If I'd just had my family gassed and my wife and daughters raped by US Armed Forces, I might welcome an army of foreign heavily armed Iranians in my land.
Your PS: I had similar needs for complex string parsing and manipulation not provided by std::string. But rather than extend and encode it with a new subclass, I created an Adapter for it, that would work equally well with an MFC CString or any framework that could degenerate to char* or wchar*
Your string should be a string. Why introduce new behaviors to what is in effect a fundamental primitive?
You have to realize that organizations and news agencies perform exit polling on random people coming out of the voting stations. Add up a few of these in locations, and suddenly they're taken as actual fact, when really, it's no better than a telephone sampling, and people can lie (especially on camera).
As far as I know, no voting station in my district reports results until the polling station has CLOSED.
I'd like to see it enforced to keeping it quiet until Noon of the following day.
Saddam was contained, but the UN and France in particular were looking at getting the embargo lifted. I wouldn't have put it past Saddam to get up to his old tricks and start the crap Iran is doing now with their centrifuges and "civilian" nuclear power program. Some small steps away from a bomb, with missile delivery systems within range of a shit ton of allies and strategic resources.
No one in the Western world wants a nuclear armed middle eastern country, and why Israel continues to "no comment" their nuclear status. It changes the world dynamic and strips the West of it's power to command resources.
Iraq ][ was nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to establish Airstrip America right in the heart of the Middle East, especially as Saudi Arabia was clamoring for us to leave the Promised Land.
libertarians - haven't they been talking about profit sharing for probably the entire time the platform has been around? problem is that auctions are really the only way to parcel off spectrum and mineral rights, etc... it's too easy to fudge the books wrt profit or revenue from a resource.
I love bashing the DMV as much as the next guy, but I've gone in four times in the past four years, and I spent the VAST majority of that time simply in line behind 50 other people. The least amount of time was spent actually dealing with DMV employees who were speedy, efficient, thorough and open to answering lots all the questions I had (specifically transferring ownership of my car from a dead woman through probate).
The simple fact of the poor DMV/ER performance is that they are natural bottlenecks. There are too few of them for very many of us. And a lot of that is to do with lawsuits, and ever increasing technology costs and educational costs of doctors.
So I'm torn as to what I think about socialized medicine. I'm not convinced it'll be a failure, certainly not in a big area like Boston - it'll keep it's top-notch research hospitals. But I am more concerned about rural areas where trauma centers are few and far between. An 8% increase in healthcare costs this year at the hands of private industry certainly isn't what I concern healthy.
How is that possible? By running the commit operation, you're telling it to do just that. Commit everything it knows about... Any other behavior is, IMHO, flawed.
You truly do not have to suffer... Ask, and you shall be provided with an answer!
There is a HUGE market for PCI->ISA bridges... there are a lot of communications and logging devices that only exist in ISA form that have outlived their host computers (my father's business has several). There's a market in industrial computing that keeps things like this alive.
Women don't like assholes. They like strong confident men who don't whine about how badly the world treats them or how the world owes them something. That's what evolution gave them - strong Alpha males who fed them, kept them safe from Sabertooths and a myriad of other predators and kept some semblance of order among the other males through force. Some of whom who have this confidence turn it into arrogance and beget the asshole who thinks he's God's gift to women (Tucker Max).
Not even close - I'll happily pay for software if and when I must. I'd offer to buy a Google Desktop that indexed my Intranet content at a reasonable cost, but the Google Appliances are a shit-ton of money.
Softscape QuickFind was $49 in 1998 (I know, I worked on it for a while) and did exactly what Google Desktop isn't wrt Intranet indexing.:-/
But even at $100/seat, it's the same cost as a Google Mini. But if I don't want to buy 100 seats of indexing, I have no other alternative than setting up a local Lucene server. :
Cloud computing is a tough one... I think it's a concept that benefits data center and end-user both. If properly implemented, and I can spawn processes and computations off anywhere in the cloud, I benefit. If I can spread that load out in a fan, and know that it will continue working in the absence of my network connection, I can benefit. If I can get seamless migration so that the process can move it's ass back onto my local machine when I want to go mobile, I benefit.
The point of the cloud is that it's transparent, heterogenous, and everywhere. If my machine dies, I can walk to the cube next door, fire it up, and get back to work. We're a LONG ways away from that, but that's where I see the cloud going. Hell, I'd like to shutdown my computer every day and move my work to my PDA, and when I get home, dock my PDA and have it migrate back to my PC. The less time I spend fucking around with application state and configurations to simply mimic environment B in location A, the better off I am.
The rest of your post re "ivory tower" is dead on.:-)
Firefox's insistence on single-process run-time operation is it's biggest issue, in my book.
On Linux I can run firefox in multiple different profiles (which is indeed nice), but on Windows, I have no such luck. I can run either from my USB stick, or from my Desktop, but not both (different profiles).
This from the same Google that crippled Google Desktop (an absolutely perfect tool) by making it impossible to use to trawl your Intranet without a buying an expensive ($$$$$$) Google Appliance?:-)
The point being that in the old days when the women were impregnated, it was by the alpha male, and whomever he chose to allow to do so. Children were not simply not allowed to mate to impregnate, that whole pecking order thing.
Nevermind that back in the day, being "old" at 18 or 20 was certainly possible.
Of which the five sample companies I've worked for, use it only for enforcing Windows Update. Which is just as easily managed as a crontab entry running yum update to a central yum repository.
That's only 5 companies out of many many thousands... but they were all *HUGE* (2000+ employees).
Active Directory introduces as many management problems as it solves, IMHO. Then again, Kerberos and LDAP aren't exactly a cakewalk, and 5 years ago it was far easier to administer KRB5+LDAP than any ADSI install, simply because the commandline tools for AD weren't very mature. That's most certainly not the case anymore.
Anyway, I'm not advocating people do it... only that it can be done, and a whole Linux/Unix eco-system can live and flourish in an AD environment.
I've found that the worst of all tend to be developers and QA and Tech support people. All of the ones I'd expect the most thoroughly detailed analyses from. But from and IT point of view, they can't be bothered - it can't be ANYTHING that they're doing.
Not really... opening LDAP on your AD controller and using PAM will pretty much take care of your single-sign-on issues.
NFS home directories, Etherbootable PCs...
Managing 10,000 Linux/Unix PCs *CAN* be easier than managing the same number of Windows PCs. Can. But it takes a competent admin and planning. Same as with Windows. It's just that Windows has inertia going for it.
I saw a documentary where a woman dentist in Israel gave herself an root canal with her daughter assisting (instruments, etc). Was quite interesting to see... and a bit frightening. This lady was like 70 and more leathery than a dried lizard in the Florida sun.
No broken record, you converted me... I even wrote a paper for my english class on it (scored a D, but that's because I can't write research papers, not that of the FairTax).
See, what everyone seems to forget about the FairTax is that the purpose of money is to be spent. So what if BillG hordes his billions. Sooner or later his kids will inherit that and go on a spending spree. Implementing it will cause short-term pain, but if rolled into service over a period or 3 or 4 years, the impact should be A) measurable, and B) manageable.
And since we're in pain now, why not start?
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.Net is just yet more churn in the Microsoft shit-factory of APIs and languages.
If the whole comctl32 debacle isn't fresh enough in any of your memories, give it a quick google. If SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Manager is any good representation of C++ vs..Net, I'll stay away from.Net. They took a great tool, MMC-based Enterprise Manager, and ruined it.
Ultimately, I think you're right, but I think I'll be happy sticking to C++ and one of the myriad of really good windowing frameworks available.
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If I'd just had my family gassed and my wife and daughters raped by US Armed Forces, I might welcome an army of foreign heavily armed Iranians in my land.
I cry bullshit.
http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus/544_federal_funds_summary_distribution_by_state.html
It's 10 year old data, but the % of fluctuation per capita is +/- 15% except for some exceptional outliers (Alaska, Virginia)
There's welfare everywhere. 10% of the Federal Budget goes to California, with 10% of the population... makes sense, no?
Your PS: I had similar needs for complex string parsing and manipulation not provided by std::string. But rather than extend and encode it with a new subclass, I created an Adapter for it, that would work equally well with an MFC CString or any framework that could degenerate to char* or wchar*
Your string should be a string. Why introduce new behaviors to what is in effect a fundamental primitive?
You have to realize that organizations and news agencies perform exit polling on random people coming out of the voting stations. Add up a few of these in locations, and suddenly they're taken as actual fact, when really, it's no better than a telephone sampling, and people can lie (especially on camera).
As far as I know, no voting station in my district reports results until the polling station has CLOSED.
I'd like to see it enforced to keeping it quiet until Noon of the following day.
Just me opinion though.
Saddam was contained, but the UN and France in particular were looking at getting the embargo lifted. I wouldn't have put it past Saddam to get up to his old tricks and start the crap Iran is doing now with their centrifuges and "civilian" nuclear power program. Some small steps away from a bomb, with missile delivery systems within range of a shit ton of allies and strategic resources.
No one in the Western world wants a nuclear armed middle eastern country, and why Israel continues to "no comment" their nuclear status. It changes the world dynamic and strips the West of it's power to command resources.
Iraq ][ was nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to establish Airstrip America right in the heart of the Middle East, especially as Saudi Arabia was clamoring for us to leave the Promised Land.
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter, I find your idea fascinating.
I've been saying this for a decade. I keep looking forward to getting called for Jury duty (only once, but was dismissed the night before).
Which is the inflation the GPP and GP and PP talked about. Lol.
Add up all the %20 increases across the board in making that hamburger. That's a huge increase, that impacts your buying power.
libertarians - haven't they been talking about profit sharing for probably the entire time the platform has been around? problem is that auctions are really the only way to parcel off spectrum and mineral rights, etc... it's too easy to fudge the books wrt profit or revenue from a resource.
I love bashing the DMV as much as the next guy, but I've gone in four times in the past four years, and I spent the VAST majority of that time simply in line behind 50 other people. The least amount of time was spent actually dealing with DMV employees who were speedy, efficient, thorough and open to answering lots all the questions I had (specifically transferring ownership of my car from a dead woman through probate).
The simple fact of the poor DMV/ER performance is that they are natural bottlenecks. There are too few of them for very many of us. And a lot of that is to do with lawsuits, and ever increasing technology costs and educational costs of doctors.
So I'm torn as to what I think about socialized medicine. I'm not convinced it'll be a failure, certainly not in a big area like Boston - it'll keep it's top-notch research hospitals. But I am more concerned about rural areas where trauma centers are few and far between. An 8% increase in healthcare costs this year at the hands of private industry certainly isn't what I concern healthy.
How is that possible? By running the commit operation, you're telling it to do just that. Commit everything it knows about... Any other behavior is, IMHO, flawed.
Umm.... Linux with LVM has had snapshotting for over five years, at least as long as Windows (Windows 2003).
http://www.costronic.com/Ev71p.htm
You truly do not have to suffer... Ask, and you shall be provided with an answer!
There is a HUGE market for PCI->ISA bridges... there are a lot of communications and logging devices that only exist in ISA form that have outlived their host computers (my father's business has several). There's a market in industrial computing that keeps things like this alive.
Women don't like assholes. They like strong confident men who don't whine about how badly the world treats them or how the world owes them something. That's what evolution gave them - strong Alpha males who fed them, kept them safe from Sabertooths and a myriad of other predators and kept some semblance of order among the other males through force. Some of whom who have this confidence turn it into arrogance and beget the asshole who thinks he's God's gift to women (Tucker Max).
YMMV. HAND.
Not even close - I'll happily pay for software if and when I must. I'd offer to buy a Google Desktop that indexed my Intranet content at a reasonable cost, but the Google Appliances are a shit-ton of money.
:-/
Softscape QuickFind was $49 in 1998 (I know, I worked on it for a while) and did exactly what Google Desktop isn't wrt Intranet indexing.
But even at $100/seat, it's the same cost as a Google Mini. But if I don't want to buy 100 seats of indexing, I have no other alternative than setting up a local Lucene server. :
Cloud computing is a tough one... I think it's a concept that benefits data center and end-user both. If properly implemented, and I can spawn processes and computations off anywhere in the cloud, I benefit. If I can spread that load out in a fan, and know that it will continue working in the absence of my network connection, I can benefit. If I can get seamless migration so that the process can move it's ass back onto my local machine when I want to go mobile, I benefit.
:-)
The point of the cloud is that it's transparent, heterogenous, and everywhere. If my machine dies, I can walk to the cube next door, fire it up, and get back to work. We're a LONG ways away from that, but that's where I see the cloud going. Hell, I'd like to shutdown my computer every day and move my work to my PDA, and when I get home, dock my PDA and have it migrate back to my PC. The less time I spend fucking around with application state and configurations to simply mimic environment B in location A, the better off I am.
The rest of your post re "ivory tower" is dead on.
Firefox's insistence on single-process run-time operation is it's biggest issue, in my book.
On Linux I can run firefox in multiple different profiles (which is indeed nice), but on Windows, I have no such luck. I can run either from my USB stick, or from my Desktop, but not both (different profiles).
This from the same Google that crippled Google Desktop (an absolutely perfect tool) by making it impossible to use to trawl your Intranet without a buying an expensive ($$$$$$) Google Appliance? :-)
The point being that in the old days when the women were impregnated, it was by the alpha male, and whomever he chose to allow to do so. Children were not simply not allowed to mate to impregnate, that whole pecking order thing.
Nevermind that back in the day, being "old" at 18 or 20 was certainly possible.
Of which the five sample companies I've worked for, use it only for enforcing Windows Update. Which is just as easily managed as a crontab entry running yum update to a central yum repository.
That's only 5 companies out of many many thousands... but they were all *HUGE* (2000+ employees).
Active Directory introduces as many management problems as it solves, IMHO. Then again, Kerberos and LDAP aren't exactly a cakewalk, and 5 years ago it was far easier to administer KRB5+LDAP than any ADSI install, simply because the commandline tools for AD weren't very mature. That's most certainly not the case anymore.
Anyway, I'm not advocating people do it... only that it can be done, and a whole Linux/Unix eco-system can live and flourish in an AD environment.
I will agree with this 100%.
I've found that the worst of all tend to be developers and QA and Tech support people. All of the ones I'd expect the most thoroughly detailed analyses from. But from and IT point of view, they can't be bothered - it can't be ANYTHING that they're doing.
Not really... opening LDAP on your AD controller and using PAM will pretty much take care of your single-sign-on issues.
NFS home directories, Etherbootable PCs...
Managing 10,000 Linux/Unix PCs *CAN* be easier than managing the same number of Windows PCs. Can. But it takes a competent admin and planning. Same as with Windows. It's just that Windows has inertia going for it.
I saw a documentary where a woman dentist in Israel gave herself an root canal with her daughter assisting (instruments, etc). Was quite interesting to see... and a bit frightening. This lady was like 70 and more leathery than a dried lizard in the Florida sun.
So why not ask google
1 Petabyte in circumferences of the Earth @ 12 chars / inch?
Is the GoogleCalc not that good yet? Lol
No broken record, you converted me... I even wrote a paper for my english class on it (scored a D, but that's because I can't write research papers, not that of the FairTax).
See, what everyone seems to forget about the FairTax is that the purpose of money is to be spent. So what if BillG hordes his billions. Sooner or later his kids will inherit that and go on a spending spree. Implementing it will cause short-term pain, but if rolled into service over a period or 3 or 4 years, the impact should be A) measurable, and B) manageable.
And since we're in pain now, why not start?
.Net is just yet more churn in the Microsoft shit-factory of APIs and languages.
.Net, I'll stay away from .Net. They took a great tool, MMC-based Enterprise Manager, and ruined it.
If the whole comctl32 debacle isn't fresh enough in any of your memories, give it a quick google. If SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Manager is any good representation of C++ vs.
Ultimately, I think you're right, but I think I'll be happy sticking to C++ and one of the myriad of really good windowing frameworks available.