Dealing with one thing doesn't preclude dealing with the other.s There's actually surprisingly little overlap between domestic law enforcement and things like fiscal and foreign policy, health care, public works and education.
Yeah, I'm kind of surprised that this is the first this crowd is reading about Constellation. Aren't you guys tech geeks? Did Slashdot become Salon while I wasn't looking?
This is the structure referred to in literature as a "droll comment." Shorter: it's a JOKE, dude.
I am old enough to remember thinking Gopher was pretty cool, but I can hear what he is saying without getting into a hipper-than-thou snit.
I don't understand. It isn't legal for me to drive to Vancouver or wherever, buy a Canadian smart, drive that puppy back over the border and register it?
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1) You CAN catch a signal off a big antenna from one of those little integrated PCMCIA or PCI cards, but it's tricky. My experience is you have to be pert near under the thing to catch. Specific conditions of the installation matter a lot.
2) The bandwidth is shared, not switched - at least in the implementations I have seen. I don't know how it could be otherwise, but I'm certainly no networking guru.
Hope this helps.
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The second antenna in a diversity system is used to deal with multipath fading - the interference you get when the RF signal reflects off thngs like metal walls and poles and creates distortion on the receiving end.
The radio will switch to whatever antenna is giving it the best signal (i.e. only one antenna port is used at a time). If there's no antenna connected to the second port, the signal will obviously be weaker or non-existent and so that port will not be used.
Hope this helps.
my nomination for typo of the year! ummm... unless... maybe it WASN'T a typo!
massive global companies, having driven other, smaller, more local companies out of business, have no incentive to pay their employees a living wage - just the absolute minimum necessary to get someone to show up. why should they pay more? corporations BY DESIGN function to generate profit. no more no less. it is their whole reason for being, and successful businesses are better than others at putting profit FIRST.
it is a good way to generate wealth, but probably not such a good way to improve the living standards of everyone. which is the higher goal? which is most likely to lead to fewer wars, revolutions, planes plowing into skyscrapers, etc?
yes, it's a stretch to blame the profit motive for 9/11. but "free trade can save the world?" give me a fscking break.
using your *brain* is just as hard as using your body for 8 hours a day
Ouch.
Brother, I think I know what you mean... I don't program but I have done some long days of real mental work and I find it very draining in a way that is different from physical labor.
But I hope you won't think it unkind for me to say that you would sound really stupid reading that last post in ANY bar in my town.
No offense, but...
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I think it's real possible that you're making the common mistake of generalizing from your own situation. It's understandable, but I think it can lead you into a mistaken view of the world.
The Native Hawaiian kids where I live are at the absolute bottom of almost every social indicator, and their test scores would indicate that they are, on the average, pretty well unprepared for life in today's America. When some friends of mine organized a school-within-a-school based on the premise that approaching them from their own culture would help create an environment more conducive to learning, they got some surprising results.
Truancy went way down. Standardized test scores surpassed those of the school population at large. And their attitudes toward technology use changed dramatically. They began to develop a CD-ROM about the culture of a remote valley, and, finding the available tools inapplicable to their needs, a student developed a custom multimedia authoring program that he later sold for $50,000.
So what changed? This is a public school, with the resources available to all schools in this impoverished rural island community. The difference, I think, stemmed from the respect these students were shown, the degree to which their minds were encouraged to imagine positive futures for themselves.
If one hasn't seen life from the point of view of a minority child, who is told in so many ways that she is dumb and has little chance of bettering herself, then I think one should be a little slower to assume that there is such a thing as equality of opportunity.
Kudos to those people who have succeeded through sheer grit and determination. I respect your achievement. Please respect what some kids have to go through just to graduate high school.
I don't really think that anyone was bemoaning the idea that this world is a meritocracy. I think some people were saying that it isn't one, that it has a great deal to do with being born into a fortunate class.
I don't think this idea at all discredits the hard work most, if not all, IT professionals have put in and will continue to need to do to succeed. I just think it's more than a little naive to think that's all it takes.
Are there lots of people of color where you work? If so, do you think that's true everywhere?
Is there any reason - other than the laziness or general unfitness of not-white people for IT work - why minorities are so poorly represented in our field?
Get up out of that chair, drive to the bad part of town, dress like a local and see how true ANY of that is.
Look, you don't have to be at all sympathetic. But I think you do yourself - not to mention the rest of us - a disservice to ignore the differential of opportunity.
Yes, people can (as many, MANY have) overcome their disadvantages, but that is different than NOT having anything to overcome. Should something be done about it? It's an interesting question, but one that will NEVER be resolved by pretending the problem doesn't exist.
I think that attitude is the insularity that the book and Katz's post pointed to, and I think it's worth a good long look.
But doesn't it seem at least unbalanced for "wired" Americans to get voting booths in their own homes while the "piblic" must walk/bus/train to the piblic library, wait in line, and hope the damn thing works when they get there - that is, if they are computer-literate in the first place.
I don't know where all you people live, but out here in rural America net access is far from easy for the average citizen. I teach free classes at my community college and I am all for spreading computer literacy as far and wide as possible - but as an option for theose who want it, not because the lack of that knowledge will even further disempower them than they already are.
Maybe there's no right to easy access to petitions, but it seems elitist, undemocratic and wrong to me for it to be easy for one group and hard for another.
How would you feel if it wasn't your social class that would be getting the easy access? Say for example that you had to know carpentry, or pottery, or something else as far removed from computers (and as irrelevant to the exercise of political power) in order to sign a petition?
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Yeah, I'm kind of surprised that this is the first this crowd is reading about Constellation. Aren't you guys tech geeks? Did Slashdot become Salon while I wasn't looking?
This is the structure referred to in literature as a "droll comment." Shorter: it's a JOKE, dude. I am old enough to remember thinking Gopher was pretty cool, but I can hear what he is saying without getting into a hipper-than-thou snit.
Wow, I just discovered this "Google" thing! :-)
http://www.lbl.gov/Workplace/HumanResources/irss/V ehicleImport.html
I don't understand. It isn't legal for me to drive to Vancouver or wherever, buy a Canadian smart, drive that puppy back over the border and register it?
1) You CAN catch a signal off a big antenna from one of those little integrated PCMCIA or PCI cards, but it's tricky. My experience is you have to be pert near under the thing to catch. Specific conditions of the installation matter a lot.
2) The bandwidth is shared, not switched - at least in the implementations I have seen. I don't know how it could be otherwise, but I'm certainly no networking guru.
Hope this helps.
The second antenna in a diversity system is used to deal with multipath fading - the interference you get when the RF signal reflects off thngs like metal walls and poles and creates distortion on the receiving end. The radio will switch to whatever antenna is giving it the best signal (i.e. only one antenna port is used at a time). If there's no antenna connected to the second port, the signal will obviously be weaker or non-existent and so that port will not be used. Hope this helps.
my nomination for typo of the year! ummm... unless... maybe it WASN'T a typo!
massive global companies, having driven other, smaller, more local companies out of business, have no incentive to pay their employees a living wage - just the absolute minimum necessary to get someone to show up. why should they pay more? corporations BY DESIGN function to generate profit. no more no less. it is their whole reason for being, and successful businesses are better than others at putting profit FIRST.
it is a good way to generate wealth, but probably not such a good way to improve the living standards of everyone. which is the higher goal? which is most likely to lead to fewer wars, revolutions, planes plowing into skyscrapers, etc?
yes, it's a stretch to blame the profit motive for 9/11. but "free trade can save the world?" give me a fscking break.
using your *brain* is just as hard as using your body for 8 hours a day
Ouch.
Brother, I think I know what you mean... I don't program but I have done some long days of real mental work and I find it very draining in a way that is different from physical labor.
But I hope you won't think it unkind for me to say that you would sound really stupid reading that last post in ANY bar in my town.
No offense, but...
I think it's real possible that you're making the common mistake of generalizing from your own situation. It's understandable, but I think it can lead you into a mistaken view of the world.
The Native Hawaiian kids where I live are at the absolute bottom of almost every social indicator, and their test scores would indicate that they are, on the average, pretty well unprepared for life in today's America. When some friends of mine organized a school-within-a-school based on the premise that approaching them from their own culture would help create an environment more conducive to learning, they got some surprising results.
Truancy went way down. Standardized test scores surpassed those of the school population at large. And their attitudes toward technology use changed dramatically. They began to develop a CD-ROM about the culture of a remote valley, and, finding the available tools inapplicable to their needs, a student developed a custom multimedia authoring program that he later sold for $50,000.
So what changed? This is a public school, with the resources available to all schools in this impoverished rural island community. The difference, I think, stemmed from the respect these students were shown, the degree to which their minds were encouraged to imagine positive futures for themselves.
If one hasn't seen life from the point of view of a minority child, who is told in so many ways that she is dumb and has little chance of bettering herself, then I think one should be a little slower to assume that there is such a thing as equality of opportunity.
Kudos to those people who have succeeded through sheer grit and determination. I respect your achievement. Please respect what some kids have to go through just to graduate high school.
I don't really think that anyone was bemoaning the idea that this world is a meritocracy. I think some people were saying that it isn't one, that it has a great deal to do with being born into a fortunate class.
I don't think this idea at all discredits the hard work most, if not all, IT professionals have put in and will continue to need to do to succeed. I just think it's more than a little naive to think that's all it takes.
Are there lots of people of color where you work? If so, do you think that's true everywhere?
Is there any reason - other than the laziness or general unfitness of not-white people for IT work - why minorities are so poorly represented in our field?
This is america.
Anyone who can do the work can get the job.
Everyone has free access to computers.
Good lord.
Get up out of that chair, drive to the bad part of town, dress like a local and see how true ANY of that is.
Look, you don't have to be at all sympathetic. But I think you do yourself - not to mention the rest of us - a disservice to ignore the differential of opportunity.
Yes, people can (as many, MANY have) overcome their disadvantages, but that is different than NOT having anything to overcome. Should something be done about it? It's an interesting question, but one that will NEVER be resolved by pretending the problem doesn't exist.
I think that attitude is the insularity that the book and Katz's post pointed to, and I think it's worth a good long look.
Couldn't hurt, anyway.
But doesn't it seem at least unbalanced for "wired" Americans to get voting booths in their own homes while the "piblic" must walk/bus/train to the piblic library, wait in line, and hope the damn thing works when they get there - that is, if they are computer-literate in the first place.
I don't know where all you people live, but out here in rural America net access is far from easy for the average citizen. I teach free classes at my community college and I am all for spreading computer literacy as far and wide as possible - but as an option for theose who want it, not because the lack of that knowledge will even further disempower them than they already are.
Maybe there's no right to easy access to petitions, but it seems elitist, undemocratic and wrong to me for it to be easy for one group and hard for another.
How would you feel if it wasn't your social class that would be getting the easy access? Say for example that you had to know carpentry, or pottery, or something else as far removed from computers (and as irrelevant to the exercise of political power) in order to sign a petition?