His firm was going through changes, both in terms of the systems it used and the people it employed. His original manager had been recently laid off and sent to work from home for the rest of his time at the firm and in that period _he had not renewed Mr Diallo's contract_ in the new system.
Sooo, it was not really the machine that fired Mr. Diallo. It was a process, that took the absence of renewal seriously. I am sure we (humans) have done such things in the past. Probably with gov and mil jobs mostly.
Soon enough, there will be a market for softwareless, or open tractors... There is already one company here (Hungary) trying to do something like that, albeit for different reasons.
It's easy. If you have THC in your system, you are busted. No need to quantify - any amount is prohibited. It's what we do here with alcohol. It doesn't help much, but it's at least really easy to apply and interpret...
Is it only my feeling that Ulrich and some others (Theo, Joerg) have anger management issues?
It's like Ulrich takes arbitrary input about his project as personal insults. Then he gets really worked up over them and blurts some offensive response. That is probably way less offensive than he originally intended but still...
It's such a shame I have so narrow a view of these people. They might be fun drinking buddies.:-D
Care to name the book you are referring to as "entirely new crap"?
I have read a few of his books, but none of them were really new. They just told the story of the creative process based on his father's rather unwieldy mound of notes.
That was RBMK. Even Russians don't build them any more...
No offense, but even Russians are capable of learning from their past mistakes. Recent VVER designs are much nicer. At least they have no graphite in them.
which of the listed activities (skyjumping, base jumping, downhill mountain-biking) led you to believe the guy is incapacitated by his "fear of death"?
It's just that he (I, and probably many others) view this kind of speeding as utterly reckless. The guy wasn't alone on the road all the time. Someone else could have just changed lanes in front of him, because looking in the mirror he went like "Oh, that car is still several hundred meters away". And in the next moment it's these because monkeyman local geekhero is driving 200km/h...
So while I am not afraid of death too much, I still prefer to die of old age or my own stupidity.
Only if you can prove it in court. What's the going rate for Hungary judges, a nice pastrami on rye? you come over and test it... Hungary isn't the Middle-East, you know. We have a more or less working legal system. Unlike other developed nations I've heard of.
Last time I tried this: "old documents will be translated with no page breaks problems and with no human interaction." wasn't even true for purely MS environments either...
I remember struggling with earlier word docs under the office suites that are numbered without dots. It wasn't fun at all. Formatting broke in so many places I had to redo much of the formatting to make it readable.
Try to take into account the fact that the EU doesn't cover all of Europe. Also that it's a relatively new institution. Founded in 1957 I think.
Comparing US with let's say France is more valid than comparing it with "Europe" or the EU as a whole. There is one nation in the US. The American People. Which is a very diverse group but share one national identity.
In Europe there are dozens of nations. With different languages and very varied cultures. There is also a good amount of nationalism around. And so much history, past conflicts and blame to go round...
Europe has so many more conflicting interests in it than the US, that direct comparison is totally useless.
Actually most places use artificial insemination and keep no bulls around. At least around here.
Bulls are kept at specialized facilities. They produce semen which then gets processed and cooled. People who look to improve the performance of their livestock can choose the proper bull from a catalog and order the semen.
I don't think this conveyor/stream effect is ignored. I read about it in the past. This is the reason why eg. British Isles are expected to cool down in response to the climate change caused by global warming.
Global warming as a term can be rather misleading too. It doesn't mean every single point on Earth will have a temperature increase. It may mean that places get colder some others get hotter but the final effect will be an overall temperature increase.
Do note that this in itself is nothing dramatic. The problem is that it may reshuffle our agricultural landscape and methods. Meaning that some places where food production was already insufficient may plunge into long famines/draughts/cold spells/host spells whatever.
Most crops we produce need a rather narrow range of temperature/rainfall/sunshine and a specific time distribution of these. For example your usual wheat needs a cold period for it to produce seeds. Otherwise it just grows leaves. (I wish I knew the English name of the process:-D) So the loss of winter cold would have rather high significance on our farming practices where people eat mostly wheat.
I don't think there is a question of humanity surviving such a change. On the other hand I am not sure I want to tackle a famine driven migration of let's say 2 billion people from Asia.
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Could not care less...
It's been a cesspit of explicit and commercial spam for the last year or so.
I left it before the announcement.
This is proper identity management. Gone wrong. It's still cheaper than fired people retaining access to privileged information.
His firm was going through changes, both in terms of the systems it used and the people it employed. His original manager had been recently laid off and sent to work from home for the rest of his time at the firm and in that period _he had not renewed Mr Diallo's contract_ in the new system.
Sooo, it was not really the machine that fired Mr. Diallo. It was a process, that took the absence of renewal seriously. I am sure we (humans) have done such things in the past. Probably with gov and mil jobs mostly.
I they get caught.
If he respected said policies, he would not be in trouble now.
Soon enough, there will be a market for softwareless, or open tractors...
There is already one company here (Hungary) trying to do something like that, albeit for different reasons.
It's easy.
If you have THC in your system, you are busted. No need to quantify - any amount is prohibited.
It's what we do here with alcohol. It doesn't help much, but it's at least really easy to apply and interpret...
That is so not a real problem. Just tint the windows. Or not.
More fun for me.
nearly cost them $3 million
cost them nearly $3 million
So do these two mean the same thing?
I feel like in the second case they lost the money, in the first they came close but did not.
Topol M is a land based missile. Bulava is submarine based. It never was intended to replace Topol but instead it's supposed to be based on it.
Interplanetary and interstellar void. Pretty cold place. As big as anything.
Even this UClibc would fit.
funny, that was my thought exactly.
Is it only my feeling that Ulrich and some others (Theo, Joerg) have anger management issues?
It's like Ulrich takes arbitrary input about his project as personal insults. Then he gets really worked up over them and blurts some offensive response. That is probably way less offensive than he originally intended but still...
It's such a shame I have so narrow a view of these people. They might be fun drinking buddies. :-D
Fortunately VLC isn't the only option on Linux.
Or anywhere else.
Care to name the book you are referring to as "entirely new crap"?
I have read a few of his books, but none of them were really new. They just told the story of the creative process based on his father's rather unwieldy mound of notes.
That was RBMK. Even Russians don't build them any more...
No offense, but even Russians are capable of learning from their past mistakes.
Recent VVER designs are much nicer. At least they have no graphite in them.
which of the listed activities (skyjumping, base jumping, downhill mountain-biking) led you to believe the guy is incapacitated by his "fear of death"?
It's just that he (I, and probably many others) view this kind of speeding as utterly reckless. The guy wasn't alone on the road all the time.
Someone else could have just changed lanes in front of him, because looking in the mirror he went like "Oh, that car is still several hundred meters away".
And in the next moment it's these because monkeyman local geekhero is driving 200km/h...
So while I am not afraid of death too much, I still prefer to die of old age or my own stupidity.
I don't think they knew too much about the mechanism of infections at that time.
They may not even have known that they were spreading the disease.
Hungary isn't the Middle-East, you know.
We have a more or less working legal system. Unlike other developed nations I've heard of.
Last time I tried this: "old documents will be translated with no page breaks problems and with no human interaction."
wasn't even true for purely MS environments either...
I remember struggling with earlier word docs under the office suites that are numbered without dots.
It wasn't fun at all. Formatting broke in so many places I had to redo much of the formatting to make it readable.
I don't think they did it to make the US stop.
More likely they did it to demonstrate that they can presently overcome the future missile shield.
Besides, it doesn't take much to retarget a dozen MIRV missiles to the planned ABM sites... They cannot possibly intercept all of them at the moment.
It's still energy completely wasted...
Or steed, depending on your gender.
Try to take into account the fact that the EU doesn't cover all of Europe.
Also that it's a relatively new institution. Founded in 1957 I think.
Comparing US with let's say France is more valid than comparing it with "Europe" or the EU as a whole.
There is one nation in the US. The American People. Which is a very diverse group but share one national identity.
In Europe there are dozens of nations. With different languages and very varied cultures. There is also a good amount of nationalism around.
And so much history, past conflicts and blame to go round...
Europe has so many more conflicting interests in it than the US, that direct comparison is totally useless.
He(AC) was probably referring to the unarmed victims in Virginia Tech and the numerous armed American victims in Iraq.
Weapons don't necessarily make a difference. You can be shot just as dead holding a gun...
Actually most places use artificial insemination and keep no bulls around. At least around here.
Bulls are kept at specialized facilities. They produce semen which then gets processed and cooled.
People who look to improve the performance of their livestock can choose the proper bull from a catalog and order the semen.
Pretty nice actually.
Bulls aren't much fun to work with anyway...
I don't think this conveyor/stream effect is ignored. I read about it in the past.
:-D)
This is the reason why eg. British Isles are expected to cool down in response to the climate change caused by global warming.
Global warming as a term can be rather misleading too.
It doesn't mean every single point on Earth will have a temperature increase. It may mean that places get colder some others get hotter but the final effect will be an overall temperature increase.
Do note that this in itself is nothing dramatic. The problem is that it may reshuffle our agricultural landscape and methods.
Meaning that some places where food production was already insufficient may plunge into long famines/draughts/cold spells/host spells whatever.
Most crops we produce need a rather narrow range of temperature/rainfall/sunshine and a specific time distribution of these.
For example your usual wheat needs a cold period for it to produce seeds. Otherwise it just grows leaves. (I wish I knew the English name of the process
So the loss of winter cold would have rather high significance on our farming practices where people eat mostly wheat.
I don't think there is a question of humanity surviving such a change. On the other hand I am not sure I want to tackle a famine driven migration of let's say 2 billion people from Asia.