The good YEAR was the first one. I know I sound like an elitist snob, but really I was just lucky enough to be in the right car at the right time and ended up going by mistake.
I went to the second one on purpose, and wanted to leave the minute I saw some asshole selling ten dollar hamburgers off the grill hanging on the back of his microbus. I've not gone back since.
I liked Burning Man a lot more when it was called "touring with the dead". Precisely the same amount of drugs, spectacle and enlightenment, except for about 300 bucks less per person.
Ever try to matriculate from a SACS bible school? Their accreditation through SACS is absolutely worth nothing at all. I should have made my original comment longer.
Here's how you deal with the Lance situation, if what you're saying is true:
You fire him before his immaturity costs the company any money, which seems to in this case be about a year ago.
So you break open the servers and the code that runs them and its a pain in the ass. Keeping an immature brat on as the "main web guy" is insane, as there are so many very talented "main web guys" currently looking for work. Give the job to someone who appreciates it, and grow some balls.
And CentOS relying on one person for as much as seemingly their very existence (by their own tone over this issue) has absolutely guaranteed that I will never use CentOS for anything important.
This entire thing should never have been news in the first place for two reasons:
1. If the health of the company and their product is absolutely dependent on the well being of Lance, then they should have done everything they could to keep this story quiet, as it is embarrassing.
2. A cranky engineer screwing off for a few days is common enough that it was a non-story to begin with.
It doesn't open anything of the sort. Wolfram is not attempting to copyright the *data itself*, they're attempting to copyright *the data itself presented in a specific format*.
You know, just like how textbooks are copyrighted, except Wolfram Alpha generates them on the fly.
Right, or you can just ask someone with no fingerprints, like my uncle who went through a certain kind of auto-immune chemo treatment which caused his fingerprints to peel away permanently over the course of several months.
He says his fingertips are no longer nearly as sensitive to heat and cold, and his ability to identify different sorts of rough surfaces has diminished severely; he can't tell the difference between rubber and suede for example without looking now.
I'm sure he'd be willing to have a phone call with an inquisitive scientist, should there be any out there who also have a well developed sense of the obvious.
That the Guatemalan authorities had the ability to find the guy at all? Is it possible that technologically speaking, with the marked exception of my mother's house, that there is no such thing as an "IT Third World"?
This is not a surprise of any kind to those of us who work in the security field. This is another clear cut case of something that used to be called "crating" (no idea if its called the same thing now), which is basically when you get a bunch of really smart people together, stick them on government payroll, and then don't allow them to talk to anyone outside the crate until all they produce is irrelevant garbage.
Then the government complains that their intelligence is crap. The reason their intelligence is crap is straightforward: They underpay people who aren't qualified to do the job in the first place. I'll never forget the CIA's little career day at my University, many a winter moon ago, when I asked the spook behind the little folding card table how much a job in intelligence paid. 33K to start, he said. I laughed and moved on to the next table, where someone in the private sector was offering 100K for a similar, but much more interesting position that I didn't have to move to Virginia to take.
So the CIA guy went home with half a dozen apple-faced applicants who were only too glad to take a ridiculously tiny salary for their huge amounts of effort, all in the name of protecting the American Way.
So really, what they hired were a bunch of pinheads prone to blind patriotism and the eating of ramen noodles.
And now here we are, everyone they couldn't afford to hire telling them that none of this is any sort of surprise, and them being all kinds of surprised. It'd be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.
Actually, anyone prescribing lithium for depression should have their license revoked. And even with bipolar disorder, it's often the last in a long line of options because it's such a dangerous substance.
I'm not surprised at all that a country like Japan, who's mental health system is... shall we say "somewhat lacking" would be associated with this study.
Umm.. maybe that's what YOU do, but good academics actually work very hard at making sure there's enough time for both the paperwork bullshit (which good academics pass off to good grad students) and the actual research.
I've been using mathematica professionally since nearly its inception, and I have never found it to be incorrect or in any sense not useful. It's not the correct tool for every purpose, but then again it's not very good idea to use a razor to pick your nose either.
1. It could be argued (and has, quite successfully by people like Brian Greene) that all things are driven by everything quantum mechanical; including every aspect of the human brain, and therefore some argue, the human mind.
2. It's unfortunate that an entire article was written on a subset of the subject of quantum psychology (which is not mechanical, but logical) without once having mentioned Robert Anton Wilson, who was one of the first to hew it from General Semantics, among other things.
" I know for a fact (sorry no cites or sites and I'm relying on personal experience here... ) "
Then you do not know it for a fact, and your anecdote is precisely as valuable as any number of misinterpretations of statistical data that we see in the mainstream media every single day.
I know what to say:
Could we please lock the media out of the laboratories?
Krivit is a magazine editor for a reason. The fact that he's complaining at all generally means that something viable probably exists in this genre of "physics fantasy" somewhere.
I'm not sure on what planet any editor of the New Energy Times suddenly has as much credibility as Hagelstein.
You'd think that Google would have been one of the very first ones that the CC companies demanded PCI DSS compliancy from. And if they had, you'd think that Google didn't just fill out the form and *promise* (they swear) that everything is compliant, cross their hearts and hope to die, just like all the tiny companies that can't afford PCI DSS consulting do.
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"Emission", not "transmission". I read it that way first too, and I thought it was a much better idea than what the
The good YEAR was the first one. I know I sound like an elitist snob, but really I was just lucky enough to be in the right car at the right time and ended up going by mistake.
I went to the second one on purpose, and wanted to leave the minute I saw some asshole selling ten dollar hamburgers off the grill hanging on the back of his microbus. I've not gone back since.
I liked Burning Man a lot more when it was called "touring with the dead". Precisely the same amount of drugs, spectacle and enlightenment, except for about 300 bucks less per person.
You've invented Listserv.
Ever try to matriculate from a SACS bible school? Their accreditation through SACS is absolutely worth nothing at all. I should have made my original comment longer.
Do not mistake the unaccredited bible school "Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary" for a "College" please.
Flamebait? I went from +5 to flamebait in two hours?
Eh, I dont mind going around and randomly modding down posts I don't agree with too. 25 points should be a fairly busy next five minutes.
Here's how you deal with the Lance situation, if what you're saying is true:
You fire him before his immaturity costs the company any money, which seems to in this case be about a year ago.
So you break open the servers and the code that runs them and its a pain in the ass. Keeping an immature brat on as the "main web guy" is insane, as there are so many very talented "main web guys" currently looking for work. Give the job to someone who appreciates it, and grow some balls.
And CentOS relying on one person for as much as seemingly their very existence (by their own tone over this issue) has absolutely guaranteed that I will never use CentOS for anything important.
This entire thing should never have been news in the first place for two reasons:
1. If the health of the company and their product is absolutely dependent on the well being of Lance, then they should have done everything they could to keep this story quiet, as it is embarrassing.
2. A cranky engineer screwing off for a few days is common enough that it was a non-story to begin with.
It doesn't open anything of the sort. Wolfram is not attempting to copyright the *data itself*, they're attempting to copyright *the data itself presented in a specific format*.
You know, just like how textbooks are copyrighted, except Wolfram Alpha generates them on the fly.
This is completely a non issue.
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Right, or you can just ask someone with no fingerprints, like my uncle who went through a certain kind of auto-immune chemo treatment which caused his fingerprints to peel away permanently over the course of several months.
He says his fingertips are no longer nearly as sensitive to heat and cold, and his ability to identify different sorts of rough surfaces has diminished severely; he can't tell the difference between rubber and suede for example without looking now.
I'm sure he'd be willing to have a phone call with an inquisitive scientist, should there be any out there who also have a well developed sense of the obvious.
That the Guatemalan authorities had the ability to find the guy at all? Is it possible that technologically speaking, with the marked exception of my mother's house, that there is no such thing as an "IT Third World"?
This is not a surprise of any kind to those of us who work in the security field. This is another clear cut case of something that used to be called "crating" (no idea if its called the same thing now), which is basically when you get a bunch of really smart people together, stick them on government payroll, and then don't allow them to talk to anyone outside the crate until all they produce is irrelevant garbage.
Then the government complains that their intelligence is crap. The reason their intelligence is crap is straightforward: They underpay people who aren't qualified to do the job in the first place. I'll never forget the CIA's little career day at my University, many a winter moon ago, when I asked the spook behind the little folding card table how much a job in intelligence paid. 33K to start, he said. I laughed and moved on to the next table, where someone in the private sector was offering 100K for a similar, but much more interesting position that I didn't have to move to Virginia to take.
So the CIA guy went home with half a dozen apple-faced applicants who were only too glad to take a ridiculously tiny salary for their huge amounts of effort, all in the name of protecting the American Way.
So really, what they hired were a bunch of pinheads prone to blind patriotism and the eating of ramen noodles.
And now here we are, everyone they couldn't afford to hire telling them that none of this is any sort of surprise, and them being all kinds of surprised. It'd be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.
Actually, anyone prescribing lithium for depression should have their license revoked. And even with bipolar disorder, it's often the last in a long line of options because it's such a dangerous substance.
I'm not surprised at all that a country like Japan, who's mental health system is... shall we say "somewhat lacking" would be associated with this study.
Umm.. maybe that's what YOU do, but good academics actually work very hard at making sure there's enough time for both the paperwork bullshit (which good academics pass off to good grad students) and the actual research.
Tanenbaum, FTW. Finally.
I've been using mathematica professionally since nearly its inception, and I have never found it to be incorrect or in any sense not useful. It's not the correct tool for every purpose, but then again it's not very good idea to use a razor to pick your nose either.
Where can I download your better option?
That's right. You mustn't EVER have any sort of fun at work, ever. Because then what would happen?
evident != relevant
1. It could be argued (and has, quite successfully by people like Brian Greene) that all things are driven by everything quantum mechanical; including every aspect of the human brain, and therefore some argue, the human mind.
2. It's unfortunate that an entire article was written on a subset of the subject of quantum psychology (which is not mechanical, but logical) without once having mentioned Robert Anton Wilson, who was one of the first to hew it from General Semantics, among other things.
I understand that you don't want to give up the quirks and abilities that have been part of you your whole life, but I have another question for you:
Would you be willing to give up the label "Aspergers"?
" I know for a fact (sorry no cites or sites and I'm relying on personal experience here ... ) "
Then you do not know it for a fact, and your anecdote is precisely as valuable as any number of misinterpretations of statistical data that we see in the mainstream media every single day.
I know what to say:
Could we please lock the media out of the laboratories?
I have only one thing to say to all of that:
Krivit is a magazine editor for a reason. The fact that he's complaining at all generally means that something viable probably exists in this genre of "physics fantasy" somewhere.
I'm not sure on what planet any editor of the New Energy Times suddenly has as much credibility as Hagelstein.
1. Yeah, that actually doesn't technically break any level of PCI DSS. You're missing at least one of two bits of information.
2. I'm sorry you missed the subtle reference to the inevitable litigation surrounding issues like this.
You'd think that Google would have been one of the very first ones that the CC companies demanded PCI DSS compliancy from. And if they had, you'd think that Google didn't just fill out the form and *promise* (they swear) that everything is compliant, cross their hearts and hope to die, just like all the tiny companies that can't afford PCI DSS consulting do.
Hmmm. Good lord.