Muslims following a strict interpretation of Islamic law.
I think you've included a great response to these statements in your own post.
What a stupid fucking thing to say.
I can't call those statements racist, but they're definitely stereotypical. Since when do all terrorists subscribe to a single religious ideology? They don't. Also, you may want to read up some more on terrorist acts committed on American soil. By a great margin, these acts have been committed by white citizens, not dark-skinned foreigners.
A good friend of mine works for a telephony company that offers call push services; if you're not familiar with the term, it involves calling a list of numbers and playing a pre-recorded message. Using an early implementation of their application, they managed to knock several small towns (and their 911 service) off of the phone network. The application didn't anticipate the possibilty of overloading a central office and just dialed the telephone numbers in order. The company actually had more bandwidth than some small towns, so they'd effectively tie up every line.
What this really is, is an exercise in "grooming" the public to accept privacy invasion on an even greater scale.
Could you please elaborate on this privacy invasion? It's my understanding that these cameras are in public spaces where you have no expectation of privacy. That being said, I can certainly understand why some people wouldn't like to have someone following them around with a videocamera, but it seems like the public is happy to have these cameras in place.
If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend "Good Night and Good Luck". I can only hope that many Americans who watched that movie see the parallels to events currently unfolding.
Yes the threat of terrorism is real, but I'm think we have a lot more to fear from our own government than from terrorists.
Yes, we have much more to fear from our own government. The threat from terrorism is extremely low, but you wouldn't know that from the current hysteria.
I live in New York. Fancy here definitly does not amount to Olive Garden. lol. You'd be drawn and quartered before being ceremoniously fired for taking a client there.
ROFLMAO. I can only assume that he lives in a rural area, although I do find that people living in suburban Chicago have similar gustatory failings. How I wish I still worked in the river north area of Chicago, so many great choices for lunch and dinner; now I'm stuck out in the suburbs and it's a frickin' culinary wasteland.
The PS2 phased out the IEEE 1394 ports, and the hard drive/LAN adapter was used for... Final Fantasy XI?
Actually, the hard drive's extremely useful if you get the appropriate software and start copying your games to it. I've got a 200 GB drive with about sixty of my PS2 games on it, no more hunting for discs or swapping them in and out; as a bonus load times decrease dramatically. There are also quite a few games that use the network adaptor, but I typically just played Battlefront over the 'net.
And let's not talk about how many of those 100 million shipped PS2's were replacements for burnt-out DVD drives.
My PS2 does occassionally have the dreaded "Disc Read Error", but all you have to do is open up the chassis and clean the lens.
How about the claim that, "they hate our freedom" versus telling American citizens the real reasons why Bin Laden hates the United States. There are some very specific reasons, but most Americans have never heard them.
Regarding solar cells, they are finally becoming efficient enough that they can make practical sense. The newer technologies can get you efficiencies of 30% or so, that's almost as good as internal combustion engines which have efficiencies of about 32%. In my opinion, policymakers are making a huge mistake by assuming that it's a good idea to have centralized energy production; this is likely to drive costs sky high due to distribution and bureaucracy. Ideally each property would be self-sufficient.
Funny, I've had the exact opposite experience. A good friend of mine is a core engineer for a company doing telephony applications and VOIP; when I call, I always have to ask if he's still on the line because it's completely silent. I've become so accustomed to hearing static in the background of my phone calls that I think I've lost the connection when speaking to him.
Yes managers should do that; lately I've just lost all confidence in our HR department to locate candidates. We are looking to hire another developer or two for the WebSphere commerce and portal platforms. HR's recruiting attempts consisted of posting a job listing (provided by my dept.) with an inappropriate title of "Web Developer", resulting in a ton of resumes from graphic artists, on a single website. As weeks, then months have gone by and HR has not located a single qualified applicant, I've had to ask HR to (a) post the job to more than one website, (b) call computer science departments at local universities and (c) post the job on WebSphere related newsgroups.
In the last couple of years, I haven't talked to many companies that didn't at least do first-level screenings through their HR departments. These people have no idea what's valuable in an IT job, so they have a simple checklist given to them. The problem is, these checklists have become the basis for ALL applicants, regardless of experience. Unless you match that checklist perfectly, you don't even get to talk to someone who knows or understands what you need to know.
Which is why departments should do their own recruiting.
Does anyone happen to know why _every_damn_store_ seems to have a return policy on games where you can only exchange an open copy for the same title and get a refund on an unopened package? Is this policy dictated by the manufacturer to prevent people from returning terrible games? I wonder how many appliances a store would sell if they had a similar policy, yet people are willing to put up with this crap on music, movies and games.
The mumps-measles-rubella vaccine shifted from a one-dose variety to a two-dose in the late 1980s. Many people didn't get the second dose, leading to a lowered immunity.
That statement's a bit misleading; some schools were requiring two doses of MMR long before the late 1980's. I'm now 30 and I'm almost certain I had two doses back before I started high school.
Exactly. We inquired as to whether we'd need multiple licenses of WebSphere software even if they were running in a Solaris zone on a single core and the answer was that we'd need as many licenses as we had cores installed. To be fair, I think vendors are in the process of changing how they do licensing now that multi-core CPUs and multi-processor machines are becoming more common.
I thought a story about the following game had been posted on/., but maybe it was Wired.com. I know for a fact that it was part of NextFest, at least when it was at Chicago. Check out Brainball. It's a game where players control the motion of a metal ball along a single axis by relaxing their mind and generating alpha and theta waves. The more relaxed you are, the more you can move the ball.
The group that developed Brainball has other devices that are controlled by your mind. They even have a "bar" that dispenses drinks based on your brainwaves.
It's sad that Sun is looking at so much financial trouble right now (assuming they actually are, and it might not actually be that bad). Solaris 10 is really quite amazing software, and their chip designs look very promising. I think it would take Linux/FreeBSD a long time to catch up to some of the things in Solaris 10 like ZFS and DTrace.
While Linux and *BSD might provide some competition for Sun, I tend to believe there's more competition from IBM in the form of AIX and the POWER chips. I agree that Sun's Niagara chips are interesting, but there's a problem with them that many people don't stop to consider, software licensing fees. See, many big name software companies charge licensing fees based on the number of processors installed and not by the number of processors used. This can basically disqualify certain classes of machines from consideration due to the high cost of software licensing. Now, that's not Sun's fault, but some of their sales partners fail to take that into consideration when pushing certain servers (eg. T1000's).
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I think you've included a great response to these statements in your own post.
I can't call those statements racist, but they're definitely stereotypical. Since when do all terrorists subscribe to a single religious ideology? They don't. Also, you may want to read up some more on terrorist acts committed on American soil. By a great margin, these acts have been committed by white citizens, not dark-skinned foreigners.
A good friend of mine works for a telephony company that offers call push services; if you're not familiar with the term, it involves calling a list of numbers and playing a pre-recorded message. Using an early implementation of their application, they managed to knock several small towns (and their 911 service) off of the phone network. The application didn't anticipate the possibilty of overloading a central office and just dialed the telephone numbers in order. The company actually had more bandwidth than some small towns, so they'd effectively tie up every line.
Maybe my memory's failing me, but I seem to recall having already seen this video; perhaps I just saw a few frames from the video?
Don't forget about the early American publishing industry. Many books were simply reprints of British authors.
If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend "Good Night and Good Luck". I can only hope that many Americans who watched that movie see the parallels to events currently unfolding.
Spooky action at a distance.
Nah, they'll just help the people out by ending their lives and harvesting their organs.
How about the claim that, "they hate our freedom" versus telling American citizens the real reasons why Bin Laden hates the United States. There are some very specific reasons, but most Americans have never heard them.
Regarding solar cells, they are finally becoming efficient enough that they can make practical sense. The newer technologies can get you efficiencies of 30% or so, that's almost as good as internal combustion engines which have efficiencies of about 32%. In my opinion, policymakers are making a huge mistake by assuming that it's a good idea to have centralized energy production; this is likely to drive costs sky high due to distribution and bureaucracy. Ideally each property would be self-sufficient.
*LOL* Yeah, it _is_ that bad.
superhappyfun.com has the old Laserdisc releases available on DVD-R. As a bonus, you just might get a copy of the Star Wars Holiday Special.
How can we secure VOIP communications when the FCC can mandate that providers allow conversations to be snooped on by law enforcement officials?
Funny, I've had the exact opposite experience. A good friend of mine is a core engineer for a company doing telephony applications and VOIP; when I call, I always have to ask if he's still on the line because it's completely silent. I've become so accustomed to hearing static in the background of my phone calls that I think I've lost the connection when speaking to him.
Yes managers should do that; lately I've just lost all confidence in our HR department to locate candidates. We are looking to hire another developer or two for the WebSphere commerce and portal platforms. HR's recruiting attempts consisted of posting a job listing (provided by my dept.) with an inappropriate title of "Web Developer", resulting in a ton of resumes from graphic artists, on a single website. As weeks, then months have gone by and HR has not located a single qualified applicant, I've had to ask HR to (a) post the job to more than one website, (b) call computer science departments at local universities and (c) post the job on WebSphere related newsgroups.
Which is why departments should do their own recruiting.
Does anyone happen to know why _every_damn_store_ seems to have a return policy on games where you can only exchange an open copy for the same title and get a refund on an unopened package? Is this policy dictated by the manufacturer to prevent people from returning terrible games? I wonder how many appliances a store would sell if they had a similar policy, yet people are willing to put up with this crap on music, movies and games.
If you're just now discovering that, this site will probably make you wet your pants.
Exactly. We inquired as to whether we'd need multiple licenses of WebSphere software even if they were running in a Solaris zone on a single core and the answer was that we'd need as many licenses as we had cores installed. To be fair, I think vendors are in the process of changing how they do licensing now that multi-core CPUs and multi-processor machines are becoming more common.
I thought a story about the following game had been posted on /., but maybe it was Wired.com. I know for a fact that it was part of NextFest, at least when it was at Chicago. Check out Brainball. It's a game where players control the motion of a metal ball along a single axis by relaxing their mind and generating alpha and theta waves. The more relaxed you are, the more you can move the ball.
The group that developed Brainball has other devices that are controlled by your mind. They even have a "bar" that dispenses drinks based on your brainwaves.
While Linux and *BSD might provide some competition for Sun, I tend to believe there's more competition from IBM in the form of AIX and the POWER chips. I agree that Sun's Niagara chips are interesting, but there's a problem with them that many people don't stop to consider, software licensing fees. See, many big name software companies charge licensing fees based on the number of processors installed and not by the number of processors used. This can basically disqualify certain classes of machines from consideration due to the high cost of software licensing. Now, that's not Sun's fault, but some of their sales partners fail to take that into consideration when pushing certain servers (eg. T1000's).