This may not make miuch sense to you, but there are many who consider the student loan program to be another form of welfare. If education is such a good deal, private lenders should be ready to take the risk, given the benefits and likelihod of being repaid.
Of course we should point out that the housing market is similarly dependent on federal loan guarantees, and that's worked out rather poorly, given the changes in rules and inevitable impacts. For one, people expected to keep using their homes as piggy banks, and when that failed they got all upside-down and couldn't pay their mortgages. Among other unfortunate causes and consequences.
Student loans seemed like a good deal unless you were pursuing a course of study where the job prospects were between slim and none, and not too lucrative at that. Which in this ecomony is pretty much everything with very few exceptions. Defaulting is to be expected when expectations fail to be met. Who pays for those art majors that are waiting tables? Ultimately, the student loan program is essentially a direct gift to those who never manage to find employment sufficient to pay the loans off. Not without value to our society, but dollar for dollar it's not going to stand the test of an excellent investment.
Sort of like housing, except instead of subsidizing the white goods and furniture industries, among others, student loans subsidize institutions of higher learning, including diploma mills, correspondence schools, and many a fly-by-night school. Par for the course. Limiting loans to 'respectable' institutions would never work. that's censorship.
Once again, with Ron Paul, it's 'yes, yes, yes, oh, no, no, no... sigh."
"In almost every case, there's only one reason for leaving APIs undocumented: We're not sure that what we have now is the best solution, and we think we might have to improve it, and we're not prepared to make those commitments to testing and preservation. We're not claiming that they're "Private" or "Secret" — How could they be, when anyone in the world can discover them? We're also not claiming they're forbidden: If you use them, your code will compile and probably run."
Honestly. Undocumented APIs are either an oversight or deliberately not disclosed. So Google is not disclosing these. Fine. And they are explaining this with an extraordinary story to explain they may or may not, will or wont, what?
Is it evil to be duplicitious? Or is Google just being lame?
Can you buy an iPhone for cash, no card or account of any sort, in the US? Is this the only thing or type of thing that 'they' avoid selling for cash, just to be able to reach out and find you later? In the iPhone case, presumably, to be able to bill you for your carrier plan?
Out here in the Phoenix area, it's great sport to 'salvage' copper from peoples houses while they are living in them, and very often after they've moved out. The salvage dealers take identification, but we are kidding ourselves that the driver's license given is valid at all. Pawn shops do a slightly better job of identification, but that's not even the problem. There's no practical way to ID a hundred feet of Romex, or the coil out of an A/C unit. At least if I pawn a guitar, there is often a serial number on it. These copper thieves rip the unit off the side of the house, and once its gone there's no point in thinking you will even discourage them, since they fake their ID and disappear. Even if they could, replacing this stuff costs x100 the salvage cost. Don't bother to take the thief's rotten old Datsun pickup.
Louisiana seems to be trying to discourage this trade by forcing the salvagers/thieves to have some relationship with a banking institution, which most will not. I doubt it will really work - they will just create an industry to aggregate these salvage metals and sell them in bulk, and the seller will disclaim all knowledge. 'Receiving stolen property' charges would seem to apply to the dealers now, so how will those work in the future when they don't seem to be working now?
And there's always barter. Good luck outlawing that.
When someone decided there was a potential market for generic CPUs and SOC, something the size of an IC socket, the chip was built, etc, and Arduino is a marginally sustaining product.
If someone similarly decides that there is a market for a 'specialized' FPGA ( know, stupid), then it might get built, and expandign current FPGAs with some more specialized elements might result in a user-definable CPU that is actually useful.
The difference is that trying to design a new CPU today is assumed to require not just a design environment and tools, but then you get to actually fabricate the little things. So in the absence of a open-source design, lithography, fab, etc, you have no way to make very much at all. But if you had an FPGA with some clever elements added, maybe it becomes more practical.
How to do all this I dunno, but it sure sounds like fun. Which is probably why it isn't possible at all. That and the money.
I've had as many as 9 individual machines at home for testing, development, and support. If I had to do it today, I would:
- Build one honking machine to host servers and network resources. 8-16GB RAM, 4 or more cores, Maybe an SSD to help perk things up.
- Build another honking machine for emulating the various desktop-type stuff you'll want to do. 8GB RAM might work here, but why scrimp?
Choosing the VM environments is the hard part. Virtualbox and Xen are obvious choices, though if you're in Windows all the time you can use machine #2 with Virtual PC. The server machine would benefit from true VM, not just a hypervisor, I think, but you'll get a hundred responses praising one and damning the others.
And of course a GbE switch. I might add in a fairly simple machine to do admin with, and for DR. This machine might store images, depending on how things work. You will be doing lots of images. My simple VPC disk images run up to 12+GB real quick, and I keep 6-7 around all the time, with a dozen more I drop in for special projects. This is at work, where things ahve come full circle - I once again have more storage at home than I do at work, and my Internet is faster. Oh, and I can barely send anyone any data due to security, which is not entirely bad.
You may become enamored of a SAN. This should be a fourth machine if you spin your own. Don't virtualize it.
Yup. More than one rev a year will cause some problems. Those who complain about the pace of updates, the pace of hardware improvements, well, you can always go to the iPhone and a fairly predictable release schedule, or WP7 and a much more sedate pace of innovation.
Everyone I know that has a Windows phone bought it second-hand to root and install Android on.
And my first Android phone I took from 1.0 to Cupcake. And then Eclair. If you owned a Windows CE phone, you updated it from CE to, well, nothing. It was burned in ROM. No updates.
Even the WP7 updates have been tortured events.
Ballmer has to say this crap though. It's his job to spew.
Be a smartass all you want. Flinging a starship around the Sun and expecting it to coast to a nearby star isn't as easy as the calculations might make it seem. Ny question is about the inevitable collisions with stuff, and IF this was factored in.
But the whole concept is so PITS we can cut then all some slack.
He didn't have to 'make' a successful company. He just had to keep it successful.
And I wrote 'just'. It ain't easy to keep a company from anything except failure. So he's losing at a game that most lose at. He's got the unfortunate blessing of doing it with a L O T of money, and in plain view of us folks egging him on.
"propelled using a gravity slingshot on a near-sun trajectory"
Nice idea, but Space is non-empty. there is enough dust and whatnot out there to slow such a ship and leave it slower and slower. Not good.
And then, when you get where you're going (as if you're choosing where you go), you get to decelerate. Unless orbiting a star was the intention all along. In which case, we got this star right here, plenty of orbital slots available.
You lack discernment. If the place is a shit-hole, it is due to the authorities or lack thereof. Since Iran has authorities, it's on them. And since the authorities are religious, it is the state religion at fault.
If I were referring to another state, I would be referring to that state's authorities.
If I'm making the Ahmadinejad/monkey jokes, it's not racist. It's an intentional personal insult. I trust that the overwhelming majority Iranian people want to live peaceful lives and prosper in their land. It's the religous types and the government that whip up a frenzy to kill and dominate. I'm assuming. If I'm wrong, that will become clear soon enough.
When the Explorer is driven right, I get to 3/4 at 100 miles, 1/2 at 200 miles, and 1/4 at 300 miles. At 0%, I have 2 gallons left.
The Saab had a new fuel pump assy put in,and since then it's dead on. A maximum fillup put the gauge at exactly full, and at empty the computer claims I have 30 miles left, a little more than a gallon on the highway. At the bottom of reserve, I can get.5 gallons more than the listed capacity.
Magnificent. Seriously, giving back retarded English is a stoke of genius, and I'm not being sarcastic. Real admins will chuckle, jerks and asshats will flame you (and now you know to add them to your deny), and machines aren't reading it anyways, you had them at 553.
I think there's a recipe out there to automate dropping the connections after a set number of tries and rejects. For my denies, I just ignore the connection and let them timeout. This seems to trigger a lot of spammers to stop wasting time connecting since it hangs them a lot longer than an error response, and maybe sometimes looks like my server is hosed, so they write me off as gone.
Rreally, I love it. Haiku would be overkill. Maybe you should have used 'form' instead to complete the effect.
We're killing all of them. They don't fit into the new software models, and are actually 3 years overdue for decommissioning. We have no redundancy on 75% of them, and their replacements are already online and on production. It's our users who are holding this up, some have put off their work for 5-6 years now, and we don't have the power to compel them to do it. Yet.
Good while they worked, still there, but doomed. They mostly do file transforms and routing, much better on the RHEL system replacing them.
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So is Jag. You'd think they would have made an effort to exorcise the ghosts of Lucas by now.
This may not make miuch sense to you, but there are many who consider the student loan program to be another form of welfare. If education is such a good deal, private lenders should be ready to take the risk, given the benefits and likelihod of being repaid.
Of course we should point out that the housing market is similarly dependent on federal loan guarantees, and that's worked out rather poorly, given the changes in rules and inevitable impacts. For one, people expected to keep using their homes as piggy banks, and when that failed they got all upside-down and couldn't pay their mortgages. Among other unfortunate causes and consequences.
Student loans seemed like a good deal unless you were pursuing a course of study where the job prospects were between slim and none, and not too lucrative at that. Which in this ecomony is pretty much everything with very few exceptions. Defaulting is to be expected when expectations fail to be met. Who pays for those art majors that are waiting tables? Ultimately, the student loan program is essentially a direct gift to those who never manage to find employment sufficient to pay the loans off. Not without value to our society, but dollar for dollar it's not going to stand the test of an excellent investment.
Sort of like housing, except instead of subsidizing the white goods and furniture industries, among others, student loans subsidize institutions of higher learning, including diploma mills, correspondence schools, and many a fly-by-night school. Par for the course. Limiting loans to 'respectable' institutions would never work. that's censorship.
Once again, with Ron Paul, it's 'yes, yes, yes, oh, no, no, no... sigh."
"In almost every case, there's only one reason for leaving APIs undocumented: We're not sure that what we have now is the best solution, and we think we might have to improve it, and we're not prepared to make those commitments to testing and preservation. We're not claiming that they're "Private" or "Secret" — How could they be, when anyone in the world can discover them? We're also not claiming they're forbidden: If you use them, your code will compile and probably run."
Honestly. Undocumented APIs are either an oversight or deliberately not disclosed. So Google is not disclosing these. Fine. And they are explaining this with an extraordinary story to explain they may or may not, will or wont, what?
Is it evil to be duplicitious? Or is Google just being lame?
Then this whole thread is a waste of time. e.
A dedicated ALU, for one.
Can you buy an iPhone for cash, no card or account of any sort, in the US? Is this the only thing or type of thing that 'they' avoid selling for cash, just to be able to reach out and find you later? In the iPhone case, presumably, to be able to bill you for your carrier plan?
Out here in the Phoenix area, it's great sport to 'salvage' copper from peoples houses while they are living in them, and very often after they've moved out. The salvage dealers take identification, but we are kidding ourselves that the driver's license given is valid at all. Pawn shops do a slightly better job of identification, but that's not even the problem. There's no practical way to ID a hundred feet of Romex, or the coil out of an A/C unit. At least if I pawn a guitar, there is often a serial number on it. These copper thieves rip the unit off the side of the house, and once its gone there's no point in thinking you will even discourage them, since they fake their ID and disappear. Even if they could, replacing this stuff costs x100 the salvage cost. Don't bother to take the thief's rotten old Datsun pickup.
Louisiana seems to be trying to discourage this trade by forcing the salvagers/thieves to have some relationship with a banking institution, which most will not. I doubt it will really work - they will just create an industry to aggregate these salvage metals and sell them in bulk, and the seller will disclaim all knowledge. 'Receiving stolen property' charges would seem to apply to the dealers now, so how will those work in the future when they don't seem to be working now?
And there's always barter. Good luck outlawing that.
When someone decided there was a potential market for generic CPUs and SOC, something the size of an IC socket, the chip was built, etc, and Arduino is a marginally sustaining product.
If someone similarly decides that there is a market for a 'specialized' FPGA ( know, stupid), then it might get built, and expandign current FPGAs with some more specialized elements might result in a user-definable CPU that is actually useful.
The difference is that trying to design a new CPU today is assumed to require not just a design environment and tools, but then you get to actually fabricate the little things. So in the absence of a open-source design, lithography, fab, etc, you have no way to make very much at all. But if you had an FPGA with some clever elements added, maybe it becomes more practical.
How to do all this I dunno, but it sure sounds like fun. Which is probably why it isn't possible at all. That and the money.
"If they have no constitutional basis for existing at the federal level - GET RID OF THEM."
How DARE you, sir! Even Harry Reid knows government workers are more important than private-sector workers.
Oh, the humanity!
As frakking if.
They don't seem to know anything now. How do these plans make things any worse?
I've had as many as 9 individual machines at home for testing, development, and support. If I had to do it today, I would:
- Build one honking machine to host servers and network resources. 8-16GB RAM, 4 or more cores, Maybe an SSD to help perk things up.
- Build another honking machine for emulating the various desktop-type stuff you'll want to do. 8GB RAM might work here, but why scrimp?
Choosing the VM environments is the hard part. Virtualbox and Xen are obvious choices, though if you're in Windows all the time you can use machine #2 with Virtual PC. The server machine would benefit from true VM, not just a hypervisor, I think, but you'll get a hundred responses praising one and damning the others.
And of course a GbE switch. I might add in a fairly simple machine to do admin with, and for DR. This machine might store images, depending on how things work. You will be doing lots of images. My simple VPC disk images run up to 12+GB real quick, and I keep 6-7 around all the time, with a dozen more I drop in for special projects. This is at work, where things ahve come full circle - I once again have more storage at home than I do at work, and my Internet is faster. Oh, and I can barely send anyone any data due to security, which is not entirely bad.
You may become enamored of a SAN. This should be a fourth machine if you spin your own. Don't virtualize it.
"fragmented mess of version numbers "
Yup. More than one rev a year will cause some problems. Those who complain about the pace of updates, the pace of hardware improvements, well, you can always go to the iPhone and a fairly predictable release schedule, or WP7 and a much more sedate pace of innovation.
Everyone I know that has a Windows phone bought it second-hand to root and install Android on.
And my first Android phone I took from 1.0 to Cupcake. And then Eclair. If you owned a Windows CE phone, you updated it from CE to, well, nothing. It was burned in ROM. No updates.
Even the WP7 updates have been tortured events.
Ballmer has to say this crap though. It's his job to spew.
Be a smartass all you want. Flinging a starship around the Sun and expecting it to coast to a nearby star isn't as easy as the calculations might make it seem. Ny question is about the inevitable collisions with stuff, and IF this was factored in.
But the whole concept is so PITS we can cut then all some slack.
He didn't have to 'make' a successful company. He just had to keep it successful.
And I wrote 'just'. It ain't easy to keep a company from anything except failure. So he's losing at a game that most lose at. He's got the unfortunate blessing of doing it with a L O T of money, and in plain view of us folks egging him on.
Electrostatic shielding? Another hundred years...
"propelled using a gravity slingshot on a near-sun trajectory"
Nice idea, but Space is non-empty. there is enough dust and whatnot out there to slow such a ship and leave it slower and slower. Not good.
And then, when you get where you're going (as if you're choosing where you go), you get to decelerate. Unless orbiting a star was the intention all along. In which case, we got this star right here, plenty of orbital slots available.
No, we'll be using engines.
You lack discernment. If the place is a shit-hole, it is due to the authorities or lack thereof. Since Iran has authorities, it's on them. And since the authorities are religious, it is the state religion at fault.
If I were referring to another state, I would be referring to that state's authorities.
You assumed I was making a generalization. Wrong.
If I'm making the Ahmadinejad/monkey jokes, it's not racist. It's an intentional personal insult. I trust that the overwhelming majority Iranian people want to live peaceful lives and prosper in their land. It's the religous types and the government that whip up a frenzy to kill and dominate. I'm assuming. If I'm wrong, that will become clear soon enough.
I thought that was Guam. Darn, they really were just frogs?
All the stuff that isn't published by the states that HAVE launched lifeforms successfully.
Oh, and all the stuff about the return. That's important too.
"While it may possibly be a shit-hole, it has nothing to do with their state religion"
This sounds even more stupid the more I read it. Whoosh.
When the Explorer is driven right, I get to 3/4 at 100 miles, 1/2 at 200 miles, and 1/4 at 300 miles. At 0%, I have 2 gallons left.
The Saab had a new fuel pump assy put in,and since then it's dead on. A maximum fillup put the gauge at exactly full, and at empty the computer claims I have 30 miles left, a little more than a gallon on the highway. At the bottom of reserve, I can get .5 gallons more than the listed capacity.
Depending on the accuracy if the gauge. I've had cars with optimistic and cars with pessimistic gauges. you learn fast.
Magnificent. Seriously, giving back retarded English is a stoke of genius, and I'm not being sarcastic. Real admins will chuckle, jerks and asshats will flame you (and now you know to add them to your deny), and machines aren't reading it anyways, you had them at 553.
I think there's a recipe out there to automate dropping the connections after a set number of tries and rejects. For my denies, I just ignore the connection and let them timeout. This seems to trigger a lot of spammers to stop wasting time connecting since it hangs them a lot longer than an error response, and maybe sometimes looks like my server is hosed, so they write me off as gone.
Rreally, I love it. Haiku would be overkill. Maybe you should have used 'form' instead to complete the effect.
We're killing all of them. They don't fit into the new software models, and are actually 3 years overdue for decommissioning. We have no redundancy on 75% of them, and their replacements are already online and on production. It's our users who are holding this up, some have put off their work for 5-6 years now, and we don't have the power to compel them to do it. Yet.
Good while they worked, still there, but doomed. They mostly do file transforms and routing, much better on the RHEL system replacing them.