They're not collapsing because they opened their software, but despite it. If you've ever developed on a Sun OS, and I have extensively, you understand why. Sure their stuff is robust as hell, with uptime measured in years, blah, blah, blah. *** As long as you bought their hardware - which wasn't at all cheap *** The made their own rules WRT obeying POSIX standards, so, there was no such thing as portable SunOS code. Migrating from different Sun OS's was as much, if not more, of a hastle than migrating from say 16 bit Windows to 32 bit.
Don't get me wrong, I think Sun had(s) some excellent products - but I'm afraid their decision to open up was a case of too little too late.
OOohhh, I offended someone, so they marked me a troll. That's how it's done now adays. When you can't compete with facts, belittle those who express them. It's a well worn strategy used by Creationists and the ultra liberal members of the press. You don't expect it on Slashdot, though.
You do realise that for a very long time, the Muslims lead the world in terms of technology, science and mathematics?
A common misconception. Please do more in depth research, you'll soon discover that the 'Muslims' did no such thing, although some Persians (who were probably Zoroastrians) may have.
Three weeks after you receive your 10%, the board of directors (of which you won't be one, even with your shares), votes to recapitalize, and effectively reduces your 10% to 1% (or even less) with the stroke of a pen.
You gonna play the sucker all your life ? Negotiate real money, if they don't pay, you're not indespensible; and it's time to seek another position.
I KNOW I could find someone from India that would do the same job for 1/3
e'hem, try 1/100th.
Executive compensation is so far out of whack with worker compensation that some executives have received 1000 times more pay than some of their full time salaried employees. A disparity of this size hasn't been seen since the height of feudalism. Revolutions were waged over exactly this issue.
'In fact, the law is very well designed to say that you have to treat H-1Bs the same as US citizens in all regards.'
If that were truly the case, there wouldn't be any H-1B visas issued. The program exists to ensure that H-1B's don't have to be treated the same, especially with regards to compensation (in all its forms).
The oft-quoted Thomas Jefferson thought 20 years was the correct period for a complete re-write of the Constitution, and a new form of Government which took into account the changes which had transpire since the last. http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/brf/jefl64.htm
.. with simply completing the TDS specification. Prossibly one of their most widely used protocols and it's entirely out of date, and what's there is incorrect in many ways or just incomplete.
They should prioritize, but I'll do it for them.
1.)SMB
2.)TDS
3.)whatever the hell goes on with Exchange
4.)remote desktop
5.)MSN
6.)the rest
I had this problem with a new (3 months) old Dell box. It came with a USB keyboard/mouse, and a nice 21 inch LCD monitor which had a USB hub (so that you could plug the keyboard and mouse into the monitor, instead of the box) It turned out, the hub in the monitor was really poor, and started generating interupts when there was no keyboard or mouse activity. plugging the keyboard/mouse into the box solved the problem until a new monitor arrived.
Yes, indeed. This reminds me of a conversation I had with the 100% share holder owner of (what is now) a very successfull (as in approachine $250M per year revenue) technology company. He told em point blank, he had no interest in going public. He always though it was a shame that that seemed to be everybody's goal. His goal was, and is, to build a great company and pass it down to his children (who will then probably IPO it immediately, the snivelling little runts). He's hiring now !
To the rest of you who are looking for jobs, that should be one of the questions you ask any small business owner you interview with. If they're looking to 'go public', run away if you can afford to.
A thick human hair is about 0.18 mm, whereas a thin human hair may be as thin as 0.017 mm - , so the thickness of two human hairs may vary by more than a factor of 10 !
That's like saying, it's the size of a common green pea (about 0.5cm diameter) when in fact it's the size of a medium size citrus lime. That's like comparing Jessica Alba with This unkown person
Actually none of you are correct. Stainless steel is no different from any other metal (or alloy) in that it requires a flow of electrons to corrode (also known as rusting). Given enough time, any metal will corrode. The rate of corrosion is affected by the ability of the electrons to flow. Most people think of rust as the result of a chemical reaction of iron with oxygen. An argument could be made that 'rust' is a specialized form of corrosion where the reaction is only beteen the ferrous element of a metal and oxygen but that is foolish.
Water (pure H20, doesn't conduct well), with any conductive agent (known as an electrolyte) in it will aid the reaction. But you can make a metal rust by placing it in contact with anything that has a different electrical potential. Simply placing two dissimilar metals in contact is enough because of the potential difference causes a electron flow. It just so happens that salt contains plenty of electrolytes, and so when dissolved in water, enables water to conduct better, and thus allows the electron migration. Water also contains loads of oxygen, (some of it is not even attached to hydrogen but roams freely within the water waiting to find a suitable element to react with) so, it appears to people that water 'makes metal rust' - which it does, but it's not the only thing that does.
It's too big, confusingly laid out, and it doesn't include basic file operations like new/save/save_as or print/preview, and doesn't seem to support customization (or at least I can't figure out how to do it, so gave up after 10 minutes). And where the hell has the old 'Tools/Options' disappeared to ?
I'm sure the OP and I share the frustrations of millions of Office users who suddenly found their productivity reduced by Office 2007 (when compared to previous version upgrades which did indeed improve usability and productivity).
It is indeed an historical moment. Yet again another peaceful revolution right on schedule.
Or at least that's what all the minorities are hoping. I think when reality finally bites, and they all realize that Obama can't and won't give them all a new car, and pay their mortgage, they might suddenly realize that perhaps he isn't really the messiah.
What they should be looking at is the fact that the affirmative action programs, welfare, and everything else that has been thrown at minorites in the US for the past two or three decades is about to dry up. I hope they're prepared, but I doubt it.
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Arguably Service Oriented Architecture, since its design takes into account provision of heat, light, water and sewage services.
Of course there is, the energy to pump the heat transfer agent (water with some chemicals in it) is a fraction of that required to heat from normal methods. Take for example a house heated via radiators. In that type of systen, you have an (usually) electric pump to move the heat transfer agent (water with a few chemicals) and a (usually) gas fired boiler unit to heat the water in the first place. The electricity usage is a small portion of the total energy usage in such a system.
This same system can also be used to cool the house on hot summer days as well.
Now, I'm no expert in 'greeneology', but this system is more 'green' than conventional systems.
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... that SOA stood for Start Of Authority - as in the BIND name server configuration which inidcate that the config file is for a particular 'zone' (analogous to a domain name)
How disappointing to discover it something as loame as 'Service Oriented Architecture'. Tell me, do any of you have an architecture that is not 'Service Oriented', and if so, how do you use it, if your architecture isn't designed to accommodate/enable 'services' (i.e. functionality), what is its purpose.
You continue to ignore the salient point, which is that killing by shooting at a non-moving target which does not suspect violence, and has their eyes closed is essentially no easier than killing by slitting their throat, or bashing in their head. I gave evidence why I make this claim, namely the father, who was in fact shot, has survived with seemingly little damage. If it were that much easier, he would have died too !
You sound like you may not be a good candidate to use a sledge-hammer, though if you are worried about missing a head sized target.
It's quite a bit harder to kill somebody (especially two people) by stabbing or bashing than by shooting. emphasis is mine.
I still say this is incorrect, and I showed you why. Aiming a gun at suitable place and pulling the trigger is no barely any easier than slitting someones carotid artery with a very sharp knife, or bashing them in the head with a 20 pound sledge-hammer (when their eyes are closed and they suspect you of no malice). Arguably the sledge hammer is slightly more effort than the knife, which is slightly more effort than the gun. But note, even the gun is not a fool proof solution, as I proved earlier. Your argument is simply wrong. It really is not discernably easier to kill with a gun when your victim is completely unprepared for violence, and suspects you of no malice, and has their eyes closed.
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They're not collapsing because they opened their software, but despite it. If you've ever developed on a Sun OS, and I have extensively, you understand why. Sure their stuff is robust as hell, with uptime measured in years, blah, blah, blah. *** As long as you bought their hardware - which wasn't at all cheap *** The made their own rules WRT obeying POSIX standards, so, there was no such thing as portable SunOS code. Migrating from different Sun OS's was as much, if not more, of a hastle than migrating from say 16 bit Windows to 32 bit.
Don't get me wrong, I think Sun had(s) some excellent products - but I'm afraid their decision to open up was a case of too little too late.
OOohhh, I offended someone, so they marked me a troll. That's how it's done now adays. When you can't compete with facts, belittle those who express them. It's a well worn strategy used by Creationists and the ultra liberal members of the press. You don't expect it on Slashdot, though.
And besides, what have they done lately ? (you know, like the last 1000 years)
You do realise that for a very long time, the Muslims lead the world in terms of technology, science and mathematics?
A common misconception. Please do more in depth research, you'll soon discover that the 'Muslims' did no such thing, although some Persians (who were probably Zoroastrians) may have.
Three weeks after you receive your 10%, the board of directors (of which you won't be one, even with your shares), votes to recapitalize, and effectively reduces your 10% to 1% (or even less) with the stroke of a pen.
You gonna play the sucker all your life ? Negotiate real money, if they don't pay, you're not indespensible; and it's time to seek another position.
Teachers need an education.
fixed that one too !
... Naaaahhrr, shiver me timbers, avast matey, ahoy
I KNOW I could find someone from India that would do the same job for 1/3
e'hem, try 1/100th.
Executive compensation is so far out of whack with worker compensation that some executives have received 1000 times more pay than some of their full time salaried employees. A disparity of this size hasn't been seen since the height of feudalism. Revolutions were waged over exactly this issue.
We're teetering on the edge here, guys !
...bollocks !
'In fact, the law is very well designed to say that you have to treat H-1Bs the same as US citizens in all regards.'
If that were truly the case, there wouldn't be any H-1B visas issued. The program exists to ensure that H-1B's don't have to be treated the same, especially with regards to compensation (in all its forms).
The oft-quoted Thomas Jefferson thought 20 years was the correct period for a complete re-write of the Constitution, and a new form of Government which took into account the changes which had transpire since the last.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/brf/jefl64.htm
.. with simply completing the TDS specification. Prossibly one of their most widely used protocols and it's entirely out of date, and what's there is incorrect in many ways or just incomplete.
They should prioritize, but I'll do it for them.
1.)SMB
2.)TDS
3.)whatever the hell goes on with Exchange
4.)remote desktop
5.)MSN
6.)the rest
It could be argued that the cpu 'interprets the instructions. Perhaps there's a better word for it, but interpret is pretty close to what it does
I had this problem with a new (3 months) old Dell box. It came with a USB keyboard/mouse, and a nice 21 inch LCD monitor which had a USB hub (so that you could plug the keyboard and mouse into the monitor, instead of the box) It turned out, the hub in the monitor was really poor, and started generating interupts when there was no keyboard or mouse activity. plugging the keyboard/mouse into the box solved the problem until a new monitor arrived.
Yes, indeed. This reminds me of a conversation I had with the 100% share holder owner of (what is now) a very successfull (as in approachine $250M per year revenue) technology company. He told em point blank, he had no interest in going public. He always though it was a shame that that seemed to be everybody's goal. His goal was, and is, to build a great company and pass it down to his children (who will then probably IPO it immediately, the snivelling little runts). He's hiring now !
To the rest of you who are looking for jobs, that should be one of the questions you ask any small business owner you interview with. If they're looking to 'go public', run away if you can afford to.
A thick human hair is about 0.18 mm, whereas a thin human hair may be as thin as 0.017 mm - , so the thickness of two human hairs may vary by more than a factor of 10 !
That's like saying, it's the size of a common green pea (about 0.5cm diameter) when in fact it's the size of a medium size citrus lime. That's like comparing Jessica Alba with This unkown person
Actually none of you are correct. Stainless steel is no different from any other metal (or alloy) in that it requires a flow of electrons to corrode (also known as rusting). Given enough time, any metal will corrode. The rate of corrosion is affected by the ability of the electrons to flow. Most people think of rust as the result of a chemical reaction of iron with oxygen. An argument could be made that 'rust' is a specialized form of corrosion where the reaction is only beteen the ferrous element of a metal and oxygen but that is foolish.
Water (pure H20, doesn't conduct well), with any conductive agent (known as an electrolyte) in it will aid the reaction. But you can make a metal rust by placing it in contact with anything that has a different electrical potential. Simply placing two dissimilar metals in contact is enough because of the potential difference causes a electron flow. It just so happens that salt contains plenty of electrolytes, and so when dissolved in water, enables water to conduct better, and thus allows the electron migration. Water also contains loads of oxygen, (some of it is not even attached to hydrogen but roams freely within the water waiting to find a suitable element to react with) so, it appears to people that water 'makes metal rust' - which it does, but it's not the only thing that does.
Damn, all this time I thought was just a decoration !!! Idiotic Microsofties should be squashed for that one.
Let me be the third to cry BOLLOCKS ! And besides, how hard would it be to add a pinch of martian soil to each cup you drink.
..the new ribbon does indeed SUCK big time.
It's too big, confusingly laid out, and it doesn't include basic file operations like new/save/save_as or print/preview, and doesn't seem to support customization (or at least I can't figure out how to do it, so gave up after 10 minutes). And where the hell has the old 'Tools/Options' disappeared to ?
I'm sure the OP and I share the frustrations of millions of Office users who suddenly found their productivity reduced by Office 2007 (when compared to previous version upgrades which did indeed improve usability and productivity).
It is indeed an historical moment. Yet again another peaceful revolution right on schedule.
Or at least that's what all the minorities are hoping. I think when reality finally bites, and they all realize that Obama can't and won't give them all a new car, and pay their mortgage, they might suddenly realize that perhaps he isn't really the messiah.
What they should be looking at is the fact that the affirmative action programs, welfare, and everything else that has been thrown at minorites in the US for the past two or three decades is about to dry up. I hope they're prepared, but I doubt it.
Arguably Service Oriented Architecture, since its design takes into account provision of heat, light, water and sewage services.
There is nothing green about it.
Of course there is, the energy to pump the heat transfer agent (water with some chemicals in it) is a fraction of that required to heat from normal methods. Take for example a house heated via radiators. In that type of systen, you have an (usually) electric pump to move the heat transfer agent (water with a few chemicals) and a (usually) gas fired boiler unit to heat the water in the first place. The electricity usage is a small portion of the total energy usage in such a system.
This same system can also be used to cool the house on hot summer days as well.
Now, I'm no expert in 'greeneology', but this system is more 'green' than conventional systems.
... that SOA stood for Start Of Authority - as in the BIND name server configuration which inidcate that the config file is for a particular 'zone' (analogous to a domain name)
How disappointing to discover it something as loame as 'Service Oriented Architecture'. Tell me, do any of you have an architecture that is not 'Service Oriented', and if so, how do you use it, if your architecture isn't designed to accommodate/enable 'services' (i.e. functionality), what is its purpose.
You continue to ignore the salient point, which is that killing by shooting at a non-moving target which does not suspect violence, and has their eyes closed is essentially no easier than killing by slitting their throat, or bashing in their head.
I gave evidence why I make this claim, namely the father, who was in fact shot, has survived with seemingly little damage. If it were that much easier, he would have died too !
You sound like you may not be a good candidate to use a sledge-hammer, though if you are worried about missing a head sized target.
You said:
It's quite a bit harder to kill somebody (especially two people) by stabbing or bashing than by shooting. emphasis is mine.
I still say this is incorrect, and I showed you why. Aiming a gun at suitable place and pulling the trigger is no barely any easier than slitting someones carotid artery with a very sharp knife, or bashing them in the head with a 20 pound sledge-hammer (when their eyes are closed and they suspect you of no malice). Arguably the sledge hammer is slightly more effort than the knife, which is slightly more effort than the gun. But note, even the gun is not a fool proof solution, as I proved earlier. Your argument is simply wrong. It really is not discernably easier to kill with a gun when your victim is completely unprepared for violence, and suspects you of no malice, and has their eyes closed.