Maybe you are a Libertarian, not a Republican. I think many conservatives are Libertarians and they either have never heard of the Libertarian Party or they vote "strategically" for Republicans (like Greens who vote for Democrats).
I prefer your interpretation to those who've labeled me as a utopian anarchist. However, I think you're assuming that I don't remember the party I joined long before it was hijacked by the big government bureaucratic wing. I do have more in common with the Reps. than I let on here. For instance, I do think there are several worthwhile programs that the government is a good construct for effecting. And I'm totally enamored with Democracy as the best form of government. My interpretation of why so many voters are apathetic is that the system is so ingeniously devised that it works well without much interference.
Probably more to the point, I love pithy debates with my colleagues. If I were to take up the Libertarian flag, it's obvious there's little value add to your party in my membership. The Republicans, on the other hand, can use all of my type of help they can get.
No, you're missing the point. Chasing ephemeral targets and crushing civil liberties are the new Repulican agenda. Apparently they were just sorta kidding around before, but now they're in high gear. Get ready to laugh your ass off if your a Democrat.
Military protocol forbids ordinary citizens and average government personnel from actually 'doing anything'. Unless there's an unlikely event like a plane getting hijacked by terrorists, in which case the aforementioned can apparently try to 'do something', but I wouldn't hold your breath.
The number one terrorist that needs to be on that list is Attorney General John Ashcroft. He's done more to undermine the Constitution than any foreign organization has ever dreamed of.
There's the sorry, sad, god's honest truth. Disgusting.
Uhmmm, so if your kids get blown up by Taoist fundamentalists, your gonna bake 'em cookies?
The thing that oughtta scare you is that we, as a country, are trying to keep people who have a voice, any damn crazy voice if you want to posit it in that fashion, to shut the fuck up. No more freedom for you fella, you used it up three paragraphs ago?
Call me nuts, but I want to know what these people are thinking. Hell, I don't agree with your intellectual endeavor here, but I'm interested in your point of view, cuz your the screwball who posts them. Good for you! Good for me! Free exchange of ideas may help one of us to realize why Nazi's and Christian burned books and people, for a subtle example.
Me, I'm clueless, and a fucking cow turd.//snip Gah, we live in a fucked up reality.//snip
Sure, but it's such a better fucked up reality than anyone else has...
Well, he isn't a web site, but if those sites are terrorist sites, what did Mr. Delay's remarks in Israel make him?
The solidarity between the United States and Israel is deeper than the various interests we share.
It is the solidarity of all people -- in all times -- who dream of and sacrifice for liberty.
It is the solidarity of Moses and Lincoln. Of Tiananmen Square and the Prague Spring.
I don't know about Prague, but the rest of 'em sorta ended on a down note there Tom, Sir.
Israel's liberation from Palestinian terror is an essential component of that victory.
And it's a liberation we are determined to secure -- not merely a paper-thin cease-fire.
False security is no security, and murderers who take 90-day vacations are still murderers.
The violence must stop.
Wow, to Tom! Let's see, we stop terrorist by blowing them up right? You must be advocating the annhilation of anyone who disagrees with this view point, especially if they're those rascally Palestinians?
God, please grant these, our lost legislative body, the clearness of mind to see that ROBBING THE CIVILIANS OF ANY NATIONALITY OF THEIR GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH is bad, damn naughty, and I can't just keep apologizing all over the place for them. Please lord, do smite them 'til they see they error of their, yeah, though possibly unintentional, in reality (where it all counts anyway Mighty One), satanically evil ways.
If TechTV had the absolute most access to Lamo in the hours before turning himself in, how could they have been left out of the FBI's threatening spree?
It's a clear cut case of selective stupidity. The bureau does this from time to time, but apparently nobody's to blame, or man enough to own up to errors in judgement.
Thank God Lamo wasn't at home in the back woods of Idaho, with a wife, a baby, a dog, and wasn't a legal firearms owner. The mere serving of subpeonas get's rather tricky with the ol' FBI then. Oh sure, he might make it, but it turns out to be hell on the family and dog. (With apologies to the fine, yet ferociously dangerous inhabitants of Ruby Ridge, ID, who probably don't find such banter the least bit comical.)
Are you telling me that you'll vote against Bush on the next election?
Are republicans even allowed to do that?
I appreciate your level of frivolity, but yes, that's precisely what I mean. Furthermore, I will not donate one red damn cent to the party until they get rid of the stupidity.
The Party of Politically Pragmatic Nihilists, it's funny, but I will start a new party of disaffected Republicans. Bribes will be accepted freely, and it will be based in Nevada so we can just skip the whole morality quandry and issue every candidate a slew of legally sanctioned prostitutes. (Okay, the bribes are gonna get someone arrested, that's probably out.)
I really would hate to leave the party, but so far, nobody has offered to take responsibility for a horrible mistake. What the hell good is a religious right if they can't make officails realize the need for character, courage, and moral rectitude?!
Not to be misleading, I'm not a charter member of the religous right...
As a 20 year member of the Republican party, this is just too kind:
An apology is too much to ask for. An unequivocal statement from the FBI and Ashcroft that this will not happen again and no subpoenas will be forthcoming--even if proper procedures are followed--is not.
An apology, immediate removal of all parties involved, and a pledge from my party to directly not only remove the mis-named 'Patriot Act', but to apologize en masse for having thought of such a dreadful, stupid, and intellectually void piece of legislation like this, is in immediate order.
Perhaps I'm too vague, but let me, as one of those responsible for voting said representatives into office, be the first to offer my humblest apology for what can only be termed a complete cluster fuck of an idea. In my own defense, they didn't dress like S.S. Wafen, and therefore fooled the shit out of me.
When the wanna-be storm troopers in my party finally realize that long standing members of good repute (great, there goes that) won't vote for invasions of civil liberties any more than we'd vote to re-institute slavery, apparently they'll be out of office. You Democrats will have to handle your own ranks, I've got enough trouble already.
History, read it and remember, you pathetic morons. Zieg Heil!
-- "I am not a crook!" -- Another paranoid Republican doomed to ignominy. Wait, where is that? Iowa? That'll do.
PS: No, I have no intention of stopping these types of diatribes until my elected officials at least pretend to want more freedom for all peoples, journalists, and innocent ISP's.
You hate Microsoft? Defend your hatred intelligently. The same way you cheer for M$? Microsoft enabled my Mom to be a part of this great Internet thing. That's way frickin' cool! Just kiddin'. Many of us have made a ton of $ by admin'ing MS products. I'm happy as heck they gave me an affordable entry into the amazing world of IT. But as you'll soon come to discover, when you're awakened @ 3:00 am. by an emergency page because the Exchange servers have just crashed for the 10th time this month, and 500 employees are coming into work in 4 hours, and CO. X will loose million$ in man hours, the MS OS can be down right hillarious! Good luck to you and your mom, they never fixed that memory leak in XP, so if she uses MS Office, the machine will slow to a crawl in a month. If she just surfs with IE, it might make it 'til Christmas. That'll be hillarious too! Welcome to our world:-)
I'll bet nobody advertised this perk when you plunked down two grand for a computer, huh? Get ready to be dazzled!!
Honestly, if you do any corporate work on computers, you come to discover that MS ain't the only game in town. If you're supremely lucky, some of your clients will make you try a free OS that mysteriosly runs like a bat outta hell. Good luck skippy! Enjoy the frivolity!
No mention of any real technical education or experience. I'm so sick of these so called "experts" who do not have any real training or education in computing.
I was a little skeptical of your assertion, until I searched 'Rob Enderle college'. Here's the ugly truth:
Rob earned a degree in marketing from Orange Coast College, a B.S. in business and an M.B.A. with an emphasis on market research, both from the California State University at Long Beach, and a C.M.A. Certificate from Pace University.
The CMA certificate is a little hazy, that can mean a truckload of things, none of which would apply to IT. Give that man a cigar! You sir are hopelessly correct in your accusation; +5 for insight. Bob is qualified to analyze the shit out of commercials, and could probably make sense of any balance sheet. But his background doesn't indicate he even knows where the 'any key' is. Sad and typical state of affairs in silicon valley, redmond, where ever.
As a qualifier, I read ~5-10k 'pages' per year of internet based information. So I have no qualms with reading from a computer interface.
However, I've loathed every ebook I've had to deal with. After several discussions with like minded geeks, we've come up with a plausible theory: It's all in the physical layout of a book, or the complete inability to mimic it. Even if you don't leave a marker in a book, some part of your head logs the approximate thickness of where you left off or where interesting information is, and you can easily scan your way back. Glare is also a big issue that no one has successfully dealt with. When was the last time you had to squint at a book in broad daylight? Highlighting and dog earing books is likewise quintessential to their utility.
When ebooks can successfully spoof these, they will actually be a considerable distance above books, because bindings are entirely annoying. Until then, dump 'em to plain ascii, give me a terminal with less on the shell, and maybe I'll buy it.
And please, stop giving us shit about proprietary ownership. You guys are all going broke anyway, and I can buy used books for a quarter @ the local garage sale. Sell 'em HTML formatted for a buck a pop, and I'll buy $400 bucks worth every year. (This would be a real break for me because I spend @ least $1,000 at brick and mortar yearly--so at least one dork will support it.)
As many others have pointed out RF emissions in the deregulated 2.4ghz range are no different then that used in baby monitors, DECT phones, etc. However, the widespread intentional use of RF for communication is a very recent phenomenon in human development.
Oh, for crying out loud, from this perspective, 'very recent phenomenon in human development' we should still be testing leaches for the efficacy of bleeding patients, much less using chemical compounds secreted by molds and fungi to fight bacterial infections. And I suppose all those diabetics should just die while we confirm the long term health implications of daily injections of insulin. And hey, that wheel thing seems to be smitten with wreckless folly!
Realistically a tremendous amount of ambient radiation in the environment could be mitigated by better managed spectrum allocation policies. But nowadays the public interest is a seconday concern to that of entrenched business and politics.
Realistically, you're following a pack of intellectual lemmings to the edge of a a cliff by ignoring the FCC certification for Part 15 devices, and failing to Do Simple Research or Read The Fine Manual.
The numbers, just in case you display intellectual curiosity (NOTE: 1 milliwatt =.001 Watt): 812.11 (WiFi): ~40 milliwatts. Cellphones Analog: 600 milliwatts. Digital: 200 milliwatts Mirowave seepage: 1 Watt Baby Monitor (with video): 1 Watt The radiation from WiFi equipment is a tenth of a cell phones, and is not operated while stuck in your ear.
Average Possible Exposure (weekly %): 812.11: 0.01 Cellphone: 0.1 Microwave:.01 Baby Monitor: 8-30
The only substantial worry so far is the baby monitor, but only if you make your child sleep with it:
Affected ranges fall off at a rate of 1/4-1/5 * r, or one quarter to one fifth of 'r', which means that the effective range to get any microwave leaking ~ 12 inches. Beyond that, effective radiative frequency falls to zero.
Body Size & MHz Resonance: Bodies act like receivers at certain frequencies. There is additional variability dependent on grounding as well: Average adult: 40 MHz Grounded: 70 MHz Average baby: 400 MHz Babies are significantly out of the 2.3 GHz range of resonance.
Unless a statistically significant # of babies who were monitored come down with cancer or some other bizarre medical problems, we have no scientific basis on which we can even begin a probably hypothesis.
If you want to be a luddite, by all means, please, have at it. But you can buy EMF/R handheld, battery powered digital guage for $100 that will tell you precisely how much 'radiation' you're being bombarded with. If you are genuinely concerned, buy one, keep good hourly readings of daily exposure levels and duration, and post it here so we can all learn what the potential threat level is. Otherwise you're just spouting baseless hypothetical crap. Oh wait, this is/., sorry man! I got carried away...
Come on! What are they going to say "Linux makes our filesystem look bad because we won't tell the developers the most efficient way to interface!"
Jeeez, give me a break! So the point that the test will be obviously meaningless doesn't strike you as good enough reason not to bother? How about the fact that Torvalds doesn't work that way, there's a goofy chivalry he reeks of like cheap aftershave, and it's so strong that the kernel minions are pickled with it.
Even assuming my assertion's are total crap, the link provided has the scripts for running the tests. Download 'em, set up the file systems, patch the NTFS write cabability for your kernel, and plow through 'em. Just don't forget to post the results, I'd like to see what you come up with! If you do, I'll do the same on my cheap a$$ed 1.3 Duron.5 gig RAM 7600 RPM WD HD to help nail down the/any HW deviation.
PS: I sincerely doubt there's a chance that the scripts will even work on that setup, but if you succeed, I'll give it a whirl.
On a server, you're never going to USE the GUI, so it's presense in the kernel only reduces stability in the event that Administrator on the console or the remote RDP session fucks something up.
I'm gonna agree to disagree with you here because there were so many things wrong with the 4.0 server line that we had to create elaborate hacks to circumvent several severe, yet subtle design flaws. That many of these errors would later be found to have a have an unexceptable level of criticalality was directly related to the fact that most of the services were built on inhereted functionality stemming from the GUI libs. Why re-invent the wheel, right? In this case that cliche turns out to be wrong, but by the time DEV was coming to this realization, 2k was already in the can and being patched. As I said, the root causes were neither obvious nor trivial. And now you've invested in millions of lines of code. So how do you fix it?
... now I hear this rumor that Longhorn's moving the GUI back out of the kernel. Any truth to that?
As a hypotheticaly blind fool stabbing in the abyss, let me take a guess...BINGO! Give that man a Cupie Doll! Of course, bringing it off is dam near impossible because of the existing infrastructure. Longhorn will continue to be one very long haul.
'Just my ignorant opinion. Don't be suprised if they release MS certified CLI server next week.
(^;
I was just BS'ing with the Big Blue Ballz, and they've been actively developing JFS for linux for quite a while. Why? Check here:
http://mozillaquest.com/Linux03/ScoSource-24-Cop yr ights_Story01.html
Or: "SCO-Caldera also admits that it does not own the copyrights for the JFS, RCU, and NUMA software code that IBM contributed to the Linux kernel -- or other IBM-developed AIX code that IBM contributed to the Linux kernel."
Sorry, I don't have cohorts @ SGI, or I'd try to take issue with XFS ownership as well. SCO's 'ownership' will surely relegate it to a meaningless death.
I hate to point out the blaringly obvious, but who did the test? Linux kernel group. Can linux be run native on MS FS's? Nope. Ergo, any test you're going to run cannot be relevant in a direct comparison.
Additionally, any access to MS FS's from a linux OS is reverse engineered, certainly not MS certified/sanctified, and would therefore be horribly unfair to them.
The more interesting question to ask here is why doesn't MS have these types of tests published? Where are the comparisons on database, file/web/app servers? They do them, but you'll never see them posted for rather obvious reasons. (If you have to ask, then you should consider how much of a deficit running the gui from kernel space inflicts on a server right off the top.)
I've been asked for help over the past couple of years for by a small business contractor, but have always bumped up against the OpenOffice translation problem, so just helped with with the File/Print server on RH.
Finally, I said to hell with MS in any new office installs unless they don't want my help. Amazingly, OpenOffice works like hell on wheels when it isn't having to translate screwed up table formats, etc., and the contractor is able to lower his price for desktop support by a third because of far fewer infected/BSD'd machines. (Admittedly, he's really scoring here because his daily calls dropped by more than 70% at the new sites, and emergency calls stopped altogether.)
I guess the moral of the story is, make a clean break from MS whenever possible to realize the greatest efficiency increase, period.
BTW, none of those linux servers / desktops have ever lost any data or 'blue screened'. Newest versions of Mozilla seem to be THE exception, and the users can handle these problems ~90% of the time.
For 15k, buy @ least a 20" telescope with 0 chromatic aberration, and send granma a picture of the ring nebulae big enough for her to make a hat out of. Screw kiddie pictures!
Or how about we treat this like a project in the REAL world and grant 2.15 hrs billable from inception to implementation, give the geeks $500, a deadline that's already two weeks late, and wait for the miracles. It's sadistic as hell, but I actually prefer my projects this way. If it bombs, hey, tough shit, failure was imminent. If it works, you're a freakin' genius, and you ARE a genius, right? No pressure there bitch.
That's ridiculous. You base your entire argument on the erroneous idea that you are already selling everything at cost and not making a profit.
That's curious, I never show a profit if it can be avoided! I own the business, as CEO my 'paycheck' and payment for production seems to be greatly affected by taxes, not so much my profit margin. I'm drawing a basic 101 picture so anyone can follow along, which is obviously my mistake here.
With fewer than 200 employees and no public debt, it's clear my particular situation doesn't apply to a model which takes the entire product supply as a model. I will concede your assertion may well be correct for scales of economy I have no experience with, and thank you for the link and constructive criticism.
Kommando Chris PS: It's all infinitely more complicated than I've presented. From the linked example it should be obvious that as taxes are raised, and consumers buy less if the price per unit increases, my relative amount of taxes per unit increases as unit sales decrease. So now I have to expend more on accountant and lawyer hours to try to defray higher taxation (something that doesn't seem to be included in the economy scale model), which is a calculated risk and siphons more of the 'profit' to non productive areas, away from base unit production, advertising, etc. The model would be completely correct if I had a pile of extra 'profit' laying around or sales were increasing enough to compensate for the increase. Particularly in a difficult market, my increased taxation is wholly unwelcomed.
Well, for starters, dynamite doesn't throw radiactive particles everywhere. Someone stealing a truckload of dynamite is not as worrying as someone stealing a thermonuclear weapon.
Understandably, you're confusing the older, initial tests of the atom/hydrogen bombs with newer versions that don't 'throw radioactive particles everywhere' to which Teller would've been referring. And 'logical extension' doesn't equal 'exactly parallel to' in this case. Obviously you're not going to give five guys in hard hats a blasting cap and 10 Kg's of plutonium in a pickup truck and say "go to it fellers!", that's absurd.
I am a Democratic business owner, and in the real world, this sound byte plays out in tragic fashion.
When a tax on a good is increased, it is rarely the case that the full cost of that tax is passed on to the consumer.
Apparently your economics prof., and perhaps yourself don't operate businesses. In my admittedly subjective experience it gets passed to consumers, though you are correct if your inference is that business men have to find creative ways to pass it on, because we sure as hell don't operate at a loss for long. But this process is never a virtuous cycle. Here's why:
Immediately I have to cut down on areas that don't directly contribute to product manufacture, like research and devolpment, or better yet, move it off shore where I can do it for less.
Then I have to analyze the cost of moving manufacturing off shore while increasing employee output so I can lay more people off while producing the same #'s.
Then I have to look at using cheaper components, whereby I can speed up my TTF, or Time To Failure on each unit, above warranty but well below where it used to be.
Finally, once I've maximized my business 'efficiency', I get drunk and try to forget that I'm supporting foreign governments with policies I abhor, turning out crap for my customers, and generally get ready to declare bankruptcy the next time some idiot listens to his favorite economist.
Conversely, if the government assists in increasing my efficiency through better educated employees, helps me sell more products and/or lowers my taxes, I can expand R&D, hire more employees, more products and employees equates to more taxes to government coffers for needed infrastructure and social programs, and production dollars stay within the country for at least one more generation of spending, which enriches the country and my employees paychecks. It's certainly not instant or perfect, but it's far more effecient and virtuous than directly raising taxes on my corporation.
Except, on closer inspection, he was also somewhat crazy. He thought nuclear bombs should be used for stuff like earthmoving.
Except, on even closer inspection, using blast yields that cost millions to billions of dollars to replicate with standard construction methods is perhaps only slightly eccentric. And on a philosophical level, applying destructive forces for constructive ends bring this right back around to just being logically brilliant. That anyone finds this to be anything other than a logical extension of using dynamite to create tunnels or mine ore is a little perplexing.
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Maybe you are a Libertarian, not a Republican. I think many conservatives are Libertarians and they either have never heard of the Libertarian Party or they vote "strategically" for Republicans (like Greens who vote for Democrats).
I prefer your interpretation to those who've labeled me as a utopian anarchist.
However, I think you're assuming that I don't remember the party I joined long before it was hijacked by the big government bureaucratic wing. I do have more in common with the Reps. than I let on here. For instance, I do think there are several worthwhile programs that the government is a good construct for effecting. And I'm totally enamored with Democracy as the best form of government. My interpretation of why so many voters are apathetic is that the system is so ingeniously devised that it works well without much interference.
Probably more to the point, I love pithy debates with my colleagues. If I were to take up the Libertarian flag, it's obvious there's little value add to your party in my membership. The Republicans, on the other hand, can use all of my type of help they can get.
No, you're missing the point. Chasing ephemeral targets and crushing civil liberties are the new Repulican agenda. Apparently they were just sorta kidding around before, but now they're in high gear. Get ready to laugh your ass off if your a Democrat.
Military protocol forbids ordinary citizens and average government personnel from actually 'doing anything'. Unless there's an unlikely event like a plane getting hijacked by terrorists, in which case the aforementioned can apparently try to 'do something', but I wouldn't hold your breath.
Wow, you must be RIGHT!
I declare un-American activities on Rumsfeld! (Do it to them before they do it on you my man.)
Slash-Qaeda: Where the forums have more jihad.
Slash-Thermo-Nuclear-Strike-Force: Where the glass glows greener.
The number one terrorist that needs to be on that list is Attorney General John Ashcroft. He's done more to undermine the Constitution than any foreign organization has ever dreamed of.
There's the sorry, sad, god's honest truth. Disgusting.
Uhmmm, so if your kids get blown up by Taoist fundamentalists, your gonna bake 'em cookies?
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The thing that oughtta scare you is that we, as a country, are trying to keep people who have a voice, any damn crazy voice if you want to posit it in that fashion, to shut the fuck up. No more freedom for you fella, you used it up three paragraphs ago?
Call me nuts, but I want to know what these people are thinking. Hell, I don't agree with your intellectual endeavor here, but I'm interested in your point of view, cuz your the screwball who posts them. Good for you! Good for me! Free exchange of ideas may help one of us to realize why Nazi's and Christian burned books and people, for a subtle example.
Me, I'm clueless, and a fucking cow turd.
Gah, we live in a fucked up reality.
Sure, but it's such a better fucked up reality than anyone else has...
Well, he isn't a web site, but if those sites are terrorist sites, what did Mr. Delay's remarks in Israel make him?
The solidarity between the United States and Israel is deeper than the various interests we share.
It is the solidarity of all people -- in all times -- who dream of and sacrifice for liberty. It is the solidarity of Moses and Lincoln. Of Tiananmen Square and the Prague Spring.
I don't know about Prague, but the rest of 'em sorta ended on a down note there Tom, Sir.
Israel's liberation from Palestinian terror is an essential component of that victory. And it's a liberation we are determined to secure -- not merely a paper-thin cease-fire. False security is no security, and murderers who take 90-day vacations are still murderers. The violence must stop.
Wow, to Tom! Let's see, we stop terrorist by blowing them up right? You must be advocating the annhilation of anyone who disagrees with this view point, especially if they're those rascally Palestinians?
God, please grant these, our lost legislative body, the clearness of mind to see that ROBBING THE CIVILIANS OF ANY NATIONALITY OF THEIR GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH is bad, damn naughty, and I can't just keep apologizing all over the place for them. Please lord, do smite them 'til they see they error of their, yeah, though possibly unintentional, in reality (where it all counts anyway Mighty One), satanically evil ways.
Thanks in advance!!
If President Bush gets re-elected with this kind of pseudo security still on the books, I'll finance the revolution.
If TechTV had the absolute most access to Lamo in the hours before turning himself in, how could they have been left out of the FBI's threatening spree?
It's a clear cut case of selective stupidity. The bureau does this from time to time, but apparently nobody's to blame, or man enough to own up to errors in judgement.
Thank God Lamo wasn't at home in the back woods of Idaho, with a wife, a baby, a dog, and wasn't a legal firearms owner. The mere serving of subpeonas get's rather tricky with the ol' FBI then. Oh sure, he might make it, but it turns out to be hell on the family and dog. (With apologies to the fine, yet ferociously dangerous inhabitants of Ruby Ridge, ID, who probably don't find such banter the least bit comical.)
Are you telling me that you'll vote against Bush on the next election? Are republicans even allowed to do that?
I appreciate your level of frivolity, but yes, that's precisely what I mean. Furthermore, I will not donate one red damn cent to the party until they get rid of the stupidity.
The Party of Politically Pragmatic Nihilists, it's funny, but I will start a new party of disaffected Republicans. Bribes will be accepted freely, and it will be based in Nevada so we can just skip the whole morality quandry and issue every candidate a slew of legally sanctioned prostitutes. (Okay, the bribes are gonna get someone arrested, that's probably out.)
I really would hate to leave the party, but so far, nobody has offered to take responsibility for a horrible mistake. What the hell good is a religious right if they can't make officails realize the need for character, courage, and moral rectitude?!
Not to be misleading, I'm not a charter member of the religous right...
As a 20 year member of the Republican party, this is just too kind:
An apology is too much to ask for. An unequivocal statement from the FBI and Ashcroft that this will not happen again and no subpoenas will be forthcoming--even if proper procedures are followed--is not.
An apology, immediate removal of all parties involved, and a pledge from my party to directly not only remove the mis-named 'Patriot Act', but to apologize en masse for having thought of such a dreadful, stupid, and intellectually void piece of legislation like this, is in immediate order.
Perhaps I'm too vague, but let me, as one of those responsible for voting said representatives into office, be the first to offer my humblest apology for what can only be termed a complete cluster fuck of an idea. In my own defense, they didn't dress like S.S. Wafen, and therefore fooled the shit out of me.
When the wanna-be storm troopers in my party finally realize that long standing members of good repute (great, there goes that) won't vote for invasions of civil liberties any more than we'd vote to re-institute slavery, apparently they'll be out of office. You Democrats will have to handle your own ranks, I've got enough trouble already.
History, read it and remember, you pathetic morons. Zieg Heil!
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"I am not a crook!" -- Another paranoid Republican doomed to ignominy. Wait, where is that? Iowa? That'll do.
PS: No, I have no intention of stopping these types of diatribes until my elected officials at least pretend to want more freedom for all peoples, journalists, and innocent ISP's.
You hate Microsoft? Defend your hatred intelligently. :-)
The same way you cheer for M$?
Microsoft enabled my Mom to be a part of this great Internet thing. That's way frickin' cool!
Just kiddin'. Many of us have made a ton of $ by admin'ing MS products. I'm happy as heck they gave me an affordable entry into the amazing world of IT.
But as you'll soon come to discover, when you're awakened @ 3:00 am. by an emergency page because the Exchange servers have just crashed for the 10th time this month, and 500 employees are coming into work in 4 hours, and CO. X will loose million$ in man hours, the MS OS can be down right hillarious!
Good luck to you and your mom, they never fixed that memory leak in XP, so if she uses MS Office, the machine will slow to a crawl in a month. If she just surfs with IE, it might make it 'til Christmas. That'll be hillarious too!
Welcome to our world
I'll bet nobody advertised this perk when you plunked down two grand for a computer, huh? Get ready to be dazzled!!
Honestly, if you do any corporate work on computers, you come to discover that MS ain't the only game in town. If you're supremely lucky, some of your clients will make you try a free OS that mysteriosly runs like a bat outta hell. Good luck skippy! Enjoy the frivolity!
No mention of any real technical education or experience. I'm so sick of these so called "experts" who do not have any real training or education in computing.
I was a little skeptical of your assertion, until I searched 'Rob Enderle college'. Here's the ugly truth:
Rob earned a degree in marketing from Orange Coast College, a B.S. in business and an M.B.A. with an emphasis on market research, both from the California State University at Long Beach, and a C.M.A. Certificate from Pace University.
The CMA certificate is a little hazy, that can mean a truckload of things, none of which would apply to IT. Give that man a cigar! You sir are hopelessly correct in your accusation; +5 for insight. Bob is qualified to analyze the shit out of commercials, and could probably make sense of any balance sheet. But his background doesn't indicate he even knows where the 'any key' is. Sad and typical state of affairs in silicon valley, redmond, where ever.
As a qualifier, I read ~5-10k 'pages' per year of internet based information. So I have no qualms with reading from a computer interface.
However, I've loathed every ebook I've had to deal with. After several discussions with like minded geeks, we've come up with a plausible theory: It's all in the physical layout of a book, or the complete inability to mimic it. Even if you don't leave a marker in a book, some part of your head logs the approximate thickness of where you left off or where interesting information is, and you can easily scan your way back. Glare is also a big issue that no one has successfully dealt with. When was the last time you had to squint at a book in broad daylight? Highlighting and dog earing books is likewise quintessential to their utility.
When ebooks can successfully spoof these, they will actually be a considerable distance above books, because bindings are entirely annoying. Until then, dump 'em to plain ascii, give me a terminal with less on the shell, and maybe I'll buy it.
And please, stop giving us shit about proprietary ownership. You guys are all going broke anyway, and I can buy used books for a quarter @ the local garage sale. Sell 'em HTML formatted for a buck a pop, and I'll buy $400 bucks worth every year. (This would be a real break for me because I spend @ least $1,000 at brick and mortar yearly--so at least one dork will support it.)
As many others have pointed out RF emissions in the deregulated 2.4ghz range are no different then that used in baby monitors, DECT phones, etc. However, the widespread intentional use of RF for communication is a very recent phenomenon in human development.
.001 Watt):
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/., sorry man! I got carried away...
Oh, for crying out loud, from this perspective, 'very recent phenomenon in human development' we should still be testing leaches for the efficacy of bleeding patients, much less using chemical compounds secreted by molds and fungi to fight bacterial infections. And I suppose all those diabetics should just die while we confirm the long term health implications of daily injections of insulin. And hey, that wheel thing seems to be smitten with wreckless folly!
Realistically a tremendous amount of ambient radiation in the environment could be mitigated by better managed spectrum allocation policies. But nowadays the public interest is a seconday concern to that of entrenched business and politics.
Realistically, you're following a pack of intellectual lemmings to the edge of a a cliff by ignoring the FCC certification for Part 15 devices, and failing to Do Simple Research or Read The Fine Manual.
The numbers, just in case you display intellectual curiosity (NOTE: 1 milliwatt =
812.11 (WiFi): ~40 milliwatts.
Cellphones Analog: 600 milliwatts. Digital: 200 milliwatts
Mirowave seepage: 1 Watt
Baby Monitor (with video): 1 Watt
The radiation from WiFi equipment is a tenth of a cell phones, and is not operated while stuck in your ear.
Average Possible Exposure (weekly %):
812.11: 0.01
Cellphone: 0.1
Microwave:
Baby Monitor: 8-30
The only substantial worry so far is the baby monitor, but only if you make your child sleep with it:
Affected ranges fall off at a rate of 1/4-1/5 * r, or one quarter to one fifth of 'r', which means that the effective range to get any microwave leaking ~ 12 inches. Beyond that, effective radiative frequency falls to zero.
Body Size & MHz Resonance: Bodies act like receivers at certain frequencies. There is additional variability dependent on grounding as well:
Average adult: 40 MHz Grounded: 70 MHz
Average baby: 400 MHz
Babies are significantly out of the 2.3 GHz range of resonance.
Unless a statistically significant # of babies who were monitored come down with cancer or some other bizarre medical problems, we have no scientific basis on which we can even begin a probably hypothesis.
If you want to be a luddite, by all means, please, have at it. But you can buy EMF/R handheld, battery powered digital guage for $100 that will tell you precisely how much 'radiation' you're being bombarded with. If you are genuinely concerned, buy one, keep good hourly readings of daily exposure levels and duration, and post it here so we can all learn what the potential threat level is. Otherwise you're just spouting baseless hypothetical crap. Oh wait, this is
Come on! What are they going to say "Linux makes our filesystem look bad because we won't tell the developers the most efficient way to interface!"
.5 gig RAM 7600 RPM WD HD to help nail down the/any HW deviation.
Jeeez, give me a break! So the point that the test will be obviously meaningless doesn't strike you as good enough reason not to bother? How about the fact that Torvalds doesn't work that way, there's a goofy chivalry he reeks of like cheap aftershave, and it's so strong that the kernel minions are pickled with it.
Even assuming my assertion's are total crap, the link provided has the scripts for running the tests. Download 'em, set up the file systems, patch the NTFS write cabability for your kernel, and plow through 'em. Just don't forget to post the results, I'd like to see what you come up with! If you do, I'll do the same on my cheap a$$ed 1.3 Duron
PS: I sincerely doubt there's a chance that the scripts will even work on that setup, but if you succeed, I'll give it a whirl.
On a server, you're never going to USE the GUI, so it's presense in the kernel only reduces stability in the event that Administrator on the console or the remote RDP session fucks something up.
... now I hear this rumor that Longhorn's moving the GUI back out of the kernel. Any truth to that?
I'm gonna agree to disagree with you here because there were so many things wrong with the 4.0 server line that we had to create elaborate hacks to circumvent several severe, yet subtle design flaws. That many of these errors would later be found to have a have an unexceptable level of criticalality was directly related to the fact that most of the services were built on inhereted functionality stemming from the GUI libs. Why re-invent the wheel, right? In this case that cliche turns out to be wrong, but by the time DEV was coming to this realization, 2k was already in the can and being patched. As I said, the root causes were neither obvious nor trivial. And now you've invested in millions of lines of code. So how do you fix it?
As a hypotheticaly blind fool stabbing in the abyss, let me take a guess...BINGO! Give that man a Cupie Doll! Of course, bringing it off is dam near impossible because of the existing infrastructure. Longhorn will continue to be one very long haul.
'Just my ignorant opinion. Don't be suprised if they release MS certified CLI server next week. (^;
I was just BS'ing with the Big Blue Ballz, and they've been actively developing JFS for linux for quite a while. Why? Check here:
p yr ights_Story01.html
http://mozillaquest.com/Linux03/ScoSource-24-Co
Or: "SCO-Caldera also admits that it does not own the copyrights for the JFS, RCU, and NUMA software code that IBM contributed to the Linux kernel -- or other IBM-developed AIX code that IBM contributed to the Linux kernel."
Sorry, I don't have cohorts @ SGI, or I'd try to take issue with XFS ownership as well. SCO's 'ownership' will surely relegate it to a meaningless death.
I hate to point out the blaringly obvious, but who did the test? Linux kernel group. Can linux be run native on MS FS's? Nope. Ergo, any test you're going to run cannot be relevant in a direct comparison.
Additionally, any access to MS FS's from a linux OS is reverse engineered, certainly not MS certified/sanctified, and would therefore be horribly unfair to them.
The more interesting question to ask here is why doesn't MS have these types of tests published? Where are the comparisons on database, file/web/app servers? They do them, but you'll never see them posted for rather obvious reasons. (If you have to ask, then you should consider how much of a deficit running the gui from kernel space inflicts on a server right off the top.)
This innovation requires an immediate patent, with a minimum per seat fee of $10^6. Perhaps we should support strategic closed source patents...
I've been asked for help over the past couple of years for by a small business contractor, but have always bumped up against the OpenOffice translation problem, so just helped with with the File/Print server on RH.
Finally, I said to hell with MS in any new office installs unless they don't want my help. Amazingly, OpenOffice works like hell on wheels when it isn't having to translate screwed up table formats, etc., and the contractor is able to lower his price for desktop support by a third because of far fewer infected/BSD'd machines. (Admittedly, he's really scoring here because his daily calls dropped by more than 70% at the new sites, and emergency calls stopped altogether.)
I guess the moral of the story is, make a clean break from MS whenever possible to realize the greatest efficiency increase, period.
BTW, none of those linux servers / desktops have ever lost any data or 'blue screened'. Newest versions of Mozilla seem to be THE exception, and the users can handle these problems ~90% of the time.
For 15k, buy @ least a 20" telescope with 0 chromatic aberration, and send granma a picture of the ring nebulae big enough for her to make a hat out of. Screw kiddie pictures!
Or how about we treat this like a project in the REAL world and grant 2.15 hrs billable from inception to implementation, give the geeks $500, a deadline that's already two weeks late, and wait for the miracles. It's sadistic as hell, but I actually prefer my projects this way. If it bombs, hey, tough shit, failure was imminent. If it works, you're a freakin' genius, and you ARE a genius, right? No pressure there bitch.
That's ridiculous. You base your entire argument on the erroneous idea that you are already selling everything at cost and not making a profit.
That's curious, I never show a profit if it can be avoided! I own the business, as CEO my 'paycheck' and payment for production seems to be greatly affected by taxes, not so much my profit margin. I'm drawing a basic 101 picture so anyone can follow along, which is obviously my mistake here.
With fewer than 200 employees and no public debt, it's clear my particular situation doesn't apply to a model which takes the entire product supply as a model. I will concede your assertion may well be correct for scales of economy I have no experience with, and thank you for the link and constructive criticism.
Kommando Chris
PS: It's all infinitely more complicated than I've presented. From the linked example it should be obvious that as taxes are raised, and consumers buy less if the price per unit increases, my relative amount of taxes per unit increases as unit sales decrease. So now I have to expend more on accountant and lawyer hours to try to defray higher taxation (something that doesn't seem to be included in the economy scale model), which is a calculated risk and siphons more of the 'profit' to non productive areas, away from base unit production, advertising, etc.
The model would be completely correct if I had a pile of extra 'profit' laying around or sales were increasing enough to compensate for the increase. Particularly in a difficult market, my increased taxation is wholly unwelcomed.
Well, for starters, dynamite doesn't throw radiactive particles everywhere. Someone stealing a truckload of dynamite is not as worrying as someone stealing a thermonuclear weapon.
Understandably, you're confusing the older, initial tests of the atom/hydrogen bombs with newer versions that don't 'throw radioactive particles everywhere' to which Teller would've been referring. And 'logical extension' doesn't equal 'exactly parallel to' in this case. Obviously you're not going to give five guys in hard hats a blasting cap and 10 Kg's of plutonium in a pickup truck and say "go to it fellers!", that's absurd.
When a tax on a good is increased, it is rarely the case that the full cost of that tax is passed on to the consumer.
Apparently your economics prof., and perhaps yourself don't operate businesses. In my admittedly subjective experience it gets passed to consumers, though you are correct if your inference is that business men have to find creative ways to pass it on, because we sure as hell don't operate at a loss for long. But this process is never a virtuous cycle. Here's why:
Immediately I have to cut down on areas that don't directly contribute to product manufacture, like research and devolpment, or better yet, move it off shore where I can do it for less.
Then I have to analyze the cost of moving manufacturing off shore while increasing employee output so I can lay more people off while producing the same #'s.
Then I have to look at using cheaper components, whereby I can speed up my TTF, or Time To Failure on each unit, above warranty but well below where it used to be.
Finally, once I've maximized my business 'efficiency', I get drunk and try to forget that I'm supporting foreign governments with policies I abhor, turning out crap for my customers, and generally get ready to declare bankruptcy the next time some idiot listens to his favorite economist.
Conversely, if the government assists in increasing my efficiency through better educated employees, helps me sell more products and/or lowers my taxes, I can expand R&D, hire more employees, more products and employees equates to more taxes to government coffers for needed infrastructure and social programs, and production dollars stay within the country for at least one more generation of spending, which enriches the country and my employees paychecks. It's certainly not instant or perfect, but it's far more effecient and virtuous than directly raising taxes on my corporation.
Except, on closer inspection, he was also somewhat crazy. He thought nuclear bombs should be used for stuff like earthmoving.
Except, on even closer inspection, using blast yields that cost millions to billions of dollars to replicate with standard construction methods is perhaps only slightly eccentric. And on a philosophical level, applying destructive forces for constructive ends bring this right back around to just being logically brilliant. That anyone finds this to be anything other than a logical extension of using dynamite to create tunnels or mine ore is a little perplexing.