Being forced to watch 20 minutes of commercials to watch 'Shrek' makes one long for p2p, to the.avi... (having bought the dvd, yet not downed the.aiv, i.e. disclaimer)
Together, these useless lights create a visual cacophony of blinking, multicolored lights that make me feel like I'm taking part in a NASA stress test for astronaut candidates.'
If I'm not mistaken: the VT-shooter first shot a few students, then took the time to walk to somewhere else (dunno what), then HOURS LATER shot two dozen studentsmore. Wouldn't more lives be saved if everyone would've been informed after the first few killings, so that the campus could've been evacuated?! Me thinks miscommunications is here the problem, not the teachers not carrying weapons. copypaste the url, it's a popup, and http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0704/popup.vtech .campus/frameset.exclude.html cause I cannot be bothered. 'Yes, we emailed (..) a lot of students. No not immediately, that there had been a shooting, and the killer was still running free on the campus. Yes, they really should've read their mail, we might have sent it a bit late-ish. But the students should've carried weapons, that would have solved the problem, yes, that's it, it's the lack of weapons on campus. More questions?' [/sarcasm] No I don't have a fire-arm, yes I do teach. Both facts are appreciated.
The Netherlands. Pretty standard, unless you threaten with violence and stuff, or endanger the corporation. A months term to resign, and the months pay per worked year otherwise.
'Disturbed employer-employee relation'. Very valid and legal. You probably will receive a months' pay per employed year at that company, and that's it. You'll be on your way out, anyhow. My advice: do it, mail it, let people know you did it, and why you shouldn't. And mail that off-site. You can't _win_ this.
(1)Because of the money, or (2)because the customer demands/wants/appreciates it. Or a combination. So: why will Microsoft never make.NET truly portable? should be easy to answer now.
Reminds me of the 80's when Stinger SAM's were sold to nowadays terrorist states. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5137264/"According to intelligence sources, thousands of MANPADS may have been provided to Iraqi security forces or were stolen during hostilities in Iraq immediately following the collapse of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003," notes the report.
Compensating for something? Compensating for the fact that some (for instance, several european) countries don't have oil-wells. Hence looking for either alternatives or higher efficiency.
*shrug* It was documented when released, maybe not openly advertised, but still. It wasn't some sneeky funny thing embedded between two lines of code, it was a pretty major hardware thing.
The educational institute where I work, has about 800 computers, about half of them macs (serverside same %-age). They require about 10% of the maintenance the pc's require. Their users are happier/lessgrumpy. Somethings things_just_work! Portable OS, the dream of a lot of sysadmins! (also the nightmare, securitywise). Netboot! NetRestore! Any teacher that can hold down an n-key can restore a machine, no need to rename or domainplace it, second partition will be untouched, so data preserved.
'Combined speed' does not equal to 'just add them up'. Under no circumstances can you just add speeds up. It only seems to look that way at very low speeds, like 50 miles (80 kilometers) per hour. Or so.
http://mactalk.com.au/articles/68kpanther/ describes how 10.3 'runs' on a Centris. From TFA: "The victi^WMac used for this little project is a Centris 650, with 68MB RAM, a 25MHz 68040 and 4GB drive". Some cheating (Pear PC) was involved though.
It's like fining companies whose (physical) windows break after somebody throws a rock through it instead of going after the guilty party. It's not a crime to have your window broken, at least not in the part of the world I reside in. If I, a random person, told you to throw a rock at someone, and you did that, who would be responsible for the damage? You would not do this of course, but a child might do it. And then whose responsibillity would it be then? The parents, I assume. They might not be guilty, just responsible. So everyone having his computer turned into a bot should have restricted access to the public space of the Web. 'Yes but no but..' that's not important, experience cannot be bought or earned, it's something that grows with practice, and starts with zero.
"computers can nowadays compare fingerprints with ease"
Yes, but since it has to display the photo of the person in order to properly do the print match, won't we get to a point where we can't go any faster? I mean, the human eye is only so fast. The whole notion of finger-print matching just wouldn't feel right if you don't see 10,000 faces stream across the screen before finally finding the match.
Erm, you might stop watching CSI for a moment. All the computer has to do is to compare found fingerprints with recorded fingerprints, and only after a match (>99.9% of the fingerprint is identical) show the fully detailed records. If none has been found, lower the level to 95%: maybe the print smeared, or new scars add noise to the print. But ONLY after a match do there have to appear pictures of faces etc. Not like CSI Smurfcountry, where ALL the persons in their dbase are shown with full details and pics on a 26" touchscreen tft whilst looking for a match in BarbieOS.
Britain faces big chill as ocean current slows
Jonathan Leake, Science Editor
CLIMATE change researchers have detected the first signs of a slowdown in the Gulf Stream -- the mighty ocean current that keeps Britain and Europe from freezing.
They have found that one of the "engines" driving the Gulf Stream -- the sinking of supercooled water in the Greenland Sea -- has weakened to less than a quarter of its former strength.
but I must warn you that expertise is hard to nail down in an immature industry that pays little attention to training.
Animals are trained, people are educated. Your point is correct though: in this industry where todays standards might be obsolete tomorrow, sometimes a thorough education is considered luxury.
100. In the 1960s, the CIA used to watch Mission Impossible to get ideas about spying.
haha ! No, seriously, they're joking right ? Works by Arthur C. Clark were used in NASA-training, I heard. I read some (actually, a lot) of his short stories and I can imagine why.
It's not "things we didn't know last year," it's "factoids the Beeb's own magazine liked from their lists this year."
Still interesting, tho, even with a misleading headline. They meant with 'we' not 'the public', but the BBC-people. Things not known to mankind, is something different than 'things we at the BBC-office didn't know'.
I bet you received a nasty email back from Steve Jobs.
At least that's what happened when I posted one of his emails to a mail list. (And the reason he replied was because I CC'ed him with a list post, so I had reason to post it on the list.) Gil Amelio, is that you?!
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Being forced to watch 20 minutes of commercials to watch 'Shrek' makes one long for p2p, to the .avi... (having bought the dvd, yet not downed the .aiv, i.e. disclaimer)
Together, these useless lights create a visual cacophony of blinking, multicolored lights that make me feel like I'm taking part in a NASA stress test for astronaut candidates.'
Your problem being?
If I'm not mistaken: the VT-shooter first shot a few students, then took the time to walk to somewhere else (dunno what), then HOURS LATER shot two dozen studentsmore. Wouldn't more lives be saved if everyone would've been informed after the first few killings, so that the campus could've been evacuated?! Me thinks miscommunications is here the problem, not the teachers not carrying weapons.h .campus/frameset.exclude.html cause I cannot be bothered. 'Yes, we emailed (..) a lot of students. No not immediately, that there had been a shooting, and the killer was still running free on the campus. Yes, they really should've read their mail, we might have sent it a bit late-ish. But the students should've carried weapons, that would have solved the problem, yes, that's it, it's the lack of weapons on campus. More questions?' [/sarcasm] No I don't have a fire-arm, yes I do teach. Both facts are appreciated.
copypaste the url, it's a popup, and http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0704/popup.vtec
The Netherlands. Pretty standard, unless you threaten with violence and stuff, or endanger the corporation. A months term to resign, and the months pay per worked year otherwise.
'Disturbed employer-employee relation'. Very valid and legal. You probably will receive a months' pay per employed year at that company, and that's it. You'll be on your way out, anyhow. My advice: do it, mail it, let people know you did it, and why you shouldn't. And mail that off-site. You can't _win_ this.
(1)Because of the money, or (2)because the customer demands/wants/appreciates it. Or a combination. So: why will Microsoft never make .NET truly portable? should be easy to answer now.
There's a famous Dutch song commemorating some event like this... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappie
Reminds me of the 80's when Stinger SAM's were sold to nowadays terrorist states. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5137264/ "According to intelligence sources, thousands of MANPADS may have been provided to Iraqi security forces or were stolen during hostilities in Iraq immediately following the collapse of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003," notes the report.
Excuse me while I claw my eyes out. Again. *shudder*
Mod parent up please: OSX and Linux may be invulnerable to Windows-viruses, but spam is everybody's annoyance. Parent hits nail on the head.
*shrug* It was documented when released, maybe not openly advertised, but still. It wasn't some sneeky funny thing embedded between two lines of code, it was a pretty major hardware thing.
The educational institute where I work, has about 800 computers, about half of them macs (serverside same %-age). They require about 10% of the maintenance the pc's require. Their users are happier/lessgrumpy. Somethings things_just_work! Portable OS, the dream of a lot of sysadmins! (also the nightmare, securitywise). Netboot! NetRestore! Any teacher that can hold down an n-key can restore a machine, no need to rename or domainplace it, second partition will be untouched, so data preserved.
http://lowendmac.com/compact/classic.shtml, there you are. The fact that you never saw one, doesn't mean they didn't exist :c)
'Combined speed' does not equal to 'just add them up'. Under no circumstances can you just add speeds up. It only seems to look that way at very low speeds, like 50 miles (80 kilometers) per hour. Or so.
http://mactalk.com.au/articles/68kpanther/ describes how 10.3 'runs' on a Centris. From TFA: "The victi^WMac used for this little project is a Centris 650, with 68MB RAM, a 25MHz 68040 and 4GB drive". Some cheating (Pear PC) was involved though.
This is Slashdot, you can say 'fracking'. /me ducks for Cylons.
It's like fining companies whose (physical) windows break after somebody throws a rock through it instead of going after the guilty party.
It's not a crime to have your window broken, at least not in the part of the world I reside in. If I, a random person, told you to throw a rock at someone, and you did that, who would be responsible for the damage? You would not do this of course, but a child might do it. And then whose responsibillity would it be then? The parents, I assume. They might not be guilty, just responsible.
So everyone having his computer turned into a bot should have restricted access to the public space of the Web. 'Yes but no but..' that's not important, experience cannot be bought or earned, it's something that grows with practice, and starts with zero.
WHOOOOOOOOOSSSHHHHHH!!! waay over my head indeed...
Yes, but since it has to display the photo of the person in order to properly do the print match, won't we get to a point where we can't go any faster? I mean, the human eye is only so fast. The whole notion of finger-print matching just wouldn't feel right if you don't see 10,000 faces stream across the screen before finally finding the match.
Erm, you might stop watching CSI for a moment. All the computer has to do is to compare found fingerprints with recorded fingerprints, and only after a match (>99.9% of the fingerprint is identical) show the fully detailed records. If none has been found, lower the level to 95%: maybe the print smeared, or new scars add noise to the print. But ONLY after a match do there have to appear pictures of faces etc. Not like CSI Smurfcountry, where ALL the persons in their dbase are shown with full details and pics on a 26" touchscreen tft whilst looking for a match in BarbieOS.
Britain faces big chill as ocean current slows
Jonathan Leake, Science Editor
CLIMATE change researchers have detected the first signs of a slowdown in the Gulf Stream -- the mighty ocean current that keeps Britain and Europe from freezing. They have found that one of the "engines" driving the Gulf Stream -- the sinking of supercooled water in the Greenland Sea -- has weakened to less than a quarter of its former strength.
Animals are trained, people are educated. Your point is correct though: in this industry where todays standards might be obsolete tomorrow, sometimes a thorough education is considered luxury.
haha !
No, seriously, they're joking right ? Works by Arthur C. Clark were used in NASA-training, I heard. I read some (actually, a lot) of his short stories and I can imagine why.
Still interesting, tho, even with a misleading headline. They meant with 'we' not 'the public', but the BBC-people. Things not known to mankind, is something different than 'things we at the BBC-office didn't know'.
At least that's what happened when I posted one of his emails to a mail list. (And the reason he replied was because I CC'ed him with a list post, so I had reason to post it on the list.) Gil Amelio, is that you?!