Your post is so pathetic on so many levels. I'll be merciful, and point out just two:
The longer an isotope's half-life, the less radiation it emits in any fixed time frame. Depleted uranium, with a half-life of 500K years, is barely radioactive.
More to the point: You're so ready to blame the evil Republicans, and Bush in particular, with the destruction wreaked by Katrina. You don't care (did you RTFA?) that the microtransmitter in the Astrodome was blocked by the local authorities, led by Gov. Blanco (a Democrat) and Mayor Nagin (also a Democrat).
Without a sufficient explanation to the user, and the default set to "YES", then it could indeed report information on you, more than you wish to allow.
Well, given that Mac is now based on Mach and BSD, and Apple simplifies everything they can, wouldn't the build instructions be simply "./configure && make all install"?
I once interviewed for an ISP housed in an old telco central office. They had the windowed room with the big racks and lots of blinkenlights, and five monster projection screens with real-time network activity indicators. Two rows of desks faced the screens, and every desk had a phone. Because it was in an old central office, it was also a fallout shelter (until some dope put in the glass front door), and it had a ton (possibly literally) of backup batteries and a big Diesel generator. I felt like I was interviewing on the set of War Games.
I take it you've never lived with an incompetent tech manager. I've worked for managers who lived this. One of them finally mustered the balls to tell his boss that fixing internal systems was not his job, it was product development, and if he (the higher boss) was going to be careless with his mail attachments, he could find someone else to disinfect his system.
If their boss doesn't understand such simple things as filesystem allocation, virtual memory, and word size (concepts I can easily visualize them explaining, ad nauseum), he has no business working in I.T, period.
In a perfect world, he would have tech skills, but he doesn't. So he manages.
The Peter Principle in action. You are making excuses for a lack of understanding.
Without exception, no matter what the work, the best managers I have ever had were the ones who had actually done the work, and understood the personal resources required by the job. Without that understanding, a manager is reduced to being a mouthpiece for his boss. He will be unable to justify investment in his subordinates, because he will not understand why they need $THING.
When his own incompetence interferes with his job, it also interferes with his subordinates' work, as demonstrated in the top post: Even when his own computer is acting up, he doesn't know what to do with it and has us fix it while he sits and watches.
do your best to educate him
Again, from the top post: Our team finds ourselves teaching him or explaining remedial things far too often. They are only spinning their wheels, going nowhere.
And there is always a choice. Slavery is outlawed in civilized nations.
The chip may perform well, but when the memory management requirements result in code that "can be used to scare small children" (L. Torvalds), I have to wonder: What good is an excellent chip if using it is so difficult?
Hose them down. If they're gonna be immature twits, treat them like immature twits. And if the company has a problem with that, point out that you can end the fight safely, without endangering anyone else, thereby protecting the company's interest against really big lawsuits.
I agree. We need to stop improving our lot, return to the more sensible mores of the 16th century, and let the flu and the Black Death cull the human herd. That unfulfilled death wish needs to be granted!
Give me a break.
Henry Ford made millions, but he also made fire trucks more mobile. Too bad they didn't have that in 1871 Chicago.
Franklin, Edison, Tesla, Shockley and Turing made research and information retrieval so much easier. Are you willing to give up your beloved Slashdot? I didn't think so.
If you are, let me know, and I'll provide the shovel so you can dig your cave. Once you have a hole big enough, you can use the shovel to beat away the wild animals.
Not all employers require drug screening. My employer right now has never required me to pee in a bottle. Furthermore, if they tell me tomorrow that I had to, I would have the option of walking away.
The case in question had neither information nor consent. The nature of the test isn't in question; the means used to obtain the testing sample is the problem. In that respect, it is very different from typical drug screening.
If scientists use the scientific method "by definition," as you assert, then one-third of the published authors are not scientists. This throws the whole "peer review" process into question.
When the challenges to conclusions are themselves repudiated without argument (that is, simply dismissed out-of-hand), as politicians and other egoists-in-white-coats attempted with Bjorn Lomborg, the god-like stature of "scientists" loses its credibility with the people who have to live with the consequences of their pronouncements "from on high." Barton is simply doing what his voters elected him to do: represent their interests.
The browser's format is not read-only. Someone can edit it and pass it off as something it isn't. A PDF is somewhat more difficult to counterfeit.
HTML, Word, etc. are document preparation systems and formats. PDF and PostScript are document publication formats. Think about that the next time you send someone your resume.
you can automate both the transmission and reception of it.
Hear here. The first true hack I ever saw, was a Morse transmit/receive setup on a Radio Shack Color Computer. He had the tuner hard-wired to some hardware hackery on the mobo's joystick port (a handy DAC, perfect for his purposes). I was simultaneously amazed by and jealous of the skill.
That was just a more innocuous example of their pushing and probing for violations.
(Side note: In Ohio, it is illegal for police to request a license plate check unless the driver is doing something illegal. New Rome cops sitting in a "speed trap" regularly called in every plate that went by.)
After which, they can still go home to their spouses and children, which is far more than they could say under the Old Regime. Of course, this won't stop them from strapping explosives around their waists and blowing up children.
Slashdot Mirror
the radiation... merrily bashes it's way through your genetic code, changing things in it's path
Right now, you are being bombarded with neutrinos which do exactly that. Avoiding uranium will not help you avoid mutations.
Your post is so pathetic on so many levels. I'll be merciful, and point out just two:
The longer an isotope's half-life, the less radiation it emits in any fixed time frame. Depleted uranium, with a half-life of 500K years, is barely radioactive.
More to the point: You're so ready to blame the evil Republicans, and Bush in particular, with the destruction wreaked by Katrina. You don't care (did you RTFA?) that the microtransmitter in the Astrodome was blocked by the local authorities, led by Gov. Blanco (a Democrat) and Mayor Nagin (also a Democrat).
Microsoft Bob
Clippy
Outlook Express
Why would you want to make ESR more qualified to create products like those?
Vint has put his heart and soul into making the Internet happen.
Are they sure they didn't hire Al Gore by mistake?
Without a sufficient explanation to the user, and the default set to "YES", then it could indeed report information on you, more than you wish to allow.
His modguide contains complete build instructions
Well, given that Mac is now based on Mach and BSD, and Apple simplifies everything they can, wouldn't the build instructions be simply "./configure && make all install"?
I once interviewed for an ISP housed in an old telco central office. They had the windowed room with the big racks and lots of blinkenlights, and five monster projection screens with real-time network activity indicators. Two rows of desks faced the screens, and every desk had a phone. Because it was in an old central office, it was also a fallout shelter (until some dope put in the glass front door), and it had a ton (possibly literally) of backup batteries and a big Diesel generator. I felt like I was interviewing on the set of War Games.
they're just whining and bitching.
I take it you've never lived with an incompetent tech manager. I've worked for managers who lived this. One of them finally mustered the balls to tell his boss that fixing internal systems was not his job, it was product development, and if he (the higher boss) was going to be careless with his mail attachments, he could find someone else to disinfect his system.
If their boss doesn't understand such simple things as filesystem allocation, virtual memory, and word size (concepts I can easily visualize them explaining, ad nauseum), he has no business working in I.T, period.
In a perfect world, he would have tech skills, but he doesn't. So he manages.
The Peter Principle in action. You are making excuses for a lack of understanding.
Without exception, no matter what the work, the best managers I have ever had were the ones who had actually done the work, and understood the personal resources required by the job. Without that understanding, a manager is reduced to being a mouthpiece for his boss. He will be unable to justify investment in his subordinates, because he will not understand why they need $THING.
When his own incompetence interferes with his job, it also interferes with his subordinates' work, as demonstrated in the top post: Even when his own computer is acting up, he doesn't know what to do with it and has us fix it while he sits and watches.
do your best to educate him
Again, from the top post: Our team finds ourselves teaching him or explaining remedial things far too often. They are only spinning their wheels, going nowhere.
And there is always a choice. Slavery is outlawed in civilized nations.
The chip may perform well, but when the memory management requirements result in code that "can be used to scare small children" (L. Torvalds), I have to wonder: What good is an excellent chip if using it is so difficult?
You don't suppose the Conroe processor is a slam at the Crusoe's near-has-been status, do you?
Maybe they could tell us...
What Would Jesus Play?
Don't let Paris Hilton anywhere near England!
Hose them down. If they're gonna be immature twits, treat them like immature twits. And if the company has a problem with that, point out that you can end the fight safely, without endangering anyone else, thereby protecting the company's interest against really big lawsuits.
VerHeul's most recent post during his 25-year stint at IBM was head of engineering and technology services.
I read the first half of this and thought, "wow, this guy has had a weblog for 25 years!"
I agree. We need to stop improving our lot, return to the more sensible mores of the 16th century, and let the flu and the Black Death cull the human herd. That unfulfilled death wish needs to be granted!
Give me a break.
Henry Ford made millions, but he also made fire trucks more mobile. Too bad they didn't have that in 1871 Chicago.
Franklin, Edison, Tesla, Shockley and Turing made research and information retrieval so much easier. Are you willing to give up your beloved Slashdot? I didn't think so.
If you are, let me know, and I'll provide the shovel so you can dig your cave. Once you have a hole big enough, you can use the shovel to beat away the wild animals.
Not all employers require drug screening. My employer right now has never required me to pee in a bottle. Furthermore, if they tell me tomorrow that I had to, I would have the option of walking away.
The case in question had neither information nor consent. The nature of the test isn't in question; the means used to obtain the testing sample is the problem. In that respect, it is very different from typical drug screening.
Dear Darl:
Too little, too late. Kiss our asses.
ChipMonk
It could be in comparison to the same quarter a year ago.
The previous quarter? A year ago? Ten years ago? When speaking of relative changes, without the original baseline, the figures are meaningless.
It isn't in TFA, it isn't in the posting. So it comes across like a beg for pity and/or purchases.
Somehow, Slashdot disagrees with you.
If scientists use the scientific method "by definition," as you assert, then one-third of the published authors are not scientists. This throws the whole "peer review" process into question.
When the challenges to conclusions are themselves repudiated without argument (that is, simply dismissed out-of-hand), as politicians and other egoists-in-white-coats attempted with Bjorn Lomborg, the god-like stature of "scientists" loses its credibility with the people who have to live with the consequences of their pronouncements "from on high." Barton is simply doing what his voters elected him to do: represent their interests.
The browser's format is not read-only. Someone can edit it and pass it off as something it isn't. A PDF is somewhat more difficult to counterfeit.
HTML, Word, etc. are document preparation systems and formats. PDF and PostScript are document publication formats. Think about that the next time you send someone your resume.
you can automate both the transmission and reception of it.
Hear here. The first true hack I ever saw, was a Morse transmit/receive setup on a Radio Shack Color Computer. He had the tuner hard-wired to some hardware hackery on the mobo's joystick port (a handy DAC, perfect for his purposes). I was simultaneously amazed by and jealous of the skill.
That was just a more innocuous example of their pushing and probing for violations.
(Side note: In Ohio, it is illegal for police to request a license plate check unless the driver is doing something illegal. New Rome cops sitting in a "speed trap" regularly called in every plate that went by.)
by frying them with rayguns
After which, they can still go home to their spouses and children, which is far more than they could say under the Old Regime. Of course, this won't stop them from strapping explosives around their waists and blowing up children.