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Gadgets, Then & Now
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In the end of the 80s the most popular removable storage media was the 5 1/4 inch diskette, capable of storing 360 KB (later 1200 KB). If you compare that to a big compact flash card of today, you could store close to 25 000 diskettes on ONE 8GB CompactFlash card
At the end of the 80's, the most popular removable storage media was the 3.5" floppy. They actually came out in the early to mid 80's. They were also around a dollar each, as opposed to the $480 for the SanDisk 8GB CompactFlash.
Geez Louise! Talk about comparing apples to kumquats!
To throw an Mises economic spin on this, notice that the prices increasing faster than the inflation rate have heavy doses of government intervention, while those increasing slower or even decreasing are have relatively little government intervention. Of course, inflation itself created by government futzing with the money supply.
Re:Holy Honey I Shrunk The Kids, Batman!
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NASA? Human computers were passe by the time NASA showed up.
It is a drop-in replacement, because it *IS* UNIX! Your precious proprietary Linux binaries might not work, but most everything open source can be recompiled with few or no changes.
The problem is that that the people writing the bugs aren't the ones fixing them. That's bad. That's very bad. First it encourages the feature writers to ignore their bugs. Second, it puts the bug fixing in the hands of those least familiar with the broken code.
Why aren't we so concerned about the problems with binutils never being stablized?
It's one reason I stopped using Linux in favor of another Free operating system: it seemed like every other release broke backward compatibility. If you complained about it, you would get a speech by RMS on how backward compatibility was the opiate of the proprietary masses.
Then the company doesn't own you, the union does. All a union does is make you a generic commodity employee. You end up less employable, and thus you become dependent upon the union. You're just traded boiling for frying, you're ass gets burned either way.
They may have more "control" over your employement than you do, but if you're smart you'll make yourself valuable to them so they won't go shopping for an employee elsewhere. It's not a gun, it's mutual association.
You are the seller in this situation, so it behooves you to make your employment valuable to them. You need to stand out from the generic corporate pukes around you. As long as you're just another employee, you can be replaced by just another employee. If they don't know you are valuable, you need to let them know. This is going to take people skills on your part. Don't list just what you did on your status reports, list how you helped the company. Talk to your boss about what you do. Talk to his boss as well.
For being a youngling of only twenty two years, you're pretty bright. I wouldn't give HR an ultimatum, though, because once you're hired they're irrelevant. An HR department that other departments who to hire and fire, is an HR company that's grossly overstepping its bounds.
HR once told my boss that they were concerned about a certain telecommuting employee. They didn't like telecommuting, and were concerned that she wasn't really working. Since she happened to be THE most productive employee in engineering, he told HR to bugger off and CC'd the VP in the email.:-)
I once received a phone call from a headhunter at work while my boss was in my cube. I had no interest in leaving the company at the time, so I hung up on him. I said something like, "geez I wish these headhunters would stop calling."
Boss: "That was a call from a headhunter?"
Me: "Yeah."
I ended up with a hefty $5k raise as a retention incentive. w00t!
it's not like they're going to pay the trash man to open every bag, open the device, and then write up a report to start an investigation on who dumped it
Most proprietary code bases with more than a few version notches in their belts are a mess. It's the nature of the thing. The same problem exists in Open Source, just not to the same degree.
Terrorists, suspected terrorists, and those who receive phone calls from suspected terrorists might have a problem, but not comedians.
p.s. A few unlucky folks might get false positives on the TSA, but there is no evidence whatsoever that Bush uses it as a shit list. Cases of false positives are either explainable (sharing a name or alias with a terrorist) or purely anecdotal. That conspiracy theory has about as much creedence as Clinton using IRS audits to harrass his opponents.
It's about inconveniencing the bad guy. Look at it this way, a deadbolt on my door won't stop a determined intruder from entering my home. But it WILL cause the casual burglar to seek easier prey.
I don't see why this is causing you such anguish and pain. What I install or don't install on my system is none of your business.
Putting a compiler on a secured system is like hanging a crowbar next to your door. Nothing is stopping a criminal from bringing his own crowbar, but it's still stupid to hang one outside your door. Don't make things easy for the bad guy.
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Look up the word courage. There was no courage, because there was no danger to withstand. The worst that could have happened to him was that he would never again be invited to speak before the president. Whoop-de-do. That took about as much daring as switching to decaff.
In the weeks before the 2000 election, I was at a party where an aquaintance glimpsed a picture of Bush wearing a cowboy hat on the television. He lost it. He started yelling and spraying spittle and turning bright red. I thought he was going to drop dead of an infarction. He was screaming "who the $*#!@ does he think he is? A &*$@ cowboy? I'm going to kill any %$@* who votes for him!"
Such behavior is commonplace now in certain circles, but back then it was shocking. Just because someone from Texas was wearing a cowboy hat. Unbelievable. There is something about the modern liberal mind that goes bugshit when they get reminded that rural America exists.
Why? Because Bush heard him? Do you really think so little of the president that he will change a policy because some comic tells a joke? You might have a spine that limp, but no one that can manage to get through the primaries does. Sheesh.
As a FreeBSD user, I can see a huge advantage to open sourcing it. Until a couple of weeks ago, it was ILLEGAL to distribute a FreeBSD binary of Java. Before then it was necessary to get an register at Sun, download the source, and build it. Since building Java requires Java, it also meant one had to temporarily use a Linux Java to bootstrap a native Java. I don't know if you've ever built Java, but it takes a DAMN LONG TIME!
But now there is *ONE* version of Java approved for *ONE* version of FreeBSD. Sigh.
Guess employers are getting hip to the idea that those who don't' have experience or can't "do", get certified..."
Those with experience who can do, get certified as well. If you're so fscking brilliant, then why the hell can't you get certified? The way some of you people talk, you ought to be able to do it in your sleep. Professionals get certified. That you are not certified tells me that you are either full of shit, or too lazy to be an admin. Watch me feed your resume into the shredder as you watch...
The reason the Democrats will lose the White House again in 2008 is because they keep deluding themselves that only religious nutbags can possibly vote for a Republican. The Democrat Party is slowly but steadily losing its core, and if doesn't do something to stop the hemorrhage, the only thing left in a few years will be the fuzzy lunatic fringe. It's almost as if they want a single party state for the entire next generation.
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In the end of the 80s the most popular removable storage media was the 5 1/4 inch diskette, capable of storing 360 KB (later 1200 KB). If you compare that to a big compact flash card of today, you could store close to 25 000 diskettes on ONE 8GB CompactFlash card
At the end of the 80's, the most popular removable storage media was the 3.5" floppy. They actually came out in the early to mid 80's. They were also around a dollar each, as opposed to the $480 for the SanDisk 8GB CompactFlash.
Geez Louise! Talk about comparing apples to kumquats!
To throw an Mises economic spin on this, notice that the prices increasing faster than the inflation rate have heavy doses of government intervention, while those increasing slower or even decreasing are have relatively little government intervention. Of course, inflation itself created by government futzing with the money supply.
NASA? Human computers were passe by the time NASA showed up.
Huh? What does our comment have to do with mine?
but it's not a drop-in replacement for UNIX.
It is a drop-in replacement, because it *IS* UNIX! Your precious proprietary Linux binaries might not work, but most everything open source can be recompiled with few or no changes.
The problem is that that the people writing the bugs aren't the ones fixing them. That's bad. That's very bad. First it encourages the feature writers to ignore their bugs. Second, it puts the bug fixing in the hands of those least familiar with the broken code.
Why aren't we so concerned about the problems with binutils never being stablized?
It's one reason I stopped using Linux in favor of another Free operating system: it seemed like every other release broke backward compatibility. If you complained about it, you would get a speech by RMS on how backward compatibility was the opiate of the proprietary masses.
because slashdot moderators are on crack
Then the company doesn't own you, the union does. All a union does is make you a generic commodity employee. You end up less employable, and thus you become dependent upon the union. You're just traded boiling for frying, you're ass gets burned either way.
They may have more "control" over your employement than you do, but if you're smart you'll make yourself valuable to them so they won't go shopping for an employee elsewhere. It's not a gun, it's mutual association.
You are the seller in this situation, so it behooves you to make your employment valuable to them. You need to stand out from the generic corporate pukes around you. As long as you're just another employee, you can be replaced by just another employee. If they don't know you are valuable, you need to let them know. This is going to take people skills on your part. Don't list just what you did on your status reports, list how you helped the company. Talk to your boss about what you do. Talk to his boss as well.
For being a youngling of only twenty two years, you're pretty bright. I wouldn't give HR an ultimatum, though, because once you're hired they're irrelevant. An HR department that other departments who to hire and fire, is an HR company that's grossly overstepping its bounds.
:-)
HR once told my boss that they were concerned about a certain telecommuting employee. They didn't like telecommuting, and were concerned that she wasn't really working. Since she happened to be THE most productive employee in engineering, he told HR to bugger off and CC'd the VP in the email.
I once received a phone call from a headhunter at work while my boss was in my cube. I had no interest in leaving the company at the time, so I hung up on him. I said something like, "geez I wish these headhunters would stop calling."
Boss: "That was a call from a headhunter?"
Me: "Yeah."
I ended up with a hefty $5k raise as a retention incentive. w00t!
My boss usually asks me where I'm sending my resume and if they have any management positions open...
it's not like they're going to pay the trash man to open every bag, open the device, and then write up a report to start an investigation on who dumped it
I don't know. It is Europe after all.
I bet that M$ code is a fine mess.
Most proprietary code bases with more than a few version notches in their belts are a mess. It's the nature of the thing. The same problem exists in Open Source, just not to the same degree.
Terrorists, suspected terrorists, and those who receive phone calls from suspected terrorists might have a problem, but not comedians.
p.s. A few unlucky folks might get false positives on the TSA, but there is no evidence whatsoever that Bush uses it as a shit list. Cases of false positives are either explainable (sharing a name or alias with a terrorist) or purely anecdotal. That conspiracy theory has about as much creedence as Clinton using IRS audits to harrass his opponents.
It's about inconveniencing the bad guy. Look at it this way, a deadbolt on my door won't stop a determined intruder from entering my home. But it WILL cause the casual burglar to seek easier prey.
I don't see why this is causing you such anguish and pain. What I install or don't install on my system is none of your business.
Putting a compiler on a secured system is like hanging a crowbar next to your door. Nothing is stopping a criminal from bringing his own crowbar, but it's still stupid to hang one outside your door. Don't make things easy for the bad guy.
Is there even *one* BSD-to-Linux migration guide?
What makes you think so? The Federalists never rose again. The Whigs never rose again. Both were major parties at one time.
Look up the word courage. There was no courage, because there was no danger to withstand. The worst that could have happened to him was that he would never again be invited to speak before the president. Whoop-de-do. That took about as much daring as switching to decaff.
In the weeks before the 2000 election, I was at a party where an aquaintance glimpsed a picture of Bush wearing a cowboy hat on the television. He lost it. He started yelling and spraying spittle and turning bright red. I thought he was going to drop dead of an infarction. He was screaming "who the $*#!@ does he think he is? A &*$@ cowboy? I'm going to kill any %$@* who votes for him!"
Such behavior is commonplace now in certain circles, but back then it was shocking. Just because someone from Texas was wearing a cowboy hat. Unbelievable. There is something about the modern liberal mind that goes bugshit when they get reminded that rural America exists.
That's a worthy accomplishment
Why? Because Bush heard him? Do you really think so little of the president that he will change a policy because some comic tells a joke? You might have a spine that limp, but no one that can manage to get through the primaries does. Sheesh.
As a FreeBSD user, I can see a huge advantage to open sourcing it. Until a couple of weeks ago, it was ILLEGAL to distribute a FreeBSD binary of Java. Before then it was necessary to get an register at Sun, download the source, and build it. Since building Java requires Java, it also meant one had to temporarily use a Linux Java to bootstrap a native Java. I don't know if you've ever built Java, but it takes a DAMN LONG TIME!
But now there is *ONE* version of Java approved for *ONE* version of FreeBSD. Sigh.
Guess employers are getting hip to the idea that those who don't' have experience or can't "do", get certified..."
Those with experience who can do, get certified as well. If you're so fscking brilliant, then why the hell can't you get certified? The way some of you people talk, you ought to be able to do it in your sleep. Professionals get certified. That you are not certified tells me that you are either full of shit, or too lazy to be an admin. Watch me feed your resume into the shredder as you watch...
We're down to the religious nutbags now.
The reason the Democrats will lose the White House again in 2008 is because they keep deluding themselves that only religious nutbags can possibly vote for a Republican. The Democrat Party is slowly but steadily losing its core, and if doesn't do something to stop the hemorrhage, the only thing left in a few years will be the fuzzy lunatic fringe. It's almost as if they want a single party state for the entire next generation.