This is why I chose a college that is removed from all that. It turns out for the best. There was nothing left but to teach and learn. Little else going on. You could take your studies as far as you wanted.
Most bigger schools, especially the higher up you go mostly turn out people who have all of this. In a school like say Harvard you're paying to be in a specific culture. A very bad culture with greed, corruption and the naieve.
"Work has never been simply about time for money. It's about "work" for money. Employers don't just want your time, they want results."
It goes a lot further than that. Nowadays results isn't the only thing many employers want. When your work is done. They expect more. Many exmployers expect them to always come first no matter what. Working 40 hour weeks is now something that's "not being loyal" or "not going above and beyond for the good of the company" or "not good enough". In the last year productivity in the US went up 15%. Even with computers, more organized work place, the average US citizen works more hours than ever before. That's not results that's taking advantage of people.
Thanks! One of the biggest current cliches is "Well, I have nothing to hide." In response to cameras on street, Patriot Act, etc. When that's not the point at all.
In some ways we live in a self emposed police state. Where we just accept that we work more hours than every before but productivity increase says we should be working less. What makes business owners so special. It might sound naive. But, my view is, it's just another person. Nothing makes them special. If they out of business too bad. We're not alive for them. The country was NOT founded on Capitalism. I don't recall people coming here to open up the first Starbucks.
"Problem is, once you've made that mistake its nigh impossible to go back and correct it in many cases. When I posted on usenet in the 80's the concept of a usenet archive that might be easily search seemed kind of out there. I think todays kids have a hard time understanding that in a few years they might not be proud of their hard partying lifestyle, etc."
It's a dangeroug message to send out there. Soon, you won't allowed to make any mistakes before the expectation of "pefection" is not met and you can't get a job anywhere. People aren't perfect and all the internet does is to show that. It's a dumb idea to use it to measure people. "Oh my, it's a picture of him giving the finger to someone, let's not hire him." No wonder why people are so uptight and jackasses. All because a small minority that aren't as bright as they might think send a message down to their lackeys look for this stuff. What happened to work being an exchange of time for money, not signing your life away like it's become.
My last employer was a huge crook. "You'll live your life when I let you.". Is the message he sent. Every conference call was a forum for him to stand up and say "I'm better than you because I have money. That's why so and so had no right to talk down to me." Meanwhile he was paying people barely enough to survive on a 1099 though we were employees for work that was $40,000/year at minimum. Meanwhile insulting everyone everyday. Threatening to sue me when I filed unemployment. He fires me for refusing to do unreleated work at another site yet tells the UC that I was "self-employed". My previous employer was even worse. So you could see in my first two jobs out of college I've had the worst of the worst. So, my initial impression is worse than it should be. It's been a battle just to maintain basic dignity.
It's things like this that are piling up that are making people less fun, less interesting, more paranoid and a shitty society.
We spend more time worrying that what we say may offend someone, say or do something that might "not look good to potential employers". That we bottle everything up, and then start shooting people to let it out. Poking fun at someone, or having a wild night out and taking a picture used to not cost people their jobs.
Granted it's the internet and it would be better to keep things in your house amoungst your closest friends. We're in a state of fear in this country over things coming from all sides. There's places in this country that want cameras in people's apartments. Now you have to watch yourself all the time or some moron in a suit will find out about it and fire you or not hire you. They're getting too much control over everyone's lives.
There should be a dividing line. It's a grey area in what they get ahold of that I would consider discrimination if they use it in their hiring decision. It's not hard to protect your information, but there are areas where it would be inappropriate for one to scour.
I'm sure he doesn't mean it this way in the article. But as an introvert, these sort of ideas I don't like. It means while the project is going on I'm spending so little time recharging that it'll turn into a disaster for me. His ideas don't take into account life happens, there should always be time for some of the little things.
The memory is still bloated. But it's clear there have been some improvements in that area. The issue is at least still under some control. But you are all correct, it is a caching issue.
Memory is now usually released back to the system. As in 1.0.6 when you closed a window, the cache for the page in memory was never released. When I close a tab, I see memory drop. I just had two broswer windows open and about 4 tabs in each, took up 80Mb. After closing the other window, I'm now at 65Mb. Still too much though. At least it doesn't continue to bloat until it reaches 200Mb and crash. Oh and I've had this window open all day, so that is a plus.
We have a fairly large scale email system. There are 180,000 email accounts on the system. All can be used. But only 8,000 are really truely active users. We use maildirs to store the emails. Adding vpopmail, spamassassin, virus scanning to the pipeline does not slow anything down. Performance is great. It is not even a good machine. Plus I have had 100% uptime so far on it. If they go this route, vpopmail takes full advantage of relational databases for authentication. It speeds that up dramatically. It is a pretty neat system though.
Maybe, maybe not. We've never gone through a period where there might be a turnover in the technology for home video in 10 years or less. We don't know how they'll handle it.
Certainly DVDs aren't going to go by the wayside right away. But, DVDs weren't created for HDTVs. People who invested in them up to now will want their money's worth. When everyone has one in 2-3 years. They will also be upset. We'll see a coexistence for a while.
Definitely the biggest problem is the fact that there's such a huge DVD library out there and it's only been a few years so people won't want to update it. But I don't think we're going to see a massive push to update everything to DVD. Only the biggest movies at first. I think that process will be very slow.
The PS1 and PS2 were sold at a loss of $150 per unit for the first year. They don't really care. To beat Microsoft they might be willing to lose more than that. I still say the price won't be higher than $400. For 5-6 years of entertainment, that's worth it. Now to come up with the money.
The point is over the next two to three years, Everyone will have an HD set. In fact this Christmas you'll likely see HD sets being gobbled up left and right. The reason is the price of sets will decrease dramatically through November. You have to take the next 5 years into account not just now.
I've always felt that either is a good option. To play recent games, you need to upgrade the hardware all the time in your PC. Either way, if you like to play a lot, it's expensive. I play mostly on console for the one time price on the console. But, this time games cost even more, so I might wait a while. But I only buy 3-4 games a year anyway, so it's not that big a deal.
No matter what I would still be suprised at a price > $400. If they feel it's necessary to compete they will price it at $300. They know the lessons of Jaguar.
The consoles lose money for a long time after they are released. Sony has more vested interest to saturate Blu-Ray and have it become the standard of choice for HD video. Lots more money to be made there than on a console. It's like giving away free donuts in hopes that people buy the coffee.
RIDGE isn't live. It's at the same as the reflextivity radar. It can actually be further behind from time to time. It's just an interactive version of that radar.
"Why is this relevant? You think Microsoft would change the standard so that no existing RSS reader on any platform could handle it? That's bullshit. Since RSS is based on XML it's easy to extend and add features to it that will simply be ignored by existing readers.
Microsoft are big on XML. Their new office format will be completely open and XML compliant. I see no reason to believe that Microsoft will "basterdize" the RSS format, a format that has to be compatible with existing readers for its uptake to be guaranteed (i.e. no RSS publisher will embrace the extensions if they are incompatible with the majority of reader apps). The most Microsoft will do is say "Hey, you get a better RSS experience if you use the reader included in Longhorn since it is compatible with the new RSS extensions introduced by Microsoft".
I think this is solely to do with improving usability and enhancing user experience, which is what Microsoft desperately need to do if Longhorn is going to beat OS X, and as someone who's written RSS parsers I welcome this addition to the standard, it seems like a really practical and useful idea."
You could make the same argument in their HTML implementations. That sometimes screws up things for other browsers. Even on important or popular web pages.
I know what you're saying. There's no time on the article. But it could've been posted before 3AM on the 15th. It was just very little warning. Also, the storm is still going on even now. Plus there can be additional minor storms over the next day. In fact I just got an email warning me that Kp has reached 6.0. Which is high for where I am now.
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You can also sign up for AuroraChasers. This will only give you a few minutes warning though. But it will tell you the exact Kp projection for your area. It's helpful if you want to see auroras.
I knew someone with AS. He went to college and was in our little circle. I even lived with him for a short time. If I had to guess I'd say he had mildly severe AS. He violated people's space all the time. He'd want to know what you were eating and would have his face an inch or so from your food. Saying hi was a in your face experience.
The kid was smart, but not super smart. He'd try so hard but would end up jumbling everything he learned. Confusing one fact with another. His problem was he'd believe anything anyone said to him. He definitely had preoccupations. Spaghetti was the main course every dinner. Despite his anability to function around many people, we liked him the same. Always had some great new fact for us.
It's not a guarantee that they'll have a higher IQ. It's not an east thing to deal with. It could reach the point of self confusion. It's not fun when you work on a weather map, draw everything in. It's full of high end stuff, but it's all wrong, or doesn't make sense. I feel sorry because it may not have any possitive sides for some.
That's not exactly what I meant. I mean he has to use ifs to accomodate for a hell of a lot more than he should have to. Granted, a lot of it comes from him being very inpatient and sloppy.
Example, instead of modifying the authentication script to balk if someone tries to change the customer ID to someone that doesn't belong to them. Since the customer ID can be found in the link after the form is posted. No, he inserts an if into each and every script that checks make sure the customer belongs to the user.
It's a poor example, but the only one I can think of off hand. But you can see the trouble and wasted time it will get him into. When it's simple to make sure that this only has to be written once. Basically he see something, writes and if for it case by case. Instead of figuring out how he can make it a one step process.
Someone I work for uses GET for everything. He finds it easier. Just because it's on HTTPS doesn't mean we can just let it go. This is why he uses so many if statements to accomodate people altering the links. So the site which is for customer managment of dialup, DSL, customers looks like it was written by two people. I'd be all set in what I wrote. I wonder what else he has.
I'm not an very experienced coder yet and I have a lot to learn. But even I figured out to avoid GET like the plague.
It was only in competition for loyalty. Star Trek episodes haven't aired in a while time in the same slot. It's not an excuse for season 4's ratings.
What they did was effectively put the nail in the coffin themselves with the scheduling. Enterprise at 8PM. Stargate SG-1 at 8PM. I wonder which one is going to win with the reputation each show has. It's also competing with the rest of the shows on Sci-Fi Friday. The only chance they had was to move the show when SG-1 was moved into the same slot to add Atlantis. I still believe that the should should've aired syndicated like TNG was. It's be more likely to attract viewers being placed in less competitive slots.
Seems that people on here think they stopped producing $2 bills in the 1976 series. The policy on $2 bills is to produce them only when quantities are sufficiently low. They produced more in 1996 under the 1995 series.
Also quantities are getting very low. Even after only 9 or so years. They believe they'll print mroe by 2006.
They're very much alive. But as someone said, they mostly just take up space.
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This is why I chose a college that is removed from all that. It turns out for the best. There was nothing left but to teach and learn. Little else going on. You could take your studies as far as you wanted.
Most bigger schools, especially the higher up you go mostly turn out people who have all of this. In a school like say Harvard you're paying to be in a specific culture. A very bad culture with greed, corruption and the naieve.
"Work has never been simply about time for money. It's about "work" for money. Employers don't just want your time, they want results." It goes a lot further than that. Nowadays results isn't the only thing many employers want. When your work is done. They expect more. Many exmployers expect them to always come first no matter what. Working 40 hour weeks is now something that's "not being loyal" or "not going above and beyond for the good of the company" or "not good enough". In the last year productivity in the US went up 15%. Even with computers, more organized work place, the average US citizen works more hours than ever before. That's not results that's taking advantage of people.
Thanks! One of the biggest current cliches is "Well, I have nothing to hide." In response to cameras on street, Patriot Act, etc. When that's not the point at all.
In some ways we live in a self emposed police state. Where we just accept that we work more hours than every before but productivity increase says we should be working less. What makes business owners so special. It might sound naive. But, my view is, it's just another person. Nothing makes them special. If they out of business too bad. We're not alive for them. The country was NOT founded on Capitalism. I don't recall people coming here to open up the first Starbucks.
"Problem is, once you've made that mistake its nigh impossible to go back and correct it in many cases. When I posted on usenet in the 80's the concept of a usenet archive that might be easily search seemed kind of out there. I think todays kids have a hard time understanding that in a few years they might not be proud of their hard partying lifestyle, etc."
It's a dangeroug message to send out there. Soon, you won't allowed to make any mistakes before the expectation of "pefection" is not met and you can't get a job anywhere. People aren't perfect and all the internet does is to show that. It's a dumb idea to use it to measure people. "Oh my, it's a picture of him giving the finger to someone, let's not hire him." No wonder why people are so uptight and jackasses. All because a small minority that aren't as bright as they might think send a message down to their lackeys look for this stuff. What happened to work being an exchange of time for money, not signing your life away like it's become.
My last employer was a huge crook. "You'll live your life when I let you.". Is the message he sent. Every conference call was a forum for him to stand up and say "I'm better than you because I have money. That's why so and so had no right to talk down to me." Meanwhile he was paying people barely enough to survive on a 1099 though we were employees for work that was $40,000/year at minimum. Meanwhile insulting everyone everyday. Threatening to sue me when I filed unemployment. He fires me for refusing to do unreleated work at another site yet tells the UC that I was "self-employed". My previous employer was even worse. So you could see in my first two jobs out of college I've had the worst of the worst. So, my initial impression is worse than it should be. It's been a battle just to maintain basic dignity.
It's things like this that are piling up that are making people less fun, less interesting, more paranoid and a shitty society. We spend more time worrying that what we say may offend someone, say or do something that might "not look good to potential employers". That we bottle everything up, and then start shooting people to let it out. Poking fun at someone, or having a wild night out and taking a picture used to not cost people their jobs. Granted it's the internet and it would be better to keep things in your house amoungst your closest friends. We're in a state of fear in this country over things coming from all sides. There's places in this country that want cameras in people's apartments. Now you have to watch yourself all the time or some moron in a suit will find out about it and fire you or not hire you. They're getting too much control over everyone's lives.
There should be a dividing line. It's a grey area in what they get ahold of that I would consider discrimination if they use it in their hiring decision. It's not hard to protect your information, but there are areas where it would be inappropriate for one to scour.
I'm sure he doesn't mean it this way in the article. But as an introvert, these sort of ideas I don't like. It means while the project is going on I'm spending so little time recharging that it'll turn into a disaster for me. His ideas don't take into account life happens, there should always be time for some of the little things.
The memory is still bloated. But it's clear there have been some improvements in that area. The issue is at least still under some control. But you are all correct, it is a caching issue. Memory is now usually released back to the system. As in 1.0.6 when you closed a window, the cache for the page in memory was never released. When I close a tab, I see memory drop. I just had two broswer windows open and about 4 tabs in each, took up 80Mb. After closing the other window, I'm now at 65Mb. Still too much though. At least it doesn't continue to bloat until it reaches 200Mb and crash. Oh and I've had this window open all day, so that is a plus.
We have a fairly large scale email system. There are 180,000 email accounts on the system. All can be used. But only 8,000 are really truely active users. We use maildirs to store the emails. Adding vpopmail, spamassassin, virus scanning to the pipeline does not slow anything down. Performance is great. It is not even a good machine. Plus I have had 100% uptime so far on it. If they go this route, vpopmail takes full advantage of relational databases for authentication. It speeds that up dramatically. It is a pretty neat system though.
Maybe, maybe not. We've never gone through a period where there might be a turnover in the technology for home video in 10 years or less. We don't know how they'll handle it.
Certainly DVDs aren't going to go by the wayside right away. But, DVDs weren't created for HDTVs. People who invested in them up to now will want their money's worth. When everyone has one in 2-3 years. They will also be upset. We'll see a coexistence for a while.
Definitely the biggest problem is the fact that there's such a huge DVD library out there and it's only been a few years so people won't want to update it. But I don't think we're going to see a massive push to update everything to DVD. Only the biggest movies at first. I think that process will be very slow.
The PS1 and PS2 were sold at a loss of $150 per unit for the first year. They don't really care. To beat Microsoft they might be willing to lose more than that. I still say the price won't be higher than $400. For 5-6 years of entertainment, that's worth it. Now to come up with the money.
The point is over the next two to three years, Everyone will have an HD set. In fact this Christmas you'll likely see HD sets being gobbled up left and right. The reason is the price of sets will decrease dramatically through November. You have to take the next 5 years into account not just now.
I've always felt that either is a good option. To play recent games, you need to upgrade the hardware all the time in your PC. Either way, if you like to play a lot, it's expensive. I play mostly on console for the one time price on the console. But, this time games cost even more, so I might wait a while. But I only buy 3-4 games a year anyway, so it's not that big a deal.
No matter what I would still be suprised at a price > $400. If they feel it's necessary to compete they will price it at $300. They know the lessons of Jaguar. The consoles lose money for a long time after they are released. Sony has more vested interest to saturate Blu-Ray and have it become the standard of choice for HD video. Lots more money to be made there than on a console. It's like giving away free donuts in hopes that people buy the coffee.
RIDGE isn't live. It's at the same as the reflextivity radar. It can actually be further behind from time to time. It's just an interactive version of that radar.
"Why is this relevant? You think Microsoft would change the standard so that no existing RSS reader on any platform could handle it? That's bullshit. Since RSS is based on XML it's easy to extend and add features to it that will simply be ignored by existing readers.
Microsoft are big on XML. Their new office format will be completely open and XML compliant. I see no reason to believe that Microsoft will "basterdize" the RSS format, a format that has to be compatible with existing readers for its uptake to be guaranteed (i.e. no RSS publisher will embrace the extensions if they are incompatible with the majority of reader apps). The most Microsoft will do is say "Hey, you get a better RSS experience if you use the reader included in Longhorn since it is compatible with the new RSS extensions introduced by Microsoft".
I think this is solely to do with improving usability and enhancing user experience, which is what Microsoft desperately need to do if Longhorn is going to beat OS X, and as someone who's written RSS parsers I welcome this addition to the standard, it seems like a really practical and useful idea."
You could make the same argument in their HTML implementations. That sometimes screws up things for other browsers. Even on important or popular web pages.
I know what you're saying. There's no time on the article. But it could've been posted before 3AM on the 15th. It was just very little warning. Also, the storm is still going on even now. Plus there can be additional minor storms over the next day. In fact I just got an email warning me that Kp has reached 6.0. Which is high for where I am now.
You can also sign up for AuroraChasers. This will only give you a few minutes warning though. But it will tell you the exact Kp projection for your area. It's helpful if you want to see auroras.
I knew someone with AS. He went to college and was in our little circle. I even lived with him for a short time. If I had to guess I'd say he had mildly severe AS. He violated people's space all the time. He'd want to know what you were eating and would have his face an inch or so from your food. Saying hi was a in your face experience.
The kid was smart, but not super smart. He'd try so hard but would end up jumbling everything he learned. Confusing one fact with another. His problem was he'd believe anything anyone said to him. He definitely had preoccupations. Spaghetti was the main course every dinner. Despite his anability to function around many people, we liked him the same. Always had some great new fact for us.
It's not a guarantee that they'll have a higher IQ. It's not an east thing to deal with. It could reach the point of self confusion. It's not fun when you work on a weather map, draw everything in. It's full of high end stuff, but it's all wrong, or doesn't make sense. I feel sorry because it may not have any possitive sides for some.
That's not exactly what I meant. I mean he has to use ifs to accomodate for a hell of a lot more than he should have to. Granted, a lot of it comes from him being very inpatient and sloppy.
Example, instead of modifying the authentication script to balk if someone tries to change the customer ID to someone that doesn't belong to them. Since the customer ID can be found in the link after the form is posted. No, he inserts an if into each and every script that checks make sure the customer belongs to the user.
It's a poor example, but the only one I can think of off hand. But you can see the trouble and wasted time it will get him into. When it's simple to make sure that this only has to be written once. Basically he see something, writes and if for it case by case. Instead of figuring out how he can make it a one step process.
Then I forget to close my tags, that sounds like me.
Someone I work for uses GET for everything. He finds it easier. Just because it's on HTTPS doesn't mean we can just let it go. This is why he uses so many if statements to accomodate people altering the links. So the site which is for customer managment of dialup, DSL, customers looks like it was written by two people. I'd be all set in what I wrote. I wonder what else he has.
I'm not an very experienced coder yet and I have a lot to learn. But even I figured out to avoid GET like the plague.
It was only in competition for loyalty. Star Trek episodes haven't aired in a while time in the same slot. It's not an excuse for season 4's ratings. What they did was effectively put the nail in the coffin themselves with the scheduling. Enterprise at 8PM. Stargate SG-1 at 8PM. I wonder which one is going to win with the reputation each show has. It's also competing with the rest of the shows on Sci-Fi Friday. The only chance they had was to move the show when SG-1 was moved into the same slot to add Atlantis. I still believe that the should should've aired syndicated like TNG was. It's be more likely to attract viewers being placed in less competitive slots.
Correction those 2003 series $2 bills were actually printed.
Seems that people on here think they stopped producing $2 bills in the 1976 series. The policy on $2 bills is to produce them only when quantities are sufficiently low. They produced more in 1996 under the 1995 series. Also quantities are getting very low. Even after only 9 or so years. They believe they'll print mroe by 2006. They're very much alive. But as someone said, they mostly just take up space.