I completely agree. Congress needs to work on more attainable issues, like bringing peace to the Middle East. I don't think that word means what you think it means...
What I like specifically about Penn is that he has no compunctions about his sex life, his morality, and his ethos, thus he has virtually no skeletons in his closet. Furthermore, I like his views on laws, that pragmatically some are needed, but the vast majority are a waste. Also, I think that he would support my proposal of one law per vote, not our current 4-5 laws piled up as riders on a "must pass" bill, that (as Penn would say) is bullshit. -nB
Sadly yes. Many people do not take the time to research any of the issues (even I don't research them all) and rely on their "roll model" (snoop dog, Rush, local DJ, Tom Sullivan (me)) to determine how to vote on people and issues. I research most of the issues, and usually (9/10?) Tom and I are of the similar enough opinion to vote the same, thus if I am short on an issue I usually follow his lead.
The vast majority of Americans either do as above (but without looking for themselves), or have so totally given up on the system that they don't even vote. It's quite sad, really. If Ross Perot ran today, I bet he'd win. Anyone know whether Penn Gelette (sp?) was born in the US? Man oh man I'd vote for him and Teller in a fcsking heartbeat.
I mean better in richness of bass notes, and in "fit and finish" as bot my Chinese violins show imperfections that are not present on German or American instruments (and honestly inexcusable) such as bumps and pits in the lacquer, divots in the wood that are filled with putty and then lacquered over. Little things. Like I said, they are an excellent value, but they are by no means yet equal to the high end German or American instruments.
Well, I usually disagree with you (and you with me apparently by your "freak status" but you gave me an idea:
"dear MS, my company can not afford enough licenses for office for our entire staff. We will be switching to OOo shortly, unless you would prefer to license office for $xx.xx per copy. Thanks, IT guy"
I'm going to pick a nit. The Chinese violins are for the most part easily tagged as such once you get at or above the intermediate/advanced student grades. Now, the value of the Chinese units is enormous, but the quality is not. I have two violins(one American of German labor, one advanced student Chinese), and one viola(Chinese), and have had the opportunity to play a very fine German unit. The tone of the Chinese instruments is not as rich in the base notes where the individual instruments can show a lot of difference. I think this is because the bass bar is not "just so" in the Chinese instruments.
Again, the value of the Chinese instruments (especially for a beginner) is phenomenal. -nB
In all fairness it is vastly easier to use cmd if you understand it is sh's retarded cousin. also, if you are used to hopping between KDE and Gnome, then windows doesn't hold much issue. going the other way, however, can be somewhat problematic.
I grew up on hand me down computers. My dad bought a 286 when they were the latest and greatest, I ended up with an NEC8000 system (C/PM), a convergent technologies box (unknown... SYS IV?), a programmable HP terminal that printed on thermal tape and programmed in BASIC, and ultimately the 286. I continued getting hand me downs, and finally picked up slackware (3.2) and tried it out. I have so many OS's that moving around in them was not so much an issue. FFwd a decade and a half and I use only three os's: Win XP, Win2Kas, and ubuntu. I continually dabble in Linux, but never can make the entire leap for some weird reason (known as a wife). -nB
And that is because hackers are much better at retaining tribal knowledge. Hackers tend to stay around a while, as their physical presence and on-line presence are disparate things, while corp. drones move to new jobs, taking the little bits of knowledge with them, as their on-line presence and physical presence within the company are immutable. New company, new on-line & physical presence, you are completely unavailable to your old company (there are exceptions of course, but the norm is the overwhelming majority).
If he buys 10 boxes of ammunition, a handgun, has a printed copy of the map, AND other evidence that he is going to be be attacking the school, THEN you start to get the cops involved. Nah, I think the ammo, gun, and map are good enough. At that point I'd have honest worries. If I was a shrink, I think I would consider this therapy more than anything else. Which means I'll be making a map of my office, and shooting that gastly all in one device shortly:-)
Gore/Edwards in '08 I *really* hope you're kidding... In all honesty, the best suited people for political jobs often refuse them. A local radio host (Tom Sullivan) was asked to run for office at the last election (US assembly). He declined. Would have been a damn good Assemblyman, didn't want to do it, felt he "could do more good on the radio in a week than he could accomplish in an entire term in office" (or something like that). IIRC he was pushed to run for governor when we had a recall in CA. Didn't run for that. In the case of the president and vice president, I honestly believe Penn and Teller would be better than anyone who is currently even thinking of running. I could just see the veto stamp now:
Pork spending bill: VETO (bullshit)
IP bill: VETO (bullshit)
Repeal of some fragment of any orwellian law: Signed
Extension of the PATRIOT act: VETO (are you kidding me? BULLSHIT!)
IMHO I think it would be awesome if MS bought AMD/ATI Two of my least favorite things would be balled up together and slowly warp themselves into oblivion. Meanwhile I would start to see real innovation from third party vendors on OSX, including games. -nB
That's just scary. When I was running a lab I was responsible for about 100G of data. This was engineering data and any loss directly resulted in having to re-test devices and re-create the data. I used a RAID5 array, and a 24gig/tape x 8 tape autoloader DAT system. I couldn't get them to spring for DLT, but I was able to get them to spring for 8 new tapes per week. So, I used 4 tapes per backup (thus two backups existed at a time), the last backup of the week was archived, the other four tapes were destroyed, and a fresh 8 tapes were loaded. -nB
True. RAID at geographically separate data centers with journaling(? you know, where every change is recorded like a CVS ?) file systems, however, are a backup. That's what we use, then take the second system to a disk to disk snapshot, then snapshot to tape, thus the two primary systems are always on-line. -nB
Apple was lucky in that it had the foresight--or fortune--to maintain a secret Intel-native OS X build for years. It was forsight. For nearly a decade Steve and the CEO of Intel have had lunch once a year. That shows how long the deal was "in the works". -nB
"everyone on the first page of every google search you do that could possibly lead to a sale of any kind has paid a consultant to be there"
I haven't. Nor has Rene who does the other big farmers gripe site. In my case I had a malformed robots.txt file that excluded google for nearly the entire site (oops). Fixed that and front page here I come.
To be fair, there is not a lot of competition for the sucks sites, and none of us will pay for SEO, thus the field is level. -nB
You do realize that tektronix doesn't use mictor any more. They use compression probes that land on micro pads on your system board and are perfectly happy at DDR and DDR2 speeds. LAs are alive and well. Your tools only work once the board is up and running, till then you still need to see raw I/O and such. -nB
"As for combating obesity, good luck with that. Call my skinny ass when you've figured out how to make people with metabolisms in the stratosphere GAIN weight."
Get a salaried position coding. Spend 6am to 9pm in cube coding, eating from the vending machines. done.
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My comment was more pursuant to the unattainability of peace in the middle east.
Nothing is natural about tubgirl or goatse.cx
What I like specifically about Penn is that he has no compunctions about his sex life, his morality, and his ethos, thus he has virtually no skeletons in his closet. Furthermore, I like his views on laws, that pragmatically some are needed, but the vast majority are a waste. Also, I think that he would support my proposal of one law per vote, not our current 4-5 laws piled up as riders on a "must pass" bill, that (as Penn would say) is bullshit.
-nB
Sadly yes. Many people do not take the time to research any of the issues (even I don't research them all) and rely on their "roll model" (snoop dog, Rush, local DJ, Tom Sullivan (me)) to determine how to vote on people and issues. I research most of the issues, and usually (9/10?) Tom and I are of the similar enough opinion to vote the same, thus if I am short on an issue I usually follow his lead.
The vast majority of Americans either do as above (but without looking for themselves), or have so totally given up on the system that they don't even vote.
It's quite sad, really. If Ross Perot ran today, I bet he'd win. Anyone know whether Penn Gelette (sp?) was born in the US? Man oh man I'd vote for him and Teller in a fcsking heartbeat.
-nB
I mean better in richness of bass notes, and in "fit and finish" as bot my Chinese violins show imperfections that are not present on German or American instruments (and honestly inexcusable) such as bumps and pits in the lacquer, divots in the wood that are filled with putty and then lacquered over. Little things. Like I said, they are an excellent value, but they are by no means yet equal to the high end German or American instruments.
Well, I usually disagree with you (and you with me apparently by your "freak status" but you gave me an idea:
"dear MS, my company can not afford enough licenses for office for our entire staff. We will be switching to OOo shortly, unless you would prefer to license office for $xx.xx per copy. Thanks, IT guy"
See what happens?
-nB
I'm going to pick a nit.
The Chinese violins are for the most part easily tagged as such once you get at or above the intermediate/advanced student grades. Now, the value of the Chinese units is enormous, but the quality is not. I have two violins(one American of German labor, one advanced student Chinese), and one viola(Chinese), and have had the opportunity to play a very fine German unit. The tone of the Chinese instruments is not as rich in the base notes where the individual instruments can show a lot of difference. I think this is because the bass bar is not "just so" in the Chinese instruments.
Again, the value of the Chinese instruments (especially for a beginner) is phenomenal.
-nB
In all fairness it is vastly easier to use cmd if you understand it is sh's retarded cousin.
also, if you are used to hopping between KDE and Gnome, then windows doesn't hold much issue.
going the other way, however, can be somewhat problematic.
I grew up on hand me down computers. My dad bought a 286 when they were the latest and greatest, I ended up with an NEC8000 system (C/PM), a convergent technologies box (unknown... SYS IV?), a programmable HP terminal that printed on thermal tape and programmed in BASIC, and ultimately the 286. I continued getting hand me downs, and finally picked up slackware (3.2) and tried it out. I have so many OS's that moving around in them was not so much an issue. FFwd a decade and a half and I use only three os's: Win XP, Win2Kas, and ubuntu. I continually dabble in Linux, but never can make the entire leap for some weird reason (known as a wife).
-nB
And that is because hackers are much better at retaining tribal knowledge. Hackers tend to stay around a while, as their physical presence and on-line presence are disparate things, while corp. drones move to new jobs, taking the little bits of knowledge with them, as their on-line presence and physical presence within the company are immutable. New company, new on-line & physical presence, you are completely unavailable to your old company (there are exceptions of course, but the norm is the overwhelming majority).
The water of course.
-nB
If I was a shrink, I think I would consider this therapy more than anything else. Which means I'll be making a map of my office, and shooting that gastly all in one device shortly
In all honesty, the best suited people for political jobs often refuse them.
A local radio host (Tom Sullivan) was asked to run for office at the last election (US assembly). He declined. Would have been a damn good Assemblyman, didn't want to do it, felt he "could do more good on the radio in a week than he could accomplish in an entire term in office" (or something like that). IIRC he was pushed to run for governor when we had a recall in CA. Didn't run for that. In the case of the president and vice president, I honestly believe Penn and Teller would be better than anyone who is currently even thinking of running. I could just see the veto stamp now:
Ahhh dreams.
-nB
IMHO I think it would be awesome if MS bought AMD/ATI
Two of my least favorite things would be balled up together and slowly warp themselves into oblivion.
Meanwhile I would start to see real innovation from third party vendors on OSX, including games.
-nB
That's just scary.
When I was running a lab I was responsible for about 100G of data. This was engineering data and any loss directly resulted in having to re-test devices and re-create the data. I used a RAID5 array, and a 24gig/tape x 8 tape autoloader DAT system. I couldn't get them to spring for DLT, but I was able to get them to spring for 8 new tapes per week. So, I used 4 tapes per backup (thus two backups existed at a time), the last backup of the week was archived, the other four tapes were destroyed, and a fresh 8 tapes were loaded.
-nB
True.
RAID at geographically separate data centers with journaling(? you know, where every change is recorded like a CVS ?) file systems, however, are a backup. That's what we use, then take the second system to a disk to disk snapshot, then snapshot to tape, thus the two primary systems are always on-line.
-nB
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--- Often in error; never in doubt! Hm.... methinks you are lying either in your statement or your sig...
For nearly a decade Steve and the CEO of Intel have had lunch once a year. That shows how long the deal was "in the works".
-nB
"everyone on the first page of every google search you do that could possibly lead to a sale of any kind has paid a consultant to be there"
I haven't. Nor has Rene who does the other big farmers gripe site.
In my case I had a malformed robots.txt file that excluded google for nearly the entire site (oops). Fixed that and front page here I come.
To be fair, there is not a lot of competition for the sucks sites, and none of us will pay for SEO, thus the field is level.
-nB
Well, to be fair, if SCO could get ESR and RMS to sit quietly in a room together for any real length of time I would hate them a little less...
You do realize that tektronix doesn't use mictor any more. They use compression probes that land on micro pads on your system board and are perfectly happy at DDR and DDR2 speeds.
LAs are alive and well. Your tools only work once the board is up and running, till then you still need to see raw I/O and such.
-nB
I just post my wordpad to /. as AC using firefox and correct it there, then copy and paste it back to whatever I was doing.
See there's a work around to anything.
-nB
In drums off to the metal recyclers.
It is vastly cheaper to recycle toxic metals than it is to dump them.
-nB
no no no.
The ggp asked how to get fatter. cycling is healthy and will burn fat.
"As for combating obesity, good luck with that. Call my skinny ass when you've figured out how to make people with metabolisms in the stratosphere GAIN weight."
Get a salaried position coding. Spend 6am to 9pm in cube coding, eating from the vending machines.
done.
-nB