Basic Training (8 Weeks): Rolling in mud. Getting yelled at. Pushups. KP.
AIT (8-40 Weeks depending on MOS): "Learning" how to do your wiz-bang commo-crypto stuff from NCOs who are so incompetent that the only place the Army dare send them is . . . AIT.
First Duty Station (1-2 years): Pick up cigarette butts. Run a buffer.
Second Duty Station (1-2 years): Pick up cigarette butts. Run a buffer. Do something related to your MOS on occasion.
Third Duty Station (remainder of enlistment): Supervise the picking up of cigarette butts. Teach FNGs how to run the buffer without banging the shit out of the walls and/or exhausting themselves. Do something related to your MOS fairly regularly. Be shit upon by NCOs for every little thing that goes wrong in the unit.
"I did have a washing machine," admits Tony "And cooker, but the flat needed to look more spacious - so I got rid of it. My ex-wife does my washing now."
So, he got rid of the wife, gets to live in the ulitmate geek-pad, and she washes his dirty drawers?
I'm not at all convinced that this is inferior to a static, authoritative reference.
I read every Wikipedia article with an eye to axe grinding and incompetence. We, quite naturally, operate as if Britannica is immune to these flaws. A moment of rational though exposes the fact that it isn't.
the reader has no way to resolve the information presented to him
As opposed to what? A paper encyclopedia? Even if we assume that Britannica is 100% internally consistent, is consistency the principal value of a reference work?
I don't necessarily think that Wikipedia will or should replace more "authoritative" references. I do think it has some significant advantages. It is continuously updated. It can be instantly corrected by anyone who finds an error. It has a breadth that is unmatched by any other single reference work.
I have a JVC receiver with a USB input, which "just works" with my Fedora system. I had 13 inch TV, which was sitting right by my 18 inch LCD. Got rid of the TV, got a tuner card for the PC (which I really only use for the PS2 and the old VCR). mplayer and tvtime cover all my needs.
Why do you need IMAP? Google doesn't use folders, and the label concept does not fit well.
I couldn't disagree more. If they just treat each label as a folder for IMAP purposes it should work fine. In fact, if they are really clever (and we know they are) they could design their server so that if you create a new folder from your IMAP client it automatically "populates" using Gmail's search functionality.
I think this could all work great.
The translation wouldn't be perfect, but it would certainly be workable.
-Peter
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I meant for this to be funny, but I am indescribably disturbed by the fact that it got modded +5 Funny.
-Peter
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On second thought... that could make for some interesting Skinner experiments where we actually get to sleep for a whole night! Although the little one might not get to sleep at all, living in fear of the menacing turret monster.
What an age we live in, where people try to automate traumatizing their kids.
Listen, save the money you'd spend on this thing and just beat the hell out of the kid every time he comes to your room.
It goes beyond that. I don't have any inside scoop now, but when I worked there the Dimension MBs were just off-the-shelf Intel boards.
You have to understand that Dell's strength has nothing to do with computers and everything to do with how they do business. One element of this is their relationships with vendors. Obviously the two most significant vendors are Intel and Microsoft.
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Sucker. Here's the real scoop. (Assuming Army)
Basic Training (8 Weeks): Rolling in mud. Getting yelled at. Pushups. KP.
AIT (8-40 Weeks depending on MOS): "Learning" how to do your wiz-bang commo-crypto stuff from NCOs who are so incompetent that the only place the Army dare send them is . . . AIT.
First Duty Station (1-2 years): Pick up cigarette butts. Run a buffer.
Second Duty Station (1-2 years): Pick up cigarette butts. Run a buffer. Do something related to your MOS on occasion.
Third Duty Station (remainder of enlistment): Supervise the picking up of cigarette butts. Teach FNGs how to run the buffer without banging the shit out of the walls and/or exhausting themselves. Do something related to your MOS fairly regularly. Be shit upon by NCOs for every little thing that goes wrong in the unit.
Enjoy.
-Peter
So, he got rid of the wife, gets to live in the ulitmate geek-pad, and she washes his dirty drawers?
I have a new hero.
-Peter
Eh. It's a wash once you pay the insurance on the fusion generator.
-Peter
Stays at Yucca Mountain.
As recently reported in The Onion.
-Peter
Literally, there's a whole department, almost, that takes care of it.
Just when I thought my opinion of Balmer couldn't sink any lower.
-Peter
That does not make sense.
-Peter
I think this was established in "Blade Runner."
Anyone have an earlier example?
-Peter
If you cheat by yourself you're only cheating . . .
That didn't work out as well as I'd hoped.
-Peter
I grant you everything you've said.
I'm not at all convinced that this is inferior to a static, authoritative reference.
I read every Wikipedia article with an eye to axe grinding and incompetence. We, quite naturally, operate as if Britannica is immune to these flaws. A moment of rational though exposes the fact that it isn't.
-Peter
Well, I'm just about to undertake watching all this on DVD.
Thanks for the spoiler warning, you lone gunman fuck.
-Peter
As opposed to what? A paper encyclopedia? Even if we assume that Britannica is 100% internally consistent, is consistency the principal value of a reference work?
I don't necessarily think that Wikipedia will or should replace more "authoritative" references. I do think it has some significant advantages. It is continuously updated. It can be instantly corrected by anyone who finds an error. It has a breadth that is unmatched by any other single reference work.
Oh, and it's free.
Pretty amazing.
Try this.
-Peter
That's really amazing. I did the same think with my sisters. We'd go with the same two cars 'till one couldn't roll, though.
Wild.
-Peter
Segway Vs. Roomba
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Screenplay by Peter Hutnick
INT. CAVE - NIGHT
A ROOMBA crouches over the remains of an expensive persian rug. It
hears a CLUNK and looks up.
CUT TO:
EXT. CAVE - NIGHT
A SEGWAY drops to the ground from it's ship with a CLUNK. It surveys
the mouth of the cave . .
-Peter
Touché.
-Peter
Who draws the line between "skeptic" and "stupid contrarian?"
-Peter
Ah, who could ever forget the Great Ham Purge of aught-one?
WTF?
-Peter
What the police do is, for the most part, a matter of public record. This is a good thing, as it lets us see what the police are up to.
The price, however, is that arrests (of adults) are a matter of public record.
Once something is on the public record, simple market economics determine if it will be widely published.
If you have a way to mitigate this price that doesn't involve letting the police operate in secret or censoring the media I'm all ears.
-Peter
I hate to gratuitously reject your argument, but why not? I don't see any problem with this at all.
You are aware that IMAP works on a "headers on demand" basis? And that an IMAP server works as a sort of email database?
-Peter
I have a JVC receiver with a USB input, which "just works" with my Fedora system. I had 13 inch TV, which was sitting right by my 18 inch LCD. Got rid of the TV, got a tuner card for the PC (which I really only use for the PS2 and the old VCR). mplayer and tvtime cover all my needs.
-Peter
I couldn't disagree more. If they just treat each label as a folder for IMAP purposes it should work fine. In fact, if they are really clever (and we know they are) they could design their server so that if you create a new folder from your IMAP client it automatically "populates" using Gmail's search functionality.
I think this could all work great.
The translation wouldn't be perfect, but it would certainly be workable.
-Peter
I meant for this to be funny, but I am indescribably disturbed by the fact that it got modded +5 Funny.
-Peter
What an age we live in, where people try to automate traumatizing their kids.
Listen, save the money you'd spend on this thing and just beat the hell out of the kid every time he comes to your room.
I recommend a belt.
-Peter
It goes beyond that. I don't have any inside scoop now, but when I worked there the Dimension MBs were just off-the-shelf Intel boards.
You have to understand that Dell's strength has nothing to do with computers and everything to do with how they do business. One element of this is their relationships with vendors. Obviously the two most significant vendors are Intel and Microsoft.
-Peter
Ooh, I have a new sig!
-Peter