Ditto. Having kids associate primarily with others kids of the same age never made sense to me. Older kids learning to mentor younger kids would be a valuable experience.
Recently, Paul McCartney said negotiations to get the Fab Four onto iTunes had âoestalled,â leaving some fans more than a little ticked that they still have to listen to the band the old-fashioned way.
Incompetence has taken hold of our government like never before
You mean reality isn't like all the cool spy movies? I'm shocked!!
Of course, paranoid as I am, I believe they're only *faking* incompetence for their own devious aims.
I think the point was that it would be more convenient to do it directly in the browser without having to modify the hosts file (WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/hosts on Windows).
Of course, the point 42 makes is very salient. There would be a lot of potential for abuse since many folks don't play close attention to what URLs on which they click.
I believe Sequoia was bought by a company from Venezuela.
From Sequoia's own site:
http://www.sequoiavote.com/press.php?ID=20
Sequoia Ownership - Sequoia Voting Systems is a subsidiary of Smartmatic, a private company incorporated in Delaware with principal offices in Boca Raton, Florida. While a private firm, Smartmatic is and has always been open about its owners. A controlling interest is held by its founder and CEO Antonio Mugica, a dual Spanish and Venezuelan citizen.
There is absolutely no ownership of Sequoia Voting Systems or its parent Smartmatic by the Venezuelan government or any other government - foreign or domestic. There are those who say that Smartmatic *is* controlled by Chavez and company.
I'm not complaining, though. If the right-wingers get to control voting machine companies, why not let some left-wingers control some?
But seriously, we only have one IBM mainframe, one IBM AIX box, we got rid of all of our Novell file servers (leaving us only one last Novell print server).
For the web, we're running a couple flavors of IIS, as well as LAMP and Perl/MySQL applications on Linux. A bunch of us got sent to Java training before management determined that they'd stick with Microsoft.NET for new development. So, we have a few JSP applications in production, though we're not making new ones. We use some off-the-shelf open-source applications like Metadot and RT.
The DA's just had to get an Oracle database server.
Frankly, I like having my fingers in a few different pies, even if I'm not planning to look for a better-paying job in private industry.
FTP is read only That's long bugged me about Mac OS. I actually *like* the integrated graphical FTP in Windows 2000/XP, so it's annoying to have to open a command line to upload files via FTP on Mac OS (10.3.9).
Were these the same floats that initially indicated that the oceans were *cooling* and not warming, but which were later recalibrated to report "accurate" temperature data?
I heartily second your rant!! I too am saddened by the waste that I see.
Working for county government, I frequently interact with our law enforcement folks. Most of them are sincere, hard-working, good folks. Very few of them are what I'd call "technically-savvy" (even the ones with the reputations for being so).
As such, they can fairly easily be sold IT systems that look good but which have fundamental flaws by vendors who seem to value profit over quality.
A common test back in the day would be to play a master mix through the shittiest AM radio type
gear, or a 6x9 speaker and see how it sounded, since 90% of everyone would be hearing it on similar
gear. If you look in an issue of Mix magazine, you'll see that nearly every professional studio has a pair of Auratone (see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/drmotte/221077015/ for a picture) monitors sitting on top of the mixing console. These are single speaker monitors that are used for "worst case scenario" listening.
Slightly about the Auratones are the Yamaha NS10 near-field monitors which are basically a glorified pair of bookshelf speakers.
Since the sound engineers made sure that the entire song is very loud, all or nearly all of the samples will be at 50% or greater volume. If you're going to tear somebody a new butt-hole you'd best get your facts straight.
What you mean to say is nearly all of the *peaks* will be at 50% or greater volume. If you've looked at an actual audio waveform before, you'll notice that, for each oscillation, the waveform has to pass through *zero* (unless one has a really nasty DC offset). On the way to zero, the waveform most certainly passes below 50% of full-scale. So, you can't say that "nearly all of the samples will be at 50% or greater volume."
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Ditto. Having kids associate primarily with others kids of the same age never made sense to me. Older kids learning to mentor younger kids would be a valuable experience.
crunchly, you got the biggest laugh of the day out of me. Thanks!! Sometimes it pays to read the discussion from the bottom up.
Actually, I suspect what has held her back is how underdeveloped her body is.
Maybe that, and having the TV on next to her crib 24 hours a day.
Oh, I remember the glee when somebody discovered the magic button sequence to play Tetris on the Tectronix digital oscilloscopes in EE lab.
Or "too".
I'm going to see it tonight. I'm keeping my expectations low, so I'll be delighted by whatever I see.
Heresy!! :P
Would you say, "Can we please move beyond Mozart"? Some music is timeless.
Recently, Paul McCartney said negotiations to get the Fab Four onto iTunes had âoestalled,â leaving some fans more than a little ticked that they still have to listen to the band the old-fashioned way.
What's "the old-fashioned way"? Bit-Torrent?
Incompetence has taken hold of our government like never before
You mean reality isn't like all the cool spy movies? I'm shocked!!
Of course, paranoid as I am, I believe they're only *faking* incompetence for their own devious aims.
I think the point was that it would be more convenient to do it directly in the browser without having to modify the hosts file (WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/hosts on Windows).
Of course, the point 42 makes is very salient. There would be a lot of potential for abuse since many folks don't play close attention to what URLs on which they click.
...but these are good, solid, Republican errors!God bless the American Voting System!
I believe Sequoia was bought by a company from Venezuela. From Sequoia's own site: http://www.sequoiavote.com/press.php?ID=20 Sequoia Ownership - Sequoia Voting Systems is a subsidiary of Smartmatic, a private company incorporated in Delaware with principal offices in Boca Raton, Florida. While a private firm, Smartmatic is and has always been open about its owners. A controlling interest is held by its founder and CEO Antonio Mugica, a dual Spanish and Venezuelan citizen. There is absolutely no ownership of Sequoia Voting Systems or its parent Smartmatic by the Venezuelan government or any other government - foreign or domestic. There are those who say that Smartmatic *is* controlled by Chavez and company. I'm not complaining, though. If the right-wingers get to control voting machine companies, why not let some left-wingers control some?"The Spice must flow!"
My question is: how do we define "freedom and success"? The way we seem to define them now seems to reflect rather f***ed up priorities.
Hey, this is funny! Don't you get the joke? Ruts=punch cards.
Ha! That's funny.
.NET for new development. So, we have a few JSP applications in production, though we're not making new ones. We use some off-the-shelf open-source applications like Metadot and RT.
But seriously, we only have one IBM mainframe, one IBM AIX box, we got rid of all of our Novell file servers (leaving us only one last Novell print server).
For the web, we're running a couple flavors of IIS, as well as LAMP and Perl/MySQL applications on Linux. A bunch of us got sent to Java training before management determined that they'd stick with Microsoft
The DA's just had to get an Oracle database server.
Frankly, I like having my fingers in a few different pies, even if I'm not planning to look for a better-paying job in private industry.
I like Noah's method when it comes to platforms...two of each.
Of course, that can get costly, but, when you work for the government...
Thanks for the very informative comment!!! Best wishes to you in your work!
moogyboog, I just wanted to tell you how insightful I found your comment to be (since I have no mod points at this moment). You articulate many things I feel but, for which, I have not yet found words. I quoted the first bit of your comment to this parallel discussion on Newsvine. http://onlynow99.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/25/1324796-scientology-based-organization-campaigns-against-psychiatry#c1523809 Cheers!! Keep on thinking freely!
Hey!! Who modded this "troll"???
It's laden with humor and irony!
MOD PARENT UP!!!
Were these the same floats that initially indicated that the oceans were *cooling* and not warming, but which were later recalibrated to report "accurate" temperature data?
I heartily second your rant!! I too am saddened by the waste that I see.
Working for county government, I frequently interact with our law enforcement folks. Most of them are sincere, hard-working, good folks. Very few of them are what I'd call "technically-savvy" (even the ones with the reputations for being so).
As such, they can fairly easily be sold IT systems that look good but which have fundamental flaws by vendors who seem to value profit over quality.
That should read "slightly above the Auratones".
gear, or a 6x9 speaker and see how it sounded, since 90% of everyone would be hearing it on similar
gear. If you look in an issue of Mix magazine, you'll see that nearly every professional studio has a pair of Auratone (see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/drmotte/221077015/ for a picture) monitors sitting on top of the mixing console. These are single speaker monitors that are used for "worst case scenario" listening.
Slightly about the Auratones are the Yamaha NS10 near-field monitors which are basically a glorified pair of bookshelf speakers.
So, it's not just "back in the day".
What you mean to say is nearly all of the *peaks* will be at 50% or greater volume. If you've looked at an actual audio waveform before, you'll notice that, for each oscillation, the waveform has to pass through *zero* (unless one has a really nasty DC offset). On the way to zero, the waveform most certainly passes below 50% of full-scale. So, you can't say that "nearly all of the samples will be at 50% or greater volume."