There's no common reason in the "real world" to divide measurements by 12 or 6, you can saw lumber or pour concrete or torch iron all day long in a metric country without needing to do that. Halves and quarters are trivial, what's the big deal about 0.25 and 0.50 and 0.75 of something? And I get a kick out of old timers taking their foot and inches measurements and then trying to compute how many "yards" of concrete they need for a job (I've helped a few with that): english units are a pain in the ass and cowards are too afraid to learn a different SIMPLER system.
the obvious answer is to take their $100 laptop away. Then there's always imprisonment, maiming or execution for stealing in some parts of the world. What court would do it, why the kind you can buy for a little money in many third world shitholes.
long as the government gets its tax cut, yes you can drink. Pretty much they're like the prohibition era mob, get really violent if you don't give them their cut
nah, at least in the near term that would also choke off a big portion of China's income, they need t expand their market in south america & south asia (they've started) before they can afford to lose us.
SCO was dying long before that, no real innovation. Couldn't make it as a technology company, so they're trying their hand at being a litigation company.
Just a year ago, the preferred direction as declared by Oracle was Linux boxes as a "grid" building block. IBM was pushing Linux. Sun has been schizo regarding x86 and ultrasparc and Linux support for a few years now.
Python runs on an amazing number of OS , from embedded ones to mainframe (maybe a couple java can't?). Ruby can run on Windows, Unix/Linux/BSD, OpenVMS, BeOS, amiga. Ruby even runs with threads on MS-DOS.
wow, you must code in COBOL, ForTran or RPG. 8D
I heard Perl 6 will require a 246 key keyboard becuase Larry ran out of sigils, when the language is finally done in 2015.
"Without UML, how do you manage your multi-design team work? you don't"
Now that is silly, there's plenty of apps out there with millions of lines of code that were designed and maintained without a scrap of UML. You sound like the man with only a hammer who thought everything was a nail.
If you follow the specifications for UML you'd know that a critical admitted weakness of UML is its inability to properly model distributed computing components and interactions.
would have to keep that humor fresh, the worst thing a cartoon or animation can do is start to repeat itself. I think think of a few huge ones that have fallen into that trap and should have been put down years ago.
nah, there's lots of things even worse than cobalt sources, even the 250 rem/hr ones used to calibrate survey meters look wimpy next to say being a few feet from the neutron field of fuel assembly freshly pulled from a reactor. Or as the old nuke plant rad safety guy told me, if your going to get a 1000 rem go for 10,000 so your nervous system shuts down
sure, what I said is still true without money being consideration: changing job to get more satisfaction, opportunity to make difference, and more interesting/exciting work. These are valid reasons recruiters, HR departments and managers will respect. Largely the days of such people wanting to see five or ten plus years at the same place are gone.
How 1950's of you, to think that a person must stay and be unhappy in a shitty job in a shitty company because it's the noble thing to do and an opportunity to conquer a challenge and provide leadership. This is 2005, where loyalty and tenure mean nothing, and usually the people who rise to the top aren't the ones who innovate or have a long term vision or actually do the real work that makes the company go, but the schmoozer used-car-salesman MBA-duckspeak turds who rise to the top of the septic tank. In 2005, with IT hiring picking up, treat your job like underwear, if it's dirty or uncomfortable change it, you'll be alot happier and make more money.
a person's membership in the NRA has no bearing on the truth or falsehood of the statement made, you've got a chip on your shoulder. Interesting that the stats of 12,000 children per yer quoted by the Coalition Against Guns and such don't agree with the FBI *estimates* (they take reported deaths and multiply by factor of 3 or more) of 10,000 people killed per year and 10,000 more suicides per year from guns. 80% of the 10,000 killed were in houses with history of domestic violence, hmmmmm. So it seems to me that at least 90% of deaths due to guns can't be used as an argument against guns, i.e., the suicides and trashy violent people shooting their own families.
Sure, could get a bunch of cans and duct tape them together in a miles-long waveguide. We could make waveguides in a similar fashion using 55 gallon drums for UHF range, and tanker truck trailers for VHF.
I've shocking news for you, the language hasn't even had standardized spelling for even two of its fifteen plus centuries of existence. When even three out of ten people use "alot" it will become part of the standard lexicon and then nitpickers will complain when it's NOT used. I think you should walk around talking like a sixth century Saxon, but avoid Latin since continued use by the medical and theological fields might mean a small amount of evolution and colloquialisms might occur!
The pringles can was a reflector being used with a yagi in that design, though I'm thinking it might be possible to make a periodic array out of pringles can snippings
I get sent to client's sites where they still have these default-out-of-the-box passwords on main databases. Yup, like the Oracle system/manager internal/internal and sysdba/change_on_install (bonus points if you can name the Oracle versions these are from); or even better the old MS-SQL 7 default of NO password for the main admin account even though every login created for every employee had proper passwords!
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I didn't see anything as cool as that during the leap second, but a cat did walk by twice.
There's no common reason in the "real world" to divide measurements by 12 or 6, you can saw lumber or pour concrete or torch iron all day long in a metric country without needing to do that. Halves and quarters are trivial, what's the big deal about 0.25 and 0.50 and 0.75 of something? And I get a kick out of old timers taking their foot and inches measurements and then trying to compute how many "yards" of concrete they need for a job (I've helped a few with that): english units are a pain in the ass and cowards are too afraid to learn a different SIMPLER system.
and let's not forget the Itanium2, designed for big iron purchasers that don't care for technical details.
the obvious answer is to take their $100 laptop away. Then there's always imprisonment, maiming or execution for stealing in some parts of the world. What court would do it, why the kind you can buy for a little money in many third world shitholes.
long as the government gets its tax cut, yes you can drink. Pretty much they're like the prohibition era mob, get really violent if you don't give them their cut
nah, at least in the near term that would also choke off a big portion of China's income, they need t expand their market in south america & south asia (they've started) before they can afford to lose us.
you don't use the Oracle installer to install Oracle on FreeBSD
People have run Oracle 9i, see this or use Google
some people are so silly they even think *free* porn over the internet is possible.
SCO was dying long before that, no real innovation. Couldn't make it as a technology company, so they're trying their hand at being a litigation company.
Just a year ago, the preferred direction as declared by Oracle was Linux boxes as a "grid" building block. IBM was pushing Linux. Sun has been schizo regarding x86 and ultrasparc and Linux support for a few years now.
NASA uses Ruby also (and no doubt a few dozen other languages)
see here about NASA Ruby (and Python and Perl and other open source) use and also here for NASA and other companies
Python runs on an amazing number of OS , from embedded ones to mainframe (maybe a couple java can't?). Ruby can run on Windows, Unix/Linux/BSD, OpenVMS, BeOS, amiga. Ruby even runs with threads on MS-DOS.
wow, you must code in COBOL, ForTran or RPG. 8D I heard Perl 6 will require a 246 key keyboard becuase Larry ran out of sigils, when the language is finally done in 2015.
"Without UML, how do you manage your multi-design team work? you don't"
Now that is silly, there's plenty of apps out there with millions of lines of code that were designed and maintained without a scrap of UML. You sound like the man with only a hammer who thought everything was a nail.
If you follow the specifications for UML you'd know that a critical admitted weakness of UML is its inability to properly model distributed computing components and interactions.
would have to keep that humor fresh, the worst thing a cartoon or animation can do is start to repeat itself. I think think of a few huge ones that have fallen into that trap and should have been put down years ago.
nah, there's lots of things even worse than cobalt sources, even the 250 rem/hr ones used to calibrate survey meters look wimpy next to say being a few feet from the neutron field of fuel assembly freshly pulled from a reactor. Or as the old nuke plant rad safety guy told me, if your going to get a 1000 rem go for 10,000 so your nervous system shuts down
sure, what I said is still true without money being consideration: changing job to get more satisfaction, opportunity to make difference, and more interesting/exciting work. These are valid reasons recruiters, HR departments and managers will respect. Largely the days of such people wanting to see five or ten plus years at the same place are gone.
How 1950's of you, to think that a person must stay and be unhappy in a shitty job in a shitty company because it's the noble thing to do and an opportunity to conquer a challenge and provide leadership. This is 2005, where loyalty and tenure mean nothing, and usually the people who rise to the top aren't the ones who innovate or have a long term vision or actually do the real work that makes the company go, but the schmoozer used-car-salesman MBA-duckspeak turds who rise to the top of the septic tank. In 2005, with IT hiring picking up, treat your job like underwear, if it's dirty or uncomfortable change it, you'll be alot happier and make more money.
a person's membership in the NRA has no bearing on the truth or falsehood of the statement made, you've got a chip on your shoulder. Interesting that the stats of 12,000 children per yer quoted by the Coalition Against Guns and such don't agree with the FBI *estimates* (they take reported deaths and multiply by factor of 3 or more) of 10,000 people killed per year and 10,000 more suicides per year from guns. 80% of the 10,000 killed were in houses with history of domestic violence, hmmmmm. So it seems to me that at least 90% of deaths due to guns can't be used as an argument against guns, i.e., the suicides and trashy violent people shooting their own families.
Sure, could get a bunch of cans and duct tape them together in a miles-long waveguide. We could make waveguides in a similar fashion using 55 gallon drums for UHF range, and tanker truck trailers for VHF.
I've shocking news for you, the language hasn't even had standardized spelling for even two of its fifteen plus centuries of existence. When even three out of ten people use "alot" it will become part of the standard lexicon and then nitpickers will complain when it's NOT used. I think you should walk around talking like a sixth century Saxon, but avoid Latin since continued use by the medical and theological fields might mean a small amount of evolution and colloquialisms might occur!
The pringles can was a reflector being used with a yagi in that design, though I'm thinking it might be possible to make a periodic array out of pringles can snippings
make and vi, only wussies use IDEs. Or as I like to say to the Studio boys at work, "Unix is my IDE"
I get sent to client's sites where they still have these default-out-of-the-box passwords on main databases. Yup, like the Oracle system/manager internal/internal and sysdba/change_on_install (bonus points if you can name the Oracle versions these are from); or even better the old MS-SQL 7 default of NO password for the main admin account even though every login created for every employee had proper passwords!
if your bank account monies get 0wn3d you might not have a bank account to worry about anymore. problem solved.
good idea, I'll put one on my wife. It can warn me when she comes within 100 yards.