People also have a tendency to MASSIVELY exaggerate any sort of problem involving the word 'nuclear'. I've seen comparisons of news coverage of the 1979 TMI incident -- the further away you were from the site, the more apocalyptic the coverage became. Locally it was pretty honest -- 'minor incident, small release of radiation, nothing to see here'...on the other hand, I know some people who went overseas shortly after (to France FWIW) and when they mentioned to people they were from Pennsylvania, those they talked to refused to believe them -- the news over there was that the entire state of Pennsylvania was one big smoking crater! If you look at how the national US media covered the incident it's somewhere in the middle.
First thing I always do when I setup a KDE system is disable as much of Akonadi as I can. I still don't have a clue what it actually does, I just know that if I leave it on the system runs slow and it pops up notifications every ten minutes for no apparent reason...
There's a reason that, when you go into the more high-end grocery stores in the US, you'll find a pretty decent selection of imported sodas. As well as a good selection of sodas that use real sugar, like Jones (although I think the company is Canadian so those _could_ be imported too...but I doubt it.) People drink that crap because it's _cheap_, not because it's good. And it's cheap because the government heavily taxes sugar in order to boost domestic corn production (which they give subsidies to)...
You'd be better off getting sodas imported from Mexico like we do;)
1) A young child in school and a 40 year old accountant 2) HELPING someone do something and REQUIRING them to do something 3) A child's toy computer and a corporate production server
There's a COLOSSAL difference between making it easier for people who want to code or who may be interested in coding to do so and requiring people who have already determined they have no interest in coding to code.
Many Linux installers have a built-in, graphical disk partitioning tool.
I used to always use Mandrake's installer (now Mandriva) when I was partitioning a disk, even if I wasn't installing Mandrake anywhere on the system, as it was just so much nicer to use. Of course, I was also about 13 at the time and not too comfortable with the command-line yet...
counterproductive; if you have the inexperienced team do the initial work, the experienced programmers will be slowed down by having to work around and redesign out the structural mistakes.
If you're really looking to get it right, that may be a good thing to do intentionally. The "cowboys" knock out a quick and dirty version (call it a proof of concept) and probably have to hack their way around some design flaws on the way. Then you have your more experienced coders take a look at everything that went wrong and redesign with those lessons in mind, as well as having the business end look at it and give feedback on anything they'd like to see added or changed.
Of course, that would be considered as too much wasted time for anyone to seriously consider it...
Yea, they're doing well because they've gotten the benefits of _both_ the dollars "poured into public spaceflight" AND the private subsidies. What, you think they're reinventing the rocket from the ground up?
NASA is the only R&D shop working for the public benefit. And now that they've done the hard work, we're going to now start funneling our tax dollars into private corporations for them to make private profit off of public funding. "Privatizing profits and socializing debt" indeed...
But the bigger issue is why hasn't renewing process gone digital? why do I need to wait hours to renew my license?
Your DMV sucks, that's why. I recently moved from Pennsylvania to Rhode Island...and quickly realized that the Pennsylvania DMV system is pretty awesome. Last time I had to get my license renewed in PA I popped in after work and had my new license in my hand within half an hour. Up here to get a license it takes a month and a half by mail...spent the first three full days after I moved sitting in the damn DMV for crap that would have been done in an hour back in PA. If you're near the NJ/PA border, I suggest you move;)
Not that PA is a good state for any other reason...but that's more reason than I currently have for Jersey!;)
"Congress shall make no law" does not refer to "the government" (judicial arm), but to Congress (legislative arm). The "make no law" part reinforces that, as the judicial arm does not make laws while the legislative arm does.
I mean, my favorite beers are Shiner Bock, Guiness, and Spaten. In...well, not that order, but the reverse order. I've never seen any of those in a can, although I've heard of all but Spaten being sold in them. Maybe it works for some beers (or some people) but I always find canned beer to have a bit of a metallic taste to it...though I suppose that could also just be the canned American pisswater that I occasionally get stuck with...
Ever try to drink a plain seltzer water? Sugar helps get the enormous amounts of dry nastiness down your throat.
...I'm confused...I'm sitting here drinking from a two liter bottle of straight seltzer as I type this...why is sugar necessary?
and my father...my god, the man goes through three liters of the stuff EVERY DAY. It's all he drinks!
It's even better if you toss in some lime and gin...or maybe vodka...or some lime, gin, and quinine...;)
Seriously though, anyone who wants to cut down on sugary, HFCS-loaded soda...try buying a bottle of flavored seltzer. Soo much more refreshing. Or buy plain seltzer and toss in a tiny amount of juice. Less sugar, still fizzy, still sweet, and no the sticky syrupy residue.
Oh sweet jesus, are you crazy? I've done the test -- I'd just flown in for a job interview, I'd already gotten lost trying to find the hotel, it was late, and I was from a state that didn't usually allow beer sales in gas stations...so while I was picking up my gas station dinner, I figured 'fuck it I'll get a bigass can of beer!'...got a Yuengling Lager, which is far from my favorite beer but certainly drinkable in a bottle...in the can it was quite possibly the worst beer I've ever had.
There's a reason REAL beer isn't sold in cans....mostly just the American pisswater brews.
Because, the thing is, unless you have an actual engineering degree from a bona fide school of engineering, or you drive a locomotive, or maintain a ship's engines, you're not an engineer.
Who says he doesn't? Most universities that I'm familiar with have computer science as part of their college of engineering, and I'd bet a fair number of slashdotters have comp sci degrees...
Also -- when I was freelancing doing web development in college, I called myself a web developer -- because that's what I was. A PHP code monkey. But now I'm working for a large company, and my official job title is 'software engineer'. So that's what I go with, because I don't feel like changing what my job title is depending on who I'm talking to. It's also the best term I know of -- I could say I'm a programmer or developer, but that leaves out the design and deployment parts of my job. Which currently is the majority of it.
And yes, my degree is a B.S. in Comp Sci from The Pennsylvania State University College of Engineering.
I'm 22 and I had to Google 'rolodex' to be sure I knew what everyone was talking about. Even my spell check doesn't know what the heck I'm talking about;)
Corded handsets are very much alive though...check any cubicle. And for a leather calendar book, just head to a college campus. You'll have to look for the super organized people, but you'll find a couple floating around.
Yea, as a Linux user I never thought I'd be supporting a Microsoft app, but...well, I just started a new job recently that uses Outlook. And I never had much of an opinion on it until reading this...because it's never made me think about it. It's never gotten in my way. Gives me my email and my calendar available in a single glance, everything just works...I've got no complaints.
Well -- actually I do have one complaint: There's no 'minimize to tray' type function (at least not that I've found) so it's always taking up space on my taskbar...but otherwise, no complaints.
Actually, I found some of the webpages in the pics very well done. Let's take for example the burger menu webpage. It's simple, elegant and probably the best done choose what items you want on a burger, just because it's so simple.
I always liked the new online order system for Dominos Pizza. They have a picture of a pizza in the middle, and pictures of the toppings on the sides (meats on the left, veggies on the right, crust and sauce options below IIRC) and as you select toppings it shows them being added to the pizza. That would be pretty cool to see with a burger...although the system shown here was probably quicker to develop.
If they replace backup generators with some alternate technology. I hope that they actually make sure it is reliable first. And that it stays reliable over time. (eg, three years later, you suddenly need it, does it still work?)
They're not just replacing it though; they're flipping it. The primary power source will be on-site generation, with the backup being the grid. So reliability becomes less of a concern -- the onsite system is running constantly, meaning any faults will be found pretty quickly and it'll drop to grid power while you troubleshoot those. Meanwhile, the only maintenance they need to worry about on the backup system is a couple wires and the actual switching system. It's not like a diesel backup system where you have to run it every couple months anyway.
This seems like it would be a lot more reliable than the usual system, even if their new natural gas generators aren't. Because you'll never have a situation where you go to switch to backup only to discover some part on the generator broke while it was sitting idle.
Of course, they're going to end up spending more money on manpower to keep their local generation systems maintained, since they'll be running all the time -- which makes me wonder if that's what would really be driving any improved reliability.
Depends on where your data center is located. I was in Cincinnati over the summer for job training, and our hotel had over 20 total hours of blackout over three instances -- and I was only there for six weeks! Even the hotel's backup power didn't last through the one. Not even the emergency lights were lit by the time we finished trying to drink our way through the outage in the parking lot and decided to head in:)
Of course, that was the worst of the three, and we were fairly lucky there -- there were parts of Ohio that had no power for days. I believe the National Guard got called out to help after that particular storm. Our hotel happened to be the staging area for the emergency electrical workers for the tri-state area. And it was still around 12 hours before we got power restored....
So yea, there may be places where you only get 1 hour per decade of grid failure, but there are definitely areas where your _monthly_ average would be more than that.
then again, majority of female programmers are ugly and insecure as hell, so you might want to get a normal person anyway.
I dunno, I dated a fellow coder in college -- she was by far the least crazy of any woman I've ever been with!
It was actually pretty great -- no 'drama', no insecurities, no BS. We went all over the country; we did our homework together; we spent every day together and talked about everything from Linux and web development to politics to her cats. And when it finally came to an end...well, we stopped sleeping together but we're still good friends.
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More people in college does not necessarily mean more people being highly educated...too many easy As and MBAs...
People also have a tendency to MASSIVELY exaggerate any sort of problem involving the word 'nuclear'. I've seen comparisons of news coverage of the 1979 TMI incident -- the further away you were from the site, the more apocalyptic the coverage became. Locally it was pretty honest -- 'minor incident, small release of radiation, nothing to see here'...on the other hand, I know some people who went overseas shortly after (to France FWIW) and when they mentioned to people they were from Pennsylvania, those they talked to refused to believe them -- the news over there was that the entire state of Pennsylvania was one big smoking crater! If you look at how the national US media covered the incident it's somewhere in the middle.
Certainly this didn't come from the President directly as he taught Constitutional Law
I'm sure he had nothing to do with this either, right?
http://rt.com/usa/news/obama-lohier-ndaa-stay-414/
First thing I always do when I setup a KDE system is disable as much of Akonadi as I can. I still don't have a clue what it actually does, I just know that if I leave it on the system runs slow and it pops up notifications every ten minutes for no apparent reason...
There's a reason that, when you go into the more high-end grocery stores in the US, you'll find a pretty decent selection of imported sodas. As well as a good selection of sodas that use real sugar, like Jones (although I think the company is Canadian so those _could_ be imported too...but I doubt it.) People drink that crap because it's _cheap_, not because it's good. And it's cheap because the government heavily taxes sugar in order to boost domestic corn production (which they give subsidies to)...
You'd be better off getting sodas imported from Mexico like we do ;)
So, in your mind, there is no difference between:
1) A young child in school and a 40 year old accountant
2) HELPING someone do something and REQUIRING them to do something
3) A child's toy computer and a corporate production server
There's a COLOSSAL difference between making it easier for people who want to code or who may be interested in coding to do so and requiring people who have already determined they have no interest in coding to code.
Many Linux installers have a built-in, graphical disk partitioning tool.
I used to always use Mandrake's installer (now Mandriva) when I was partitioning a disk, even if I wasn't installing Mandrake anywhere on the system, as it was just so much nicer to use. Of course, I was also about 13 at the time and not too comfortable with the command-line yet...
counterproductive; if you have the inexperienced team do the initial work, the experienced programmers will be slowed down by having to work around and redesign out the structural mistakes.
If you're really looking to get it right, that may be a good thing to do intentionally. The "cowboys" knock out a quick and dirty version (call it a proof of concept) and probably have to hack their way around some design flaws on the way. Then you have your more experienced coders take a look at everything that went wrong and redesign with those lessons in mind, as well as having the business end look at it and give feedback on anything they'd like to see added or changed.
Of course, that would be considered as too much wasted time for anyone to seriously consider it...
Yea, they're doing well because they've gotten the benefits of _both_ the dollars "poured into public spaceflight" AND the private subsidies. What, you think they're reinventing the rocket from the ground up?
NASA is the only R&D shop working for the public benefit. And now that they've done the hard work, we're going to now start funneling our tax dollars into private corporations for them to make private profit off of public funding. "Privatizing profits and socializing debt" indeed...
But the bigger issue is why hasn't renewing process gone digital? why do I need to wait hours to renew my license?
Your DMV sucks, that's why. I recently moved from Pennsylvania to Rhode Island...and quickly realized that the Pennsylvania DMV system is pretty awesome. Last time I had to get my license renewed in PA I popped in after work and had my new license in my hand within half an hour. Up here to get a license it takes a month and a half by mail...spent the first three full days after I moved sitting in the damn DMV for crap that would have been done in an hour back in PA. If you're near the NJ/PA border, I suggest you move ;)
Not that PA is a good state for any other reason...but that's more reason than I currently have for Jersey! ;)
"Congress shall make no law" does not refer to "the government" (judicial arm), but to Congress (legislative arm). The "make no law" part reinforces that, as the judicial arm does not make laws while the legislative arm does.
That statement hasn't been true for over a hundred years...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights
Of course, statistically, an innocent citizen is far more likely to be killed by a police officer than a poor person....
I mean, my favorite beers are Shiner Bock, Guiness, and Spaten. In...well, not that order, but the reverse order. I've never seen any of those in a can, although I've heard of all but Spaten being sold in them. Maybe it works for some beers (or some people) but I always find canned beer to have a bit of a metallic taste to it...though I suppose that could also just be the canned American pisswater that I occasionally get stuck with...
Ever try to drink a plain seltzer water? Sugar helps get the enormous amounts of dry nastiness down your throat.
...I'm confused...I'm sitting here drinking from a two liter bottle of straight seltzer as I type this...why is sugar necessary?
and my father...my god, the man goes through three liters of the stuff EVERY DAY. It's all he drinks!
It's even better if you toss in some lime and gin...or maybe vodka...or some lime, gin, and quinine... ;)
Seriously though, anyone who wants to cut down on sugary, HFCS-loaded soda...try buying a bottle of flavored seltzer. Soo much more refreshing. Or buy plain seltzer and toss in a tiny amount of juice. Less sugar, still fizzy, still sweet, and no the sticky syrupy residue.
Oh sweet jesus, are you crazy? I've done the test -- I'd just flown in for a job interview, I'd already gotten lost trying to find the hotel, it was late, and I was from a state that didn't usually allow beer sales in gas stations...so while I was picking up my gas station dinner, I figured 'fuck it I'll get a bigass can of beer!'...got a Yuengling Lager, which is far from my favorite beer but certainly drinkable in a bottle...in the can it was quite possibly the worst beer I've ever had.
There's a reason REAL beer isn't sold in cans....mostly just the American pisswater brews.
Because, the thing is, unless you have an actual engineering degree from a bona fide school of engineering, or you drive a locomotive, or maintain a ship's engines, you're not an engineer.
Who says he doesn't? Most universities that I'm familiar with have computer science as part of their college of engineering, and I'd bet a fair number of slashdotters have comp sci degrees...
Also -- when I was freelancing doing web development in college, I called myself a web developer -- because that's what I was. A PHP code monkey. But now I'm working for a large company, and my official job title is 'software engineer'. So that's what I go with, because I don't feel like changing what my job title is depending on who I'm talking to. It's also the best term I know of -- I could say I'm a programmer or developer, but that leaves out the design and deployment parts of my job. Which currently is the majority of it.
And yes, my degree is a B.S. in Comp Sci from The Pennsylvania State University College of Engineering.
That is fantastic. Thanks :)
I'm 22 and I had to Google 'rolodex' to be sure I knew what everyone was talking about. Even my spell check doesn't know what the heck I'm talking about ;)
Corded handsets are very much alive though...check any cubicle. And for a leather calendar book, just head to a college campus. You'll have to look for the super organized people, but you'll find a couple floating around.
Wish I hadn't already posted so I could give you a +1 insightful...
Yea, as a Linux user I never thought I'd be supporting a Microsoft app, but...well, I just started a new job recently that uses Outlook. And I never had much of an opinion on it until reading this...because it's never made me think about it. It's never gotten in my way. Gives me my email and my calendar available in a single glance, everything just works...I've got no complaints.
Well -- actually I do have one complaint: There's no 'minimize to tray' type function (at least not that I've found) so it's always taking up space on my taskbar...but otherwise, no complaints.
Actually, I found some of the webpages in the pics very well done. Let's take for example the burger menu webpage. It's simple, elegant and probably the best done choose what items you want on a burger, just because it's so simple.
I always liked the new online order system for Dominos Pizza. They have a picture of a pizza in the middle, and pictures of the toppings on the sides (meats on the left, veggies on the right, crust and sauce options below IIRC) and as you select toppings it shows them being added to the pizza. That would be pretty cool to see with a burger...although the system shown here was probably quicker to develop.
Yea; I'd hope they have some natural gas storage built into this system as well, but who knows. I mean, this is Microsoft we're talking about.... :)
If they replace backup generators with some alternate technology. I hope that they actually make sure it is reliable first. And that it stays reliable over time. (eg, three years later, you suddenly need it, does it still work?)
They're not just replacing it though; they're flipping it. The primary power source will be on-site generation, with the backup being the grid. So reliability becomes less of a concern -- the onsite system is running constantly, meaning any faults will be found pretty quickly and it'll drop to grid power while you troubleshoot those. Meanwhile, the only maintenance they need to worry about on the backup system is a couple wires and the actual switching system. It's not like a diesel backup system where you have to run it every couple months anyway.
This seems like it would be a lot more reliable than the usual system, even if their new natural gas generators aren't. Because you'll never have a situation where you go to switch to backup only to discover some part on the generator broke while it was sitting idle.
Of course, they're going to end up spending more money on manpower to keep their local generation systems maintained, since they'll be running all the time -- which makes me wonder if that's what would really be driving any improved reliability.
Depends on where your data center is located. I was in Cincinnati over the summer for job training, and our hotel had over 20 total hours of blackout over three instances -- and I was only there for six weeks! Even the hotel's backup power didn't last through the one. Not even the emergency lights were lit by the time we finished trying to drink our way through the outage in the parking lot and decided to head in :)
Of course, that was the worst of the three, and we were fairly lucky there -- there were parts of Ohio that had no power for days. I believe the National Guard got called out to help after that particular storm. Our hotel happened to be the staging area for the emergency electrical workers for the tri-state area. And it was still around 12 hours before we got power restored....
So yea, there may be places where you only get 1 hour per decade of grid failure, but there are definitely areas where your _monthly_ average would be more than that.
then again, majority of female programmers are ugly and insecure as hell, so you might want to get a normal person anyway.
I dunno, I dated a fellow coder in college -- she was by far the least crazy of any woman I've ever been with!
It was actually pretty great -- no 'drama', no insecurities, no BS. We went all over the country; we did our homework together; we spent every day together and talked about everything from Linux and web development to politics to her cats. And when it finally came to an end...well, we stopped sleeping together but we're still good friends.