> Lean and mean at first, to fast and nimble second, to large but feature, to slow and bloat
I've read articles on Google's ramp up in employees; some of which have simply been hired to vacuum-up surrounding brains so they don't got to other companies (or their own garage) and create something that can compete with them. Perhaps MS has been up to the same thing over the years (Gates has mentioned as much in interviews about how paranoid he was of a competitor blind=siding them).
>>I've been in a sysadmin job now for about 4 years. I work with computers daily, both Windows and Linux (and a dabble with OSX). Can I tell you the difference between sleep and hibernate? No.
>Could you please tell us your real name? I want to make sure that I never hire you.
Perhaps he means, "couldn't tell you in words devoid of the kind of techno-babble that wouldn't put the average user into a sleep/hibernate state".
? I don't know a single Windows user who uses the sleep feature on a regular basis, because it's not 100% reliable.
Wow, really? I use sleep/hibernate on my Linux (Ubuntu) laptop and sometimes it's a bit squirrely; I figured it was par for the course using a free and open OS - you get the warts and all. It's a real head-shaker to find out that the OS people _pay_ for has the same problem.
The Internet agreement form that basically says 'no pr0n, sign here.' is poorly written in such a way that it grants the school district the right to monitor all communications on the Internet to and from me, even out of school. Since cell phones, land lines, DSL, Cable modems, WiFi, and My home computer systems allow for communication over the Internet, the school would have the right to monitor those devices. (If I had signed the form of course -- I'm not stupid.)
Assuming you're still HS age (less than 18) then I'd say "sign away" as anything you put your sig to as a minor isn't worth the paper on which it's printed.
I WANT to drop out, I really want to. but I also want to go to a good college where I can LEARN things that I want to learn. I have nothing against learning, I love learning, I just feel that high school is doing a bullshit job of it. if there was some way for me to drop out of high school and get into the college I want, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
Well, I urge you to be very VERY careful about selecting your college - I went to a large research institution where my freshman physic teacher was a sophomore TA; my little sister went to a small liberal arts college where classes were small and ALL were taught by profs (in my college you could, depending on the program, not see a prof until Jr/Sr year, or maybe even grad school).
# Picard never shot his best friend's body into space in a photon torpedo.
Picard didn't have any friends; just a bunch of subordinates whom he talked to every once in a while when he didn't feel like staying in his room watching chick flicks in that girlie robe they made his wear.
> global warming offset with global air conditioning
Unfortunately, air conditioning works by moving heat around, from say inside your house to outside. So unless we install a giant heat pump in geosync orbit...
Don't get me started on what I wish they had when *I* was a kid - cheap computers (the Atari 800 w/ magnetic storage was nearly $2000!!) cheap-assed web cams, cheap movie editing software (buddy and I were going to make our own stop-action "Aliens" with action figures - developing the b/w 8mm film was going to be about $200) high speed internet, big-assed hard drives (paid over $1000 for a 5MB HD in my 20's) cheap blank CDs and DVDs, cheap or free web development tools, free programming IDE's (The Atari ST came w/ NO programming tools; the C++ compiler was over $200!)
God, the kids these days don't have ANY idea what kinds of production powerhouses they have sitting on their desks - and they waste it bootlegging songs and IM'ing each other (so whut u doin? nothin. what u doin? nothin. go ne nu music?)
A month ago I might have agreed with you; however I've been reading J. Mirel's history of the local (Detroit) public schools 1907-1981 and have been amazed at the number of references from the newspapers of the periods in the book. In this internet age when a highschooler can produce a decent report via Project:Gutenberg , Wikipedia and Google, I'm astounded by the amount of effort a good author can put in doing the kinds of manual searches that create a work like Mirels'. Even access to electronic summaries of this material could infuse more pedestrian work with much of that important content produced during the humans' most prolific century (so far).
Maybe that's the key to warding off a civilization's decline, periodic pauses to re-index what's already been produced.
Haven't the NYT and WSJ printed "news articles" that were anonymously written (or had $ and content) supplied by the gov & industry? Doesn't seem too different.
Other kinds of radioactive waste isn't generally hot enough to create a useful amount of work; otherwise, they would have left it in the reactor longer to generate more power.
Does it have to be radioactivly-generated heat? I hear the planet's core is a bit on the warmish side.
The only goofier design was that horrid 8-bit-era thing whose name I've gratefully blanked that included a printer. And put the power supply for the whole system in the printer, so when the printer (the most fragile part of the system) broke, the whole thing became junk.
> his economic policiies were a such a disacster that we are still recovering from them today.
I'm just praying for my great-great-grandkids, who'll be selling apples and pencils out of tin cups trying to recover from the econominc non-policies of the current CNC.
the power socket on my laptop is now dodgy so a unit that cost ~$4000 AUD is now useless unless I want to spend ~$1500 AUD to replace its main board all for the sake of a 5 cent socket. Time for some amateur soldering!
Why not locate some "professional" soldering? I'm sure a local electronics repair place (cell phone, radios, maybe stereo or TV) would have someone with the skills and equipment to make short work (that's WAY less than $1,500AUD) of fixing that 5 cent socket.
> there is some optimum percentage of the population that ought to be college-educated
By that logic, there's probably already a great enough percentage of the planet's 6B souls that have college degrees, so the rest of us should just stay at home and watch TV.
Wow, I came to click "reply" on the weak attempt at humor at the expense of this desparate song, then I see the comment on Akiko and thought the author meant this AKiko, and while catching up on Crilly's newest stuff, Billie Holiday comes out of my iPod with the song.
All while I'm supposed to be working. The net is a 900 foot tall vampire what feeds on productivity.
Ooh, I wonder what Wikipedia has on "giant vampires"....
> were dinosaurs in Siberia long time ago, way before humans.
A better example, assuredly inadvertant, couldn't have been asked for.
> All this Global Warming is part of a natural cycle
True, tho so is cancer, mass starvation due to drought, and having as many offspring as possible to insure some of your genes make it another generation or two. Shall we abolish cancer research, agriculture and population control 'cause they're "unnatural"? So, be it due to dino-farts or SUV-effluence, mass extinction is natural and you can't argue with nature, even when spelled backwards. Let us then go quietly into that good night, the cockroaches will thank us, or at least our fossilized remains.
> a bunch of leftie "scientists"
with a bunch of "facts" and their so called "data" that backs up these "facts", along with geologic "evidence" and "computer models" and the "melting" ice caps; no way these "scientists" could possibly understand climate better than the right-thinking folk in talk radio and congress who know scads more than these "scientists".
That's the exact problem I had about a month ago when I got my new Presario V2630 (replacing a Breezy-powered Presario 2110US) - I downloaded the latest Dapper Pre-release, inserted the CD and it hung - so I went Suse 10.1 while waiting on Dapper. Yesterday, I downloaded the "Desktop" version, then saw a comment that explained later how the "Alternate" iso was designed for quirky installations (e.g it was text mode). So, w/o burning Desktop I downloaded Alternate, burned it, and 30mins later was booting a new Dapper 6 on this laptop - and after adding a few packages thru Symantic, fixing my touchpad settings and swapping out the non-functional native BCM43xx driver for the ndiswapper supported version this box is now firing on all cylinders.
Now I just have to find some really good glue to re-affix my "LinuxBox" sticker to this laptop.
> does broadcom wireless work under the new AMD64 build? if i could get wireless to work quickly i would start using this OS.
I have Suse10.1 on the Presario V2630 which has the Broadcom 4318 mini pci - I'm using ndiswrapper plus the acer 64bit driver. Doesn't work under NEtworkmanager, NM *sees* the accesspoints but trying to connect it just times out - so on the commandline if I issue the command 'dhcpclient wlan0' I can connect.
Hopefully, after Dapper finally downloads (nobody is > 18kbs and I'm AT a university) I'll take it home and give it a try.
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>any rate I seriously doubt it could work in a human unit much larger than a village,
IANAH(-istorian) but if I recall, the real problem with communism has always been with the pigs, never with the barnyard animals.
> Lean and mean at first, to fast and nimble second, to large but feature, to slow and bloat
I've read articles on Google's ramp up in employees; some of which have simply been hired to vacuum-up surrounding brains so they don't got to other companies (or their own garage) and create something that can compete with them. Perhaps MS has been up to the same thing over the years (Gates has mentioned as much in interviews about how paranoid he was of a competitor blind=siding them).
>>I've been in a sysadmin job now for about 4 years. I work with computers daily, both Windows and Linux (and a dabble with OSX). Can I tell you the difference between sleep and hibernate? No.
>Could you please tell us your real name? I want to make sure that I never hire you.
Perhaps he means, "couldn't tell you in words devoid of the kind of techno-babble that wouldn't put the average user into a sleep/hibernate state".
? I don't know a single Windows user who uses the sleep feature on a regular basis, because it's not 100% reliable.
Wow, really? I use sleep/hibernate on my Linux (Ubuntu) laptop and sometimes it's a bit squirrely; I figured it was par for the course using a free and open OS - you get the warts and all. It's a real head-shaker to find out that the OS people _pay_ for has the same problem.
The Internet agreement form that basically says 'no pr0n, sign here.' is poorly written in such a way that it grants the school district the right to monitor all communications on the Internet to and from me, even out of school. Since cell phones, land lines, DSL, Cable modems, WiFi, and My home computer systems allow for communication over the Internet, the school would have the right to monitor those devices. (If I had signed the form of course -- I'm not stupid.)
Assuming you're still HS age (less than 18) then I'd say "sign away" as anything you put your sig to as a minor isn't worth the paper on which it's printed.
I WANT to drop out, I really want to. but I also want to go to a good college where I can LEARN things that I want to learn. I have nothing against learning, I love learning, I just feel that high school is doing a bullshit job of it. if there was some way for me to drop out of high school and get into the college I want, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
Well, I urge you to be very VERY careful about selecting your college - I went to a large research institution where my freshman physic teacher was a sophomore TA; my little sister went to a small liberal arts college where classes were small and ALL were taught by profs (in my college you could, depending on the program, not see a prof until Jr/Sr year, or maybe even grad school).
Guess which one of us has the college degree?
# Picard never shot his best friend's body into space in a photon torpedo.
Picard didn't have any friends; just a bunch of subordinates whom he talked to every once in a while when he didn't feel like staying in his room watching chick flicks in that girlie robe they made his wear.
> turkey offal to fuel
Sounds like the perfect solution for those giant lakes of pig crap. Wonder what's keeping them from looking into this technology.
> global warming offset with global air conditioning
Unfortunately, air conditioning works by moving heat around, from say inside your house to outside. So unless we install a giant heat pump in geosync orbit...
> wish I had this as a kid
Don't get me started on what I wish they had when *I* was a kid - cheap computers (the Atari 800 w/ magnetic storage was nearly $2000!!) cheap-assed web cams, cheap movie editing software (buddy and I were going to make our own stop-action "Aliens" with action figures - developing the b/w 8mm film was going to be about $200) high speed internet, big-assed hard drives (paid over $1000 for a 5MB HD in my 20's) cheap blank CDs and DVDs, cheap or free web development tools, free programming IDE's (The Atari ST came w/ NO programming tools; the C++ compiler was over $200!)
God, the kids these days don't have ANY idea what kinds of production powerhouses they have sitting on their desks - and they waste it bootlegging songs and IM'ing each other (so whut u doin? nothin. what u doin? nothin. go ne nu music?)
All that free time..... *sigh*
> who would use it?
A month ago I might have agreed with you; however I've been reading J. Mirel's history of the local (Detroit) public schools 1907-1981 and have been amazed at the number of references from the newspapers of the periods in the book. In this internet age when a highschooler can produce a decent report via Project:Gutenberg , Wikipedia and Google, I'm astounded by the amount of effort a good author can put in doing the kinds of manual searches that create a work like Mirels'. Even access to electronic summaries of this material could infuse more pedestrian work with much of that important content produced during the humans' most prolific century (so far).
Maybe that's the key to warding off a civilization's decline, periodic pauses to re-index what's already been produced.
Haven't the NYT and WSJ printed "news articles" that were anonymously written (or had $ and content) supplied by the gov & industry? Doesn't seem too different.
Other kinds of radioactive waste isn't generally hot enough to create a useful amount of work; otherwise, they would have left it in the reactor longer to generate more power.
Does it have to be radioactivly-generated heat? I hear the planet's core is a bit on the warmish side.
>Easier to use XML rather than key/value pairs? ;)))) Dude, Javascript Arrays can be loaded with a single string
And, there's always JSON if you don't feel like hand-wrangling all those value pairs.
> (wireless keyboards) gone in a week
'Cause, dude, they're so gnarly for sledding in the Arb or, heck, street luge. Yeah!
The only goofier design was that horrid 8-bit-era thing whose name I've gratefully blanked that included a printer. And put the power supply for the whole system in the printer, so when the printer (the most fragile part of the system) broke, the whole thing became junk.
Adam.
> his economic policiies were a such a disacster that we are still recovering from them today.
I'm just praying for my great-great-grandkids, who'll be selling apples and pencils out of tin cups trying to recover from the econominc non-policies of the current CNC.
> hacked Tivo ... DirecTV unit .. wasn't that hard
So, tell how it's done? Links? ( I have one of the DirecTV units and have been annoyed at many of it's "features", especially the disabled USB ports).
the power socket on my laptop is now dodgy so a unit that cost ~$4000 AUD is now useless unless I want to spend ~$1500 AUD to replace its main board all for the sake of a 5 cent socket. Time for some amateur soldering!
Why not locate some "professional" soldering? I'm sure a local electronics repair place (cell phone, radios, maybe stereo or TV) would have someone with the skills and equipment to make short work (that's WAY less than $1,500AUD) of fixing that 5 cent socket.
> there is some optimum percentage of the population that ought to be college-educated
By that logic, there's probably already a great enough percentage of the planet's 6B souls that have college degrees, so the rest of us should just stay at home and watch TV.
> Akiko and Strange Fruit
Wow, I came to click "reply" on the weak attempt at humor at the expense of this desparate song, then I see the comment on Akiko and thought the author meant this AKiko, and while catching up on Crilly's newest stuff, Billie Holiday comes out of my iPod with the song.
All while I'm supposed to be working. The net is a 900 foot tall vampire what feeds on productivity.
Ooh, I wonder what Wikipedia has on "giant vampires"....
> were dinosaurs in Siberia long time ago, way before humans. A better example, assuredly inadvertant, couldn't have been asked for. > All this Global Warming is part of a natural cycle True, tho so is cancer, mass starvation due to drought, and having as many offspring as possible to insure some of your genes make it another generation or two. Shall we abolish cancer research, agriculture and population control 'cause they're "unnatural"? So, be it due to dino-farts or SUV-effluence, mass extinction is natural and you can't argue with nature, even when spelled backwards. Let us then go quietly into that good night, the cockroaches will thank us, or at least our fossilized remains. > a bunch of leftie "scientists" with a bunch of "facts" and their so called "data" that backs up these "facts", along with geologic "evidence" and "computer models" and the "melting" ice caps; no way these "scientists" could possibly understand climate better than the right-thinking folk in talk radio and congress who know scads more than these "scientists".
> insert CD just hangs
That's the exact problem I had about a month ago when I got my new Presario V2630 (replacing a Breezy-powered Presario 2110US) - I downloaded the latest Dapper Pre-release, inserted the CD and it hung - so I went Suse 10.1 while waiting on Dapper. Yesterday, I downloaded the "Desktop" version, then saw a comment that explained later how the "Alternate" iso was designed for quirky installations (e.g it was text mode). So, w/o burning Desktop I downloaded Alternate, burned it, and 30mins later was booting a new Dapper 6 on this laptop - and after adding a few packages thru Symantic, fixing my touchpad settings and swapping out the non-functional native BCM43xx driver for the ndiswapper supported version this box is now firing on all cylinders.
Now I just have to find some really good glue to re-affix my "LinuxBox" sticker to this laptop.
> does broadcom wireless work under the new AMD64 build? if i could get wireless to work quickly i would start using this OS.
I have Suse10.1 on the Presario V2630 which has the Broadcom 4318 mini pci - I'm using ndiswrapper plus the acer 64bit driver. Doesn't work under NEtworkmanager, NM *sees* the accesspoints but trying to connect it just times out - so on the commandline if I issue the command 'dhcpclient wlan0' I can connect.
Hopefully, after Dapper finally downloads (nobody is > 18kbs and I'm AT a university) I'll take it home and give it a try.