This Mr. Cranky review of Battlefield Earth pretty much sums it up as well: "Battlefield Earth is one of the worst films ever made. It's just that simple."
Nothing more then rich, liberal, elite, yuppy, eurotrash, scumbags. Which is exactly why my 2002 325 is getting one as soon as my dealer has them in stock!
With or without an integrated iPod, my 2003 325xi would be heartbroken to be thought of as anything but Libertarian.
True, but unlike NJ which has the same law, Oregon gas prices are about $0.20 higher than the national average. That is not to say there's necessarily a connection between the law and the prices; I hear California has high prices too. Crap what was I talking about again?
Please do us all (and especially me) a favor and travel back in time to 1997 so you can lecture my boss on why he should be thinking of avoiding vendor lock-in with regards to the scripting language of his soon-to-exist website, instead of funding, warehouse logistics, feasibility, market research, etc.
This is pretty typical rubbish out of the mouths of people who don't live in reality. Licensing is expensive, but not expensive enough to cause major cuts in other parts of the budget.
Is it my company's fault for not using *nix? Of course. I did know you were going to say that, and I couldn't pre-empt it enough in my original post because you said it anyway. But the company was not founded by technologists - it was founded by two guys in 1997 who wanted to sell stuff online and had a little coding experience.
I reiterate. At this point, it's too difficult to rewrite everything.
I'll tell you why because I work at such a company. The decision to use Microsoft products was made years ago (around 1997), and since then there has been so much ASP written, so much time put into MS-SQL stored procedures and infrastructure, so many internal processes and scripts that are custom-tailored to the Windows installations, that trying to take it all out and replace it with *nix would cost more time and money than the company can afford.
If you are still in school, or if you work in a small lab, or if you do ANYTHING except work in the real world, you probably think idiocy and stubbornness are the only things preventing the world from running *nix. At this company, and at many others I presume, at this point it makes more sense to pay a little more for the extra TCO of running and upgrading Windows than to try and rewrite the entire e-commerce website and change all internal processes. The bosses here aren't stupid - they know *nix is better, but if you even suggested the place should switch wholesale off Microsoft you'd get eye-rolling galore. It's a pipe dream.
The transition doesn't make business sense, even if the end result would.
I took Dr. Rubin's class in my final semester at Hopkins. He's an evoting expert indeed; his primary field of research is the development of secure and trustworthy electronic voting methodologies. He understands network security and trust issues and how they relate to electronic voting.
This is a much more complicated issue than most/. trolls believe. I've written on this subject before; see the following link:
Oh, ok. I must have misread, thought you arrived in '99 like me. Anyways, you should make a pilgrimage back if you haven't already... all that cash from Bloomberg and friends has literally transformed the campus. All the concrete walkways have been replaced with red brick. The space between Garland Hall and San Martin Drive now has two huge new buildings: Clark Hall, the mecca of BME, and Hodson Hall, an uber-high-tech hall with nothing but kickass lecture halls. They're currently building a new chemistry building between the Hopkins Club and Bloomberg Hall. Garland parking lot has been repaved, and they built a HUGE extension onto the Athletic Center, including a new pool, fitness center, and locker rooms. And, as you probably knew, the bottom floor of the Homewood (which was torn down and completely rebuilt as awesome new sophomore+ housing) is now a Ruby Tuesdays, a Blimpie, a hair salon and a Kinko's. Jerry (the guy who owns PJ's) bought up that abandoned house on the corner of St. Paul & 33rd and turned it into a Subway. Dr. Masson (the CSF guy) started up the JHU Information Security Institute (JHUISI) and took over the 4th floor of the Wyman Park Medical Center for their offices. The breezeway has been completely redone (hard to explain what it looks like), E-Level is closed, there's no drinking on the beach anymore, they finally got online registration working, JHUNIX doesn't exist anymore, Brody's still overpaid, they held Spring Fair in the Garland parking lot for 2 years and when they finally brought it back to the quads this year, all the vendors had given up and it basically sucked major ass but I got drunk anyway. Oh and the school bought up the Eastern High School building across from the rubble of Memorial Stadium and moved all the HITS/telecom/networking operations over there. Not sure if I forgot anything... maybe someone else could chime in:)
Holy cow you guys are old. Ok I just graduated, here's the deal. Information systems used to be in the basement of Garland, but thats all gone now; JHU bought up Eastern High School (across from what used to be Memorial Stadium) and all the servers and stuff are over there. The basement of Garland now has the the tech support desk, at the counter where printing services used to be. JHUNIX is gone, so is APSERV1. All mail is done through JHMAIL, and all services have been concentrated into jhed.jhu.edu, with webmail.
And yes, most students do know about the steam tunnels, but I personally never cared enough to check them out.
I know there's gotta be some other JHU alumni reading this. For years, Johns Hopkins has been ranked around #15, which always prompted Hopkins to brush the rankings aside as subjective. Surely the rankings are bullshit, they would say, since anyone worth their salt knew that JHU was the premiere research institution in the world.
So my freshman year, 1999, rolls along and Hopkins finds itself ranked #7 by US News. Oh how they did celebrate. We heard about it nonstop for the first few weeks of school, especially during orientation. Major prestige thing. Huge boost to the administration's collective ego. And those rankings? Not so subjective anymore, were they? Finally those US News guys saw the light, and ranked Hopkins near the top!
By the way, Ms. Cranor spoke as a guest lecturer while I was taking Dr. Rubin's course (the source of all these evoting security reports). Very smart lady.
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The Antarctic Treaty of 1959/1961 neither recognizes nor disputes the claims made by those 7 (or any other) nation. The United States and Russia both reserve the right to make territorial claims. See the CIA World Factbook for more info.
Short story is, you'd catch a lot of shit from about 30 countries if you tried setting up an independent nation on Antarctica.
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This Mr. Cranky review of Battlefield Earth pretty much sums it up as well: "Battlefield Earth is one of the worst films ever made. It's just that simple."
Love live Cranky.
I thought HITS turned jhunix off a couple years back...
Mod parent up! Great info.
Nothing more then rich, liberal, elite, yuppy, eurotrash, scumbags. Which is exactly why my 2002 325 is getting one as soon as my dealer has them in stock!
With or without an integrated iPod, my 2003 325xi would be heartbroken to be thought of as anything but Libertarian.
Mozilla can have its soul, I like it for the tabbed browsing.
Crap, you beat me to it.
Actually I consider the Harbor to be extremely safe. It's West Baltimore, Greenmount, and the like that you need to be worried about.
True, but unlike NJ which has the same law, Oregon gas prices are about $0.20 higher than the national average. That is not to say there's necessarily a connection between the law and the prices; I hear California has high prices too. Crap what was I talking about again?
Those of you who watch The Sopranos might recognize New Paltz as one of Paulie Walnuts' collection stops.
I've actually been there, nice little town.
and I thought it was just me that speaks to my PC....
Don't be silly. I speak to your PC when you're not around.
Please do us all (and especially me) a favor and travel back in time to 1997 so you can lecture my boss on why he should be thinking of avoiding vendor lock-in with regards to the scripting language of his soon-to-exist website, instead of funding, warehouse logistics, feasibility, market research, etc.
This is pretty typical rubbish out of the mouths of people who don't live in reality. Licensing is expensive, but not expensive enough to cause major cuts in other parts of the budget.
Is it my company's fault for not using *nix? Of course. I did know you were going to say that, and I couldn't pre-empt it enough in my original post because you said it anyway. But the company was not founded by technologists - it was founded by two guys in 1997 who wanted to sell stuff online and had a little coding experience.
I reiterate. At this point, it's too difficult to rewrite everything.
I'll tell you why because I work at such a company. The decision to use Microsoft products was made years ago (around 1997), and since then there has been so much ASP written, so much time put into MS-SQL stored procedures and infrastructure, so many internal processes and scripts that are custom-tailored to the Windows installations, that trying to take it all out and replace it with *nix would cost more time and money than the company can afford.
If you are still in school, or if you work in a small lab, or if you do ANYTHING except work in the real world, you probably think idiocy and stubbornness are the only things preventing the world from running *nix. At this company, and at many others I presume, at this point it makes more sense to pay a little more for the extra TCO of running and upgrading Windows than to try and rewrite the entire e-commerce website and change all internal processes. The bosses here aren't stupid - they know *nix is better, but if you even suggested the place should switch wholesale off Microsoft you'd get eye-rolling galore. It's a pipe dream.
The transition doesn't make business sense, even if the end result would.
I like your nickname. Long live the Flecktones :)
I don't get it. You think I *don't* work in Newark, NJ ?
I work in Newark, New Jersey. Top that.
I'm fairly certain you can use drwatson to kill a process too.
I took Dr. Rubin's class in my final semester at Hopkins. He's an evoting expert indeed; his primary field of research is the development of secure and trustworthy electronic voting methodologies. He understands network security and trust issues and how they relate to electronic voting.
/. trolls believe. I've written on this subject before; see the following link:
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=72311&cid=652
Oh, ok. I must have misread, thought you arrived in '99 like me. Anyways, you should make a pilgrimage back if you haven't already... all that cash from Bloomberg and friends has literally transformed the campus. All the concrete walkways have been replaced with red brick. The space between Garland Hall and San Martin Drive now has two huge new buildings: Clark Hall, the mecca of BME, and Hodson Hall, an uber-high-tech hall with nothing but kickass lecture halls. They're currently building a new chemistry building between the Hopkins Club and Bloomberg Hall. Garland parking lot has been repaved, and they built a HUGE extension onto the Athletic Center, including a new pool, fitness center, and locker rooms. And, as you probably knew, the bottom floor of the Homewood (which was torn down and completely rebuilt as awesome new sophomore+ housing) is now a Ruby Tuesdays, a Blimpie, a hair salon and a Kinko's. Jerry (the guy who owns PJ's) bought up that abandoned house on the corner of St. Paul & 33rd and turned it into a Subway. Dr. Masson (the CSF guy) started up the JHU Information Security Institute (JHUISI) and took over the 4th floor of the Wyman Park Medical Center for their offices. The breezeway has been completely redone (hard to explain what it looks like), E-Level is closed, there's no drinking on the beach anymore, they finally got online registration working, JHUNIX doesn't exist anymore, Brody's still overpaid, they held Spring Fair in the Garland parking lot for 2 years and when they finally brought it back to the quads this year, all the vendors had given up and it basically sucked major ass but I got drunk anyway. Oh and the school bought up the Eastern High School building across from the rubble of Memorial Stadium and moved all the HITS/telecom/networking operations over there. Not sure if I forgot anything... maybe someone else could chime in :)
What was your major? I wonder if we took any classes together?
Holy cow you guys are old. Ok I just graduated, here's the deal. Information systems used to be in the basement of Garland, but thats all gone now; JHU bought up Eastern High School (across from what used to be Memorial Stadium) and all the servers and stuff are over there. The basement of Garland now has the the tech support desk, at the counter where printing services used to be. JHUNIX is gone, so is APSERV1. All mail is done through JHMAIL, and all services have been concentrated into jhed.jhu.edu, with webmail.
And yes, most students do know about the steam tunnels, but I personally never cared enough to check them out.
I know there's gotta be some other JHU alumni reading this. For years, Johns Hopkins has been ranked around #15, which always prompted Hopkins to brush the rankings aside as subjective. Surely the rankings are bullshit, they would say, since anyone worth their salt knew that JHU was the premiere research institution in the world.
:)
So my freshman year, 1999, rolls along and Hopkins finds itself ranked #7 by US News. Oh how they did celebrate. We heard about it nonstop for the first few weeks of school, especially during orientation. Major prestige thing. Huge boost to the administration's collective ego. And those rankings? Not so subjective anymore, were they? Finally those US News guys saw the light, and ranked Hopkins near the top!
Man, what a bunch of hypocrites. Long live JHU
Wrong. See my previous posts:
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=61340&cid=576
By the way, Ms. Cranor spoke as a guest lecturer while I was taking Dr. Rubin's course (the source of all these evoting security reports). Very smart lady.
The Antarctic Treaty of 1959/1961 neither recognizes nor disputes the claims made by those 7 (or any other) nation. The United States and Russia both reserve the right to make territorial claims. See the CIA World Factbook for more info.
Short story is, you'd catch a lot of shit from about 30 countries if you tried setting up an independent nation on Antarctica.
Did anyone else here take Dr. Eisner's "Natural Language Processing" course at Hopkins? I've definitely had my fill of n-grams for now, thanks :)