Why wouldn't they refuse it? There's a limited amount of intelligence at MIT these days, most of it isn't anywhere near Negroponte. After all, any institution that would employ Noam Chomsky, the anti-semitic wretch that he is, can't really be worth much anyway.
Man, you are going to lose them... I see eyes glazing over already... but I'll add this:
Never mind that we believe the Bible is a book about why and NOT how. Of course this is perspective, we also believe you need to be concerned with NOW and not the afterlife, because you can only work to improve the "now" and you really don't have any idea about what comes next; hence our focus on acts.
>>As long as you don't bring your giant SUV's or bad driving habits with you, we don't mind.
I tried. I have a masters degree and extensive experience. Couldn't get a work visa. My wife will have her PhD in a few years and our son will graduate from high school in three. We figured we'd try again at that point.
However, given the rise of anti-semitism in Europe that I see covered in the media today, it would seem that as a Jew, I doubt I am really welcome in Europe anyway and so, who knows maybe we won't try again.
Oh, and I have a MINI cooper, my wife has a little Toyota. No gas guzzlers in our immediate family.
You can do this easily with the iPod. I do it all the time. It's call on-the-go and it's as simple as pressing and holding the select button until the title flashes. Apple's instructions imply that you have to select all your songs up front but it's not true, just select one, navigate to the playlist and start playing the first song. Now go back to your library and add more songs to it on the fly. Works like a charm.
If only Christians (and Muslims) could figure out that the Bible does not answer the question of "HOW" but instead, answers of a question of "WHY."
Of course, they aren't that smart. If they were, they'd be Jews, who know the message of the Bible is philosophical and not an explanation of the natural world.
This guy's full of crap, and it's further testimony that slashdot's editors are also full of it.
No one, and I mean, no one, builds multi-petabyte storage silos without actually understanding storage. It's obvious from the questions in this posting that this guy is so far out of his league that he should quit hist job and go live on a beach in a cardboard box somewhere or he's another dumbass trying to sound intelligent.
The system must have been coded in India or some other third world code mill via an outsourced project conducted by some stupid government bureaucrat seeking to low ball a budget estimates.
All the geeks of the world found a way to make every one one of their websites feature a sturdy black "software patents are bad" page a short while ago.... perhaps we should really be concerned about corporate/institutional ownership of the instructions for life?
I personally am sick of GMO food and genetic patents, and all of this patent crap. I don't particularly care what science tells me, or whether it's true or not, regarding the safety of the product. As a human I have some right to natural things, food being of primary consideration, over some company's right to profit.
I hope some country or block of countries tells the patent happy world to take a flying leap.
Yes, it has, and just how is your point related to the issue of Palestinian and arab initiation and continued pursuit of violence?
The fact is that Israel is not the aggressor in this argument, Palestine and it's neighbors are.
While the rabbid left wing of the democratic party is doing it's level best to paint Israel as an apartheid nation, the reality is otherwise.
Hitler would be proud of groups like SUSTAIN, and the Palestinian Right to Return. These groups use tactics right from Goering's play book all the while the Palestinian/Arab world has said outright that it's goal is to kill all the Jews in the world.
Yeah, flamebait away. rate me a troll, whatever. I'm tired of hearing this false argument, claiming that the Palestinians are oppressed. They aren't oppressed by anyone, they've made the choice to live the way they do by embracing terrorism at all levels of society. They were even offered 97% of the land they claim for a state and they refused, blanket style, with no attempt to offer a counter.
Time and time again, Israel has attempted to make peace with these people to no end.
You whine about Palestine oppression, but in reality, for most of the Palestinians and other arabs in the region, the presence of Israel makes life better. None of the other countries in the region have viable, non-oil econonies, except maybe Egypt. Israel does. This could be the basis for lifting these people out of poverty and into the first world, but instead, they'd rather blow up children and rocket homes. The difference between Israel and the Palestinians is that Israel retaliates, and the Palestinians initiate. If the Palestinians would stop initiating they could join society and improve their lives.
There will be peace there when the Palestinians desire it, not before. They don't desire it right now and neither do the rest of the arabs because it gives the ruling class of those populations something to misplace their peoples' anger onto, and keeps it away from the injustice they foist upon their own people.
And the UN, don't even go there. It is perhaps the most anti-semitic governmental organization on the planet. Perhaps you should do some research, don't just take your local college's anti-jew hate group or some terrorist propoganda web site's word for it.
I have migrated two servers to Ubuntu 5.04 and they run spectacularly well. I will be migrating some more later this fall too.
I hold RHCE for 9 and Enterprise 3 and while I like certain aspects of Red Hat, I can't justify the cost when Ubuntu is perfectly suited.
The problem with Fedora/RHEL is that I have to pay to get easy updating. I know I can jump through hoops to make it work without paying, but it's not worth it to me, especially when Ubuntu's apt works wonderfully. I plan on asking my employer, in exchange for not buying licenses each year for our servers which in turn saves us considerable cash, if I can give back to the community by hosting a mirror for Ubuntu. Of course, this won't happen quickly but I believe that since my employer is an edu, it will happen.
In short, switch. In long, test it for awhile and you'll answer that question for yourself.
I've worked for both types of employers and I'll pick happiness over pay. I think it follows a pattern though, there are greedy people who find money is the focus of life and there are those that get confused and believe that temporarily but come back to reality.
Two years ago I took a $25,000/year pay cut to change jobs. This was not one of those changes pending a layoff either, I did it when I realized that the rat race was really not worth it. Sixty and seventy hour work weeks, lame project management, foolish executives and the like, it sucks and anyone that believes those are acceptable parameters for an employer to foist, yes foist, upon an employee is a fool.
My advise is find a good company where employee happiness and community responsibility are of primary importance and go for it. You won't regret leaving the rat race and you'll be the envy of your former coworkers who are stuck as wage slaves while you still make a damn fine living while working a normal 40 hour week. Then there's always the side benefit of working for a socially responsibly organization and you can't really put dollars on that.
I'd love to bike to work but alas, I'd have to ride through the ghetto to get there. Sorry, I'm just not willing to risk personal danger for it.
The major problem with alternative commuting is distance. We live about 20 miles from where I work and maybe 30 miles from my wife's office. We also have a teenage son and the price of admission (work transportation costs) for his safety and a good school district, is in my mind, well spent.
However, nothing is permanent. We've made plans to move into the city once he graduates from college. It makes sense in many ways since we both like the cultural opportunities of the city and feel money and resources could be put to better use. Kansas City has ZERO reliable mass transit so our plans include scooters for transportation (yes year round) once we move.
Point? If you can't use alternative forms of transportation right now, plan so that you can in the future.
>>How much is it worth to you to get an answer within hours or days versus a few weeks or months of waiting?
How many answers really need to be found in hours or days? I manage a couple of clusters and while they are nice for finding answers on problems that take weeks to compute, no one really looks at the data the second it finishes. Sometimes, it'll be a week after before anyone looks at it.
Having said that, I wouldn't mind using Sun's grid for the simple fact that doing so would let me force graduate students (they write a lot of the (sloppy) software for the different principal investigators) to write to tighter standards!
Either shut up about this already or start spending your dollars somewhere besides with the RIAA, MPAA and their buddies. As long as you whining fools continue to fund these corporate monsters by listening to their music and watching their movies, you've voted to support their political will. If on the other hand you were half as outraged as you say you are, you'd spend your money ONLY supporting local musicians, movies and theaters and tell the corporate slavemasters to take a hike. Until you do that, shut up.
Really? Linux can take code licensed under one model and then relicense it another way? I don't know, but if I had released code under BSD and then found it released under GPL, I might be more than a little annoyed.
In fact, given that most BSD code contains a line similar to:
"Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer."
I'd be rather inclined to say that you cannot relicense code from BSD to GPL.
Just my thoughts though, as I couldn't say authoratively either way.
Actually, this article is a thinly disguised anti-American diatribe, which is what commonly comes out of Europe today when someone is dissatisfied with a particular aspect of European society or business; it's easier to blame America or American corporations for their problems than to fix them.
Of course, for the last 6 years there has been some significant truth to it, at least in the global security realm!
In case none of you are actually involved in science -- and since this "IS" slashdot that odds of that are pretty high (yes that was an insult), here's another open access research publication site.
It's a clearinghouse for peer reviewed science and they have journals covering various topics from reproduction to evolutionary biology to genomics. Plus, you can subscribe to an RSS feed for everything.
WHY? Because people are stupid.
I see a "lovely" brown-orange smog on the way into the city everyday and wonder why anyone would want to breath that?! Then I notice the highway is populated with 4 ton SUVs and 80 ton semi tractors and it's no wonder; they're not looking at the sky but at the fuel gauge. Meaning, it's all about near term money not long term viability.
And in Kansas City, you don't even have the option of mass transportation or biking. Neither are viable. One basically doesn't exist outside of the inner city and the other will get you ran over or sunk in a pothole.
Unfortunately I don't see any relief, ever. At least not in America. Not until the gas prices reach and stay above $5 per gallon for years. As much as it will eat my budget, I can at least afford it AND my car is fuel efficient. I'm willing to bear some pain so long as it changes the driving habbits of Americans.
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Primestart didn't shut down, it was bought by DirecTV.
I know, I had it when the merger happened. We were given a new DirecTV receiver and switched to a comparable package.
I've had satellite TV continuously for about 12 years, beginning with a 3m dish, moving to Primestart, then DirecTV and currently with Voom.... having my Dish turned back on Saturday.
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I have voom and I like it, especially the kung fu, equator and monster channels. You can watch HD content on voom that you simply can't get anywhere else. With my voom package I got all of their programming plus discovery HD, UHD, and a couple of others.
One problem I had with Voom was the local channel delivery. I live in a city where and local channel broadcast power is not strong so I've missed having Fox (That 70s Show) and a few other channels most of the time.
In any case, I will miss Voom. It was a quirky service but with relatively good HD content. Dish is my next choice but their HD service is crap. I hope the satellite companies get their act together with HD soon or I might have to jump ship to cable.
In reality, you should have said "a good alternative to netflix if you fit a specific definition of alternative", but for the rest of America, it's no alternative.
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Why wouldn't they refuse it? There's a limited amount of intelligence at MIT these days, most of it isn't anywhere near Negroponte. After all, any institution that would employ Noam Chomsky, the anti-semitic wretch that he is, can't really be worth much anyway.
Yeah, trolling for libs is fun.
Man, you are going to lose them... I see eyes glazing over already... but I'll add this: Never mind that we believe the Bible is a book about why and NOT how. Of course this is perspective, we also believe you need to be concerned with NOW and not the afterlife, because you can only work to improve the "now" and you really don't have any idea about what comes next; hence our focus on acts.
>>As long as you don't bring your giant SUV's or bad driving habits with you, we don't mind.
I tried. I have a masters degree and extensive experience. Couldn't get a work visa. My wife will have her PhD in a few years and our son will graduate from high school in three. We figured we'd try again at that point.
However, given the rise of anti-semitism in Europe that I see covered in the media today, it would seem that as a Jew, I doubt I am really welcome in Europe anyway and so, who knows maybe we won't try again.
Oh, and I have a MINI cooper, my wife has a little Toyota. No gas guzzlers in our immediate family.
You can do this easily with the iPod. I do it all the time. It's call on-the-go and it's as simple as pressing and holding the select button until the title flashes. Apple's instructions imply that you have to select all your songs up front but it's not true, just select one, navigate to the playlist and start playing the first song. Now go back to your library and add more songs to it on the fly. Works like a charm.
This person's text should be bolded in big letters as the first post. It is SO right on the money.
Except, the rest of the world won't take Americans that want to leave, except for maybe Canada. Try and move to Europe, they won't let you.
If only Christians (and Muslims) could figure out that the Bible does not answer the question of "HOW" but instead, answers of a question of "WHY."
Of course, they aren't that smart. If they were, they'd be Jews, who know the message of the Bible is philosophical and not an explanation of the natural world.
This guy's full of crap, and it's further testimony that slashdot's editors are also full of it.
No one, and I mean, no one, builds multi-petabyte storage silos without actually understanding storage. It's obvious from the questions in this posting that this guy is so far out of his league that he should quit hist job and go live on a beach in a cardboard box somewhere or he's another dumbass trying to sound intelligent.
Thanks for speaking and removing all doubt.
Did I get a troll rating????? Did I? Cool.
Rate me a flame, a troll, or whatever.
The system must have been coded in India or some other third world code mill via an outsourced project conducted by some stupid government bureaucrat seeking to low ball a budget estimates.
All the geeks of the world found a way to make every one one of their websites feature a sturdy black "software patents are bad" page a short while ago.... perhaps we should really be concerned about corporate/institutional ownership of the instructions for life?
I personally am sick of GMO food and genetic patents, and all of this patent crap. I don't particularly care what science tells me, or whether it's true or not, regarding the safety of the product. As a human I have some right to natural things, food being of primary consideration, over some company's right to profit.
I hope some country or block of countries tells the patent happy world to take a flying leap.
Yes, it has, and just how is your point related to the issue of Palestinian and arab initiation and continued pursuit of violence?
The fact is that Israel is not the aggressor in this argument, Palestine and it's neighbors are.
While the rabbid left wing of the democratic party is doing it's level best to paint Israel as an apartheid nation, the reality is otherwise.
Hitler would be proud of groups like SUSTAIN, and the Palestinian Right to Return. These groups use tactics right from Goering's play book all the while the Palestinian/Arab world has said outright that it's goal is to kill all the Jews in the world.
Yeah, flamebait away. rate me a troll, whatever. I'm tired of hearing this false argument, claiming that the Palestinians are oppressed. They aren't oppressed by anyone, they've made the choice to live the way they do by embracing terrorism at all levels of society. They were even offered 97% of the land they claim for a state and they refused, blanket style, with no attempt to offer a counter.
Time and time again, Israel has attempted to make peace with these people to no end.
You whine about Palestine oppression, but in reality, for most of the Palestinians and other arabs in the region, the presence of Israel makes life better. None of the other countries in the region have viable, non-oil econonies, except maybe Egypt. Israel does. This could be the basis for lifting these people out of poverty and into the first world, but instead, they'd rather blow up children and rocket homes. The difference between Israel and the Palestinians is that Israel retaliates, and the Palestinians initiate. If the Palestinians would stop initiating they could join society and improve their lives.
There will be peace there when the Palestinians desire it, not before. They don't desire it right now and neither do the rest of the arabs because it gives the ruling class of those populations something to misplace their peoples' anger onto, and keeps it away from the injustice they foist upon their own people.
And the UN, don't even go there. It is perhaps the most anti-semitic governmental organization on the planet. Perhaps you should do some research, don't just take your local college's anti-jew hate group or some terrorist propoganda web site's word for it.
I have migrated two servers to Ubuntu 5.04 and they run spectacularly well. I will be migrating some more later this fall too.
I hold RHCE for 9 and Enterprise 3 and while I like certain aspects of Red Hat, I can't justify the cost when Ubuntu is perfectly suited.
The problem with Fedora/RHEL is that I have to pay to get easy updating. I know I can jump through hoops to make it work without paying, but it's not worth it to me, especially when Ubuntu's apt works wonderfully. I plan on asking my employer, in exchange for not buying licenses each year for our servers which in turn saves us considerable cash, if I can give back to the community by hosting a mirror for Ubuntu. Of course, this won't happen quickly but I believe that since my employer is an edu, it will happen.
In short, switch. In long, test it for awhile and you'll answer that question for yourself.
I've worked for both types of employers and I'll pick happiness over pay. I think it follows a pattern though, there are greedy people who find money is the focus of life and there are those that get confused and believe that temporarily but come back to reality.
Two years ago I took a $25,000/year pay cut to change jobs. This was not one of those changes pending a layoff either, I did it when I realized that the rat race was really not worth it. Sixty and seventy hour work weeks, lame project management, foolish executives and the like, it sucks and anyone that believes those are acceptable parameters for an employer to foist, yes foist, upon an employee is a fool.
My advise is find a good company where employee happiness and community responsibility are of primary importance and go for it. You won't regret leaving the rat race and you'll be the envy of your former coworkers who are stuck as wage slaves while you still make a damn fine living while working a normal 40 hour week. Then there's always the side benefit of working for a socially responsibly organization and you can't really put dollars on that.
Groupwise sucks. Anyone that says otherwise has either never used anything else or has a big red "N" stuffed up their butt sideways.
I'd recommend Exchange over Groupwise ANY DAY, and I don't care for it either.
I'd love to bike to work but alas, I'd have to ride through the ghetto to get there. Sorry, I'm just not willing to risk personal danger for it. The major problem with alternative commuting is distance. We live about 20 miles from where I work and maybe 30 miles from my wife's office. We also have a teenage son and the price of admission (work transportation costs) for his safety and a good school district, is in my mind, well spent. However, nothing is permanent. We've made plans to move into the city once he graduates from college. It makes sense in many ways since we both like the cultural opportunities of the city and feel money and resources could be put to better use. Kansas City has ZERO reliable mass transit so our plans include scooters for transportation (yes year round) once we move. Point? If you can't use alternative forms of transportation right now, plan so that you can in the future.
>>How much is it worth to you to get an answer within hours or days versus a few weeks or months of waiting?
How many answers really need to be found in hours or days? I manage a couple of clusters and while they are nice for finding answers on problems that take weeks to compute, no one really looks at the data the second it finishes. Sometimes, it'll be a week after before anyone looks at it.
Having said that, I wouldn't mind using Sun's grid for the simple fact that doing so would let me force graduate students (they write a lot of the (sloppy) software for the different principal investigators) to write to tighter standards!
Either shut up about this already or start spending your dollars somewhere besides with the RIAA, MPAA and their buddies. As long as you whining fools continue to fund these corporate monsters by listening to their music and watching their movies, you've voted to support their political will. If on the other hand you were half as outraged as you say you are, you'd spend your money ONLY supporting local musicians, movies and theaters and tell the corporate slavemasters to take a hike. Until you do that, shut up.
IBM helped the Nazis keep track of the millions of Jews they murdered...
Was that okay because business is about money and not morality? NO NO NO NO
But it is a common belief that the pursuit of money and morality can be separate, which is one of the primary reasons the world is so fucked up.
Really? Linux can take code licensed under one model and then relicense it another way? I don't know, but if I had released code under BSD and then found it released under GPL, I might be more than a little annoyed.
In fact, given that most BSD code contains a line similar to:
"Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer."
I'd be rather inclined to say that you cannot relicense code from BSD to GPL.
Just my thoughts though, as I couldn't say authoratively either way.
Actually, this article is a thinly disguised anti-American diatribe, which is what commonly comes out of Europe today when someone is dissatisfied with a particular aspect of European society or business; it's easier to blame America or American corporations for their problems than to fix them.
Of course, for the last 6 years there has been some significant truth to it, at least in the global security realm!
In case none of you are actually involved in science -- and since this "IS" slashdot that odds of that are pretty high (yes that was an insult), here's another open access research publication site.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
It's a clearinghouse for peer reviewed science and they have journals covering various topics from reproduction to evolutionary biology to genomics. Plus, you can subscribe to an RSS feed for everything.
WHY? Because people are stupid. I see a "lovely" brown-orange smog on the way into the city everyday and wonder why anyone would want to breath that?! Then I notice the highway is populated with 4 ton SUVs and 80 ton semi tractors and it's no wonder; they're not looking at the sky but at the fuel gauge. Meaning, it's all about near term money not long term viability. And in Kansas City, you don't even have the option of mass transportation or biking. Neither are viable. One basically doesn't exist outside of the inner city and the other will get you ran over or sunk in a pothole. Unfortunately I don't see any relief, ever. At least not in America. Not until the gas prices reach and stay above $5 per gallon for years. As much as it will eat my budget, I can at least afford it AND my car is fuel efficient. I'm willing to bear some pain so long as it changes the driving habbits of Americans.
Primestart didn't shut down, it was bought by DirecTV.
I know, I had it when the merger happened. We were given a new DirecTV receiver and switched to a comparable package.
I've had satellite TV continuously for about 12 years, beginning with a 3m dish, moving to Primestart, then DirecTV and currently with Voom.... having my Dish turned back on Saturday.
I have voom and I like it, especially the kung fu, equator and monster channels. You can watch HD content on voom that you simply can't get anywhere else. With my voom package I got all of their programming plus discovery HD, UHD, and a couple of others.
One problem I had with Voom was the local channel delivery. I live in a city where and local channel broadcast power is not strong so I've missed having Fox (That 70s Show) and a few other channels most of the time.
In any case, I will miss Voom. It was a quirky service but with relatively good HD content. Dish is my next choice but their HD service is crap. I hope the satellite companies get their act together with HD soon or I might have to jump ship to cable.
In reality, you should have said "a good alternative to netflix if you fit a specific definition of alternative", but for the rest of America, it's no alternative.