Yes, unfortunately, Obama's policy was not good enough.
"I think if you are going to bitch about Republicans, using the deficit to do is not the way to go about it."
No. It's completely correct. There's nothing Obama can do now to cut deficits, which right _now_ are a GOOD thing.
"Also, look up S. 190: Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 and find out who proposed it, who supported it and who kept it from ever leaving committee."
"There's a couple things potentially wrong with that. First of all, McCain was merely a co-sponsor. Hagel was the primary backer of the bill. Second, the bill went to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in 2005. That would be the 109th Congress. At the time, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs was controlled by the GOP. Richard Shelby (Alabama R) was the chairman and Paul S. Sarbanes was the ranking member. You may remember him from the Sarbanes-Oxley act. The GOP had a two person majority over the Democrats."
"When Republicans and GWB were running the economy, we were doing damn well. Unemployment was less than 4% and the government was raking in record tax receipts, AFTER tax cuts."
Yeah. With unbalanced budget, growing real estate bubble, flat income for middle class and giant budget deficits. Otherwise, it was all OK.
"CONGRESS CONTROLS THE ECONOMY"
And for a long time, Congress was also controlled by Republicans. Besides, the President has non-negligible influence on it.
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"1998 called, they want their rationalization back. Besides, just about everyone turns off SELinux when they want to actually get work done."
Fortunately, we have alternatives to SELinux. Personally, I use AppArmor.
Let's do it. Seriously. Conventional ICEs are now pretty much close to best we can do. New technology might give us _maybe_ 10% more efficiency, but that's it.
So it's better to concentrate on hybrids and pure electric vehicles. Besides, strong hybrids can allow to use more efficient ICEs.
"Not one comment yet about the real culprit here: daylight savings time. If we didn't have it anywhere in the world, then programmers wouldn't have to worry about when DST happens in different timezones (or which places have DST and which don't), or worry about what to do with log files or anything else when time jumps an hour."
DST helps a lot in high latitudes. When I was walking to work last week it was still dark. Today when I went out I immediately noticed that the Sun was up.
And only then it struck me that we had a DST transition yesterday.
About 2 times low. Look at GM Volt, they use 8 kW*Hr to achieve 40 miles of range at highway speeds.
"Otherwise we'd all be installing 50cc moped motors into our cars. I think 30-40 HP is what it takes to overcome air resistance, rolling resistance, and the incline of the terrain when that comes along."
Yes, it IS possible to use cars with less than 4 liters of engine volume.
This particular problem can be sidestepped. Earth (and the Solar system) moves along geodesics in 4D-space (that's what the whole General Relativity is about), so we can just imagine that your time machine will also move along geodesics (essentially, retracing the path of the Earth and Solar System) when traveling in time.
"And that, boys and girls, journalists and government ministers, is how our tax system works. The people who already pay the highest taxes will naturally get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas, where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier."
Yeah, that happens. Like in 60-s when US top rates were about 80% and rich people emigrated in droves. Not.
Out problem is not with speed, we are using CrystalReports and JasperReports working with Postgres database for most of reports. Some of them are more than 1000 pages.
No, our problem is with flexibility. It's not easy to create an ad-hoc report with something like Crystal. Which is exactly what we need. And it's not inefficient, our biggest dataset used with Excel is about 200000 rows (which Excel can comfortably handle now).
Most reports take less than 10-15 seconds to build on my machine (even less when they are hosted). And if we encounter problems later, we can offload some data processing to our backend.
We actually use Excel with our own backend (a custom Java application on a Linux server working with PostgreSQL), via web services. Excel indeed works like a report template builder.
We're certainly not using it to store data. But it simply shines in data visualization.
"uh, office word has language specific grammar checking and spell checking."
It doesn't, it only has primitive spellchecking which doesn't understand Russian wordforms, it tries to cope by listing _all_ possible wordforms in its dictionary (and quite often fails, of course).
"Log in to your Google Docs account (see Resources link). At the top left, click "Upload," and follow the prompts to upload the spreadsheet you just created. It will open in a new window or tab, where you can view or modify it. Verify that everything looks and works correctly."
That's a joke, sorry. Google Docs is nowhere close in functionality even to OO.org. And there's also no possibility to connect to backend DB.
"you call those things special features? export to web?"
It exports _interactive_ spreadsheet. I.e. I can quickly draft a report with adjustable parameters and nice 'dashboard-like' visualization and expose it on a corporate portal in a matter of minutes. And this spreadsheet can connect to OLAP backend, using connecting user's credentials.
This is certainly not a 'trivial' feature.
I'm ambivalent about ribbon, but a lot of users like it. Besides, Word has a number of nice features, like Russian language grammar checking (Russian is a flexible language, so simple spellcheckers suck).
"Would you care to comment on whether Samba4 is useful only for replicating MS technologies in the network, or also for use in a pure Linux/POSIX environment (UNIX, Linux, Mac)?"
It's certainly useful. I'm using it in almost Linux-only environment.
"Can you use pure Kerberos (not the MS version), or is that recommended?"
Yes. It's possible to use Samba4 as a pure Kerberos server, and it works just fine. In fact, I've first installed OpenLDAP+Kerberos and then migrated everything on this test site to Samba4.
A piece of trivia: it's actually possible to join WinXP into a pure Kerberos domain.
"And can Linux Terminal Server Project tie into this in some way (serve an appropriate terminal image based on a Samba profile)?"
"We've been on the verge of running out of oil, running out of fresh water, and killing our oceans how many times now?"
Well, oil had been forecast to peak some time in 2010-s. Which is about now and it looks like this prediction is on the money. American oil has peaked in 70-s and steadily declined ever since, as predicted.
"You don't need mystical mumbo jumbo to not want pesticides all over your fruits and vegetables."
Which will still be used (even if they are 'organic'). Because it's too labor-intensive to harrow fields manually. A bit of GMO can help tremendously here, but no, it's not 'orgainc'.
"Why do you need mystical mumbo jumbo to be aware of the major nutritional differences between wild-caught fish and farmed fish, that are principally due to their different feeding habits."
I see that you fancy some mercury in your wild-caught fish? Nice taste, sir.
A lot of 'organic' stuff is crap. It's even more unsustainable because of very high amount of labor (fuel, land, water) required. A sustainable agriculture will have to use GMO, fertilizers and probably large-scale farming.
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So dems are guilty by default? Interesting.
As for deficits, they are necessary to move economy out of a slump. Basic keynesian analysis. During good times they can be harmful.
"Yeah... it's SOOOO much better today."
Yes, unfortunately, Obama's policy was not good enough.
"I think if you are going to bitch about Republicans, using the deficit to do is not the way to go about it."
No. It's completely correct. There's nothing Obama can do now to cut deficits, which right _now_ are a GOOD thing.
"Also, look up S. 190: Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 and find out who proposed it, who supported it and who kept it from ever leaving committee."
"There's a couple things potentially wrong with that. First of all, McCain was merely a co-sponsor. Hagel was the primary backer of the bill. Second, the bill went to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in 2005. That would be the 109th Congress. At the time, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs was controlled by the GOP. Richard Shelby (Alabama R) was the chairman and Paul S. Sarbanes was the ranking member. You may remember him from the Sarbanes-Oxley act. The GOP had a two person majority over the Democrats."
"When Republicans and GWB were running the economy, we were doing damn well. Unemployment was less than 4% and the government was raking in record tax receipts, AFTER tax cuts."
Yeah. With unbalanced budget, growing real estate bubble, flat income for middle class and giant budget deficits. Otherwise, it was all OK.
"CONGRESS CONTROLS THE ECONOMY"
And for a long time, Congress was also controlled by Republicans. Besides, the President has non-negligible influence on it.
"1998 called, they want their rationalization back. Besides, just about everyone turns off SELinux when they want to actually get work done."
Fortunately, we have alternatives to SELinux. Personally, I use AppArmor.
"Fine. Halt all R&D on the ICE then."
Let's do it. Seriously. Conventional ICEs are now pretty much close to best we can do. New technology might give us _maybe_ 10% more efficiency, but that's it.
So it's better to concentrate on hybrids and pure electric vehicles. Besides, strong hybrids can allow to use more efficient ICEs.
Standard time is nice. Unless it is summer and the Sun is up at 4am. DST is kinda useful there.
"Not one comment yet about the real culprit here: daylight savings time. If we didn't have it anywhere in the world, then programmers wouldn't have to worry about when DST happens in different timezones (or which places have DST and which don't), or worry about what to do with log files or anything else when time jumps an hour."
DST helps a lot in high latitudes. When I was walking to work last week it was still dark. Today when I went out I immediately noticed that the Sun was up.
And only then it struck me that we had a DST transition yesterday.
"HA! You are an order of magnitude too low. "
About 2 times low. Look at GM Volt, they use 8 kW*Hr to achieve 40 miles of range at highway speeds.
"Otherwise we'd all be installing 50cc moped motors into our cars. I think 30-40 HP is what it takes to overcome air resistance, rolling resistance, and the incline of the terrain when that comes along."
Yes, it IS possible to use cars with less than 4 liters of engine volume.
"P.S. I’m not a neo-con."
Yes, you are just an idiot.
Care to link to a few articles disproving AGW in peer-reviewed journals with nice impact factors?
No? Oh, that's what I'd expected.
"What data would that be? He demonstrated (in LC) a sensitivity of 0.5C in a recent paper."
[citation needed]
"Which IPCC predictions are you going on about? Didn't James Hansen say we'd all be underwater by 10 years ago?"
No. And IPCC's predictions on sea level rise are actually lower than the reality.
"Why do you believe the horse-shit these doom-sayers come out with?"
Why do you believe the horse-shit these sooth-sayers come out with?
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Comparing-IPCC-projections-to-observations.html - a nice summary.
Then his prediction is already falsified with our current data.
And IPCCs predictions (even from the end of 80-s) are by now statistically significant enough and if anything they are too conservative.
This particular problem can be sidestepped. Earth (and the Solar system) moves along geodesics in 4D-space (that's what the whole General Relativity is about), so we can just imagine that your time machine will also move along geodesics (essentially, retracing the path of the Earth and Solar System) when traveling in time.
How's your Intel 80386 is going? It's so reliable that it can still work after 20 years!
SSD give a very noticeable performance boost. However, they cost too much right now, so it's a bit hard to justify them.
HTMLayout (http://terrainformatica.com/htmlayout/main.whtm) is not strictly a browser, but rather a toolkit to create UI in HTML+CSS.
"And that, boys and girls, journalists and government ministers, is how our tax system works. The people who already pay the highest taxes will naturally get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas, where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier."
Yeah, that happens. Like in 60-s when US top rates were about 80% and rich people emigrated in droves. Not.
Out problem is not with speed, we are using CrystalReports and JasperReports working with Postgres database for most of reports. Some of them are more than 1000 pages.
No, our problem is with flexibility. It's not easy to create an ad-hoc report with something like Crystal. Which is exactly what we need. And it's not inefficient, our biggest dataset used with Excel is about 200000 rows (which Excel can comfortably handle now).
Most reports take less than 10-15 seconds to build on my machine (even less when they are hosted). And if we encounter problems later, we can offload some data processing to our backend.
On the other hand, ability to SSH into a computer just by typing "ssh mymachine" from anywhere (where IPv6 is present) is uber-cool.
You need to use ksetup utility (it can be found on Microsoft site, somewhere).
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742433.aspx#EDAA
http://www2.cit.cornell.edu/computer/system/win2000/kerberos/
We actually use Excel with our own backend (a custom Java application on a Linux server working with PostgreSQL), via web services. Excel indeed works like a report template builder.
We're certainly not using it to store data. But it simply shines in data visualization.
"uh, office word has language specific grammar checking and spell checking."
It doesn't, it only has primitive spellchecking which doesn't understand Russian wordforms, it tries to cope by listing _all_ possible wordforms in its dictionary (and quite often fails, of course).
There's http://www.languagetool.org/ plugin which is promising, but right now it's an unusable crap.
"Log in to your Google Docs account (see Resources link). At the top left, click "Upload," and follow the prompts to upload the spreadsheet you just created. It will open in a new window or tab, where you can view or modify it. Verify that everything looks and works correctly."
That's a joke, sorry. Google Docs is nowhere close in functionality even to OO.org. And there's also no possibility to connect to backend DB.
"you call those things special features? export to web?"
It exports _interactive_ spreadsheet. I.e. I can quickly draft a report with adjustable parameters and nice 'dashboard-like' visualization and expose it on a corporate portal in a matter of minutes. And this spreadsheet can connect to OLAP backend, using connecting user's credentials.
This is certainly not a 'trivial' feature.
I'm ambivalent about ribbon, but a lot of users like it. Besides, Word has a number of nice features, like Russian language grammar checking (Russian is a flexible language, so simple spellcheckers suck).
"Would you care to comment on whether Samba4 is useful only for replicating MS technologies in the network, or also for use in a pure Linux/POSIX environment (UNIX, Linux, Mac)?"
It's certainly useful. I'm using it in almost Linux-only environment.
"Can you use pure Kerberos (not the MS version), or is that recommended?"
Yes. It's possible to use Samba4 as a pure Kerberos server, and it works just fine. In fact, I've first installed OpenLDAP+Kerberos and then migrated everything on this test site to Samba4.
A piece of trivia: it's actually possible to join WinXP into a pure Kerberos domain.
"And can Linux Terminal Server Project tie into this in some way (serve an appropriate terminal image based on a Samba profile)?"
No idea. Though I imagine that it should work.
"We've been on the verge of running out of oil, running out of fresh water, and killing our oceans how many times now?"
Well, oil had been forecast to peak some time in 2010-s. Which is about now and it looks like this prediction is on the money. American oil has peaked in 70-s and steadily declined ever since, as predicted.
We've already more than halfway through with killing our oceans ( http://www.pbs.org/emptyoceans/ ).
"You don't need mystical mumbo jumbo to not want pesticides all over your fruits and vegetables."
Which will still be used (even if they are 'organic'). Because it's too labor-intensive to harrow fields manually. A bit of GMO can help tremendously here, but no, it's not 'orgainc'.
"Why do you need mystical mumbo jumbo to be aware of the major nutritional differences between wild-caught fish and farmed fish, that are principally due to their different feeding habits."
I see that you fancy some mercury in your wild-caught fish? Nice taste, sir.
A lot of 'organic' stuff is crap. It's even more unsustainable because of very high amount of labor (fuel, land, water) required. A sustainable agriculture will have to use GMO, fertilizers and probably large-scale farming.