It's all over the place for a while, especially on/.. A ten second search would turn up enough stuff to study for some time. We still have our old REE mines as well as newly discovered ones. it's not that China has them all, but more that they can extract them cheaply due to labor and environmental costs as doing so usually involves lots of harsh solvents and left overs.
...is they essentially undid all of Peter's character development, erased his marriage, made him back to a 'single nerdy guy'...and then killed him off and replaced him.
No, that made him interesting to read again. There have been some good and some bad things done with the experimental writing of the Ultimate universe, but in general, I find it better and it's the only superhero series I actually read these days.
Except in McDonalds you'd get free drinks every 10 minutes.
Ya, you can only get free drinks about every 30 in the casino, but they have alcohol. If you start tipping the waitress, you could get that up to a drink every 10 minutes, but you'd be out about as much money as you are making at that point.
Sounds like it's pretty much the Ranch Story with aliens instead of the evil rancher.
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In other words, the store refused to trust me because I didn't have any debt.
No, they didn't trust you because there was no reason to trust you. You had no history of being trustworthy. Paying in cash all the time is no reason to believe you can manage your money enough to be trusted. They are not looking for debt, they are looking for a history of paying your debts. Get a credit card, often through your bank who can look at your financial history with them, buy something with it each month, and then pay it off each month. $10,000 a month or $10 a month, it doesn't matter. They are just looking to see if you make your monthly payments. With your first credit card, it may be hard to not get some charges. With a good credit history, you can usually get a card with better rates and charges and get rid of the worse one. If you aren't responsible enough to do that, then they are probably right that they don't want to trust you. Managing cash is easy. If you don't have it, you can't spend it. Being able to have a credit card and not run up a debt you can't pay back is somewhat harder and you simply haven't proven yourself yet.
Break with all capitalist parties! For a workers party that fights for a workers government!
I hear this a lot and read various papers on the subject that are handed out. Still, they seem all say "put us in charge so we can make a government for the workers!" Of course, they never actually get around to saying how they plan to do that. Their goals never seem to be stated farther than "put us in charge". Even here, I see the rally call, but no information. No plan. No party name or platform planks. No even a link. When they do speak, Socialists tend to have the same faults as the Tea Party. They say they have some sensible goal "government for the people, reduce government debt, etc" but when you ask how and they actually get around to telling you the details, the crazy comes out.
If we really had wanted to move forward, we should have set-out to create a permanent presence on the moon, not in LEO.
Setting out to create a permanent presence on the moon will most likely take research, engineering refinement, and testing, that would first have to happen at a permanent presence in LEO. You could skip LEO and go directly to the moon but it would be a much harder and more expensive way of doing things than going to LEO and then to the moon. Same goes for going to Mars. I've heard people say we should be concentrating on going to Mars instead of the ISS. The thing is that to go to Mars, we wouldn't be ignoring the ISS, but ramping up our investment in it an order of magnitude just to find out all the stuff we'll need to know before trying to go to Mars.
If Lady Gag-me-with-a-stick-a gets to use a pseudonym, what about the rest of us? Or are there different rules for the peasantry?
I know...I shouldn't ask rhetorical questions...
Dude. Just don't list your real name. If I learned anything from Facebook, it's to never use your real name. I'm now under a nickname that everybody who has known me since college will recognize (and probably know to search for). If I really need my actual name out there, I'll create another account and make sure that it looks good to people looking up my name off an application someplace.
Either that or Microsoft Office for Linux(tm) is coming soon!*
Makes me think of an interview I saw with Linus many years ago talking about what he was trying to do, which was make an alternative open OS. The interviewer asked him what he would think if Microsoft came out with an Office for Linux edition. Linus said "If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won."
Not true. We do have examples of interstellar travel as proof of concept.
We just have to look at any bit of matter that isn't hydrogen (and maybe some helium). It has all originated from some supernova outside our solar system. Since it is here, it must be possible to exchange matter, and a considerable amount, with other systems. The time scale of such trade may be quite long, but it does show that is possible on a grand scale.
What about SCSI? or RS-232? not as omnipresent as Ethernet but still more or less common. Happy birthday Ethernet, but you are not the only remaining dinosaur...
I don't think you'll find much SCSI I devices out there anymore. They've gone through more changes than ethernet. RS-232 devices are getting rarer. They might still be on most computers, but have been dropped off of lots of laptops. The server guys at my work are having to use old 800 MHz laptops to work on the servers because no newer laptops we've purchased have RS-232 ports.
What point I was trying to make is not that desktop computer will disappear, but that you can't dismiss items like the iPad or iPhone as a computer just because it doesn't act the way you think it should as a computer. It's the sci-fi future and most people are now walking around with a PC in their pocket (instead of strapped to their thigh or forearm as old sci-fi movies and tv series predicted).
Can you explain to me how it's a portable computer instead of an oversized phone? When would I need an iPad that I wouldn't be able to use a netbook?
Simple. You're a techie, perhaps and old techie set in you ways, and you just don't see where computers are going. You're the IBM greybeard that could never imagine a computer in every home because they took up too much space, too much power, and ran specialized programs that no average person could want. Your phone probably is a already a computer with a phone function that does way more than your first computer ever did and better. What it does may not be what you want to do, but you are the minority. I'm sure you didn't listen to Steve Jobs last speech where he said he was trying to get rid of the file system. That there is no file system that can be viewed and manipulated isn't preventing the iPhone or iPad from being a computer, it's a feature that they are working hard to achieve. When it comes down to it, most people don't want to manipulate all 30k of their mp3s into their own folders organized how they want. They just want to load them into a program that does all that for them and play them. If the program in question doesn't work they way they want, they'll get a different program to handle all that for them. The iPad could run some sort of CLI and do all the things that computers used to do, but the consumers don't want that. Face it, the UI is changing. The filesystem and guts of a computer are being hidden from people, but that doesn't mean it's not a computer.
For what you want, there will be special models, developer machines, pet projects for which, 99% of the world could care less about. Not saying I agree with it or like it, but that's how I see it. I was wondering when the iOS would crack and the demand for some sort of file system would force it to appear. However, after listening to Jobs speak, I know it won't. They will just put more effort into making sure all of that is handled in the background till it is not longer an issue.
In car allegory, computers are moving from type that anybody with knowledge could work on and change the oil to the type that do what they are meant to do and when something goes wrong you take it into the shop where they have the tools to read the errors in the chips log and do everything for you. For those hobbiests that really want to work on their own engines and change their own oil, it will be possible with the right tools, special brands, or old models, but those won't matter to the majority of the market.
Here's a suggestion (from a sysadmin with hiring power): spend less time getting worthless certifications and get a real job where you don't have to support consumer devices.
Good change of subject. True management material. Deflect the issue and attack!
Well, times have changed and business now wants functional web browsers, streaming video, and apps. Managers want to use their phone to get email, look at their company intranet, join a video conference, and log onto their work system to sign off on some orders. Doctors want the remote DICOM viewing app so they can make a judgement on something that used to require them driving into the hospital (and not always in time). Once all these new functions were offered by iOS, let alone Android, business found uses for them and started incorporating them into their workflow. Their data is safe on either since any call for security just means everything is run by VPN, RDC, or Citrix anyway. RIM is standing still in a moving world.
If we had another shot at drafting a Constitution, we might be able to do a better job than the Founding Fathers did.
I pity you if you really believe that. Think we could ever get something like the Bill of Rights out of today's political climate, let alone something better? Say what you want about the Founding Fathers. They were imperfect men living in imperfect times. Today's politics are chipping away at what we already have. A new constitution would all sorts of exemptions for things like "the children", the war on terror, etc and just be a patent leather boot stepping on people's faces over and over again.
Besides, every time you ask for a refill is another attempt to get you to buy an alcoholic beverage/meal/whatever other upcharge.
Unless flying Lufthanza, Air Canada or some others, and then alcohol is free too. However, on American planes, I've learned just to bring my own. Besides, it's cheaper to buy stuff in the airport terminal at airport terminal prices, and those little bottles of alcohol can be got at a size that will go in your little plastic bag through security.
They are not going to get many businesses jumping on board quickly, many companies are just upgrading from XP to Windows 7 while many are still running XP. Trying to rush a new release will just cause another Vista disaster.
It doesn't matter. Licensing will be the same and result in the same inflow of money. MS will claim everybody is installing Win8 because that's what MS is selling while the license will let the companies actually install the lower version of XP or 7.
Tell me about it. I hate calling tech support and getting people in Alabama.
People modded you Funny, but I have been there. Talking with somebody whose southern accent was so thick I couldn't understand them, and I'm from Oklahoma. The last thing I want is to call for help and end up speaking to Boomhauer.
Paging through all that stuff on an iPhone was too much, and now she looks at Facebook only through her laptop or iPad.
It was too hard to just open the Facebook app, click on her Inbox and never navigate away? The only way she'd ever see the status updates is if she clicked on the News Feed button. More likely the problem wasn't that those status updates were getting in the way but she couldn't help herself from not looking at them all whenever she got near them.
No, nobody breeds pets in SF. They're just moving a few stores that sell those pets to Oakland, Sausalito, and San Mateo in a symbolic gesture to gain publicity for PETA.
It's only a number and an IT'er worth his salt should be able to confirm that much.
Yes, I'm sure any IT'er worth his salt will confirm that, however many company policies handle things differently between dot updates and number changes. Vendor did something similar with a program we use at my work. If they had left it a dot update (as it originally was), we could have installed it without issue, but because they decided to also make it a new version number instead, company policy demanded that it had to go through review process, more extensive change control involving different departments, and could only be paid for out of certain budgets because it was technically "new software" rather than a patch to exiting software.
My young daughter and her friends have recently left Facebook. The reason? Because everyone's parents now use Facebook.
Bet they haven't left so much as just learned to create a new account that isn't named after their real name. That's what my adult friends did when their parents started using Facebook anyway.
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It's all over the place for a while, especially on /.. A ten second search would turn up enough stuff to study for some time. We still have our old REE mines as well as newly discovered ones. it's not that China has them all, but more that they can extract them cheaply due to labor and environmental costs as doing so usually involves lots of harsh solvents and left overs.
No, that made him interesting to read again. There have been some good and some bad things done with the experimental writing of the Ultimate universe, but in general, I find it better and it's the only superhero series I actually read these days.
Ya, you can only get free drinks about every 30 in the casino, but they have alcohol. If you start tipping the waitress, you could get that up to a drink every 10 minutes, but you'd be out about as much money as you are making at that point.
Sounds like it's pretty much the Ranch Story with aliens instead of the evil rancher.
No, they didn't trust you because there was no reason to trust you. You had no history of being trustworthy. Paying in cash all the time is no reason to believe you can manage your money enough to be trusted. They are not looking for debt, they are looking for a history of paying your debts. Get a credit card, often through your bank who can look at your financial history with them, buy something with it each month, and then pay it off each month. $10,000 a month or $10 a month, it doesn't matter. They are just looking to see if you make your monthly payments. With your first credit card, it may be hard to not get some charges. With a good credit history, you can usually get a card with better rates and charges and get rid of the worse one. If you aren't responsible enough to do that, then they are probably right that they don't want to trust you. Managing cash is easy. If you don't have it, you can't spend it. Being able to have a credit card and not run up a debt you can't pay back is somewhat harder and you simply haven't proven yourself yet.
I hear this a lot and read various papers on the subject that are handed out. Still, they seem all say "put us in charge so we can make a government for the workers!" Of course, they never actually get around to saying how they plan to do that. Their goals never seem to be stated farther than "put us in charge". Even here, I see the rally call, but no information. No plan. No party name or platform planks. No even a link. When they do speak, Socialists tend to have the same faults as the Tea Party. They say they have some sensible goal "government for the people, reduce government debt, etc" but when you ask how and they actually get around to telling you the details, the crazy comes out.
Setting out to create a permanent presence on the moon will most likely take research, engineering refinement, and testing, that would first have to happen at a permanent presence in LEO. You could skip LEO and go directly to the moon but it would be a much harder and more expensive way of doing things than going to LEO and then to the moon. Same goes for going to Mars. I've heard people say we should be concentrating on going to Mars instead of the ISS. The thing is that to go to Mars, we wouldn't be ignoring the ISS, but ramping up our investment in it an order of magnitude just to find out all the stuff we'll need to know before trying to go to Mars.
You mean like a guy that doesn't ever die and alchemical gold?
Dude. Just don't list your real name. If I learned anything from Facebook, it's to never use your real name. I'm now under a nickname that everybody who has known me since college will recognize (and probably know to search for). If I really need my actual name out there, I'll create another account and make sure that it looks good to people looking up my name off an application someplace.
Makes me think of an interview I saw with Linus many years ago talking about what he was trying to do, which was make an alternative open OS. The interviewer asked him what he would think if Microsoft came out with an Office for Linux edition. Linus said "If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won."
We just have to look at any bit of matter that isn't hydrogen (and maybe some helium). It has all originated from some supernova outside our solar system. Since it is here, it must be possible to exchange matter, and a considerable amount, with other systems. The time scale of such trade may be quite long, but it does show that is possible on a grand scale.
I don't think you'll find much SCSI I devices out there anymore. They've gone through more changes than ethernet. RS-232 devices are getting rarer. They might still be on most computers, but have been dropped off of lots of laptops. The server guys at my work are having to use old 800 MHz laptops to work on the servers because no newer laptops we've purchased have RS-232 ports.
What point I was trying to make is not that desktop computer will disappear, but that you can't dismiss items like the iPad or iPhone as a computer just because it doesn't act the way you think it should as a computer. It's the sci-fi future and most people are now walking around with a PC in their pocket (instead of strapped to their thigh or forearm as old sci-fi movies and tv series predicted).
Simple. You're a techie, perhaps and old techie set in you ways, and you just don't see where computers are going. You're the IBM greybeard that could never imagine a computer in every home because they took up too much space, too much power, and ran specialized programs that no average person could want. Your phone probably is a already a computer with a phone function that does way more than your first computer ever did and better. What it does may not be what you want to do, but you are the minority. I'm sure you didn't listen to Steve Jobs last speech where he said he was trying to get rid of the file system. That there is no file system that can be viewed and manipulated isn't preventing the iPhone or iPad from being a computer, it's a feature that they are working hard to achieve. When it comes down to it, most people don't want to manipulate all 30k of their mp3s into their own folders organized how they want. They just want to load them into a program that does all that for them and play them. If the program in question doesn't work they way they want, they'll get a different program to handle all that for them. The iPad could run some sort of CLI and do all the things that computers used to do, but the consumers don't want that. Face it, the UI is changing. The filesystem and guts of a computer are being hidden from people, but that doesn't mean it's not a computer.
For what you want, there will be special models, developer machines, pet projects for which, 99% of the world could care less about. Not saying I agree with it or like it, but that's how I see it. I was wondering when the iOS would crack and the demand for some sort of file system would force it to appear. However, after listening to Jobs speak, I know it won't. They will just put more effort into making sure all of that is handled in the background till it is not longer an issue.
In car allegory, computers are moving from type that anybody with knowledge could work on and change the oil to the type that do what they are meant to do and when something goes wrong you take it into the shop where they have the tools to read the errors in the chips log and do everything for you. For those hobbiests that really want to work on their own engines and change their own oil, it will be possible with the right tools, special brands, or old models, but those won't matter to the majority of the market.
Good change of subject. True management material. Deflect the issue and attack!
Well, times have changed and business now wants functional web browsers, streaming video, and apps. Managers want to use their phone to get email, look at their company intranet, join a video conference, and log onto their work system to sign off on some orders. Doctors want the remote DICOM viewing app so they can make a judgement on something that used to require them driving into the hospital (and not always in time). Once all these new functions were offered by iOS, let alone Android, business found uses for them and started incorporating them into their workflow. Their data is safe on either since any call for security just means everything is run by VPN, RDC, or Citrix anyway. RIM is standing still in a moving world.
I pity you if you really believe that. Think we could ever get something like the Bill of Rights out of today's political climate, let alone something better? Say what you want about the Founding Fathers. They were imperfect men living in imperfect times. Today's politics are chipping away at what we already have. A new constitution would all sorts of exemptions for things like "the children", the war on terror, etc and just be a patent leather boot stepping on people's faces over and over again.
Unless flying Lufthanza, Air Canada or some others, and then alcohol is free too. However, on American planes, I've learned just to bring my own. Besides, it's cheaper to buy stuff in the airport terminal at airport terminal prices, and those little bottles of alcohol can be got at a size that will go in your little plastic bag through security.
It doesn't matter. Licensing will be the same and result in the same inflow of money. MS will claim everybody is installing Win8 because that's what MS is selling while the license will let the companies actually install the lower version of XP or 7.
People modded you Funny, but I have been there. Talking with somebody whose southern accent was so thick I couldn't understand them, and I'm from Oklahoma. The last thing I want is to call for help and end up speaking to Boomhauer.
Hated the same way a junkie hates heroin.
It was too hard to just open the Facebook app, click on her Inbox and never navigate away? The only way she'd ever see the status updates is if she clicked on the News Feed button. More likely the problem wasn't that those status updates were getting in the way but she couldn't help herself from not looking at them all whenever she got near them.
No, nobody breeds pets in SF. They're just moving a few stores that sell those pets to Oakland, Sausalito, and San Mateo in a symbolic gesture to gain publicity for PETA.
Yes, I'm sure any IT'er worth his salt will confirm that, however many company policies handle things differently between dot updates and number changes. Vendor did something similar with a program we use at my work. If they had left it a dot update (as it originally was), we could have installed it without issue, but because they decided to also make it a new version number instead, company policy demanded that it had to go through review process, more extensive change control involving different departments, and could only be paid for out of certain budgets because it was technically "new software" rather than a patch to exiting software.
Bet they haven't left so much as just learned to create a new account that isn't named after their real name. That's what my adult friends did when their parents started using Facebook anyway.