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Militia
A "picky censor" is an editor. "This" is bad, "that" is not bad.
Censoring political speech is a slippery slope the bottom of which is doom for us all.
Didn't CRT manufacturers solve this problem 15 years ago?
What planet are you from?
My teachers probably would have given an extra 5 points for papers that had been typed. That way, they wouldn't have to read boys' illegible chicken scratch.
We probably all think "But the word processor helps EVERYONE to write better, thus improving the writing capabilities of humanity as a whole!"
I'm pretty sure that write better is poor grammar, but don't hold me to it.
What the text editor does is allow you to easily rewrite what turns out to be poor phrases or malformed thoughts. Of course, you've got to give a rat's ass, and not be destroyed by IM-speak.
...introduced in x86-64 are ... and b) default 32-bit pointers (no need to lug around 64-bits all the time).
In 64-bit mode, all pointers are 64 bits. Integers, though, are still 32 bit. The abbreviation is LP64: Longs and Pointers are 64 bits, integers 32 bits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP64
The point was that because it is so time-expensive to seek, It is very rare indeed that a tape would EVER be read. Especially since that seek-expense means that tape is essencially a backup medium, and the thing it's backing up is actually quite reliable. So any given tape will, in all liklihood, never be read.
Oh, um, ok.
Maybe the reason I took it seriously is because I occasionally have to restore databases from tape, and the operators are always pulling old files off tape.
Yes, I work in a 24x7 datacenter, complete with dinosaurs.
I don't think he was commenting on the durability, but the linearity.
Really? If that was my complaint, I'd have written something like:
We keep end of quarter and end of year tapes till they no longer function, and then we keep them because we are too afraid to rid ourselves of them.
Could you ditto the files from the old tapes to new tapes?
When will tape die? - immediately after you write to it.
Tape is a write only medium. Upping densities will just make it worse.
Sounds like you have only used consumer- and SOHO-grade tape drives.
Business-class drives and media like (S)DLT, LTO & older formats like 3490 are very durable.
Upgrading a low-level package like glibc or X.
I don't know how yum, up2date, urpmi & pkg handle it, but with apt, upgrading glibc (know as libc6 in Debian) is trivial. Likewise, upgrading from XFree 4.3 to X.org 6.8, and likewise the upgrade from the "monolithic" X.org 6.9 to modular X.org 7.0 was equally simple.
(Back in the old Mandrake 8.0/8.1 days, such upgrades were impossible.)
OTOH, I've heard that people still reinstall FC when each new version is released. If true, that's pathetic.
911 wasn't a failure of surveillance. It was a failure of interpretation and commmunication.
And political correctness woven into policy. CIA & FBI weren't allowed to talk to each other. Might impose on some foreigner's civil rights. Damn you, Bill Clinton.
Over the years, political correctness and fear of bad press have woven their way into the bureaucracy of the FBI.
http://www.reason.com/links/links033006.shtml
Sun has denied that their move to back Ubuntu is a move against Red Hat, or SuSE.
And Nixon said he wasn't a crook. And MSFT says they are as pure as the wind-driven snow.
Based on Danathar's bad/ambiguous grammar, he might be saying that the NSA did not create Blowfish.
It's Bad Form to drop missile on viable states, even when they disagree with you.
Nuking France does sounds tempting, though.
When God hates all the same people you do, its a sign you've created Him in your own image.
What does it mean when you hate, but God loves everyone?
That God is real?
And England and Australia.
The Clinton administration floated a bill that would mandate that the Feds keep in escrow "only accessible by subpoena or warrant" (yeah, right) all crypto keys.
Your slashdot id is low enough that you remember the Clipper chip, right? (And the Republican who lead the political charge against it?)