So, you'd basically like me to pay more money for less functionality?
Is your mythical electronic device a decent size, like..oh, I don't know, 15 x 12 inches or so. Can I rest my breakfast bowl on it while reading? How do I split it in half so I can read one section while SWMBO reads another? Can I skip the forced interstitials? What happens when the battery runs out? If I travel out of town, can I bring my own reader or will the Plain Dealer use an incompatible format?
The physical portion of a newspaper isn't broken, it's the content that's broken. What I'd like is a paper with fewer generic AP stories. Stop republishing someone else's news two days late. I want more stories on local politics, businesses and concerns. Tell me about cost overruns, who voted how, what that business closing really means for the economy. Write a story about a local mover and shaker, an educator "who made a difference", some local history, code amendment changes, etc.
Enough with the "Lifestyle" section, with generic recipes with ingredients that aren't even in season. Hell, last week we had a birding article from Florida, this has relevance to me on the other coast how, again?
I'd gladly pay the same subscription fee(and maybe even a little more) for a thinner paper that only contained articles relevant to my state. I've mentioned this in the past to the editors of my local paper, but they, unfortunately, are going further the other way with more outsourced pablum. Being a one-paper town, there isn't much competition. so if you want to stay even minimally informed, you need to take the bad with the good, but one can dream.
Also, a 2 year contract? What are you, a cell-phone company? Give me a break.
"Now my family has chosen a lifestyle of voluntary simplicty. I work (from home) enough to pay the bills, put food on the table, and a little extra for misc expenses. We don't have insurance for ourselves or our two kids. While it's not really necessary for us to take advantage of, the kids receive free lunches (to put the financials into perspective). Near the start of school this year, we got this private insurance thingy just for while the kids are in school. It read (paraphrased): "Your school does not cover medical expenses for incidents on school grounds, so for $72/year, you can insure for yadda-yadda-yadda...".
I declined. Not that I couldn't afford it, but out of principle. I said, "Fuck that! They make school compulsory, so they will cover any any injuries as a result of them being there."
So, basically, you're a leech. Well, speaking as one of "them"(you know, the taxpayers funding the free lunches and the increased insurance premiums for your kids) do me a favor and homeschool them. That way, at least the money I pay in taxes can go towards someone who needs it, not another wanna-be hippie who thinks he's sticking it to "the man".
The kind of thinking on display here frightens the hell out of me. "If we're not a first responder, why do we need the info in real time? " "'ll have to start out by saying I'm amazed such information was ever available" "Is it important to know, in real-time, where emergency crews are? " "There is no way that 911 call information should be available at anything approaching real-time data"
This is completely ass-backwards. There should be no need for me to prove that data, _any_ government data, should be available to me. The government needs to prove there is a compelling reason for them not to make it available.
This sort of data serves some useful purposes and some not so useful purposes, in terms of tracking allocation of resources, seeing where hotspots are, knowing where that firetruck that just roared past you is going, and yes, pure entertainment.
The governments "counter-argument" consists of bogeymen in a closet.
The idea that anyone could come down on side of the government in this case is, to me, a sad commentary on the willingness of the populace to accept any old excuse that limits their access to the workings of their government.
Show me an employer who places indiscriminate blocks on numbers that you can call during the day, in order to prevent you from making calls that *might* be personal.
You can call 1-900 numbers and 976 numbers from your desk phone?
Most places can't.
One thing that seems strange to me, though, is that I've never seen one that uses a magnetic strip. A quick look through the pile tells me it's much more common to see a more resilient bar code that is also printed on keychains and a letter that comes with the package. So, I can't try a mag strip out at the bank/office.
Mine (Albertsons, Safeway) have both.
So you can "blip" it on the scanner or run it through the Debit/Credit card reader.
All that shows is that you don't know a damn thing about the legal system. Are you seriously suggesting that a corporation cannot sue a person for, say, not fulfilling a contract? Or that a corporation cannot sue another for trademark infringement?
=== After literally years of seeking this information, I've finally found a solution this past week. This is something you have to consider for your users if you're going to use SSL with self-signed certs: how much can they take the constant popup cert warnings and how happy will they be about going through a 8 step process to get rid of it. === And that process would be? =) -ajb
I'm too lazy to cahnge. I run Debian on all my servers, but honestly, I have enough to do in my life without learning the ins and outs of KDE(or Gnome or whichever you use). My Win98 desktop runs the way I like it. The buttons conform to my habits, and everything works the way I expect it to. Which is not to say that your window manager of choice couldn't do the exact same thing, but I'm not motivated to switch.
Personally, I don't bother. I just use one of the many ad-blockers out there. Proxomitron in my case. It intercepts the flash, and replaces it with a hyperlink. Makes it easy in the rare event I need to view the flash (some online catalogs, the occasional game, etc.).
And before anyone bitches, I don't block all ads, just the annoying ones, so I'm not taking advantage of a "free lunch". I can see the OSDN Self Serve Ad System banner just fine.
Interesting, but it doesn't work like that in The Real World(tm).
In The Real World(tm), users bitch and moan to their boss, who bitches and moans to his boss, who will then bitch and moan to your boss, who will bitch and moan to you.
When this happens, you _will_ drop what you are doing and restore said file.
My solution to this problem in the past has been simple. Start writing a log, simple spreadsheet, whatever, of how many hours per week you spend working on the backups (changing tapes/checking the logs/restoring). Do the same for your coworkers. If you and each of your coworkers spend 6 or so hours a day, that's about 40 hours, or one full time person. If it ends up being only a few hours a day, it might not be worth hiring a full timer. Of course, this doesn't take into account intangibles, like how productive you are if you keep getting interrupted every hour to restore something. Or how much you know/don't know about optimizing backup solutions.
Another, perhaps more palatable option, is the rotating shift. Just like a rotating on call schedule, one person is responsible for all backup related issues during a given week. Presuming you have an automated system, this should really be limited to changing tapes, the occasional backup, and checking the logs to make sure things didn't break in the night.
It's entirely possible to install almost every version of Linux on one machine. New versions of LILO eliminate the 1,024th cylinder boundary, enabling you to use up to 160GB for Linux. However, I decided to stop at around 10 versions because any more seemed redundant. (Emphesis mine) This must be a use of the word "redundant" I have never heard before.
==== Indeed, and a spelling of Emphasis I've never seen before.
Do you think it would have learned faster if they'd taken it up to the roof, and thrown it off?
"Hmm...my sensors indicate that I am falling at a rapid rate. Maybe I ought to do something about that. I'll try flapping this thing. Nope. How about together..that seems to be wor...."
As I read the suit, Mr. Gilmore is not objecting to being required to show ID, he is objecting to the GOVERNMENT requiring that he show ID. Just as you should be free to walk down the street without being required BY THE GOVERNMENT to show identification, so should you be able to board a plane without being required BY THE GOVERNMENT to show identification. If the airlines themselves want to require ID (for tickets, seating whatever) that's fine. But the government has no absolute right to require you to show identification whenever they feel like it (in the absence of a crime, probable cause, whatever). And for those of you comparing this situation to cars and driving, remember Mr. Gilmore is not operating the vehicle, he is merely a passenger. Would you like to show ID every time you are in a car that gets pulled over for speeding? Have a background check run on you when you hit a DUI checkpoint in a car full of people?
This issue is not as black and white as it seems. -ajb
While I wouldn't go so far as to say that people graduating from high school are at the peak of their ability to learn, I would say that by the time you have graduated from high school, the basics should be firmly implanted in your head. You should have mastered (as you said)/how/ to learn. Good study habits, good retention, a good solid base.
College is a time to specialize, hence, pre-med, pre-law etc.
I would not argue that my college (being a large state-funded institution) is dumbing down it's curriculum. I would say, however, that it is because of the education that people are now receiving in HS, that this is happening. If students don't learn the basics in HS, and then are sent directly to college, whose responsibilty does it become to make sure those kids have a basic unserstanding of the world? The colleges.
This is backwards.
I would suggest that you have never been around students in a large state-run college if you believe that a "gifted kid" would have trouble passing. I firmly believe, based on my experiences at my college, that you could take any AP level HS senior, drop them into a regular college class, and have them perform at or above the norm.
I think the issue that we have is simply a difference of perspective. I fully support that a college/should/ teach how to learn and that a college senior/should/ learn more, and be more advanced than a HS senior, but the sad fact remains, that in the majority of degree mills that pass as state colleges today, it is simply not true.
The problem is people confusing what a college is for with what elementary/high school is for.
How people here have taken a "General Education" course or a "Western Civilization" course and ended up learning the same thing you learned in High School? How many have taken Math courses that could be transplanted to 11th grade with no changes?
You should be a "Well-rounded" person when you graduate from High School. Able to talk coherently about current events, understand most of the points of the English language, hell, even be able to find the area under a curve.
The current "need" for a BS when applying for an entry level job is simply a reflection of the failure of our public schools to make a well-rounded education a requirement for graduation.
College is for learning a specific skill ie. Doctor/Lawyer/Ph.D whatever, NOT for learning (Yet again) about the vagaries of the 2 party system.
You got lucky.KU[ku.edu] is changing from the more memorable ukans.edu[ukans.edu] domain.
Why they picked ukans.edu in the first place, I have no idea, but I like it better than the generic ku.edu
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Our meters already do a spot empty check to clear existing funds out of the meter when someone leaves.
This is a serious dick move. Seriously. Just a dick move.
Vixie didn't invent DNS. Hell, he didn't even create BIND.
The name you want is Paul Mockapetris.
So, you'd basically like me to pay more money for less functionality?
Is your mythical electronic device a decent size, like..oh, I don't know, 15 x 12 inches or so.
Can I rest my breakfast bowl on it while reading? How do I split it in half so I can read one section while SWMBO reads another? Can I skip the forced interstitials? What happens when the battery runs out? If I travel out of town, can I bring my own reader or will the Plain Dealer use an incompatible format?
The physical portion of a newspaper isn't broken, it's the content that's broken.
What I'd like is a paper with fewer generic AP stories. Stop republishing someone else's news two days late.
I want more stories on local politics, businesses and concerns.
Tell me about cost overruns, who voted how, what that business closing really means for the economy.
Write a story about a local mover and shaker, an educator "who made a difference", some local history, code amendment changes, etc.
Enough with the "Lifestyle" section, with generic recipes with ingredients that aren't even in season.
Hell, last week we had a birding article from Florida, this has relevance to me on the other coast how, again?
I'd gladly pay the same subscription fee(and maybe even a little more) for a thinner paper that only contained articles relevant to my state.
I've mentioned this in the past to the editors of my local paper, but they, unfortunately, are going further the other way with more outsourced pablum.
Being a one-paper town, there isn't much competition. so if you want to stay even minimally informed, you need to take the bad with the good, but one can dream.
Also, a 2 year contract? What are you, a cell-phone company? Give me a break.
"Now my family has chosen a lifestyle of voluntary simplicty. I work (from home) enough to pay the bills, put food on the table, and a little extra for misc expenses. We don't have insurance for ourselves or our two kids. While it's not really necessary for us to take advantage of, the kids receive free lunches (to put the financials into perspective). Near the start of school this year, we got this private insurance thingy just for while the kids are in school. It read (paraphrased): "Your school does not cover medical expenses for incidents on school grounds, so for $72/year, you can insure for yadda-yadda-yadda...".
I declined. Not that I couldn't afford it, but out of principle. I said, "Fuck that! They make school compulsory, so they will cover any any injuries as a result of them being there."
So, basically, you're a leech.
Well, speaking as one of "them"(you know, the taxpayers funding the free lunches and the increased insurance premiums for your kids) do me a favor and homeschool them.
That way, at least the money I pay in taxes can go towards someone who needs it, not another wanna-be hippie who thinks he's sticking it to "the man".
The kind of thinking on display here frightens the hell out of me.
"If we're not a first responder, why do we need the info in real time? "
"'ll have to start out by saying I'm amazed such information was ever available"
"Is it important to know, in real-time, where emergency crews are? "
"There is no way that 911 call information should be available at anything approaching real-time data"
This is completely ass-backwards.
There should be no need for me to prove that data, _any_ government data, should be available to me.
The government needs to prove there is a compelling reason for them not to make it available.
This sort of data serves some useful purposes and some not so useful purposes, in terms of tracking allocation of resources, seeing where hotspots are, knowing where that firetruck that just roared past you is going, and yes, pure entertainment.
The governments "counter-argument" consists of bogeymen in a closet.
The idea that anyone could come down on side of the government in this case is, to me, a sad commentary on the willingness of the populace to accept any old excuse that limits their access to the workings of their government.
-ajb
Show me an employer who places indiscriminate blocks on numbers that you can call during the day, in order to prevent you from making calls that *might* be personal.
You can call 1-900 numbers and 976 numbers from your desk phone?
Most places can't.
-ajb
-ajb
That's the whole point of the Republic.
New York's laws stop at the New York border.
Tennesee's laws stop at the Tennessee border.
The fact that he did not "actually shift his carcass over the state line" (at least 75% of the time) is highly relevant.
-ajb
All that shows is that you don't know a damn thing about the legal system.
Are you seriously suggesting that a corporation cannot sue a person for, say, not fulfilling a contract? Or that a corporation cannot sue another for trademark infringement?
-ajb
===
After literally years of seeking this information, I've finally found a solution this past week. This is something you have to consider for your users if you're going to use SSL with self-signed certs: how much can they take the constant popup cert warnings and how happy will they be about going through a 8 step process to get rid of it.
===
And that process would be? =)
-ajb
===
Friday, July 11 2003
As I write this, at nearly 8 PM Pacific time..
===
The new G5 is so fast, it warps time!
By my watch, it's only 5:46pm Pacific Time.
-ajb
It's called "speed". The Air Force used(and may still use) it for years.
-ajb
I'm too lazy to cahnge.
I run Debian on all my servers, but honestly, I have enough to do in my life without learning the ins and outs of KDE(or Gnome or whichever you use).
My Win98 desktop runs the way I like it. The buttons conform to my habits, and everything works the way I expect it to.
Which is not to say that your window manager of choice couldn't do the exact same thing, but I'm not motivated to switch.
-ajb
Personally, I don't bother. I just use one of
the many ad-blockers out there.
Proxomitron in my case.
It intercepts the flash, and replaces it with a hyperlink. Makes it easy in the rare event I need to view the flash (some online catalogs, the occasional game, etc.).
And before anyone bitches, I don't block all ads, just the annoying ones, so I'm not taking advantage of a "free lunch". I can see the OSDN Self Serve Ad System banner just fine.
Interesting, but it doesn't work like that in The Real World(tm).
In The Real World(tm), users bitch and moan to their boss, who bitches and moans to his boss, who will then bitch and moan to your boss, who will bitch and moan to you.
When this happens, you _will_ drop what you are doing and restore said file.
My solution to this problem in the past has been simple. Start writing a log, simple spreadsheet, whatever, of how many hours per week you spend working on the backups (changing tapes/checking the logs/restoring). Do the same for your coworkers. If you and each of your coworkers spend 6 or so hours a day, that's about 40 hours, or one full time person. If it ends up being only a few hours a day, it might not be worth hiring a full timer.
Of course, this doesn't take into account intangibles, like how productive you are if you keep getting interrupted every hour to restore something. Or how much you know/don't know about optimizing backup solutions.
Another, perhaps more palatable option, is the rotating shift. Just like a rotating on call schedule, one person is responsible for all backup related issues during a given week. Presuming you have an automated system, this should really be limited to changing tapes, the occasional backup, and checking the logs to make sure things didn't break in the night.
===
-ajb
It's entirely possible to install almost every version of Linux on one machine. New versions of LILO eliminate the 1,024th cylinder boundary, enabling you to use up to 160GB for Linux. However, I decided to stop at around 10 versions because any more seemed redundant. (Emphesis mine)
This must be a use of the word "redundant" I have never heard before.
====
Indeed, and a spelling of Emphasis I've never seen before.
-ajb
Do you think it would have learned faster if they'd taken it up to the roof, and thrown it off?
"Hmm...my sensors indicate that I am falling at a rapid rate. Maybe I ought to do something about that. I'll try flapping this thing. Nope. How about together..that seems to be wor...."
-ajb
The fact that it "cheats" somehow restores my faith in robotkind....
-ajb
As I read the suit, Mr. Gilmore is not objecting to being required to show ID, he is objecting to the GOVERNMENT requiring that he show ID.
Just as you should be free to walk down the street without being required BY THE GOVERNMENT to show identification, so should you be able to board a plane without being required BY THE GOVERNMENT to show identification.
If the airlines themselves want to require ID (for tickets, seating whatever) that's fine. But the government has no absolute right to require you to show identification whenever they feel like it (in the absence of a crime, probable cause, whatever).
And for those of you comparing this situation to cars and driving, remember Mr. Gilmore is not operating the vehicle, he is merely a passenger. Would you like to show ID every time you are in a car that gets pulled over for speeding? Have a background check run on you when you hit a DUI checkpoint in a car full of people?
This issue is not as black and white as it seems.
-ajb
I was thinking more along the lines of:
.com'ers have lot's of free time. =)
Who has time to rip 6500 MP3's !?
I guess all those unemployed
-ajb
You weren't lost. You were just:
"A mite confused for a couple of days"
-ajb
The maps are great. Makes me wonder if I should start tracing myself.
I wonder if street/road level is possible? Something to ponder.
-ajb
While I wouldn't go so far as to say that people graduating from high school are at the peak of their ability to learn, I would say that by the time you have graduated from high school, the basics should be firmly implanted in your head. You should have mastered (as you said) /how/ to learn. Good study habits, good retention, a good solid base.
/should/ teach how to learn and that a college senior /should/ learn more, and be more advanced than a HS senior, but the sad fact remains, that in the majority of degree mills that pass as state colleges today, it is simply not true.
College is a time to specialize, hence, pre-med, pre-law etc.
I would not argue that my college (being a large state-funded institution) is dumbing down it's curriculum. I would say, however, that it is because of the education that people are now receiving in HS, that this is happening. If students don't learn the basics in HS, and then are sent directly to college, whose responsibilty does it become to make sure those kids have a basic unserstanding of the world? The colleges.
This is backwards.
I would suggest that you have never been around students in a large state-run college if you believe that a "gifted kid" would have trouble passing. I firmly believe, based on my experiences at my college, that you could take any AP level HS senior, drop them into a regular college class, and have them perform at or above the norm.
I think the issue that we have is simply a difference of perspective. I fully support that a college
The problem is people confusing what a college is for with what elementary/high school is for.
How people here have taken a "General Education" course or a "Western Civilization" course and ended up learning the same thing you learned in High School? How many have taken Math courses that could be transplanted to 11th grade with no changes?
You should be a "Well-rounded" person when you graduate from High School. Able to talk coherently about current events, understand most of the points of the English language, hell, even be able to find the area under a curve.
The current "need" for a BS when applying for an entry level job is simply a reflection of the failure of our public schools to make a well-rounded education a requirement for graduation.
College is for learning a specific skill ie. Doctor/Lawyer/Ph.D whatever, NOT for learning (Yet again) about the vagaries of the 2 party system.
-madajb
You got lucky.KU[ku.edu] is changing from the more memorable ukans.edu[ukans.edu] domain.
Why they picked ukans.edu in the first place, I have no idea, but I like it better than the generic ku.edu