John Ashcroft come of age when very few men typed.
Where? We've had typewriters in common use here in the US since the early part of the twentieth century.
On the other hand, I don't know his personal story but I'm sure it's possible he's originally from someplace other than the US. Someplace that smells like sulfur, perhaps...
When we were looking for people to come work for us, we had a hell of a time finding people who had the necessary skills. We were not in a position to sponsor any visas, but in the end we had no choice but to do so.
Just curious, how come companies in that position don't train new recruits themselves? It seems like expecting a new hire to be up to speed with everything they need to know before you even hire them is a relatively new thing in business, and for all I know it's specific to IT.
To bring a whole new platform onto the scene in essentially under a year and break into the ranks of the supercomputing elite virtually overnight, and to do it significantly, and sometimes ridiculously, cheaper than everyone else, is a feat that can't be ignored.
Judging from the Top 100 list itself, it has been pretty thoroughly ignored by the "supercomputing elite" of which you spoke. Most likely because the Linpack benchmark isn't often indicitive of a supercomputer's usefulness, clustered Linux machines are more popular on the low end of supercomputing, and proprietary systems are more popular (and necessary) on the high end. Not to create a false dichotomy, there: Linux is running on the high-end systems now, too.
I also wonder if you can actually buy the software VT developed to manage their cluster. Or establish the special relationship VT had with Apple, which allowed them to work around Apple's supply problems.
Is there a list of who voted for and against it somewhere?
Russ Feingold is the only US senator who voted against the Patriot act. Voice vote or no, and I don't know anything about that, everyone who voted was very conspicuous about it before and after the vote, since it was so highly political.
There might have been a few people who voted against it in the house, I don't recall who they were.
Who needs good public schools or child healthcare... we're go'na have mother f***'n space lasers!
How wrong you are! A mother f***'n space "laser" was part of the plan called Preparation G. The new plan, Preparation H involves turning the moon into what we call a "Death Star."
Happily, there are no treaties against this. The downside is that it will cost over one million dollars.
Two other issues that will doubtless be brought up can similarly be explained -- the CDA [epic.org] was one of those "Look -- I'm protecting the children! Re-elect me!" issues that had a lot of public support and the Patriot Act was rammed through a stunned Congress after 9/11. Should the Democrats have had the balls to vote against it? Yes. Are they the same as Republicans? No.
Russ Feingold voted against it. Just thought I should mention that. He caught a lot of flack, too...
In a time when we have leaders chomping at the bit to come up with any excuse they can to start strategic wars, not to mention their misguided domestic agendas, an out-of-control patent office is the least of our concerns.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The success of pretty much anyone's domestic agenda, not to mention the war we are in, is predicated on having an economy that continues to grow and be strong. This extreme case of patent abuse is an example of how the patent system could do damage to the economy, and how badly it needs reform.
Well, the other problem with coal is that it tosses all kinds of contaminants up in the air, where they rain back down on us. Stuff like mercury, which goes great with fish!
In a funny way you're totally right, of course. The Bush EPA's clean air rules are designed to allow old and dirty coal plants a really, really long time to update their scrubbers, so there isn't much in the way of "constraint" on them.
IANASM (smart man) but I think that the Canadian CANDU reactors are an order of magntude safer then anything any other country has designed.
I'm skeptical about the "designed" part but it's easy to believe they're more more advanced than anything that has been deployed elsewhere. Most reactors here in the US are designs from the sixties or seventies.
We do need to find alternate energy solutions, but the problem with Nuclear Energy, is where do you dump the waste? The way us is, people will dump it in the river until someone starts seeing 3 eyed fish like the Simpsons:-).
Nuclear is easy: vitrify the waste and dump it somewhere geologically stable. Coal is the worst, it really does pollute the air and water. That's where most of the mercury in our fish comes from.
The possible Republican candidates in 4 years time are: McCain, Giuliani, Schwarzenegger. The ticket will be come pairing of 2 out of those 3. Of course Schwarzenegger still needs the constitutional amendment... but you can bet the GOP will be pushing hard for that - a Republican candidate who has a decent chance of carrying California? That right there is an automatic win.
Not quite. He's obviously a really strong candidate, but remember who brought this election home for Bush, and on what basis: right-wing Christians voting on "moral issues." With his support of stem cell research and his (admittedly lukewarm) tolerance of gays, Ahnold will not be able to get these people out in the same numbers.
I have news for you: there is not wholesale or widespread fraud in the election. And what fraud (on BOTH sides), inappropriate behavior, etc., is statistically irrelevant in this election. If Kerry believed there was a way to win, believe me, they'd be doing it.
Of the three assertions you've made there, I agree with the third one wholeheartedly. The second one is unimportant and potentially misleading: fraud should be pursued and punished, regardless of how close the race is. The first one seems to be totally unsupported at this point. How do you know there wasn't widespread fraud? If you're basing that on nothing more than a nice, positive view of human nature I've got some bad news for you...
Bush won it, with the largest number of votes in history,
with an absolute majority
That's true, though you could more accurately say "with an extremely slim majority." Yes, we're all happy that the electoral college actually coincides with the will of the people this time around, but let's not get carried away.
Nonsense. He came within spitting distance of defeating a sitting president during a time of war. As fashionable as it is to view our little footnote in history as being fantastically unique, that would have been a great accomplishment under any circumstances. And he almost did it.
Show the American people that you're not run by left-wing nutjobs
If nominating a pro-war candidate rather than an anti-war candidate wasn't enough to do that, nothing will. The democrats had some "left-wing nutjobs" take part in the primaries, and they rejected them soundly in favor of the centrists.
What I'm saying is, he's planning to spend less than Kerry. To be quite honest, that's the main issue I voted on.
Too bad, since it's simply not true.
Not just in a superficial sense that it's a misinterpretation of their statements about how they'd spend money in the future. Those statements indicated that Kerry was pretty serious about not spending money we don't have. It's also untrue in a more important, practical sense: President Kerry would not have had the clout to get huge amounts of pork through the congress and would have been greatly limited in his spending by the simple dynamics involved in having both the house and the senate controlled by the GOP.
So you've contributed to another four years of budgets like the last one. Which, if you didn't notice, was a real doozie, and not because of military spending.
I've said it once and I'll say it again: The quicker we all figure out that both Democrats(Liberals) and Republicans(Conservatives) are both in it to fuck over the common man, the better off we'll all be.
We'd also be a lot better off if we stopped pretending that the current parties have any sort of ideological foundations, even the very simple liberal/conservative dichotomy you've described. Anyone who thinks Dubya is a conservative doesn't know the meaning of the word.
I honor the efforts of the OpenBSD projects and Theo de Raadt, but this is childish behaviour. I don't think one could deny that Linus does propagate the idea of free software. He created the currently most distributed free operating system, did he?
Of course, de Raadt did not claim that Linus has not done enough to "propagate the idea of free software." He was talking about the firmware fight. Keep knocking over those strawmen!
Speaking like that of the Linux crowd at whole is ignorant.
I guess it's a good thing he didn't do that, then.
Yeah, unfortunately they don't have a simple DVD player at the bottom of their product line, the way other manufacturers seem to. Seems silly to spend the money for another burner. Ah well, maybe on ebay...
I've got an NEC and I've noticed this too, although it reads better than some I've owned. What's a good site to research a drive that's really good for reading? I'd be fine with buying a second drive.
For example he claims to have averaged recent polls in Florida but a Quinnipiac poll from 10/27 thru 10/31 shows an EIGHT point Bush lead. How he ends up with a 2 point Kerry advantage with that in the average I don't know.
I can't comment on anything he's done specifically, but that poll might have been dismissed as an outlier.
There are more BSD's distros than the top3 (Free/Net/Open), you have PicoBSD, Firefly BSD, Debian GNU/BSD, Gentoo BSD, BSDi, BSD-OS and Darwin.
Not really. Nobody uses the rest of that stuff, generally for good reason.
PicoBSD: out of date abandonware FireflyBSD: an intriguing research project but not close to being finished Debian GNU/BSD: BAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA Gentoo BSD: ditto BSDi and BSD-OS (same thing, right?): merged and superceded in just about every way by FreeBSD Darwin: Everyone who gives a shit just uses OS X
That was a facetious remark that was taken out of context
Howling onstage was enough to keep Howard Dean out of the running...
I mean, okay, seriously. These third-party guys typically act victimized by the two-party system, whine about it constantly. There's some validity to that. But it also helps matters if you avoid behaving like a maniac extremist.
The Green party is the only third party in the US that seems to have figured this out. Which is ironic, since the Greens in Europe really _are_ maniacs.
I think you might want to take a look at the deeper meaning of some of the things he is saying before labeling him a nutcase.
In what mythical land can voters be relied upon to overlook the extremism in these "jokes" and then search for a "deeper meaning"? Candidates, some of whom are pretty funny, (I'm thinking of Bob Dole) pretty much have to cut out the black humor or they don't have a chance. That's the reality that these guys need to acknowledge, or they might as well quit whining about how everyone is keeping the third parties down.
The apathy of the electorate, in *not* demanding better candidates from the major parties, has gotten us into a mess.
Roughly half the country still thinks Saddam Hussein had something to do with blowing up the world trade center. We've got bigger problems with the electorate than their judgement in candidates.
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Where? We've had typewriters in common use here in the US since the early part of the twentieth century.
On the other hand, I don't know his personal story but I'm sure it's possible he's originally from someplace other than the US. Someplace that smells like sulfur, perhaps...
Of course, with MBAs and stupid HR people, they were never in fashion, which is the problem...
Just curious, how come companies in that position don't train new recruits themselves? It seems like expecting a new hire to be up to speed with everything they need to know before you even hire them is a relatively new thing in business, and for all I know it's specific to IT.
Not what I was talking about, but okay...
Judging from the Top 100 list itself, it has been pretty thoroughly ignored by the "supercomputing elite" of which you spoke. Most likely because the Linpack benchmark isn't often indicitive of a supercomputer's usefulness, clustered Linux machines are more popular on the low end of supercomputing, and proprietary systems are more popular (and necessary) on the high end. Not to create a false dichotomy, there: Linux is running on the high-end systems now, too.
I also wonder if you can actually buy the software VT developed to manage their cluster. Or establish the special relationship VT had with Apple, which allowed them to work around Apple's supply problems.
Russ Feingold is the only US senator who voted against the Patriot act. Voice vote or no, and I don't know anything about that, everyone who voted was very conspicuous about it before and after the vote, since it was so highly political.
There might have been a few people who voted against it in the house, I don't recall who they were.
How wrong you are! A mother f***'n space "laser" was part of the plan called Preparation G. The new plan, Preparation H involves turning the moon into what we call a "Death Star."
Happily, there are no treaties against this. The downside is that it will cost over one million dollars.
Russ Feingold voted against it. Just thought I should mention that. He caught a lot of flack, too...
Nothing could be further from the truth. The success of pretty much anyone's domestic agenda, not to mention the war we are in, is predicated on having an economy that continues to grow and be strong. This extreme case of patent abuse is an example of how the patent system could do damage to the economy, and how badly it needs reform.
Well, the other problem with coal is that it tosses all kinds of contaminants up in the air, where they rain back down on us. Stuff like mercury, which goes great with fish!
In a funny way you're totally right, of course. The Bush EPA's clean air rules are designed to allow old and dirty coal plants a really, really long time to update their scrubbers, so there isn't much in the way of "constraint" on them.
I'm skeptical about the "designed" part but it's easy to believe they're more more advanced than anything that has been deployed elsewhere. Most reactors here in the US are designs from the sixties or seventies.
Nuclear is easy: vitrify the waste and dump it somewhere geologically stable. Coal is the worst, it really does pollute the air and water. That's where most of the mercury in our fish comes from.
Not quite. He's obviously a really strong candidate, but remember who brought this election home for Bush, and on what basis: right-wing Christians voting on "moral issues." With his support of stem cell research and his (admittedly lukewarm) tolerance of gays, Ahnold will not be able to get these people out in the same numbers.
I guess that makes him VP material.
Of the three assertions you've made there, I agree with the third one wholeheartedly. The second one is unimportant and potentially misleading: fraud should be pursued and punished, regardless of how close the race is. The first one seems to be totally unsupported at this point. How do you know there wasn't widespread fraud? If you're basing that on nothing more than a nice, positive view of human nature I've got some bad news for you...
That's true, though you could more accurately say "with an extremely slim majority." Yes, we're all happy that the electoral college actually coincides with the will of the people this time around, but let's not get carried away.
Nonsense. He came within spitting distance of defeating a sitting president during a time of war. As fashionable as it is to view our little footnote in history as being fantastically unique, that would have been a great accomplishment under any circumstances. And he almost did it.
If nominating a pro-war candidate rather than an anti-war candidate wasn't enough to do that, nothing will. The democrats had some "left-wing nutjobs" take part in the primaries, and they rejected them soundly in favor of the centrists.
Too bad, since it's simply not true.
Not just in a superficial sense that it's a misinterpretation of their statements about how they'd spend money in the future. Those statements indicated that Kerry was pretty serious about not spending money we don't have. It's also untrue in a more important, practical sense: President Kerry would not have had the clout to get huge amounts of pork through the congress and would have been greatly limited in his spending by the simple dynamics involved in having both the house and the senate controlled by the GOP.
So you've contributed to another four years of budgets like the last one. Which, if you didn't notice, was a real doozie, and not because of military spending.
We'd also be a lot better off if we stopped pretending that the current parties have any sort of ideological foundations, even the very simple liberal/conservative dichotomy you've described. Anyone who thinks Dubya is a conservative doesn't know the meaning of the word.
Of course, de Raadt did not claim that Linus has not done enough to "propagate the idea of free software." He was talking about the firmware fight. Keep knocking over those strawmen!
I guess it's a good thing he didn't do that, then.
Yeah, unfortunately they don't have a simple DVD player at the bottom of their product line, the way other manufacturers seem to. Seems silly to spend the money for another burner. Ah well, maybe on ebay...
I've got an NEC and I've noticed this too, although it reads better than some I've owned. What's a good site to research a drive that's really good for reading? I'd be fine with buying a second drive.
Yes, yes I do. You didn't get the memo?!? I'm sure "Anonymous Coward" was on the cc:
Oh, well, that's useful.
I'm sure all the Apple engineers interested in OS X portability are grateful. Nobody else cares.
I can't comment on anything he's done specifically, but that poll might have been dismissed as an outlier.
Not really. Nobody uses the rest of that stuff, generally for good reason.
PicoBSD: out of date abandonware
FireflyBSD: an intriguing research project but not close to being finished
Debian GNU/BSD: BAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA
Gentoo BSD: ditto
BSDi and BSD-OS (same thing, right?): merged and superceded in just about every way by FreeBSD
Darwin: Everyone who gives a shit just uses OS X
Howling onstage was enough to keep Howard Dean out of the running...
I mean, okay, seriously. These third-party guys typically act victimized by the two-party system, whine about it constantly. There's some validity to that. But it also helps matters if you avoid behaving like a maniac extremist.
The Green party is the only third party in the US that seems to have figured this out. Which is ironic, since the Greens in Europe really _are_ maniacs.
In what mythical land can voters be relied upon to overlook the extremism in these "jokes" and then search for a "deeper meaning"? Candidates, some of whom are pretty funny, (I'm thinking of Bob Dole) pretty much have to cut out the black humor or they don't have a chance. That's the reality that these guys need to acknowledge, or they might as well quit whining about how everyone is keeping the third parties down.
Roughly half the country still thinks Saddam Hussein had something to do with blowing up the world trade center. We've got bigger problems with the electorate than their judgement in candidates.