The usual argument that avoids your circular reasoning is that God created everything in it's final form. For some reason, the proponents of that view feel that for God to use evolution would signify a weakness on God's part. It implies that he could not create everything in its final (and therefore perfect) form right off the bat. Given that choice, I would prefer the added complexity of everything having been created to always remain the "perfect" version of whatever it may be, and that implies the ability to continuously adapt; that in turn implies evolution or a similar mechanism.
...you really can't get much more Free than that. Somewhat in reference to the "American Dream" thread: Freedom includes the right to die, to fail, and to not have a safety net. In fact, it requires that those possibilities exist and therefore happen from time to time, given a limited set of resources.
Just like an OSS project will spring forth if the need arises, once that need is gone there is no necessity for the project to exist, let alone continue growing. However, as long as one OSS developer still exists that has a need for the project (see "ecological niche"), the project will live. If it dies and then someday the need arises, a project very similar will arise in an example of parallel evolution.
Honeywell DDP-516's a.k.a. IMP's. An entire freestanding computer just to offload the network traffic! So robust that you could hook just the IMPs up to the 'network' and have them communicate amongst themselves -WITHOUT THEIR HOST COMPUTERS!
A little perspective: A $10 NIC is 'smart' enough with the system turned off to monitor traffic for smart packets meant for its MAC...
Depending on the altitude and proximity to a large urban metropolis, it may be more like a suburban raised bed garden!
Okay, serious on-the-cheap answer is the 802.11g AP's or routers linked together. A question for the OP: Aren't most of the buildings close together and what is out on the fifth acre corner that needs wireless access? Measurement equipment I could understand, but you don't need 802.11g for that...
A few readers have pointed out that the magnetic field from an 80mm fan is probably nowhere near strong enough to penetrate the metal platter cover, let alone affect the bits on the platters themselves. Then one reader mentioned that if the fan was mounted on the underside, it would have to go throught the PCB as well. Can a fan motor induce enough current in the PCB traces to cause data errors (or CRC-type errors and thereby slow down data transfer)? What about all those fancy-but-cheap (look, it's UV reactive!) unshielded round cables that no longer have a ground next to each data line? I wonder if that might be one more reason not to have 12 fans in one case, but have not seen the issue addressed...
"if MS do anything in the open source UNIX space, it'll more likely be with FreeBSD"
Um, do a grep of your C:\WinNT and subs for the word "University". You will find it in files like ftp.exe, nslookup.exe, shdoclc.dll and various others. The word grepped for is from the University of California, Berkeley copyright, aka BSD...the usage of *BSD code goes way back to the original Windows NT.
Linux becomes the next-gen equivalent of C#, C++, java, you name it. Nothing more than a development platform for applications.
Think about it: if the "hardware" is standardized, there is no need for developers to create drivers anymore.
Biggest compaint among Linux users when new hardware comes out? "Doesn't work with XYZ video chipset" and "hey, is anyone gonna make a driver for my obscure WXY transponstermatic"? and the like. Once users realize they can run their Linux specific apps on a windows box for which the drivers are perfect, they won't load Linux as an OS. Linux as a native OS never conquers the desktop.
You used to package.OCX's with your application, then.DLL's; next it will be a whole mini-linux, acting as nothing more than libraries for a single application, running on a Windows desktop PC...
Open Source was stated as a preference; you will have to use a simple faucet attachement as most bidets are manufactured under proprietary patents. Now, for the twine you could roll your own, quite literally. Same for the paper clips. The gum is going to be trickier...
DAMN! Fed the troll again. Hey, where's the end of my finger?
Just for kicks (and because our office was being shut down and we had the time), I set up a VirtualPC window as a distcc server with a couple more VPC windows as clients. Each gets its own IP at "boot". Worked great, although performance sucked, of course. I never did get to the point of finding out if the packets ever leave the host PC (some actual work came in)...
Meanwhile, Microsoft OS sales will not only continue as normal, but by assimilating Linux and OSS in a vitual way, the threat is eliminated as you still need Desktop and Server OS's, by Microsoft, to run the show...
"they are also going to license their virtual disk format royalty free"
Now, if MS at some point included VPC on every desktop OS -don't laugh, it could happen, say five years from now- think of the possibilities.
An "application" could be comprised of a very minimalist custom OS + only the specific functionality for the application needed. With a virtualized PC, you've got a completely standardized hardware platform, although one that is hardly performance oriented. For instance, the older VirtualPC used what, a virtualized 2-d video chipset without much "hardware" acceleration. You could package up an entire single-application Linux system in a very optimized disk file. The O/S need never be seen by the user.
The next step will be customized vitual hardware+driver modules for VPC plugin, consisting of vitualized higher performance video chipsets, RAID, etc. Instead of "DLL" hell, ten years from now we'll have some sort of virtual hardware hell as the single simple standardized vitural hardware platform expands...
I've seen the chronological "notes" fields and attached docs in a good tracking system work in much the same manner as a Wiki, with the "added feature" of an audit trail. If the tracking system allows the linking of projects & bugs with both heirarchical and lateral links, you end up with a only slightly chaotic tree that at least contains all of the communication that occured between the original spec docs, programmers, testers and marketing. Not the prettiest thing to slog through, but if you have a good search tool built in, it does serve the purpose and by definition is always up to date. The key is to avoid using email and drive-by verbal transfers of knowledge; keep it all in the audit trail. Nicer still if it links to your version control system so that the comments for each feature and bug have a notation to the code that implements or fixes.
The question is: how many times will a document be consulted in the future vs. how much time, effort and cost do we want to incur to make it perfect? By creating ad hoc documentation via a searchable communication tool (tracking system), you incur no extra cost yet all of the information is there someday if you need it.
Thanks for saving the mod points for something really important.
However, the question of plurality is applied to the subject of the sentence, not the object of the verb. In this case, the subject is a pronoun ("it" or "they") which refers back to the "ATM's" (plural) in "the bank I work for started upgrading our ATM's to 3DES". And yes, "ATM's" should be "ATMs", but I am quoting the original. I did make a mistake, however; "They" should not have been capitalized.
My goal was not to focus on the grammar, but rather to point out that the parent was labeling someone "stupid" simply because they do not value the same areas of knowledge. I am guessing that some of those "undertrained" tellers have skills and knowledge that have nothing to do with ATMs. It is more likely that some of those tellers have far more political and social skills than the parent poster. "Started out as a teller" is in many a manager's or vice president's corporate biography. Some of those "stupid" people will likely be your boss someday. Or the V.P. above your boss. They will still be clueless regarding the technology the bank uses, but that is not what they do. They, not you, will be making the decision as to whether you get to keep your job in IT. Who is more "stupid" at that point in time? Much as it leaves a certain taste in our mouths, we have to remember that we _serve_ the business of the corporation, not the other way around. It's how we get to play with the really good toys; we don't own them and often never could.
You know, before writing in such a condescending manner about the "stupid" tellers who don't know how to use an ATM from the backside, you might consider learning how to use the English language.
It's "based", not "bassed" and "procedure", not "proceedure". "Acutally" I can only assume was actually supposed to be "actually". Oh, and "stand point" is one word, "standpoint". "It uses regular Windows" should be "They use regular Windows"; plurality matters. I won't even get into the structure of that sentence. "The Windows ATM actually have help screens" should be the plural "Windows ATMs", with no apostrophe since the "M" is not lowercase.
Finally, "tellers" is plural, but "teller's" is possessive, as in "hold the teller's hand", which is what I believe was what you wanted, but that will never happen if you do not treat them with the respect another human being deserves.
Language and writing are tools like any other and you are obviously, well, "undertrained".
The April 30th 2003 Slashdot article links to a more technical, well written Dr. Dobbs article about the HP 2000C's date-exiry chipped carts from...September 2002! Oh, what the hell, here's a link for the lazy:
Of course, it would help if they made graphs available of the average of all the "sensors". Interesting to see how many spikes there were that did not coincide with a "Disturbance in the Force"...
And actually, because of the number of people in the class, you will get only a $1.50 voucher, good toward the purchase of any current Valve product. By the way, the lawyers "representing" you made off with $7.10 million from the settlement, have a nice day!
How many of the folks complaining bought Steam-powered games *knowing* about the server-connection requirement and bought anyway because they "just have to play it, it's soooo cool"?
I am guessing "plenty".
To all the people complaining that knew about the connection restriction before purchasing: The connection requirement is part of the product. There will be no lawsuit; you are getting exactly what you paid for. If you don't like it...don't...buy...their...products.
Thanks. Interesting, yes, but not so odd when you consider that we Americans appear downright terrified, yet fascinated with women's breasts. Show the top, sides or bottom of your breasts and it's sexy. Display an obvious nipple projection and it's sexy. Show areola skin or worse yet, an actual nipple(!) and you've crossed the line. We actually project quite a few such dichotomies...
Thanks for pointing out the origin of tubgirl. I'm no conspiracy theorist; just trying to make a point about obscenity being relative. Actually, you help me make that point if you are serious about the pubic hair. Could you expand on that a little, please?
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Nice link, sparky!
Looks like the main page is now on a wiki:
http://wiki.linuxbios.org/index.php/Main_Page
The usual argument that avoids your circular reasoning is that God created everything in it's final form. For some reason, the proponents of that view feel that for God to use evolution would signify a weakness on God's part. It implies that he could not create everything in its final (and therefore perfect) form right off the bat. Given that choice, I would prefer the added complexity of everything having been created to always remain the "perfect" version of whatever it may be, and that implies the ability to continuously adapt; that in turn implies evolution or a similar mechanism.
Just like an OSS project will spring forth if the need arises, once that need is gone there is no necessity for the project to exist, let alone continue growing. However, as long as one OSS developer still exists that has a need for the project (see "ecological niche"), the project will live. If it dies and then someday the need arises, a project very similar will arise in an example of parallel evolution.
A little perspective: A $10 NIC is 'smart' enough with the system turned off to monitor traffic for smart packets meant for its MAC...
Okay, serious on-the-cheap answer is the 802.11g AP's or routers linked together. A question for the OP: Aren't most of the buildings close together and what is out on the fifth acre corner that needs wireless access? Measurement equipment I could understand, but you don't need 802.11g for that...
A few readers have pointed out that the magnetic field from an 80mm fan is probably nowhere near strong enough to penetrate the metal platter cover, let alone affect the bits on the platters themselves. Then one reader mentioned that if the fan was mounted on the underside, it would have to go throught the PCB as well. Can a fan motor induce enough current in the PCB traces to cause data errors (or CRC-type errors and thereby slow down data transfer)? What about all those fancy-but-cheap (look, it's UV reactive!) unshielded round cables that no longer have a ground next to each data line? I wonder if that might be one more reason not to have 12 fans in one case, but have not seen the issue addressed...
Um, do a grep of your C:\WinNT and subs for the word "University". You will find it in files like ftp.exe, nslookup.exe, shdoclc.dll and various others. The word grepped for is from the University of California, Berkeley copyright, aka BSD...the usage of *BSD code goes way back to the original Windows NT.
...somewhere around the time someone said something complex, like how a sandbox works...
Think about it: if the "hardware" is standardized, there is no need for developers to create drivers anymore.
Biggest compaint among Linux users when new hardware comes out? "Doesn't work with XYZ video chipset" and "hey, is anyone gonna make a driver for my obscure WXY transponstermatic"? and the like. Once users realize they can run their Linux specific apps on a windows box for which the drivers are perfect, they won't load Linux as an OS. Linux as a native OS never conquers the desktop.
You used to package .OCX's with your application, then .DLL's; next it will be a whole mini-linux, acting as nothing more than libraries for a single application, running on a Windows desktop PC...
DAMN! Fed the troll again. Hey, where's the end of my finger?
Just for kicks (and because our office was being shut down and we had the time), I set up a VirtualPC window as a distcc server with a couple more VPC windows as clients. Each gets its own IP at "boot". Worked great, although performance sucked, of course. I never did get to the point of finding out if the packets ever leave the host PC (some actual work came in)...
-The VirtualOS, that is.
Meanwhile, Microsoft OS sales will not only continue as normal, but by assimilating Linux and OSS in a vitual way, the threat is eliminated as you still need Desktop and Server OS's, by Microsoft, to run the show...
MS Press release, 2007:
"New distribution format makes the OS irrelevant"
"they are also going to license their virtual disk format royalty free"
Now, if MS at some point included VPC on every desktop OS -don't laugh, it could happen, say five years from now- think of the possibilities.
An "application" could be comprised of a very minimalist custom OS + only the specific functionality for the application needed. With a virtualized PC, you've got a completely standardized hardware platform, although one that is hardly performance oriented. For instance, the older VirtualPC used what, a virtualized 2-d video chipset without much "hardware" acceleration. You could package up an entire single-application Linux system in a very optimized disk file. The O/S need never be seen by the user.
The next step will be customized vitual hardware+driver modules for VPC plugin, consisting of vitualized higher performance video chipsets, RAID, etc. Instead of "DLL" hell, ten years from now we'll have some sort of virtual hardware hell as the single simple standardized vitural hardware platform expands...
The question is: how many times will a document be consulted in the future vs. how much time, effort and cost do we want to incur to make it perfect? By creating ad hoc documentation via a searchable communication tool (tracking system), you incur no extra cost yet all of the information is there someday if you need it.
Even if they had porn, with those short little arms, what good would it do them?
However, the question of plurality is applied to the subject of the sentence, not the object of the verb. In this case, the subject is a pronoun ("it" or "they") which refers back to the "ATM's" (plural) in "the bank I work for started upgrading our ATM's to 3DES". And yes, "ATM's" should be "ATMs", but I am quoting the original. I did make a mistake, however; "They" should not have been capitalized.
My goal was not to focus on the grammar, but rather to point out that the parent was labeling someone "stupid" simply because they do not value the same areas of knowledge. I am guessing that some of those "undertrained" tellers have skills and knowledge that have nothing to do with ATMs. It is more likely that some of those tellers have far more political and social skills than the parent poster. "Started out as a teller" is in many a manager's or vice president's corporate biography. Some of those "stupid" people will likely be your boss someday. Or the V.P. above your boss. They will still be clueless regarding the technology the bank uses, but that is not what they do. They, not you, will be making the decision as to whether you get to keep your job in IT. Who is more "stupid" at that point in time? Much as it leaves a certain taste in our mouths, we have to remember that we _serve_ the business of the corporation, not the other way around. It's how we get to play with the really good toys; we don't own them and often never could.
2. Collect debris left on the moon
3. Profit!!!
(c'mon, it was what, 1979? Too young to know what I'm talking about? Here:
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/9 782/salvage1.html
It's "based", not "bassed" and "procedure", not "proceedure". "Acutally" I can only assume was actually supposed to be "actually". Oh, and "stand point" is one word, "standpoint". "It uses regular Windows" should be "They use regular Windows"; plurality matters. I won't even get into the structure of that sentence. "The Windows ATM actually have help screens" should be the plural "Windows ATMs", with no apostrophe since the "M" is not lowercase.
Finally, "tellers" is plural, but "teller's" is possessive, as in "hold the teller's hand", which is what I believe was what you wanted, but that will never happen if you do not treat them with the respect another human being deserves.
Language and writing are tools like any other and you are obviously, well, "undertrained".
The April 30th 2003 Slashdot article links to a more technical, well written Dr. Dobbs article about the HP 2000C's date-exiry chipped carts from...September 2002! Oh, what the hell, here's a link for the lazy:
http://www.ddjembedded.com/resources/articles/2002 /0209k/0209k.htm
Of course, it would help if they made graphs available of the average of all the "sensors". Interesting to see how many spikes there were that did not coincide with a "Disturbance in the Force"...
My point is that /.'ers have been complaining about Steam since day one and yet continue to purchase their products...
And actually, because of the number of people in the class, you will get only a $1.50 voucher, good toward the purchase of any current Valve product. By the way, the lawyers "representing" you made off with $7.10 million from the settlement, have a nice day!
How many of the folks complaining bought Steam-powered games *knowing* about the server-connection requirement and bought anyway because they "just have to play it, it's soooo cool"?
I am guessing "plenty".
To all the people complaining that knew about the connection restriction before purchasing: The connection requirement is part of the product. There will be no lawsuit; you are getting exactly what you paid for. If you don't like it...don't...buy...their...products.
Thanks. Interesting, yes, but not so odd when you consider that we Americans appear downright terrified, yet fascinated with women's breasts. Show the top, sides or bottom of your breasts and it's sexy. Display an obvious nipple projection and it's sexy. Show areola skin or worse yet, an actual nipple(!) and you've crossed the line. We actually project quite a few such dichotomies...
Thanks for pointing out the origin of tubgirl. I'm no conspiracy theorist; just trying to make a point about obscenity being relative. Actually, you help me make that point if you are serious about the pubic hair. Could you expand on that a little, please?