Interesting list. I used to work with a woman - she spoke flawless English but originally spoke Telugu herself.
But then when I think about it, just look what happens to English over a broad geographic area like the United States. Just within say a 100 mile radius there are clear differences in the spoken language and the accents. A Boston accent versus that in New York City, and even in a state like Rhode Island.
And don't even get me started on the variants of Spanish I hear regularly. Dominican, Puerto Rican, Venezuelan, Bolivian, Guatemalan, Colombian, and a whole lot more.
Managed to get English spoken pretty much throughout the country. You can thank the British for that - because India is also a polyglot nation depending upon things like region, etc.
But the Chinese, insistent upon Mandarin yet a good chunk of their population cannot speak it. That's bizarre but then the Chinese didn't have the benefit of British rule I suppose.
I have only a few close friends. They're mixed races and ethnicity, so I'm obviously not going by phenotype. I think a lot of it is the demographics of the group more so than DNA.
I did a short stint with a military contractor. Had to be fingerprinted, urine tested, background checked and get secret clearance. Problem was the clearance process takes SO long that by the time I had completed the project and left the company I get a call about my clearance interview. Told em' it was a moot point.
Yes indeed - I know that too. I tend to be selective on the video I watch and some percentage of the time the TV is off anyway. If it is on it's either just a background noise or I have my RasPi up on it.
To rent software. If it's installed on my computer it's mine to use when and where I see fit. But Autodesk as another problem - their software is too pricey to begin with. And a lot of their wares are pirated like crazy.
What with the abortion that is Windows 8, the Surface tablet with the ARM processor, etc. That was a HUGE mis-step for Microsoft. But I can understand why they did it, both Apple and Google are going in the tiled direction so Microsoft though it should get into the mobile market (Good luck!) and thought a tiled view would work. It didn't.
I'm right there with you. Imagine the benefits of autonomous vehicles - no more DUI, no more distracted driving, a reduction in car accidents, etc. Of course since the cars will obey posted limits, etc. there will be a downside - you don't need traffic police as much.
Then of course there are the other benefits. Your car could drop you off at a location, go park itself in a cheap lot or structure, then come and get you when you call it. No more circling around looking for a parking spot. That would benefit in time saving and fuel saving.
That corn is so highly subsidized in the U.S. that it's in virtually everything we all eat. Or maybe it's because those same policies favor cheap, nutrient deficient foods and that INCLUDES animal feed.
Same thing here. I've worked for some real mental midgets. However there was one place of employment where I gave my notice and they tried to work me like a dog those last two weeks. It came down to the day before my last day. I'm out in Massachusetts implementing something I and the company controller BOTH knew wouldn't work. When it didn't work I called my boss, explained what happened and told him to have a nice life.
Because I know the insurance industry upgraded systems every few years. So as a result they're constantly making changes to software.
Brings to mind a prosecution against a doctor I was involved with a decade ago. The Billing company TRIED to assert that they didn't keep more than three months of data online. But we got the data we wanted. Years later their I.T. guy who came with them to the meeting, he and I are working in the same I.T. unit. He said I was right - they had YEARS of data online. They just didn't want to seem complicit in knowing the doctor was upcoding his medicare patient visits. Oops.
So using Gmail via IMAP is old school? When I want to be able to access my email from EVERYWHERE? I have the Gmail app on the phone, and I use Thunderbird at home. I have too many email accounts to want to use Webmail for all of it, and I find most webmail GUI's to be horrible.
And then of course there's me, two phones unlimited voice, data on MetroPCS. $100 per month. So all of the plans shown are $50 or more expensive. And no contract. The big carriers wonder why they can't entice people with their plans? Maybe they should buy a clue.
But then T-Mobil now OWNS MetroPCS so I wonder how long before I'm switched to the $150 a month plan. I do hear that they don't plan to merge the two networks but we've all heard that song before ala Nextel.
Are they insane? Six grand for a server OS that literally can be replicated with any Linux distribution and a few things like SAMBA, Rsnapshot, etc? So long as it LOOKS like a Windows server to the user community, they don't care.
Yes I know that. But again, I've had a sour enough experience with Win8 that I really don't want to touch it. Sure you can run all sorts of shit to make it look like XP or 7, but it's still a fucking mobile operating system. And the public knows that.
Vista was a flaming piece of shit, Windows 7 addressed some of the issues with Vista but it still grated because features that have been in a common place on Windows since NT4 got shifted just to be cute. Same as what happened to Office in version 2007 and up. That fucking ribbon shit.
And then there's Windows 8. First of all I don't want a mobile operating system running on my desktop or laptop. And I've even seen Win8 on the Nokia phone - it's disgusting. That tiled interface is for the dogs. And the issue with Microsoft's Surface tablet - it can't run the same apps because of the processor difference. That's why Microsoft is dropping prices like the proverbial rock on that platform. Plus Windows 8 on a laptop - lest one has a touch screen on it, it blows big time.
I'm considering just going Unix full time. Probably Ubuntu when I do. But I need the MS Office Apps. I do a lot of development for Access and Excel in VBA and that just isn't available for Unix/Linux. I support I could see if it'll run under WINE but honestly, that's a hoop I really don't want to have to jump through.
I can understand wiping the BASH history. If you logged into databases at the command prompt your password would indeed be preserved in.bash-history so it makes sense.
But for system logins, particularly if they're *NI/UX systems - you just do SSH keys. No passwords in the clear and auto-login if the host is in your Authorized_Keys files.
However the think about Goldman taking open source software, modifying it and then refusing to re-submit it runs into some serious GPL issues.
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Interesting list. I used to work with a woman - she spoke flawless English but originally spoke Telugu herself.
But then when I think about it, just look what happens to English over a broad geographic area like the United States. Just within say a 100 mile radius there are clear differences in the spoken language and the accents. A Boston accent versus that in New York City, and even in a state like Rhode Island.
And don't even get me started on the variants of Spanish I hear regularly. Dominican, Puerto Rican, Venezuelan, Bolivian, Guatemalan, Colombian, and a whole lot more.
Managed to get English spoken pretty much throughout the country. You can thank the British for that - because India is also a polyglot nation depending upon things like region, etc.
But the Chinese, insistent upon Mandarin yet a good chunk of their population cannot speak it. That's bizarre but then the Chinese didn't have the benefit of British rule I suppose.
Is it going to be shielded from RF stuff. I'm thinking HERF here but any directed energy weapon will do.
I have only a few close friends. They're mixed races and ethnicity, so I'm obviously not going by phenotype. I think a lot of it is the demographics of the group more so than DNA.
I did a short stint with a military contractor. Had to be fingerprinted, urine tested, background checked and get secret clearance. Problem was the clearance process takes SO long that by the time I had completed the project and left the company I get a call about my clearance interview. Told em' it was a moot point.
I wonder if this might have something to do with the rise in rates of ALS and Parkinson's. Both related to degradation of the myelin sheath.
Yes indeed - I know that too. I tend to be selective on the video I watch and some percentage of the time the TV is off anyway. If it is on it's either just a background noise or I have my RasPi up on it.
A problematic application. I'd say Facebook is a big one. Biggest time suck out there.
Yup - they slow down the metabolism. But still, a 20% jump is significant. Say I would normally live to 80, this means I'd see 100.
And from what they say you'd be in good health except for skeletal and immune but there are ways to counter that too.
And lookup Aubrey DeGray - he's got some interesting ideas on extending human lifespan.
The reality is that every hop adds it's own latency to the mix. This could be part of the problem with the NSA doing what it does.
To rent software. If it's installed on my computer it's mine to use when and where I see fit. But Autodesk as another problem - their software is too pricey to begin with. And a lot of their wares are pirated like crazy.
What with the abortion that is Windows 8, the Surface tablet with the ARM processor, etc. That was a HUGE mis-step for Microsoft. But I can understand why they did it, both Apple and Google are going in the tiled direction so Microsoft though it should get into the mobile market (Good luck!) and thought a tiled view would work. It didn't.
I'm right there with you. Imagine the benefits of autonomous vehicles - no more DUI, no more distracted driving, a reduction in car accidents, etc. Of course since the cars will obey posted limits, etc. there will be a downside - you don't need traffic police as much.
Then of course there are the other benefits. Your car could drop you off at a location, go park itself in a cheap lot or structure, then come and get you when you call it. No more circling around looking for a parking spot. That would benefit in time saving and fuel saving.
So the thin margin is a lie propagated to think we're getting some sort of value. Who would have known.
That corn is so highly subsidized in the U.S. that it's in virtually everything we all eat. Or maybe it's because those same policies favor cheap, nutrient deficient foods and that INCLUDES animal feed.
Same thing here. I've worked for some real mental midgets. However there was one place of employment where I gave my notice and they tried to work me like a dog those last two weeks. It came down to the day before my last day. I'm out in Massachusetts implementing something I and the company controller BOTH knew wouldn't work. When it didn't work I called my boss, explained what happened and told him to have a nice life.
Because I know the insurance industry upgraded systems every few years. So as a result they're constantly making changes to software.
Brings to mind a prosecution against a doctor I was involved with a decade ago. The Billing company TRIED to assert that they didn't keep more than three months of data online. But we got the data we wanted. Years later their I.T. guy who came with them to the meeting, he and I are working in the same I.T. unit. He said I was right - they had YEARS of data online. They just didn't want to seem complicit in knowing the doctor was upcoding his medicare patient visits. Oops.
And hands down I prefer Apache. IIS is still closed and tries to be cute but fails miserably both for configuration and security.
So using Gmail via IMAP is old school? When I want to be able to access my email from EVERYWHERE? I have the Gmail app on the phone, and I use Thunderbird at home. I have too many email accounts to want to use Webmail for all of it, and I find most webmail GUI's to be horrible.
And then of course there's me, two phones unlimited voice, data on MetroPCS. $100 per month. So all of the plans shown are $50 or more expensive. And no contract. The big carriers wonder why they can't entice people with their plans? Maybe they should buy a clue.
But then T-Mobil now OWNS MetroPCS so I wonder how long before I'm switched to the $150 a month plan. I do hear that they don't plan to merge the two networks but we've all heard that song before ala Nextel.
Are they insane? Six grand for a server OS that literally can be replicated with any Linux distribution and a few things like SAMBA, Rsnapshot, etc? So long as it LOOKS like a Windows server to the user community, they don't care.
Yes I know that. But again, I've had a sour enough experience with Win8 that I really don't want to touch it. Sure you can run all sorts of shit to make it look like XP or 7, but it's still a fucking mobile operating system. And the public knows that.
Can't help it.
Vista was a flaming piece of shit, Windows 7 addressed some of the issues with Vista but it still grated because features that have been in a common place on Windows since NT4 got shifted just to be cute. Same as what happened to Office in version 2007 and up. That fucking ribbon shit.
And then there's Windows 8. First of all I don't want a mobile operating system running on my desktop or laptop. And I've even seen Win8 on the Nokia phone - it's disgusting. That tiled interface is for the dogs. And the issue with Microsoft's Surface tablet - it can't run the same apps because of the processor difference. That's why Microsoft is dropping prices like the proverbial rock on that platform. Plus Windows 8 on a laptop - lest one has a touch screen on it, it blows big time.
I'm considering just going Unix full time. Probably Ubuntu when I do. But I need the MS Office Apps. I do a lot of development for Access and Excel in VBA and that just isn't available for Unix/Linux. I support I could see if it'll run under WINE but honestly, that's a hoop I really don't want to have to jump through.
I can understand wiping the BASH history. If you logged into databases at the command prompt your password would indeed be preserved in .bash-history so it makes sense.
But for system logins, particularly if they're *NI/UX systems - you just do SSH keys. No passwords in the clear and auto-login if the host is in your Authorized_Keys files.
However the think about Goldman taking open source software, modifying it and then refusing to re-submit it runs into some serious GPL issues.