So this is the third Slashdot article in a row that speaks of the internet and government involvement. Surely, this is a sign of the time and of an increasing trend. For better or worse, citizens of the 'net will be doing battle with government and politicians.
Reading the constitution is no guarantee that it will be followed or enforced. See Bush v. Gore, for example.
People with agendas who manage to make it to the top of the political food chain have a free hand. While they're in office. And once they get voted out of office, we, the people, need to move our newly elected officials to undo the damage done.
The system is not perfect, but it does have its moments.
Something as valuable as a moon rock can be pretty easily switched with something else that looks rather interesting. I don't doubt that the astronauts gave them a moon rock. What I doubt is that the silly Dutch have managed to safeguard it for all this time.
A little research, including photos, can clear the matter up. Next question is; where did the moon rock go?
Obviously, you haven't spent much time in concrete trades. Did you even notice the rebar in the photo? Before the slab crushes the copper pipe, it has to sever the rebar. Not happening.
The design is sound and the application is clever.
Talk about a heat sink.
I'm a little surprised that this sort of technique is not more widely adopted at places like data centers; geothermal or water-source heat exchange, especially for cooling.
I have been looking at using a water-source heat pump system to replace my electrical resistance heating/air conditioning system. Big incentives from the government.
[Microsoft will] have a windows mobile OS if they have to start building their own phones to sell it.
So, the question would be; what are they waiting for? Mobile OS's are springing up left and right and Microsoft has no market share. Obviously, they can't deliver.
For many years, Microsoft has had the nasty habit of breaking their own software and data formats to force customers to upgrade. It seems that corporations are finally pushing back and refusing the upgrade cycle. This was happening on a large scale with XP, mostly because Vista required a hardware upgrade, and because the 'upgrade' cycle happening during a time of budget tightening.
Really, Microsoft has been cannibalizing their own business for profits. They don't have the ability to innovate and they have been resorting to forcing upgrades on their customers to maintain revenue. It's too bad, they had a lot of money and they were in the best position to leverage their strategic position to branch into new businesses. But, they didn't have the ability to invest the money in new technology and make it pay.
So many obvious opportunities simply slipped through Microsoft's fingers. They could have owned browsing, searching and the internet in general, they could have taken over business software, they could have owned gaming. Microsoft, like GM, seems to have gotten too big without redefining themselves.
The end of Microsoft will be good for software development and for consumers. Microsoft has been a tax on computing and a hindrance to innovation. Windows 7 should be the end.
By your definition, a diabetic is addicted to insulin. Obviously, you don't understand the issue.
And, rewriting DNA/RNA? It happens with or without our help. Ever heard of a virus? How do you think it replicates?
But the question of treatment of schizophrenia is not necessarily about 'fixing' DNA or RNA. DNA will predispose a person to schizophrenia, but it won't determine an outcome. Just as ulcers were once misunderstood, schizophrenia is not well understood. How on earth could we not know for so long that ulcers were caused by bacteria? The cause of ulcers is so pedestrian, yet even when a doctor found the cause, the medical community refused to let go of its previously held beliefs about the cause.
We still don't have the ability to deterministically know whether people have had Lyme Disease, Borna Virus Disease, and other virus and retro-virus diseases. We are still in the dark about much of human health.
Addictive behaviour and schizophrenia go together.
First of all, you don't know what you're talking about. The nicotine and caffeine help alleviate the symptoms of schizophrenia. Schizophrenics have to self-medicate to feel normal. It's about a dopamine deficit and brain receptors, idiot.
The fact that schizophrenics have to self-medicate is a testament to our health system; it would rather treat conditions than cure illness. The best medication for schizophrenics on the market today is Geodon. Side-effects? Weight gain and diabetes. As if their lives weren't bad enough.
1Tb external 'books' are enclosed, store and look like books, can be labeled like books, and can be unplugged and plugged in like they're removable media. And they're not that expensive.
Whoa! Better check your facts. We spend the most on healthcare and get some of the worst results. Check the University of Maine study on healthcare costs and quality.
I've been doing this for a while now. I'm glad they're doing it, but I didn't think it was news.
The idea had occurred to me one day while I was working to pull up a map of something, I said to my wife, 'they should just make it so that you can say map boise, idaho'. Then I tried it out. D'oh! It already does that.
These are the sorts of innovations that will keep FOSS and alternative software ahead of Microsoft, despite Microsoft's claims that they innovate.
Just say no to a CS degree. I don't know what your motivation was for choosing a CS degree, but working in the CS domain is no picnic.
For starters, are you aware of the exception to labor laws that specifically targets programmers and IT personnel? Our employers are free to work us as many hours as they like and we have no recourse. Don't believe me? Look it up.
But to answer your original question, yes, there is ageism. One of the problems with Computer Science and programming as a work discipline is that there was a huge need for programmers and there was little in the way of experienced people to mentor and manage all the new programmers. Managers were promoted from the ranks of the new surge of programmers and there are absolutely no experienced managers to pass on wisdom.
More specifically, I was on a team of engineers who would interview prospective programming candidates. The hiring manager was a younger fellow, in his 20's. Even thought the practice was for the interview team to make the recommendation and the manager normally accepted the interview team's recommendation, the manager did have the authority to make his own decisions. I quit the team after watching two older, experienced candidates get rejected and a younger man of limited abilities and with only technical experience, not programming experience, be chosen despite the teams rejection of that candidate. It was plainly ageism. That younger nebbish, hired to be a programmer, is still on the job, doing technical work. It's strange to see.
Younger managers are uncomfortable managing workers who are older than they are. It's natural; they're intimidated, afraid of having someone around who knows when they screw up. And they do screw up.
So, yes, they would rather hire a younger, just out of school, CS major. Some companies, like Microsoft, simply wouldn't hire experienced programmers. The speculation was that they wanted to instill their own corporate culture in the freshly minted CS majors. Hiring someone who had learned practices of another company could be a disruptive to a young, growing culture.
I recently worked with a smart young man, just out of high school, who wanted to go to college. He was going back to school and thought he'd go into programming. I advised him to get a degree in finance and accounting, and he took the advice. My logic is that it wouldn't be hard to get some additional CS training and get into programming if he wanted to, but that the life and lifestyle of the finance people was far superior to that of programmers.
If you could come up with two large dishes, flip one over and attach it to the other to make a flying saucer. Then half bury it in the back yard, get some green men dummies and put them around the saucer.
I understand your distress. You've made a commitment to a company only to find out that what you've committed to is about to change. You've been focused on doing your job, thinking that doing so would advance your career, and now you need to focus on doing your career instead.
If you like working at a smaller company, go ahead and start interviewing for another job. You might find that you hate working in a large, impersonal institution. On the other hand, many people seem to thrive when they enter the belly of the beast. But keep your head up and your eyes open because change is coming.
It was shown to the courts, and they ruled it true, that Microsoft had a hidden API that they used for their internal divisions, and a less functional API that they published.
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So this is the third Slashdot article in a row that speaks of the internet and government involvement. Surely, this is a sign of the time and of an increasing trend. For better or worse, citizens of the 'net will be doing battle with government and politicians.
Reading the constitution is no guarantee that it will be followed or enforced. See Bush v. Gore, for example. People with agendas who manage to make it to the top of the political food chain have a free hand. While they're in office. And once they get voted out of office, we, the people, need to move our newly elected officials to undo the damage done. The system is not perfect, but it does have its moments.
Something as valuable as a moon rock can be pretty easily switched with something else that looks rather interesting. I don't doubt that the astronauts gave them a moon rock. What I doubt is that the silly Dutch have managed to safeguard it for all this time. A little research, including photos, can clear the matter up. Next question is; where did the moon rock go?
Have you had the last word?
Obviously, you haven't spent much time in concrete trades. Did you even notice the rebar in the photo? Before the slab crushes the copper pipe, it has to sever the rebar. Not happening.
The design is sound and the application is clever.
Talk about a heat sink. I'm a little surprised that this sort of technique is not more widely adopted at places like data centers; geothermal or water-source heat exchange, especially for cooling. I have been looking at using a water-source heat pump system to replace my electrical resistance heating/air conditioning system. Big incentives from the government.
[Microsoft will] have a windows mobile OS if they have to start building their own phones to sell it.
So, the question would be; what are they waiting for? Mobile OS's are springing up left and right and Microsoft has no market share. Obviously, they can't deliver.
For many years, Microsoft has had the nasty habit of breaking their own software and data formats to force customers to upgrade. It seems that corporations are finally pushing back and refusing the upgrade cycle. This was happening on a large scale with XP, mostly because Vista required a hardware upgrade, and because the 'upgrade' cycle happening during a time of budget tightening.
Really, Microsoft has been cannibalizing their own business for profits. They don't have the ability to innovate and they have been resorting to forcing upgrades on their customers to maintain revenue. It's too bad, they had a lot of money and they were in the best position to leverage their strategic position to branch into new businesses. But, they didn't have the ability to invest the money in new technology and make it pay.
So many obvious opportunities simply slipped through Microsoft's fingers. They could have owned browsing, searching and the internet in general, they could have taken over business software, they could have owned gaming. Microsoft, like GM, seems to have gotten too big without redefining themselves.
The end of Microsoft will be good for software development and for consumers. Microsoft has been a tax on computing and a hindrance to innovation. Windows 7 should be the end.
Who's definition of addiction?
By your definition, a diabetic is addicted to insulin. Obviously, you don't understand the issue.
And, rewriting DNA/RNA? It happens with or without our help. Ever heard of a virus? How do you think it replicates?
But the question of treatment of schizophrenia is not necessarily about 'fixing' DNA or RNA. DNA will predispose a person to schizophrenia, but it won't determine an outcome. Just as ulcers were once misunderstood, schizophrenia is not well understood. How on earth could we not know for so long that ulcers were caused by bacteria? The cause of ulcers is so pedestrian, yet even when a doctor found the cause, the medical community refused to let go of its previously held beliefs about the cause.
We still don't have the ability to deterministically know whether people have had Lyme Disease, Borna Virus Disease, and other virus and retro-virus diseases. We are still in the dark about much of human health.
Addictive behaviour and schizophrenia go together.
First of all, you don't know what you're talking about. The nicotine and caffeine help alleviate the symptoms of schizophrenia. Schizophrenics have to self-medicate to feel normal. It's about a dopamine deficit and brain receptors, idiot.
The fact that schizophrenics have to self-medicate is a testament to our health system; it would rather treat conditions than cure illness. The best medication for schizophrenics on the market today is Geodon. Side-effects? Weight gain and diabetes. As if their lives weren't bad enough.
"desperate search of a miracle worker." Well, we know who the 'miracle worker' would be; Ballmer. The question is, does he come to SCO's aid again?
President Obama lives by the saying "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good."
Hydrogen power sounds good on paper, but we need something that works soon.
Quoting Patton: A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
We, as a country, have limited resources. We have a lot that needs to get fixed. Let's be smart about it.
1Tb external 'books' are enclosed, store and look like books, can be labeled like books, and can be unplugged and plugged in like they're removable media. And they're not that expensive.
When I saw the headline, my first thought was that LKML is yet another markup language (YAML). I was slightly irritated that I didn't see it coming.
By not pissing away money on other things.
No, no, you don't get it. We're not going to collect any taxes at all. Nothing.
Now, tell us how to pay for the wars.
Will the anti-tax people please explain how to pay for two wars and a large military budget?
Thanks in advance.
Whoa! Better check your facts. We spend the most on healthcare and get some of the worst results. Check the University of Maine study on healthcare costs and quality.
Wow. Ok, how about keywords that call up a mashup?
I've been doing this for a while now. I'm glad they're doing it, but I didn't think it was news.
The idea had occurred to me one day while I was working to pull up a map of something, I said to my wife, 'they should just make it so that you can say map boise, idaho'. Then I tried it out. D'oh! It already does that.
These are the sorts of innovations that will keep FOSS and alternative software ahead of Microsoft, despite Microsoft's claims that they innovate.
Just say no to a CS degree. I don't know what your motivation was for choosing a CS degree, but working in the CS domain is no picnic.
For starters, are you aware of the exception to labor laws that specifically targets programmers and IT personnel? Our employers are free to work us as many hours as they like and we have no recourse. Don't believe me? Look it up.
But to answer your original question, yes, there is ageism. One of the problems with Computer Science and programming as a work discipline is that there was a huge need for programmers and there was little in the way of experienced people to mentor and manage all the new programmers. Managers were promoted from the ranks of the new surge of programmers and there are absolutely no experienced managers to pass on wisdom.
More specifically, I was on a team of engineers who would interview prospective programming candidates. The hiring manager was a younger fellow, in his 20's. Even thought the practice was for the interview team to make the recommendation and the manager normally accepted the interview team's recommendation, the manager did have the authority to make his own decisions. I quit the team after watching two older, experienced candidates get rejected and a younger man of limited abilities and with only technical experience, not programming experience, be chosen despite the teams rejection of that candidate. It was plainly ageism. That younger nebbish, hired to be a programmer, is still on the job, doing technical work. It's strange to see.
Younger managers are uncomfortable managing workers who are older than they are. It's natural; they're intimidated, afraid of having someone around who knows when they screw up. And they do screw up.
So, yes, they would rather hire a younger, just out of school, CS major. Some companies, like Microsoft, simply wouldn't hire experienced programmers. The speculation was that they wanted to instill their own corporate culture in the freshly minted CS majors. Hiring someone who had learned practices of another company could be a disruptive to a young, growing culture.
I recently worked with a smart young man, just out of high school, who wanted to go to college. He was going back to school and thought he'd go into programming. I advised him to get a degree in finance and accounting, and he took the advice. My logic is that it wouldn't be hard to get some additional CS training and get into programming if he wanted to, but that the life and lifestyle of the finance people was far superior to that of programmers.
Good luck to you whatever you decide.
Drives have powerful magnets. Maybe you should think of using that magnet to corrupt the data on the media. Degauss it, in effect.
Does anybody remember Microsoft's role in this? Perhaps they should pony up the $2.5M
If you could come up with two large dishes, flip one over and attach it to the other to make a flying saucer. Then half bury it in the back yard, get some green men dummies and put them around the saucer.
I understand your distress. You've made a commitment to a company only to find out that what you've committed to is about to change. You've been focused on doing your job, thinking that doing so would advance your career, and now you need to focus on doing your career instead.
If you like working at a smaller company, go ahead and start interviewing for another job. You might find that you hate working in a large, impersonal institution. On the other hand, many people seem to thrive when they enter the belly of the beast. But keep your head up and your eyes open because change is coming.
Good luck.
It was shown to the courts, and they ruled it true, that Microsoft had a hidden API that they used for their internal divisions, and a less functional API that they published.
Please. Do your own research.