Any idiot can be prepared to take big risks - casinos, hospitals, prisons and morgues are full of them. In my opinion you get respect for knowing WHEN and HOW to take big risks... Wouldn't knowing 'WHEN and HOW' be considered by most as being prepared? I'd argue those people in "casinos, hospitals, prisons and morgues" were not properly prepared.
I work at a non-profit. We've been wanting to set up some standards for positions as well. We suffer from a lot of turn over. Additionally, getting our culture to adopt something like this is pretty difficult.
We're doing a number of things to combat it. Culturally, we can't get anybody not in IT to document anything at this point. We're going to roll out a Mediawiki fairly soon.
It's intended for another process but, I hope it will be able to take on this role as well. I've been messing with them a lot documenting some of my projects and its a great tool for documentation. I also work for a non-profit that has a little turnover problem. A wiki is a great way to give the organization some form of continuity. It works well except for the problem people have been pointing out a lot in this discussion. Getting people to use it is very difficult.
I think the main hurdle to adoption is that people don't want to learn markup. Even though the markup is quite simple, it's still a resistance factor. Everyone else that has bothered to learn it has made amazing strides in centralizing their department's documentation. A wiki is sure better than a folder with a bunch of Word documents in it.
A simple training session may just give it the kick in the pants it needs.
For what it's worth, I have found a way to never have my credit card info stolen - I use cash. For you conspiracy minded people out there, my purchases are not trackable. Even better, the amount of debt I have is $0 which comes out to $0 per month in interest with a grand total of $0 per year.
That doesn't keep ID theft from happening. Someone gets your SSN and opens up an account in your name, you're screwed anyway.
Just do what I did, open up a bunch of cards, bury yourself, get bad credit. You can't open up accounts if your credit sucks. heh
Where we draw the line between personal nuclear arms and total weapons bans is not the point as I see it. The point is that the government is supposed to be regulated/limited by the constitution. Where the government is freed to reinterpret the constitution at will this is no longer the case and political liberty is effectively over. Under such a system, you no longer have rights in any real sense, you have priveleges granted or revoked by the government.
All laws are subject to interpretations, that's why there's a whole branch of the government to do just that(and settle disputes).
As the official South Carolina representative of the American Whig party, I take umbrage at the dastardly implication that we minor parties are not relevant in this year of our Lord 2007, my good sir. Our presidential nominee, Sir Thomas Barnwell of Ashbridge, is a fine fellow with a dashing chance of victory! Dude... It's 2008 now. I always thought the Whigs were straight-edge.
A 'top ten' political party means the people of the country are behind you? You mean, like just how the American people are behind Ron Paul. From TFA:
The antipathy towards copyright enforcement extends far beyond the Pirate Party in Sweden. Seven members of the Swedish Parliament from the free-market friendly Moderate Party (which is a member of the governing coalition) recently penned an op-ed piece in a Swedish tabloid (English translation) calling for the complete decriminalization of file-sharing.
Are you implying that rape victims would be better off dead?
Many people do believe this to be true. This is specially true when it's a child. When you fuck up a kid's head like that, odds are larger then usual they're just going to continue the cycle and have a horrible life in the process.
While I still can't decide which side I'm on, I can understand why some people may think death is better then rape, torture, imprisonment, and a whole bunch of other things.
I'm not sure I follow your logic. How does this get the machine fixed? It doesn't directly but it forces the uncooperative support folks to assist you.
I agree with you to a point, however I ran into a *hardware* problem a few years ago with a Dell Dimension (it was a P3 to give you the timeframe). The Dell representative refused support after learning that Linux had been run on the system. For the record, this was a power supply and the machine would not even powerup. I am still not sure how that had anything to do with Linux. There is one thing you could do if you have a whole set of these machines that need supporting. Once you receive the machines, snag one disk out of one of the machines and stuff it away. Replace it with some other disk of your choice. If you ever have to go to support and they won't deal with you, slap the stock hdd into it and go to work.
However, the problem you describe shouldn't have been a problem with business-level support.
So the white majority could vote to enslave the black minority and that would be democracy? Or in a few years when hispanics are in a majority, they could vote to enslave everyone else, or confiscate some or all of their belongings? No, we have a constitution that clearly forbids that. Though we could ammend it to allow for enslavement. It's still crazy that you are comparing copyright infringement to slavery.
What the GP is talking about is Majority Rule(aka Pure Democracy) and not a Representative Democracy(which the US is). The latter is there to prevent(hopefully) things like a majority trying to enslave a minority, the founding fathers hated the idea of a pure democracy which is why they set things up the way they did.
However, you are still missing the point. If society wants something changed and most believe that the change is good for society as a whole, we can change it. And yes, that could include enslavement. We can essentially shape society as we see fit; as long as we can all agree and convince our representatives of the idea.
Do you say "fuck" when talking to your mother? What about your kids (if you have any or would you if you did)? Do you say it at work? Do you say it in front of strangers? What about in front of women? If you answered no to any of those then I have to ask why if you think it should be so common.
I would answer yes to all of the above. And do not say it's disrespectful. I'm not calling someone a 'fuck' or trying to down them at all. It's part of language and I use it, so what? Also, I'm not arguing that it should be common, I'm arguing that I shouldn't have to restrain myself for touchy folks like you and the FCC shouldn't be censoring it either.
Just because you have such a thin skin doesn't mean I have to alter my speech(communication of thoughts) to keep you from jumping out a window. Fuck. - Now how is that disrespectful?
Any channel that has to rely on content like that must be targeting the trailer trash because only the trailer trash really don't care about their own language and will say whatever they want around anyone because they don't care. For them, "fuck" is as common as "the" so they feel right at home watching FX. It's sad that people don't realize their language is a reflection upon themselves (and they don't care if their kids hear it either) and endorsing FX and others like it is a moral issue that will only exacerbate the problem. FX must be desperate if they have to rely on filth like that.
And yet you not once said why language like 'fuck' is "filth" and why it shouldn't be common. Why should I censor myself around people like you that get all riled up over a word? It's a fucking word, chill the shit out.
Only time I do censor myself is around kids out of respect for their parents; even though I do consider them bat shit crazy.
I assume, as a 'happy Windows developer and user' you are saavy enough NOT to click OK. How about the unwashed masses? How about your grandmother? Leave my unwashed massive grandmother out of this.
Your analysis is flawed. It assumes that every multi-GPU system owner owns a Steam game AND takes part in their survey. If I remember correctly, you could opt out of sharing system and usage data.
I can only guess at the actual sales numbers but if all you would need is to triple that to make a profit, that's easy. I doubt Steam represents more then 10% of all gamers. Then we're assuming all the people running multi-GPU setups are using it for gaming too.
Then, on top of that, this setup is barely out of experimental area. Games can't even utilize that much umph. So these people are just early adopters. Give it time and this part of the graphics business will likely grow much larger.
A concession is not legally binding. If a candidate conceeds, and it is later discovered that that candidate won the election, he or she would still take office in January. Could you provide a source for this? I'd appreciate it.
I've never heard of this. Concession, as far as I knew was the same as withdrawing from an election.
Could it be the Media's-(all staffed by younger folks than me) love affair with all things trivial and not one bit news-worthy be the bane of so-called news? Look at all the talking heads-Ann Coulter ring a bell?
Guess who runs the company.
Our generation may be one of the most informed of all. We have the Internet, we have a born cynicism because of previous generations constantly trying to screw us over. However, we can only wait until boomers finally retire for us to outnumber them in the corporate world. And we'll have to wait until you all die until we can outnumber you in politics and society.
As for the paleolithic 60's in music will any of your fly-by-night wannabe bands ever last as long? Not a snowball's chance in hell. They are retreading the same stuff over and over trying to create something new-here's a news flash-it ain't happening Britney.
Guess who runs the music companies and radio stations?
Our generation has a much better taste in music than TV and radio make it look like. Local and regional music is stronger then ever, everywhere in the world. Musicians are playing because they like it, not just to make an assload of money.
Our generation will most likely do many interesting things if we can get out of the boomer's controlling shadow.
I remember the days of telephone crosstalk, but I never got the impression that it was RF-related; I always assumed it had something to do with ground loops (are there ground loops in balanced telco?) or improper balancing or things like that.
Crosstalk is much broader then what people are insinuating here. Crosstalk can be RF, groundloops, bare wires douching each other, etc. Simplest definition is when one signal interferes with each other.
I also have developed the impression that the biggest speed barrier in copper is reflections, not crosstalk, although I suppose that's more true of CAT-5/6 than of untwisted telco wiring, which is what this invention is supposed to work with.
Reflection(in data networks atleast) is rarely a problem anymore. It was in the 70s and early 90s, during hub/patch days but not much anymore. This essentially occurs on an unterminated line when it is left connected to the network. It would travel to the break in the line, hit the end, and travel back towards the source destroying everything in it's path.
Today though, most switches should not allow an unterminated line access to the rest of the network. Should just ground out everything coming in from that line. Probably simply because it doesn't have a source/destination MAC address that makes any sense. Those handy little Fluke handsets use reflection to find the break in a faulty line. Hopefully someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
Even more confusing is TFA's use of "the same physical copper line"; if they really mean that (a continuous strand of copper), then they can't be talking about crosstalk. But maybe they mean "the same cable (set of wires), and cables are made of copper".
Crosstalk can be on one wire, or a cable, air, or whatever. I believe they are talking about multiple signals on the wire(multiplexing) which could interfere with each other.
Who cares about some stupid white bears that live where it's too cold for people anyways? It's not worth wrecking our economy over, which shows just how much I care about the bears and trees.
Shows how much you care about your descendants too. Glad most people are not like you and can actually look past today.
The average user wouldn't touch the source code with a 20 foot pole anyway.
Yet. Get Linux/Unix in the hands of young kids and give it 20 or so years and normal users may very well be diving into the source whenever they want/need to. Kids get used to things like doze and don't realize that there are OSes that allow you to change core parts of the systems. If they have sufficient curiosity, they will continue to learn about it.
The birth of a geek. Put the tech in their hands, and if they can, they'll learn all they can about it.
It's a shame it has been corrupted to serve as a label for the herd of fence-sitting cowards who are either too afraid or too stupid to see existence for what it is.
First off, a big fuck you. Thanks for that.
Second fence-sitting? You're essentially showing me the atheist belief. According to you, you're either for-god, or against-god. I'm neither as I don't know if or if not a 'god' exists. Just because you can't prove something exists, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. That's bad science.
And look at the definition of gnosis again. It's translation is 'knowledge'. We can debate which word was the root of each other but it wouldn't matter. Agnostic has quite a well defined meaning today. And you would know that "if you'd done any amount of thinking or reading on the subject."
Atheism can be considered a religion. Atheism is the belief that there is no god. It's still a belief system.
Here's some definitions for you.
the doctrine or belief that there is no God
The belief that God does not exist.
One who denies or disbelieves the existence of a God.
You could probably debate symantics with me but the commonly held definition is the belief that there is no god. What I think you are thinking about is agnosticism.
the word is derived from the Greek word "a" meaning "without" and "gnosis" meaning "knowledge". Thus the definition of agnosticism is "without knowledge" or the belief that there is not, and cannot ever be, sufficient knowledge or data to determine whether or not God does or does not exist.
the belief that the existence of God is not knowable. The word is derived from the negative 'a' combined with the Greek word 'gnosis' which means 'knowledge.' Hence, agnosticism is the belief that God cannot be known.
I agree, after 9 years in IT, a few car accidents and *a lot* of poor personal behavior and I do have the standard "I sit all day" ailments. May not fix car accident problems but I've found it nice to stand when I feel like it. With a few books under the monitor, a cardboard box under your keyboard, and a couple of upside-down in-bins under your mouse pad, you can have a standing desk. It's pretty nice once you get used to standing all day. Only time it sucks is when you're hungover from a long Monday night drinking session.
I do believe they make standing desks nowadays if you want a more permanent solution.
I've never understood why speed was so important to the Americans, especially in federal elections. They vote in November, and the new president doesn't come into office until January. There's lots of time to do the counting, and make sure it's done right. It's not like the counting has to be done before midnight, or the president will turn into a pumpkin. I bet there is quite a bit for a president elect to do before he is actually sworn in. It's not exactly a job you can just hop in to, after all.
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We're doing a number of things to combat it. Culturally, we can't get anybody not in IT to document anything at this point. We're going to roll out a Mediawiki fairly soon. It's intended for another process but, I hope it will be able to take on this role as well. I've been messing with them a lot documenting some of my projects and its a great tool for documentation. I also work for a non-profit that has a little turnover problem. A wiki is a great way to give the organization some form of continuity. It works well except for the problem people have been pointing out a lot in this discussion. Getting people to use it is very difficult.
I think the main hurdle to adoption is that people don't want to learn markup. Even though the markup is quite simple, it's still a resistance factor. Everyone else that has bothered to learn it has made amazing strides in centralizing their department's documentation. A wiki is sure better than a folder with a bunch of Word documents in it.
A simple training session may just give it the kick in the pants it needs.
Just do what I did, open up a bunch of cards, bury yourself, get bad credit. You can't open up accounts if your credit sucks. heh
While I still can't decide which side I'm on, I can understand why some people may think death is better then rape, torture, imprisonment, and a whole bunch of other things.
However, the problem you describe shouldn't have been a problem with business-level support.
What the GP is talking about is Majority Rule(aka Pure Democracy) and not a Representative Democracy(which the US is). The latter is there to prevent(hopefully) things like a majority trying to enslave a minority, the founding fathers hated the idea of a pure democracy which is why they set things up the way they did.
However, you are still missing the point. If society wants something changed and most believe that the change is good for society as a whole, we can change it. And yes, that could include enslavement. We can essentially shape society as we see fit; as long as we can all agree and convince our representatives of the idea.
Do you say "fuck" when talking to your mother? What about your kids (if you have any or would you if you did)? Do you say it at work? Do you say it in front of strangers? What about in front of women? If you answered no to any of those then I have to ask why if you think it should be so common.
I would answer yes to all of the above. And do not say it's disrespectful. I'm not calling someone a 'fuck' or trying to down them at all. It's part of language and I use it, so what? Also, I'm not arguing that it should be common, I'm arguing that I shouldn't have to restrain myself for touchy folks like you and the FCC shouldn't be censoring it either.Just because you have such a thin skin doesn't mean I have to alter my speech(communication of thoughts) to keep you from jumping out a window. Fuck. - Now how is that disrespectful?
Any channel that has to rely on content like that must be targeting the trailer trash because only the trailer trash really don't care about their own language and will say whatever they want around anyone because they don't care. For them, "fuck" is as common as "the" so they feel right at home watching FX. It's sad that people don't realize their language is a reflection upon themselves (and they don't care if their kids hear it either) and endorsing FX and others like it is a moral issue that will only exacerbate the problem. FX must be desperate if they have to rely on filth like that.
And yet you not once said why language like 'fuck' is "filth" and why it shouldn't be common. Why should I censor myself around people like you that get all riled up over a word? It's a fucking word, chill the shit out.Only time I do censor myself is around kids out of respect for their parents; even though I do consider them bat shit crazy.
Your analysis is flawed. It assumes that every multi-GPU system owner owns a Steam game AND takes part in their survey. If I remember correctly, you could opt out of sharing system and usage data.
I can only guess at the actual sales numbers but if all you would need is to triple that to make a profit, that's easy. I doubt Steam represents more then 10% of all gamers. Then we're assuming all the people running multi-GPU setups are using it for gaming too.
Then, on top of that, this setup is barely out of experimental area. Games can't even utilize that much umph. So these people are just early adopters. Give it time and this part of the graphics business will likely grow much larger.
I've never heard of this. Concession, as far as I knew was the same as withdrawing from an election.
Our generation may be one of the most informed of all. We have the Internet, we have a born cynicism because of previous generations constantly trying to screw us over. However, we can only wait until boomers finally retire for us to outnumber them in the corporate world. And we'll have to wait until you all die until we can outnumber you in politics and society. Guess who runs the music companies and radio stations?
Our generation has a much better taste in music than TV and radio make it look like. Local and regional music is stronger then ever, everywhere in the world. Musicians are playing because they like it, not just to make an assload of money.
Our generation will most likely do many interesting things if we can get out of the boomer's controlling shadow.
Today though, most switches should not allow an unterminated line access to the rest of the network. Should just ground out everything coming in from that line. Probably simply because it doesn't have a source/destination MAC address that makes any sense. Those handy little Fluke handsets use reflection to find the break in a faulty line. Hopefully someone can correct me if I'm wrong. Crosstalk can be on one wire, or a cable, air, or whatever. I believe they are talking about multiple signals on the wire(multiplexing) which could interfere with each other.
The birth of a geek. Put the tech in their hands, and if they can, they'll learn all they can about it.
Second fence-sitting? You're essentially showing me the atheist belief. According to you, you're either for-god, or against-god. I'm neither as I don't know if or if not a 'god' exists. Just because you can't prove something exists, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. That's bad science.
And look at the definition of gnosis again. It's translation is 'knowledge'. We can debate which word was the root of each other but it wouldn't matter. Agnostic has quite a well defined meaning today. And you would know that "if you'd done any amount of thinking or reading on the subject."
Here's some definitions for you.
- the doctrine or belief that there is no God
- The belief that God does not exist.
- One who denies or disbelieves the existence of a God.
You could probably debate symantics with me but the commonly held definition is the belief that there is no god. What I think you are thinking about is agnosticism.I do believe they make standing desks nowadays if you want a more permanent solution.