Gas refrigerators are only "uncommon" to the current generation. Gas and electric refrigerators were equal contenders for dominance until 1927, when GE took off.
So... because you know of other nice places, you can make the case for mowing down Sisters?
I have spent a great deal of time in Oregon, thank you Ken. If there's a larger roadless vista than Sisters seen from the 1983 or the 242, I haven't found it.
I enjoy your photos, by the way. My last trip to Oregon was made with an eye for moving there. I took my new camera. Results were okay, but I'm no photographer:
>That's funny, I thought that the legislative branch > "made law". Silly me...
Supreme Court judgements also have the weight of law, and they tend to narrow the abstract laws passed by the legislature, into concrete interpretations.
> That New Orleans will go down in history as the >first city lost to global climate change.
I predict that when the water recedes, we will find the city was not "destroyed", and people will still pay money for property there. It will be as expensive as ever to operate a Vieux Carre nightclub, and living will not be any less expensive for medical students at Tulane.
I also predict that by next Mardi Gras, tourists will have to look hard for evidence that the city was "destroyed".
The Declaration of Independence is not law. It is basically a middle-finger directed at a king. Pro-revolutionary propaganda. A list of grievances. A proposed course of action. But it's not law.
"I know this might not sound true, but I think if you were a hurricne victim who recently lost your house and family relatives, having an _wireless_ Internet connection might not be your priority"
Communication may very well be a priority, and if distributed systems like wi-fi work where wireline infrastructure has failed, it will be a lifesaver.
I don't understand why people fail to recocgnize the importance of communications in a crisis like this one.
The perception of certification carries from other industries where certification is required -- 'required', meaning, it would actually be illegal for you do do your job without the certification. Certification == licensing.
There's nothing like licensing in most of the IT field.
When I'm involved in hiring decisions (rare these days), I don't look at the big picture of education. I have a few categories of questions that you will have good answers to if you're experienced, period. As for education, if there's time, I'll try to determine if you had a passion for subjects like advanced calculus and if you did anything interesting in physics.
I'd be far less interested in "where" you went to school, and far more interested in how seriously you took certain subjects, since the wrong answers here can make you a dangerous person.
>Absent is importance placed on "capable of >learning", "able to take on new responsibilities", >or even just general intelligence.
It's not absent everywhere -- it's just that the companies with realistic policies and intelligent management, are already staffed, their employees are happy, etc.
Not everybody in the workforce thinks his boss is an idiot.
"Don't you think this would have been flagged pretty quickly?"
Sure. Maybe they even started collecting evidence at the first one. By the time the process allowed the police agency to act, it had gone on to an even higher level. Or maybe they waited for it to get to a certain threshold?
"They either should have charged more, or had some sort of raffle."
These were computers that were used by elementary school students. They were basically *confiscated* from the students. Instead of going through this mayhem, they could have simply let the students keep them. I'll bet they wasted more than $50,000 end-of-lifing the program.
"I wonder How this affected apple computer's Stock today."
Making the press, whether the news is good or bad, makes the stock go up. No, I can't explain it. It's true for my company too. Very strange, but something that we measure.
I don't disagree with the recording industry's motivation to control their product, regardless of whether I agree with the methods they use to attempt to enforce that control.
What I *do* have a problem with, is that the effort to control their product encroaches on *my* ability to record my *own* music.
When the recording industry reaches this far, they start to abridge MY rights. I cannot stomach the idea being forced to use a specific DRM, or certainly, to pay a tax, in order to record or distribute music that I myself write, record, and hold the copyright to. In fact, I would argue that being forced to do so, actually abridges my rights and makes my otherwise absolute stake in my copyright a little less secure.
"Oh and you can't forget the xmodem,zmodem connections. Ahh the days."
I remember all the way well into the mid 90s, dialing up to my workstation and doing zmodem directly, because it was so much faster than FTP over PPP via a Livingston Portmaster that was on the same segment as that workstation.
Hey good question. I'm happy with my Volvo. Next trip from say Colorado to Oregon, I'll note whether I could do it with diesel. When I see it's possible to make that trip on bio-diesel I'll let you know. Let me know when there's a battery-operated car that can do this. It's still 150 miles between gas stations in some parts of the US.
Some people want to modify their engines so that they burn the maximum amount of fuel possible in between eight and nine seconds...
Others want a vehicle that can make routine 3,000 mile trips.
Others want something practical for shopping and driving to an office job. Still others need a vehicle that can move a payload.
I'm really interested in the hybrids and alternative fuel vehicles. Haven't seen one yet that can take 8 adults and 400kg of gear from Tucson to Vancouver. Maybe that's a boundary case of requirements, but it doesn't seem uncommon in my world.
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>Yes, these are not all that unique.
Gas refrigerators are only "uncommon" to the current generation. Gas and electric refrigerators were equal contenders for dominance until 1927, when GE took off.
How do you keep medicine cool with "cured meets" and "vegitbles?"
So... because you know of other nice places, you can make the case for mowing down Sisters?
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I have spent a great deal of time in Oregon, thank you Ken. If there's a larger roadless vista than Sisters seen from the 1983 or the 242, I haven't found it.
I enjoy your photos, by the way. My last trip to Oregon was made with an eye for moving there. I took my new camera. Results were okay, but I'm no photographer:
http://conservatory.com/photos/sahalie.jpg
http://conservatory.com/photos/multnomah_reduced.
Hey, is this your place?
http://conservatory.com/photos/oregon2005/kens_ro
http://conservatory.com/photos/oregon2005/goodpas
Cheers!
> I hear cold weather does a bit of good.
Warm weather is better, they wear fewer, thinner things, and are far more likely to wear nothing.
>It's in a Wilderness area
Sisters, from the 242 (closed to motor traffic), is the only place I have ever seen with a 360 view of a completely roadless area.
I don't think you need to be a "Wacko" to appreciate this.
What laws would you say were "made by" the Supreme Court then?
>That's funny, I thought that the legislative branch
> "made law". Silly me...
Supreme Court judgements also have the weight of law, and they tend to narrow the abstract laws passed by the legislature, into concrete interpretations.
"What is needed is an incentive that would make it worthwhile for a author to release their work into the public domain."
I can think of no better incentive than the notion that the public domain is threatened.
The theory that people won't do anything valuable unless they are compensated with money, only holds while money has value.
> That New Orleans will go down in history as the
>first city lost to global climate change.
I predict that when the water recedes, we will find the city was not "destroyed", and people will still pay money for property there. It will be as expensive as ever to operate a Vieux Carre nightclub, and living will not be any less expensive for medical students at Tulane.
I also predict that by next Mardi Gras, tourists will have to look hard for evidence that the city was "destroyed".
>Take a look at the Declaration of Independence.
The Declaration of Independence is not law. It is basically a middle-finger directed at a king. Pro-revolutionary propaganda. A list of grievances. A proposed course of action. But it's not law.
"I know this might not sound true, but I think if you were a hurricne victim who recently lost your house and family relatives, having an _wireless_ Internet connection might not be your priority"
Communication may very well be a priority, and if distributed systems like wi-fi work where wireline infrastructure has failed, it will be a lifesaver.
I don't understand why people fail to recocgnize the importance of communications in a crisis like this one.
The perception of certification carries from other industries where certification is required -- 'required', meaning, it would actually be illegal for you do do your job without the certification.
Certification == licensing.
There's nothing like licensing in most of the IT field.
When I'm involved in hiring decisions (rare these days), I don't look at the big picture of education. I have a few categories of questions that you will have good answers to if you're experienced, period. As for education, if there's time, I'll try to determine if you had a passion for subjects like advanced calculus and if you did anything interesting in physics.
I'd be far less interested in "where" you went to school, and far more interested in how seriously you took certain subjects, since the wrong answers here can make you a dangerous person.
>Absent is importance placed on "capable of
>learning", "able to take on new responsibilities",
>or even just general intelligence.
It's not absent everywhere -- it's just that the companies with realistic policies and intelligent management, are already staffed, their employees are happy, etc.
Not everybody in the workforce thinks his boss is an idiot.
"Don't you think this would have been flagged pretty quickly?"
Sure. Maybe they even started collecting evidence at the first one. By the time the process allowed the police agency to act, it had gone on to an even higher level. Or maybe they waited for it to get to a certain threshold?
"to imagine that the history of DES means we'll be breaking open 256-bit AES-encrypted messages in a few years is delusion."
Yes, I wonder if the successes of the past will lead to some sort of overconfidence that codes will always be broken, in the manner of Enigma.
"They either should have charged more, or had some sort of raffle."
These were computers that were used by elementary school students. They were basically *confiscated* from the students. Instead of going through this mayhem, they could have simply let the students keep them. I'll bet they wasted more than $50,000 end-of-lifing the program.
>Once the tickets are gone, everyone else goes home
The smart ones stand outside the door and auction off their ticket.
"I wonder How this affected apple computer's Stock today."
Making the press, whether the news is good or bad, makes the stock go up. No, I can't explain it. It's true for my company too. Very strange, but something that we measure.
"Actually, I don't think the Sheriff's Office handles that sort of thing. That's more of a job for the Henrico Police."
California? The victim would be required to initiate the investigation, unless it was witnessed by a peace officer.
>What do you get when you combine 1000 used iBooks
>being sold for $50 and 1000 people desperately
>wanting to buy them?
A flat demand curve?
I don't disagree with the recording industry's motivation to control their product, regardless of whether I agree with the methods they use to attempt to enforce that control.
What I *do* have a problem with, is that the effort to control their product encroaches on *my* ability to record my *own* music.
When the recording industry reaches this far, they start to abridge MY rights. I cannot stomach the idea being forced to use a specific DRM, or certainly, to pay a tax, in order to record or distribute music that I myself write, record, and hold the copyright to. In fact, I would argue that being forced to do so, actually abridges my rights and makes my otherwise absolute stake in my copyright a little less secure.
"Oh and you can't forget the xmodem,zmodem connections. Ahh the days."
I remember all the way well into the mid 90s, dialing up to my workstation and doing zmodem directly, because it was so much faster than FTP over PPP via a Livingston Portmaster that was on the same segment as that workstation.
Hey good question. I'm happy with my Volvo. Next trip from say Colorado to Oregon, I'll note whether I could do it with diesel. When I see it's possible to make that trip on bio-diesel I'll let you know. Let me know when there's a battery-operated car that can do this. It's still 150 miles between gas stations in some parts of the US.
Some people want to modify their engines so that they burn the maximum amount of fuel possible in between eight and nine seconds...
Others want a vehicle that can make routine 3,000 mile trips.
Others want something practical for shopping and driving to an office job. Still others need a vehicle that can move a payload.
I'm really interested in the hybrids and alternative fuel vehicles. Haven't seen one yet that can take 8 adults and 400kg of gear from Tucson to Vancouver. Maybe that's a boundary case of requirements, but it doesn't seem uncommon in my world.
>It's an SEC filing.
Then it's worded in terms of risk assessment, not "worry."